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A 25-year-old and two teenage Kroger employees were attacked by a mob in a parking lot in Memphis on Saturday night.

You’ve heard of the Koch Brothers, the ultra-rich, corporate extremists whose deep pockets are flooding election-season airwaves. Too often, their goals are part of a political playbook to drive down wages, cut Social Security and Medicare and secure more corporate tax breaks at the expense of our environment. Their money may dominate America's politics and lawmaking, but their values and ideals sure don’t.

Student loan borrowers are trying to do the responsible thing by paying off their loans but are being punished with high interest rates.When you take out a mortgage or car loan, you can refinance the loan to get a better interest rate. With student loans, however, you’re stuck with the interest rate set by Congress, even though that rate is high enough to produce massive profit beyond the costs of operating the student loan program. And that's just not fair. 

The family of a 22-year-old Kentucky woman says she was found dead inside her apartment in Chile, where she was teaching English.