It’s the pink mommy club of the Upper East Side. But only the well-connected seem to know it’s there.  The Pearl — part fitness studio, part social club, part multigenerational event space for personal development programming and bachelorette parties alike — sits in a building like any other on a street like any other on the Upper East Side.  There’s no signage or reason to believe taking the elevator to the fifth floor will bring you anywhere other than a dentist’s office or a tax consultant’s cubicle.  Inside the 5,500-square-foot space, however, the ceilings are high and the feminine energy…

After the Education Department began implementing major changes to federal student loan programs on July 1, some groups are cautioning borrowers against enrolling their student loans in a new repayment plan. The new plan, they warn, won’t be a qualifying program for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, or PSLF, a popular…

As recent enforcement activity demonstrates, a company does not need an American factory, American employees, or American exports to be subject to American export controls. If a company manufactures items abroad using technology originating from the U.S. and exports those items to U.S.-restricted entities, the company can be subject to…

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Originally announced on June 26 and with a release teased on Wednesday, the latest and greatest ChatGPT model family has arrived. ChatGPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna are available starting today in ChatGPT, Codex and the OpenAI API, OpenAI said in a blog post. The model family…

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While we’re certainly not limited in options when it comes to larger than life action and adventure films, few stories have even come close to matching the epic scale and immense cultural hold of director Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” movies.With meticulously recreated fantasy landscapes, endearing characters struggling and…

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