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A general view of the Baker Library/Bloomberg Center on February 17, 2024, at Harvard Business School in Allston, MA.Erica Denhoff | Icon Sportswire | Icon Sportswire | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration has blocked the ability of Harvard University to enroll international students, The New York Times reported Thursday.CNBC has requested comment from Harvard on the reported move, which comes amid an ongoing battle between the Ivy League school and the administration.”I am writing to inform you that effective immediately, Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification is revoked,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote in a letter…

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Bill Gates recommends spending your summer reading five of the best memoirs he’s ever encountered.The billionaire Microsoft co-founder’s Summer 2025 list of book recommendations is an eclectic collection of memoirs featuring personal insights and anecdotes from a rock star, a journalist, a comedian, a historian and the first-ever female CEO of a Fortune 500 company.Gates has some very recent familiarity with the genre, having published his first memoir, “Source Code,” in February. For him, writing a personal memoir represented a difficult new challenge, so he relied on his own favorite books from the genre to determine “what I could draw…

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Hinge Health signage outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in New York, US, on Thursday, May 21, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of Hinge Health popped in their debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after the digital physical therapy company raised about $273 million in its IPO.The stock opened at $39.25, rising 23% from its $32 IPO price. Hinge sold 8.52 million shares in the offering, while the total offering was for 13.7 million shares, with the balance being sold by existing shareholders.Hinge, founded in 2014, uses software…

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WASHINGTON — Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives came together early Thursday to pass President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill out of the chamber on a narrow vote.Every Democrat on the floor voted no, as did Republican Reps. Warren Davidson of Ohio and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, voted present. The final vote tally was 215-214.The passage was a major victory for Republican leaders, who spent the past two months crafting the bill and the past two days making last-minute changes to it. The more than 1,000 pages of…

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U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks to the media after the House narrowly passed a bill forwarding President Donald Trump’s agenda at the U.S. Capitol on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesHouse Republicans on Thursday advanced a multi-trillion-dollar tax and spending package that could have sweeping impacts on household finances.If enacted, the legislation — called the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” — could make permanent President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, while adding new provisions that could significantly overhaul student borrowing, health savings accounts and car ownership, among other changes.With control of…

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