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A top education official has a message for millions of student-loan borrowers: Don’t count on student-loan forgiveness. Loading audio narration… During a conversation at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute on Thursday, Undersecretary of Education Nicholas Kent said the administration’s key focus is ensuring that borrowers are repaying their…
Fitness trackers aren’t worth your money, a top doctor with 30 years of clinical experience said. Loading audio narration… However, she does have one exception to this rule: her step count.”I don’t have a fitness tracker, but I am obsessed with my step count,” Dr. Suzanne O’Sullivan, the author of…
US forces need to invest in the building of a larger arsenal of cheap, precision-kill weapons or risk losing a future war, America’s top commander in the Indo-Pacific region said. Loading audio narration… Low-cost systems like cheap drones and inexpensive missile designs have had a fundamental impact on conflicts like…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tina Nenshi Gada, a 31-year-old user experience designer based in Washington, DC, who has worked at Citibank, Vanguard, and as a contractor for the World Bank Group. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… When I…
Kinly McCaffrey, a content creator from Texas, has collected about 30 Labubus, including the plush dolls and vinyl figurines, since the Pop Mart toy went viral last year. Loading audio narration… McCaffrey, who has more than 200,000 followers on TikTok, posts blind-box unboxings that rack up millions of views. One…
Top Hollywood stars are speaking out against the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal. Loading audio narration… Over 1,000 Hollywood creatives published an open letter on Monday expressing “unequivocal opposition” to Paramount’s deal to buy WBD, which could close as soon as this fall if it gets regulatory approval.The Paramount-WBD tie-up “would…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta cleaned laundry rooms to support himself through college and still left Yale Law School with a mountain of debt. Loading audio narration… Bonta says he’d do it all again.”I get a lot of questions from young folks who ask me if law school’s worth it,”…
After over a month of war, US forces have hit thousands of targets in Iran — all while consuming millions of meals and energy drinks, hundreds of thousands of gallons of coffee, and a lot of nicotine, the top US general said. Loading audio narration… The US, Israel, and Iran…
David Ellison’s right-hand man is leaving Paramount Skydance. Loading audio narration… Jeff Shell has stepped down from Paramount, where he’d been president since August 2025, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. As president, Shell helped oversee the company’s day-to-day operations.The company said in a statement that it was…
Micro dramas are entering their Hollywood phase as new players aim to give the format the star treatment.The latest example is Tommy Harper, a prolific film producer whose credits include “Star Wars” and “Top Gun: Maverick.”Harper is going small for his next act. He’s launching VeYou, an app for the…
