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Julpo | E+ | Getty ImagesA new study finds that student loan delinquency rates are skyrocketing. Nearly 25% of student loan borrowers with repayments due are now in default, up from about 9% in 2019 during President Donald Trump’s first term, according to a report released Friday by the left-leaning think tank Century Foundation.Approximately 7.9 million student loan borrowers fell into delinquency in the first three quarters of 2025 alone, the study authors wrote. For its analysis, the foundation used data from the University of California Consumer Credit Panel, a nationally representative sample of 2% of U.S. adults with credit…
Super early bird pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ends on February 27th at 11:59pm PT. Now you can get one week of the biggest discounts of the year, up to $680 off individual passes and up to 30% off community passes. Sign up now and lock in the lowest rate. From October 13th to 15th at Moscone West in San Francisco, Disrupt will bring together 10,000 founders, investors, and executives over three days designed for results. What you get with Disrupt Access to active investors and high-growth founders High-impact networking built to drive deals Tactical insights you can implement right…
The death of a far-right activist in France earlier this month after a street brawl has deepened the country’s political polarization as the election approaches, prompting criticism from the Trump administration. French President Emmanuel Macron called for peace ahead of a rally planned for Saturday by far-right groups in memory of activist Quentin Delanque, 23. Delanque suffered severe head injuries in a brawl in Lyon on February 12, and died two days later. France’s former prime minister compared the death to the murder of American conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Here’s what we know: The scuffle was caught on video, showing…
Chyler Leigh remembers the time she spent with Eric Dane. In fact, the Grey’s Anatomy actress, who played Eric’s love interest on the hit ABC show, opened up about working with Eric, who passed away on February 19th. He was 53 years old. “The past 48 hours have been devastating,” Kyler said in a statement to E! news. “I never thought I’d use the words ‘had or were,’ but this is what happened. And I hate it.” “Eric had a heart of gold,” she continued. “His humor, and especially his laugh, was contagious. He was an extremely intelligent man who…
President Donald Trump announced Friday night that he has signed an executive order imposing a new 10% “universal tariff”, hours after the Supreme Court struck down a wide range of “reciprocal” import tariffs in a major rebuke of Trump’s trade policies.In a post on Truth Social, President Trump said the Section 122 tariffs would go into effect “almost immediately.”These are on top of the surcharges that remain in place after a high court ruling invalidated tariffs that President Trump imposed using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).At a White House press conference Friday afternoon, President Trump slammed the 6-3…
The 18-year-old suspected of killing eight people in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting in Canada reportedly used OpenAI’s ChatGPT in a way that alarmed the company’s staff. Jesse Van Rootseller’s chat about gun violence was flagged by the company’s LLM abuse monitoring tool and banned in June 2025. According to the Wall Street Journal, company staff debated whether to contact Canadian law enforcement about the practice, but ultimately decided not to do so. An OpenAI spokesperson said Van Rootselaar’s activities do not meet reporting standards to law enforcement. The company contacted Canadian authorities after the incident. ChatGPT transcripts weren’t the…
Jose Luis Pelaez Inc. | Blended Images | Getty ImagesThe average tax refund so far this season is up 14.2% compared to about the same time in 2025, according to initial filing data from the IRS.The average refund for individual filers as of Feb. 13 was $2,476, up from $2,169 about a year ago, the IRS said Friday. This data is cumulative since the start of tax season on January 26th.According to an IRS release, total refunds totaled approximately $32 billion, an 8.3% increase from 2025. However, the total number of applications received decreased by 2.6%. Read more CNBC’s personal…
Sign up for CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter, Unlocking the World. Get destination news, plus the latest information on aviation, food and drink, and accommodation. This week’s roundup of CNN Travel stories features a five-star luxury hotel in Turkey, a fairy-tale castle with a Nazi underground compound, and the bikini incident on an Australian bus. Canadian winters are not for the unprepared. Temperatures can drop as low as -4°F (-20°C) in Toronto and Montreal, so when the cold reaches, people head to warmer places, deep underground. Toronto’s PATH and Montreal’s RÉSO are vast underground cities within cities where urbanites work, shop,…
Throughout his career, Hackman played a variety of film roles, including Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in “The French Connection,” comic book villain Lex Luthor in “Superman” and coach Norman Dale in “Hoosiers.” He also appeared in several Broadway productions, including “Children From Their Games,” “Any Wednesday,” and “Death and the Maiden.” “When I was actually on set and on stage and actually working, I loved the process, and I loved the creative process of trying to bring a character to life,” Hackman told Empire in 2009. “And when you’re actually filming or performing, there’s a certain feeling that comes over…
Craig Packer, CEO of Blue Owl BDC, speaks to CNBC on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, USA, on November 19, 2025.Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersThe latest shake-up in the private credit world involved a deal that was supposed to bring relief to the market. blue owlThe direct finance company, which specializes in lending to the software industry, announced Wednesday that it has sold $1.4 billion of its loans to institutional investors at 99.7% of face value. That means sophisticated players vet their loans and the companies involved and are comfortable paying off nearly…