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The stock market rebounded last week as Wall Street bounced around with both positive and worrying headlines. The Nasdaq on Friday snapped a five-week losing streak, helped by gains from big tech companies like Metaplatform, Nvidia and Amazon. Tech stocks ended the week up 1.9%. The S&P 500 rose 1.1% in the holiday-shortened week, ending a two-week decline. The Supreme Court’s ruling Friday against President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs helped boost stock prices for many consumer-facing companies burdened by high import costs. If not for the private credit worries stemming from Blue Owl Capital, which caused volatility in some financial…
2026 is all about “unapologetic charm.” That’s what Alice + Olivia founder Stacey Bendet exclusively shared with E! We’ll bring you news after the brand’s Fall/Winter 2026 collection presentation at New York Fashion Week, as well as more fashion predictions and styling tips to revamp your entire wardrobe. “This is the year that unapologetically glamor returns. We’re moving away from minimalism and back to statement clothing. I’ve always believed that glamor is about power, not frivolity,” says Bendet. “The style of black corset with gold baroque embroidery and tailored pants perfectly captures how we are redefining femininity right now… Partying…
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…