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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…

A major, shocking nor’easter is about to hit parts of the Northeast with blizzards, heavy snow and strong winds. The forecast had been fraught with uncertainty in recent days, but ultimately focused on a major storm from the mid-Atlantic to the New England region, including New York City, Boston and other large cities. The storm has rapidly intensified into a bomb cyclone off the East Coast since Sunday, meaning the worst is just a day away. Local officials are bracing for major impacts: New York Gov. Cathy Hochul said her team is “closely monitoring” future storms and encouraged New Yorkers…

Chelsea were booed as they fell further into the lead at Stamford Bridge, but Wesley Fofana’s red card and Jean Fleming’s powerful header earned them a precious 1-1 draw against Burnley.Liam Rosenior’s Blues were in complete control, pushing a second to add to Joao Pedro’s early lead. But then the red card issue occurred again. His side were reduced to 10 points when Fofana planted a stud in the leg of James Ward-Prowse to give him a second yellow, his eighth of the season. Torsin was lucky that Fleming didn’t chase him back into the dressing room when he hit…

The generative AI boom has spawned a flurry of startups. But as the dust begins to settle, two once-popular business models are looking more alarming: LLM wrappers and AI aggregators. Darren Mowry, who leads Google’s global startup organization across Cloud, DeepMind and Alphabet, says startups with these hooks have a “check engine light” on. LLM wrappers are basically startups that wrap existing large language models like Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc. in a product or UX layer to solve a specific problem. One example is a startup that uses AI to help students learn. “If you’re just letting your backend model…

Engineering students earn the highest salaries right out of college and are still near the top years later.That’s according to the New York Fed’s latest findings, based on the latest available 2024 U.S. Census data.This analysis breaks down the annual earnings of college graduates by major and reflects the earnings of full-time workers whose highest degree is a bachelor’s degree, excluding currently enrolled students. In recent years, various engineering degrees have consistently ranked among the highest paying fields.The highest-paying majors for workers ages 22 to 27 are computer engineering, computer science, and chemical engineering, with median starting salaries of more…

US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 20, 2026. Kevin Dietch | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump said Saturday that he would raise global tariffs from 10% to 15%, a day after the Supreme Court struck down his “reciprocal” tariffs. President Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the new tariffs are “effective immediately.” “As President of the United States, I will take effect immediately to increase the 10% global tariff on countries, many of which have been ‘striped’ from the United States for…

As ambassadorships dwindle, U.S. diplomats may fare worse than those assigned to Europe. At least in the western part of Kiev, housing is spacious and life is peaceful. “You’re in friendly territory,” said former U.S. Ambassador to Poland Daniel Fried. If a dispute does arise, most can be handled behind closed doors. But recent public spat between three US ambassadors and their respective hosts have given Europe a taste of the Trump administration’s more resolute and more subdued approach to diplomacy. For Washington, the turmoil is the kind of tough love the continent needs. For Europe, these are unnecessary acts…

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…

Ten years ago, until today, Leicester City were at the top of the Premier League and on the verge of winning a glorious and historic title. now? The Foxes have fallen into the relegation zone in the Championship, just two points from safety. The six point deduction, which the club is appealing, clearly does not help resolve the issue. However, the team and club’s performance has still fallen far short of expectations. There is a good chance that they will fall to League One five years after winning the FA Cup. A few weeks after Marti Cifuentes was sacked, Gary…

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