Twenty years ago, I accepted a short-term teaching job at a university in Los Angeles. As a born-and-raised Midwesterner, I hadn’t considered West Coast living, but I was open to…
For nearly four and a half hours, Ben Shelton battled Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz in a quarterfinals marathon.More than a million viewers tuned in to the late-night match, one of the…
For most of my 20s, I thought I had a pretty good idea of what my career would look like. I graduated from college with a political science degree, lots of ambition, and very sincere plans to “change the world.”…
Ted Kaczynski’s decades-long acts of domestic terrorism that led to him being known as the Unabomber have been chronicled in books, documentaries, plays, and movies for years. Now Netflix is taking its swing.In the streaming giant’s original movie “Unabomber,” the…
New cars are expensive, but you already know that. You might not be thinking about the total cost of ownership, however. An analysis released in September by AAA puts the average annual cost to own and operate a new vehicle…
In May 2022, I found myself longing for a new life.I had spent the last 20 years rebuilding my life after my husband’s death in the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attacks — raising a 2-year-old and 6-year-old alone, moving across the country to Seattle, writing books about grief,…
College tuition costs in the US are reaching new heights.Today, a bachelor’s degree at some of America’s top schools can cost upward of nearly half a million dollars over four years. And the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down.In June, The Princeton Review collected a list of 15 US…
Recently, I asked a simple question: Costco shoppers paid billions in tariffs, so who gets the refund? Now we have the first real answer. On its Sept. 24 earnings call,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Grace Mullins, a rising senior and sociology major from Indiana at Berea College, a private liberal arts work college in Kentucky.…
You might be waiting longer for your Uber ride to arrive — and paying more for it.The time between when Uber matched a driver with a rider and when the car arrived grew 19% between the first quarter of 2023…
For more than 15 years, our 7,500-square-foot home in Arizona was the center of our family’s life. It’s where we raised four daughters, celebrated birthdays, hosted big family Thanksgivings, and somehow managed to fill every room with memories.My husband and…
The Trump administration is moving forward with its transfer of federal student-loan accounts to the Treasury Department.The Treasury and Education Departments announced on Wednesday, first reported by Business Insider, that they are launching the “Defaulted Loans Support Center.” The new…
I recently shared that I’m 49 and out of cash because a venture capital fund called capital much faster than I expected. I assumed a conservative 30% of my commitment would be called in year one. Instead, 46% was called…
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It took Larry and David Ellison two years to assemble a media behemoth.Now that they’ve bought Paramount, and are about to add Warner Bros. Discovery, the hard part starts: First, they have to figure out how to merge the two…
Data centers are drawing protests and city hall spats across the country. You wouldn’t have known it Saturday night in downtown Washington, DC.When I arrived…
OpenAI’s new AI agents are meant to help people get work done. Instead, their first job may be to explain that they’re not a Chinese…
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Could Meta’s Muse get even more Jolly?By now, you’ve probably seen plenty of cynical hot takes about Meta’s choice to represent its new AI agent with Jolly, the cuddly mascot. “Surveillance Tamagotchi.” “Don’t believe his lies.” “It’s sinister that Meta’s…
While Harvey and Legora fight for Big Law’s business, Clio, an older legal tech company, is making a quieter bet on a corner of the…
John Kenney is the second real estate agent to take a stab at selling 317 Matterhorn Drive, a rustic, two-bedroom cabin in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The…
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When I was 18, local headlines and social media posts about me all focused on the exact same number: I was accepted into more than 20 colleges and offered over $1 million in combined scholarship funding.I’m sure that to people…
A mega backdoor Roth 401(k) can give high earners a way to save even more for retirement. This strategy allows them to put substantially more money into Roth savings than standard contribution limits normally allow. The strategy uses after-tax 401(k)…
British Columbia is taking OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman to court over the company’s alleged role in a mass shooting that shattered a small Canadian community.Niki Sharma, the Deputy Premier and Attorney General of British Columbia, filed a lawsuit Monday…
Often used as shorthand for two opposing sides of America, California and Texas have finally found common ground — on data centers breaking ground.The two most populous US states announced limits on data center development on Monday. California Gov. Gavin Newsom,…
In-N-Out store managers now earn over $200,000 a year on average, the company’s chief operating officer, Denny Warnick, confirmed to USA TODAY. “Our founders, Harry and Esther Snyder, believed not only in taking great care of our customers, but also…
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison just confirmed to employees that the company had settled the lawsuits that were holding up its deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.”We have complete clearance for this merger and can move toward closing,” Ellison said…
The US Army’s training command in Germany is updating its drone warfare curriculum every 60 days in response to changes in this technology and the way it’s used on the battlefield.These changes reflect what soldiers are learning from using drones,…
A trip to Switzerland had been my mother’s dream long before it was mine. She’d seen the destination in movies and travel videos for years and always said she wanted to see it in person someday.Every few years, my family…
Meta’s new personal AI agent, Muse, gives Mark Zuckerberg another chance to build the kind of technology platform he has chased for years.Muse jumped to the top of the App Store last week and remained the most downloaded free app…
RomarioIen / Shutterstock.comThere’s nothing quite like a free sample. Not only do you get to enjoy a new product, but it’s a great budget hack. From food to beauty products, free samples allow you to try something out to make…
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Roughly 2.4 million more Americans over 65 became renters between 2013 and 2023, the largest increase of any age group by far. Their share of all renters rose to 13.4%…
We’ve been writing about Amazon Prime price hikes for a long time. We warned readers when Prime went from $79 to $99 in 2014, from $99 to $119 in 2018,…
Disney is laying off employees for the third time since CEO Josh D’Amaro took the top job in mid-March.The Mouse House is cutting several hundred employees across teams, including tech…
Entertainment mogul Ari Emanuel said he doesn’t let himself procrastinate in the morning.On Tuesday’s episode of “Aspire with Emma Grede,” the executive chairman of WME Group and CEO of TKO…
One of Russia’s Tu-95 strategic bombers crashed during a training flight in the Amur region, killing six crew members, the country’s defense ministry said on Tuesday.The plane was not carrying…
Another money mistake I made abroad was not looking into a credit card without foreign transaction fees.I relied on my regular card for most of my spending in Scotland, and by the end of the trip, those little fees had added up to about…
