d3sign | Moment | Getty Images Pandemic spurred jump in identity theft Since the beginning of 2020, consumers have lost about $886 million in fraud specifically linked to Covid-19, as criminals have leveraged the pandemic to steal from online shoppers and in other forums, according to FTC data through Aug. …

Student loan borrowers gather near The White House to tell President Biden to cancel student debt on May 12, 2020. Paul Morigi | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images President Biden’s long-awaited plan to forgive student debt, announced on Wednesday, drew immediate pushback from some lawmakers and consumer groups even …

Europe is facing an unprecedented gas crisis. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Europe is facing an unprecedented energy crisis that’s pushing the economy closer into a recession and posing serious questions about the region’s climate change ambitions. CNBC takes a look at how Russia, led by President …

U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a phone call Thursday. Pictured here is their virtual meeting on Nov. 15, 2021. Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping ended a call Thursday with plans to arrange …

Kim Nguyen felt a sense of pride last fall when her bosses at Alloy committed to pay travel expenses for workers in Texas if they needed to access abortion services, after the state passed new restrictions. “These types of things, especially around equity, diversity, inclusion, access to reproductive rights, [are] …

May 23, 2022, 12:40 p.m. ET May 23, 2022, 12:40 p.m. ET Tom Cruise in the new sequel to his 1986 blockbuster, “Top Gun.”Credit…Scott Garfield/Paramount Pictures CANNES, France — On Wednesday, the 75th Cannes Film Festival rolled out the red carpet for Tom Cruise while French fighter jets roared overhead …

May 17, 2022, 10:59 a.m. ET May 17, 2022, 10:59 a.m. ET Thierry Frémaux, the director of the Cannes Film Festival, on Tuesday.Credit…John Phillips/Getty Images CANNES, France — “Drive My Car.” “The Worst Person in the World.” “Bergman Island.” “The French Dispatch.” “Memoria.” “Annette.” “Vortex.” Every one of these movies …

May 14, 2022, 1:29 p.m. ET May 14, 2022, 1:29 p.m. ET Fans outside the Pala Olimpico stadium in Turin on Friday.Credit…Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times TURIN, Italy — Italy is hosting Eurovision this year thanks to the Rome rock band Maneskin, who claimed the title in Rotterdam …

Trading stocks has become much easier for young traders in the last few years – thanks to fintech apps like Robinhood and Greenlight. Robinhood, for example, drew unprecedented levels of young, first-time traders to the stock market during the pandemic. The rise of such trading platforms that allow kids to …

NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — Scientists have switched off several on-board instruments to halt rising temperatures inside India’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft. The spacecraft carrying India’s first lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1, lifts off from Sriharikota. Mylswamy Annadurai, the project director for the lunar mission, told CNN that temperatures onboard Chandrayaan-1 had …