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JD Sports Inks Deal With Grupo Axo to Open 140 Stores in Mexico
One week after JD Sports named a new president and chief executive officer of the JD banner in North America, the U.K.-based retailer has announced a new expansion deal...
Presley Gerber, Model Son of Cindy Crawford, Dies at 27
Presley Gerber, the model son of Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber, has died at 27. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office confirmed that Gerber died Sunday while...
Oxford Report Puts Fashion’s Farmland ‘Influence’ at 30 Percent
Fashion’s fiber sourcing may give the industry influence over almost one-third of the world’s agricultural land. However, this does not mean fashion occupies—or is solely responsible for—one-third of it....
Toga Spring 2026: Breathing in Summer Air
Preparing for next year’s impending heat, Toga’s spring collection continued Yasuko Furuta’s genre-blending style, fusing sophisticated collared tailoring with laid-back sheer layering. Showing outdoors at Somerset House River Terrace...
World
What’s Really Behind the Baby Bust?
If you’ve followed the debate over falling birth rates in the United States, you could be forgiven for thinking that most of the fretting comes from the anti-feminist right....
Sharon Horgan, Autofiction Auteur
Horgan spoke to me over Zoom from her London home, where she lives with her dog and a couple of “chatty” cats; in keeping with her autobiographical style, she...
The Thomas and Kavanaugh Hearings Restaged as a Theatre of Fact
Black man, white man, Black woman, white woman: the cardinal points of our racial and sexual situation. None of the principals in this production can “talk” to one another,...
Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym?
Which brings me back to the gym. No one does a bench press because they expect to spend their life pushing bars off of their chests. The bench press...
Business
Govt urges bank unions to call off strike, flags half-year closing impact
The Ministry of Finance on Monday urged public sector bank employees to call off their proposed three-day strike from September 28 to 30 over the demand for a five-day...
Tata Capital growth outlook stays positive despite near-term headwinds
Asset quality is comfortable for the Tata Group-owned non-banking finance company (NBFC), with no signs of early stress. But sustained high crude prices are an area of concern. There...
JD Sports Inks Deal With Grupo Axo to Open 140 Stores in Mexico
One week after JD Sports named a new president and chief executive officer of the JD banner in North America, the U.K.-based retailer has announced a new expansion deal...
Top Republican Elections Official Endorses Democrat to Replace Her
South Dakota’s outgoing secretary of state, a Republican, is endorsing a Democrat to replace her.Monae Johnson, whose job includes administering elections, is supporting Terrence Davis, a former police officer,...
News
Top Republican Elections Official Endorses Democrat to Replace Her
South Dakota’s outgoing secretary of state, a Republican, is endorsing a Democrat to replace her.Monae Johnson, whose job includes administering elections, is supporting Terrence Davis, a former police officer,...
Trump’s Pollster Drops Bomb on GOP as Midterm Panic Grows: “Bloodbath”
A striking new poll finds Democrat Mary Peltola leading GOP Senator Dan Sullivan by 46-41 in the Alaska Senate race. This is big news: Because quality polling of Alaska...
We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse
Nearly six years after the Capitol insurrection, Christian dominionism no longer needs to break into the building: Some adherents are now inside, and they have spent the last two...
The Trump Dividend Checks Have Already Gone Out. Just Not to You.
And for small businesses, these mini windfalls have arrived too late. Per ABC, one fortunate recipient of a $50,000 refund says “she was forced to cut staff and use...
Beauty
Tata Capital growth outlook stays positive despite near-term headwinds
Asset quality is comfortable for the Tata Group-owned non-banking finance company (NBFC), with no signs of early stress. But sustained high crude prices are an area of concern. There...
India-New Zealand trade pact to come into force on Oct 20: Piyush Goyal
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal (Photo: PTI)1 min read Last Updated : Sep 21 2026 | 2:02 PM ISTThe India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement will come into...
India’s software services exports rise 8.2% to $221.4 bn in FY26: RBI data
India's exports of software services, excluding sales through overseas commercial presence, rose 8.2 per cent year-on-year to $221.4 billion in 2025-26, according to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's)...
Trump seeks to bring US health-research funding under his control
US President Donald Trump is seeking to bring a major part of national funding for health research under the control of his political appointees, Politico reported on Saturday. Trump has...
Celebrity
Govt urges bank unions to call off strike, flags half-year closing impact
The Ministry of Finance on Monday urged public sector bank employees to call off their proposed three-day strike from September 28 to 30 over the demand for a five-day...
Novo Nordisk aims to launch more than five blockbuster drugs by 2030: CEO
Novo is also accelerating expansion of its portfolio of pills and aims to have at least five oral assets in clinical trials before the end of this year |...
Pak min Naqvi to visit Tehran; Iran says talks to focus on bilateral ties
Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi will visit Tehran on Sunday for talks with Iranian leaders and officials amid escalated tension in West Asia, which involve the US-Iran conflict and...
3 killed, 1 critical after overspeeding BMW crashes on Mumbai Coastal Road
1 min read Last Updated : Sep 20 2026 | 2:59 PM ISTThree people were killed, and one was critically injured after an overspeeding BMW crashed on the Coastal...
Culture
Small Business Trends Point to a Record Filing Wave
Americans filed 578,926 business applications in July, a seasonally adjusted count that sat 8.1% above the June total, according to Census Bureau figures compiled by Thimble and distributed Thursday...
Asean public markets need better investability, access to attract Chinese investments: panellists
The bloc is financially diverse, with different currencies, regulations, infrastructure and stages of development[SINGAPORE] Asean public markets need to boost investability and improve access for foreign investors in order...
China rare earth magnet exports to US drop before Xi-Trump meet
These components, used in everything from cars to consumer goods, give Beijing leverage in tradePublished Mon, Sep 21, 2026 · 09:17 AMCHINA’S exports of rare earth magnets to the...
Tightening monetary policy by Fed a test for Singapore’s Reits, market revitalisation project
Coherent corporate strategies, disciplined execution and proactive investor engagement will become increasingly important[SINGAPORE] When the US Federal Reserve was hiking rates at a frenetic pace in 2022 in response...
Style
Hernan Diaz’s Grand Experiment
If “In the Distance” is about the lawlessness of a region that has not yet cohered into a nation, “Trust” is about a lawlessness more familiar to us today:...
Ugly Baby Is Hot but Has a Personality, Too
If you listened carefully, almost two years ago, on the day that the Carroll Gardens Thai restaurant Ugly Baby announced that it would be closing, you could almost hear...
The Unknowable Miley Cyrus
By 2017, Cyrus was covering her tattoos with makeup, wearing all white, and singing ballads of marital devotion. The video for “Malibu,” a single from the album “Younger Now,”...
Lena Dunham’s “Famesick” Is a Cautionary Tale of Filmmakers Doing TV
Even before submitting the script for the pilot, Dunham was asked to write four episodes along with it. In September, the studio decided to make the pilot, and the...
Fashion
Singapore, Asia markets end higher on Monday; STI up 0.3%
Across the broader market, decliners beat advancers 282 to 262, as 1.2 billion securities worth S$1.6 billion change handsPublished Mon, Sep 21, 2026 · 06:08 PM[SINGAPORE] Singapore stocks finished...
Why some musicians aren’t happy about labels signing AI deals with platforms
Two years ago, the biggest record labels took artificial intelligence music generators to court for copyright infringement. Now several of them are licensing their catalogs to those same companies,...
Vietnam joins FTSE Russell emerging market benchmark
The index provider estimates the inclusion could redirect up to US$6 billion into the countryPublished Mon, Sep 21, 2026 · 11:25 AM[HANOI] Vietnamese stocks were added to FTSE Russell’s...
Fed’s Kashkari says inflation is still too high in ‘all aspects’ of US economy
Published Mon, Sep 21, 2026 · 06:09 AMMINNEAPOLIS Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said on Sunday (Sep 20) that inflation is too high across all sectors of the US...
SBA Size Standards Overhaul Closes for Comment Sept 21