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Student loan interest to resume, inching closer to end of loan payment pause

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Friday will mark the first significant step toward restarting the student loan process: borrowers will once again see interest accrue on their loan balances. It's a moment those with student loans have been dreading -- payments are one step closer to resuming. After a three-year pause on federal student loan payments, Friday will mark the first significant step toward restarting the process: borrowers will once again see interest accrue on their loan balances. The milestone comes one month ahead of the next major date for millions of American borrowers, Oct. 1, when payments will be due. MORE: Biden administration begins canceling student loan debt for 804,000 borrowers The two-step approach to restarting the student loan system is meant to give borrowers -- and servicers -- a slower on-ramp to dust off the cobwebs on a process that's long been stalled because of the pandemic. But the circumstances for restarting payment s are far from what the Biden administration intended. P...

Top incoming House GOP investigators say they have little interest in probing Jan. 6

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Top incoming House GOP investigators told ABC News they have little interest in probing Jan. 6. As Republicans gear up to retake power in the House next year, incoming chairs of the two top investigative committees in the House of Representatives have rolled out a laundry list of planned investigations – but top Republican investigators appear to have little ap Pet ite to use their newfound subpoena power in one area: Jan. 6. Despite pressure from far-right figures, and even signals from leadership and members inside the Republican caucus, incoming chairs of the House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee told ABC News they are more focused on probes into COVID-19 funding, the border, and President Joe Biden's family rather than relitigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol or investigating the investigators. "Right now that's not anywhere on my list," Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the incoming chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, ...