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The NASCAR Cup Series will make its first visit to World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway on Sunday, the only new track on the 2022 schedule.

The Education Department discharged all remaining federal student loans borrowed to attend any Corinthian Colleges campus. The 26,000 Illinois loans total about $226 million.

Federal prisoners said to be the most dangerous are sent to a special unit at a prison in Illinois. NPR and The Marshall Project uncovered violence, abuse and deaths there. Here are five takeaways.

The Promontory Point Conservancy announced last week that U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly earmarked $550,000 of federal funding to authorize a third-party engineering study of the Point’s limestone revetment.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn was authorized by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to open talks with Democrats to “negotiate the possibility of gun legislation that will spare us the tragedies we’ve seen,” Sen. Dick Durbin said.

WASHINGTON — There are many reasons to doubt Congress will send President Joe Biden any legislation to slow a spate of mass shootings, including two key words: “directly related.”

The stock market has been experiencing heightened volatility as of late. But because insider buying is indicative of the insiders’ confidence in a company’s prospects, we think the shares of Caterpillar (CAT), PLBY Group (PLBY), and RenaissanceRe Holdings (RNR)—which insiders have bought over the past few months—could be good additions…

WASHINGTON — ​House lawmakers’ appetite for earmarking has grown a year after Democrats resurrected the practice, particularly among Republicans who will face a sensitive decision on whether to maintain “community project funding” in the next Congress if they retake the chamber in November.

The House Administration Committee at the center of some of the biggest policy fights in Congress