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The way you pay for advanced degrees could soon look a lot different: You could borrow from and pay back the school itself.After President Donald Trump codified sweeping student-loan repayment changes in his “big beautiful” spending legislation, colleges sprang into action. They’re offering direct lending options in response to the new borrowing caps for advanced degrees; specifically, a $100,000 lifetime borrowing cap for graduate programs, and a $200,000 lifetime cap for professional programs, like medicine and dentistry.Only 10 programs would qualify for the “professional” designation, and borrowers, advocates, and lawmakers took issue with the exclusion of degrees, including advanced nursing.…

Homebuyers tend to fixate on a few numbers in the hunt for their next place. The biggest one is the sticker price — the six or seven figures that can stir either exhilaration (if it’s a steal) or dread (if it’s a stretch). There’s the hunk of cash they’ll need for a down payment, and the mortgage rate that will determine how much the loan costs. Then there’s the all-important monthly payment, the number that will hang over their heads for the next few decades.Trawling Zillow for price cuts is practically a national pastime; tracking mortgage rates can turn into…

If you want to work for “The Diary of a CEO” host Steven Bartlett, you might want to beef up your vibe coding skills.Isaac Martin, the director of innovation at Bartlett’s media company FlightStory, said he prioritizes hiring people who can vibe code, or develop programs using AI agents, regardless of their technical backgrounds. Vibe coding is where people use AI tools to write code without needing to know particular programming languages.Martin said his approach to hiring has changed.”Previously, there would’ve been a big focus on developers, as that’s the typical sort of person you would expect to be within…

Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro shouldn’t expect a long honeymoon. Loading audio narration… As head of Disney’s experiences division, D’Amaro charmed the executive search team, park guests, and employees who’ve met him.Wall Street could prove harder to please.Disney’s stock has barely moved in the last decade, and shares have nearly been cut in half from their all-time high five years ago.We spoke with four media analysts as D’Amaro takes the reins on Wednesday from longtime CEO Bob Iger. They said Disney should focus on developing new franchises, investing in video games, and figuring out what to do with AI and the…

Lululemon is looking forward to the changes it plans to make in 2026 — customers, maybe not so much.Full-price and marked down items were the hottest topic during the company’s Q4 earnings call on Tuesday. Lululemon reported a 5% revenue increase year-over-year to $11.1 billion in fiscal 2025, compared with a 10% year-over-year increase for the fiscal year 2024.Despite the revenue increase, the Americas were a particularly challenging region for Lululemon, with net revenue decreasing 4% from Q4 fiscal 2024 to the same period in fiscal 2025.However, the company’s interim co-CEOs said, the company has a plan to turnaround its…

Prosecutors in Arizona filed criminal charges on Monday against Kalshi, an online prediction market site. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Arizona’s attorney general is accusing Kalshi of operating an illegal gambling business in the first-ever criminal charges filed against the wildly popular prediction market site, where people bet billions of dollars a week wagering on sports, elections and what politicians will say during public appearances. State prosecutors allege that Kalshi, which is based in New York City, is running an unlicensed online gambling operation that lets residents bet on sports and elections without ever having…

Lululemon offered a weak 2026 outlook on Tuesday as tariffs, higher expenses and a dramatic proxy battle with its founder weigh on its bottom line. The athleisure company’s guidance for both the current quarter and the fiscal year came in lower than expected on the top and bottom lines. Lululemon is expecting first quarter sales to be between $2.40 billion and $2.43 billion, weaker than estimates of $2.47 billion, according to LSEG. It anticipates earnings per share will range between $1.63 and $1.68, also weaker than estimates of $2.07. For the full year, Lululemon is expecting sales to be between $11.35 billion and…

An Iraqi Shiite Muslim woman holds up the image of killed Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a symbolic funeral the day after his assassination, in the district of Sadr City, in Baghdad on March 1, 2026. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. The opening strike of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran was a highly sophisticated operation that dealt a major blow to the Islamic Republic, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in his office in central Tehran. The U.S. and…

The Kalshi market “Will Iran effectively close the Strait of Hormuz for 7+ days?” appears on a smartphone screen, with the Kalshi logo displayed on a laptop computer screen in the background, in this photo illustration taken in Chania, Greece, March 9, 2026.Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesArizona’s attorney general has filed misdemeanor criminal charges against Kalshi, accusing the predictions platform of running an illegal gambling and election wagering operation in the state. These are the first criminal charges to have been filed against Kalshi, though the company is embroiled in multiple lawsuits and investigations and has received dozens…

An Israeli journalist said Polymarket users tried to bribe him and threatened to kill him after he reported that an Iranian missile had struck Israel earlier this month. Loading audio narration… Polymarket later condemned the harassment and said the conduct violated its rules. “We’ve banned the accounts for all involved & will pass their info to the relevant authorities,” the company wrote on X.Emanuel Fabian, a military correspondent for The Times of Israel, wrote this week that the harassment began with emails pressing him to revise a blog post saying a missile hit an area roughly 500 meters from homes…