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Written by Nicole Winfield and Michael Weissenstein
HAVANA (AP) — Pope Francis flies to eastern Cuba on Monday for the next leg of his pilgrimage after having met with both Raul and Fidel Castro but missing out on an encounter with Cuban dissidents.
DURHAM, N.H. — Hillary Clinton tackled the issue of rising college costs and student debt before a packed room of students and educators at the University of New Hampshire, where she also picked up the endorsement of New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan.
Noting that there are more than 40 million Americans carrying more than $1.2 trillion in student loan debt, on Friday Clinton said it's high time for solutions that both Republicans and Democrats in Washington could get behind. Recent figures from the U.S. Department of Education show about 6.9 million of those borrowers hadn't made payments due in almost a year or more, up 6 percent in the past year, according to the Wall Street Journal.