Author: News Room
As a teenager, I’d sit on my bed flipping through glossy magazines, fascinated and completely absorbed by the empowering stories about women. The news felt dominated by men, but magazines seemed to offer a different world — one where women’s lives, bodies, careers, and opinions were worthy of entire pages.…
The lobby, also known as the drawing room, looked as if it had been designed 100 years ago, with restored 19th-century trim, moldings, and replicated historic details.”Teams of craftsmen restored the 1893 grandeur of the Lobby Lounge by removing, refinishing, and reinstalling every piece of millwork, and recreating original light…
The first sign that our family camping trip was a bad idea was that my husband and I were fighting. Although he was a rugged outdoorsman who took frequent solo kayaking expeditions in the wilderness, he hated dragging our two kids into the woods in the peak of summer heat…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kevin Schreck, a 33-year-old from North Carolina who moved to Spain in 2018. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I was pursuing a master’s in Spanish when I met my husband, who was also working on his master’s. He’s…
This is a conversation with Justin Johnsen, the lead technical architect at KPMG. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.I joined KPMG six years ago, and I’ve been a forward-deployed engineer for about a year, working across different clients.When I started with KPMG as a software engineer, all…
Nansi Lynch never went to college. But she’s approaching retirement with a $156,000 student-loan balance.”I don’t get rid of it until I turn 75 years old,” Lynch said. “I’ve never heard of something so disastrous in my life.”The 60-year-old took out federal parent PLUS loans, which carry the highest federal…
When you lose your job at 60, you might feel too old to get a new job, but too young to retire. USA TODAY spoke to 10 Americans who lost jobs around age 60, to learn how they had handled the difficult decision of what to do next. Here are…
This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation for our Cost of Living video series with Debbie Welsch, 57, an American who retired to Bali with her 82-year-old mother. It has been edited for length and clarity.My 10-year lease for my 1,100-square-foot house in Bali is $4,500 a year…
AI assistants are finally ready to help you run your life. All you need to do is trust them with your email login, your contacts, and your credit card — and hope they don’t go rogue.Meta, Google, and the buzzy startup Instinct have rolled out personal AI agents in recent…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Oleksandr “Alex” Matsiuk, cofounder and CEO of RiseGuide, an expert-powered microlearning app. The company has grown to 110 employees across 12 countries since its founding in 2024. The essay has been edited for length and clarity.Becoming the CEO of a fast-growing…
