First Citizens BancShares in Raleigh, North Carolina, beat analysts' fourth-quarter earnings expectations by a wide margin, but its lending in 2026 may be crimped by the need to repay its debt to the ...

February 15, 2026 • How do you find the strength to face the unimaginable? In September of 2024, Gisèle Pelicot took the stand in an unprecedented mass rape trial in France. On trial was her former ...

It was always doomed to unravel, but the firms who lent their name to this folly should be held accountable. Of all of contemporary architecture’s many sins, perhaps the most pernicious is its ...

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Decades before Disney purchased Lucasfilm for an astounding four billion dollars, before the prequels, and if you can believe it, even before the first Star Wars movie was released, writers were ...