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Rick Woldenberg, CEO of Learning Resources, arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court building on November 5, 2025 in Washington.Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images”We’re thrilled to be on the right side of history here,” the CEO of Learning Resources said Friday after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of his educational toy company’s challenge to the legality of President Donald Trump’s unilateral tariff policy.”We felt like we were supporting something very important,” CEO Rick Woldenberg said in an interview on CNBC’s “Money Movers.””Obviously I feel vindicated and vindicated,” Woldenberg said in his first interview after the ruling Friday morning,…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s request to allow U.S. forces to use British air bases in a pre-emptive strike against Iran, saying it could violate international law, multiple British media reports citing government sources said. According to the Times of London, which first reported on the dispute over air base access, Starmer denied using Britain’s Fairford Air Base and Diego Garcia, a British overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, to attack Iran. The two bases have long served as important overseas U.S. military staging bases for operations far from home, and Diego Garcia is…
The match between Pakistan and New Zealand, which was supposed to be the opening match of the Super Eights, was called off due to persistent rain in Colombo.listen to this article | 1 minuteinformationPublished February 21, 2026February 21, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareThe Super Eights match between Pakistan and New Zealand to begin the second phase of the 2026 T20 World Cup was called off due to no ball being bowled due to rain.On Saturday, the moment Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha won the toss and elected to bat first, rain began to fall at Colombo’s R.…
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…