First Brands secured an emergency cash infusion from some of its largest customers to keep it afloat after the bankrupt auto-parts supplier warned it has reached a “breaking point” this week.

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February 15, 2026 • How do you find the strength to face the unimaginable? In September of 2024, Gisèle Pelicot took the stand in an unprecedented mass rape trial in France. On trial was her former ...

Decades before Disney purchased Lucasfilm for an astounding four billion dollars, before the prequels, and if you can believe it, even before the first Star Wars movie was released, writers were ...