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Plans to forgive $10,000 of student debt will not cover all of what borrowers still owe. But the pause has been helpful for a very small percentage who are continuing to pay their loans through the pause — with those payments going fully toward the principal. CNBC’s Sharon Epperson explains.

U.S. prosecutors say a former CNBC and Fox News employee has been arrested in London for his work as a television producer for a Russian media baron tied to aggression in Ukraine

You use one subscription while you’re active, and another while you’re (most likely) sitting still. So why are Netflix and Peloton looking so similar right now? Both have experienced slower-than-expected growth of subscribers, and that has led to a dip in the companies’ stock prices, says CNBC’s Julia Boorstin.

Athletes like Odell Beckham Jr. in the NFL and politicians like Mayor Eric Adams in New York City have pledged to collect some of their paychecks in cryptocurrency this year. CNBC’s Sharon Epperson explains.

If you owe federal student loans and you haven’t checked out repayment plans or your new loan servicer, time is ticking. Those plans can help you avoid a payment if you don’t have income – and meanwhile Washington continues to debate student loan relief, CNBC’s Sharon Epperson explains.

Some college athletes are hiring financial planning teams as they ink deals with corporate sponsors and make money, after the NCAA passed an interim policy on name, image and likeness deals. The policy allows players to make some extra cash for the future – and they’ll be paying taxes on that income too, CNBC’s Sharon Epperson explains.

A day after an outage that lasted several hours, whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before the U.S. Senate about Facebook’s platforming of extreme views and reports that it and Instagram created body image issues among young people. CNBC Reporter Lauren Feiner explains why there’s support on both sides of the aisle to regulate the Big Tech company.

Legendary comedian, host and recent Automotive Hall of Fame inductee Jay Leno sat down with NBC to talk about season 6 of “Jay Leno’s Garage.”  “The fun part of going into your sixth season is people know the show and they are excited to come on and talk cars, share stories and do a couple of burnouts,” said Jay Leno….

Interest rates take the elevator up, and the stairs down. CNBC’s Bertha Coombs explains how changes in the interest affect saving money for a down payment and when you should get a mortgage for a home.

Do influencers have your best interests at heart, and are they setting realistic expectations when they pitch you an investment opportunity? Sharon Epperson of CNBC explains the risk of taking social media financial advice.

We are living in a meme stock moment, with huge spikes in stocks like AMC and GameStop. But companies are cautioning investors that their stock price is not connected to the health of their business. “It’s not connected to the number of movie tickets sold or the amount of popcorn sold,” says CNBC’s Julia Boorstin.

A recent CNBC survey found that 44% of older millennials reported having a chronic health condition, such as asthma, type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure, more than other generations. Dr. Georges C. Benjamin of the American Public Health Association explains what’s going on.

25 states have introduced bills calling for more personal finance education in schools. In some districts, even kindergarteners are learning early lessons about the basics of saving, spending and debt. Sharon Epperson, senior CNBC personal finance correspondent, talks with LX News about students across the country who called for more real-life financial guidance.

In a CNBC/Harris Poll survey of older Millennials (ages 33 to 40), 40% still had half their student loan balance or more left to pay. CNBC’s Megan Leonhardt explains the survey results and which life decisions millennials had to delay because of the debt.

When Warren Buffett spoke with Princess Diana for the second and final time — right before her death in 1997 — the night’s topic of conversation became a secret that he kept for years. Because, according to a 2012 CNBC interview that’s been making the rounds online, Diana had revealed her pick for the “sexiest man alive.” The guy was none other than...

An average 14.1 million people tuned in to watch former Vice President Joe Biden’s town hall on ABC Thursday night, topping the 13.5 million who watched President Donald Trump’s town hall on NBC, according to data from media measurement company Nielsen. Biden’s town hall ran from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET while Trump’s ran from 8 p.m. to...

Former Fox News anchor Shepard Smith is back with a new show airing on CNBC called “The News with Shepard Smith,” which he describes as a nightly newscast providing nonpartisan coverage of the day’s most notable news stories, free of outside opinions.

Amazon is launching a new Ring security camera that’s fixed on top of a flying drone. Called the Ring Always Home Cam, it’s an autonomous indoor security camera that can fly inside your home and record footage of multiple viewpoints. Users set a path for the device to fly throughout the home. When the device isn’t in the air, it...

Already in his young career, Kyle Woumn, 25, has had disappointing experiences that are too typical for a Black techie in white Silicon Valley.

The disruption to schools caused by the coronavirus pandemic constitutes a “global education emergency” that threatens to derail the education of at least 24 million students projected to drop out of school as a result, said Henrietta Fore, executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund.