The U.S. Education Department reopened online applications Wednesday for income-driven repayment plans for student loan borrowers. The applications had been taken down in response to a February court ruling, which blocked the Biden administration’s Saving on a Valuable Education Plan and parts of other income-driven repayment plans.

The materials’ removal had complicated the renewal process for borrowers already enrolled in other repayment plans. The American Federation of Teachers had filed a lawsuit seeking to force the department to accept and process applications for repayment plans.

PBS, NPR funding targeted in hearing

A House Republican pushing the Trump administration’s government efficiency efforts has called for dismantling and defunding the nation’s public broadcast system following a contentious public hearing on Wednesday. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said the systems “can hate us on your own dime.”

The leaders of PBS and NPR appeared before the committee as congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump have roughly half a billion dollars in public funding for them in their sight. Republicans complain bitterly of left-wing bias in the news and programming. Democrats mocked the hearing as shameful considering other issues, as the broadcast company leaders tried to explain what they delivered for taxpayers.

AP, administration due in court in access fight

The Associated Press and Trump administration are due back in court in their fight over access to presidential events. The White House barred AP from covering certain events over the organization’s refusal to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America in its stories, although it mentions Trump’s executive order changing the name.

The AP says it’s a free speech issue and that the government can’t retaliate against a news organization because it disagrees with what it says. The White House says that it should have the authority to decide which journalists should have access to question the president.

Judge allows lawsuit against OpenAI to proceed

A federal judge has ruled that The New York Times and other newspapers can proceed with a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft seeking to end the practice of using their stories to train artificial intelligence chatbots.

U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein of New York on Wednesday dismissed some of the claims made by media organizations but allowed the bulk of the case to continue, possibly to a jury trial. Stein didn’t explain the reasons for his ruling, saying that would come “expeditiously.” OpenAI said in a statement it welcomed the court’s dismissal of some of the claims.