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Tom Ford just sold his fashion brand to Estée Lauder. That likely makes him a billionaire.

Estée Lauder announced this week it is acquiring Tom Ford’s eponymous fashion company— likely making the designer a billionaire. The cosmetics company, which owns several other brands like MAC and Clinique, said it bought the brand in a deal valued at $2.8 billion and finalized this week. As part of …

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Robbery suspect and clerk fatally shoot each other in Chicago grocery store

A robbery suspect and a grocery clerk fatally shot each other during an attempted holdup in a store in Chicago, authorities said. The shootings Friday evening inside the El Barakah Supermarket in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood killed would-be robber Nicholas Williams, 24, and 63-year-old clerk Ali Hassan of Berwyn, the …

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Biden administration halts student loan relief applications after Texas ruling

The Biden administration has stopped taking applications for its student debt forgiveness program, citing a Thursday ruling from a federal judge in Texas that declared the program “unlawful.” On Friday, the Department of Education’s student debt relief website displayed a message informing borrowers that “student loan debt relief is blocked.” It added, …

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