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Starbucks is in its wellness era.The coffee giant is doubling down on healthy drink and snack options, because that’s “how people want to eat,” especially in the afternoon, CEO Brian Niccol said during Starbucks’ first-quarter earnings report on Wednesday.”You’ll continue to see us push against the health and wellness platform going forward,” Niccol said. “In beverage, I think it is going to be this personalized energy that can be executed as still, sparkling, and blended, so there’s a pipeline for that platform.”Niccol said there’s a real opportunity to ensure Starbucks offers food people are excited to make part of their…

UK partners at the Big Four firm KPMG received greater payouts than their counterparts at rivals EY and PwC this year.KPMG announced on Wednesday that partners received £880,000, roughly $1.2 million, in the firm’s 2025 financial year — an 11% rise compared to the previous year.The bonus pool for rank-and-file employees increased 18%, though that was lower than the 20% rise for the previous financial year.KPMG is often considered the underdog of the Big Four professional services firms, being both the youngest and the smallest by global revenue and number of employees.Partners hold a stake in the firm, giving them a…

Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor, was released on Friday following his arrest in Los Angeles on Thursday night.Lemon’s arrest came after protesters interrupted a service at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Lemon has said that he was reporting as a journalist when he entered the Cities Church on January 18. Protesters said that one of the church’s pastors worked for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”Last night, the DOJ sent a team of federal agents to arrest me in the middle of the night for something that I have been doing for the last 30 years, and that is covering…

President Donald Trump’s monthslong and contentious search for a new commissioner to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics may be ending.On a Truth Social post on Friday, Trump announced that he intends to nominate Brett Matsumoto, a longtime agency economist, to lead the BLS.The BLS commissioner role has been vacant since August, when Trump fired Erika McEntarfer after the release of a jobs report showing weak employment growth. Trump alleged, without providing evidence, that the data had been politically manipulated. The allegation and removal have since undermined public trust in one of the federal government’s most closely watched statistical agencies,…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Christopher Mannino, 45, an author who moved from Middletown, Delaware, to Swieqi, Malta, a Mediterranean island just 122 square miles in size, with his wife and two young children in June 2025. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.During the pandemic, I was freelancing at the time, and I was writing an article about “worldschooling.” I had never heard of it, and I started interviewing these people around the world, and these are families who were just traveling the world with their kids. My wife and I had both…

President Donald Trump has boasted about strengthening the US economy since returning to the Oval Office. Meanwhile, millions of Americans say they’re struggling to afford food, rent, and other basic necessities.Gary Cohn, Trump’s former chief economic advisor, said both these realities are true right now in America.”If you look at gross domestic product, which is the overall output of the US economy, we’re trending about 5% right now, which is a very high growth rate in the United States,” Cohn said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.Cohn, who is now IBM’s vice chairman, also cited promising trends in inflation…

When Zina Malas decided to relocate to Canada at the age of 21, she was desperate to leave her home country of Lebanon, feeling the political and economic instability there had robbed her of her youth.Hoping to start a new life, Malas moved to Montreal alone in 2022.But she was surprised by how hard it was to find work, how isolated she felt, and that she lived paycheck to paycheck, she told Business Insider. After launching her own business, Malas moved back to Lebanon three years after she left, and said she feels happier.Although Malas realized Canada wasn’t for her,…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kiersti Torok. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m a professional couponer who shares tips with my millions of followers on social media. I have a long couponing history. Both of my parents got laid off during the recession and had two teenage daughters. They needed to figure out how to make ends meet quickly, so my mom took a community college class and learned the basics of couponing.As a teenager, I wanted to go to the mall and shop, so to supplement that, my mom and I would coupon.…

Nike is facing a federal probe over allegations that its DEI targets led to discrimination against white workers.The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday that it has asked a federal judge to require Nike to provide information for its investigation into alleged racial discrimination. The sportswear giant is accused of intentional systemic discrimination against white employees, with some requests for information dating back to 2018.A Nike spokesperson called the filing a “surprising and unusual escalation.””We have shared thousands of pages of information and detailed written responses to the EEOC’s inquiry and are in the process of providing additional information,” the…

A California man whom an FBI official slammed as a “total imposter” was arrested and charged Thursday over allegations that he sent a fake ransom demand for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie.”Did you get the bitcoin were [sic] waiting on our end for the transaction,” Callella texted two family members of Nancy Guthrie on Wednesday, following reports of a ransom demand tied to the elderly woman’s disappearance that listed a Bitcoin wallet address, his criminal complaint said. The complaint, filed in Arizona federal court, said Callella admitted to sending the messages. It was not immediately…