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Joann Ernst, 72, shook her head as her older grandson decapitated an action figure. The other laid out puzzle pieces in a line, surrounded by a sea of toys.”You have to put all the Play-Doh back in the container so it doesn’t dry out,” Ernst called out to the 5- and 7-year olds.Ernst is not the boys’ legal guardian. She’s spent the past two years living with her son Jack, helping with her grandsons on weekends. Jack had struggled to work after losing an arm in an accident, so Ernst took a job in the special education department of a…

This story is based on an interview with Scheryl W. Glanton, 74, a real estate agent from Philadelphia. It has been edited for length and clarity.It was getting frustrating. Despite at least 20 showings of my listing in suburban Philadelphia, no one made an offer.We put the 5,100-square-foot Tudor-style property, built in 1925, on the market in April 2026. I hoped it would sell relatively quickly for the $1m asking price. It was an estate sale, the area had good schools, and the neighborhood was highly sought after.Do you live in a multi-generational household? Please email Jane Ridley at [email protected]…

PwC US is overhauling its offshore delivery structure in India, bringing its local operations closer to PwC India’s consulting business.The US firm and PwC India plan to form a new joint venture that will merge PwC US’s India-based offshoring hubs — known as Acceleration Centers, or ACs — with PwC India’s consulting arm, according to an internal memo sent to staff on Saturday by the US CEO, Paul Griggs. Those hubs provide specialist talent and overnight support to US teams and operate independently of PwC India’s operations.Creating a joint venture will help PwC compete more effectively as a global network, Griggs…

Ted Garber did not set out to become a long-distance landlord, but after struggling to find the cash flow he wanted close to home, he broadened his search.Looking at neighboring counties “really opened up the opportunities for us,” the part-time investor, who has built a portfolio of Florida rentals alongside his wife, Jamie, told Business Insider.In September 2022, the Garbers bought three occupied condos listed together for $360,000. The properties were about a 90-minute drive from their Florida home. It was their first out-of-area acquisition — and an experiment to see whether they could self-manage rentals without being on-site regularly.Four…

Trips to the store used to offer a break from the digital screens that dominate modern life. Those days are winding down.Retailers are now trying to bring more advertising into stores by selling brands access to screens in aisles, endcaps, and checkouts, where customers make their final decisions.Walmart, Walgreens, Amazon, and grocery chains are betting that the screens can help shoppers find relevant products while opening a new source of high-margin revenue.”We do see a meaningful opportunity there to have more engaging screens throughout the store,” Walmart’s head of advertising, Ryan Mayward, said this week at a conference hosted by…

Irvin Thevaranjan was blindsided by his layoff.The day before, the head of governance risk and controls at delivery service Grubhub had a stellar performance review with his boss, who told him that he had lots of opportunities in front of him at the company.Less than a day later, though, he found himself on a call where most participants weren’t visible, and no one could unmute themselves. “That’s when I was like ‘Oh crap, this is the wrong call to be on,'” he said.In the hours afterward, Thevaranjan started piecing together a list of the hundreds of others who lost their…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Angel Crawford, who owns 18 rental properties in northeastern Louisiana and runs a third-party website connecting tenants with property owners. Construction for Meta’s largest-ever AI data center has begun in Holly Ridge, an unincorporated community about 10 minutes away from her home in Delhi.My husband and I have been in Delhi for four years. We’re originally from this area, but we’ve moved around because of our nursing careers. I was a quality manager, and my husband was a director of case management.We were empty nesters looking for something to do, so…

As they were preparing to leave Nvidia, David Hoeller and Nikita Rudin anxiously hopped on a late-night call with their CEO.The two had spent years working on robotics at the chip giant, pushing the boundaries of simulation and helping pull off a demo in which CEO Jensen Huang took the stage with a coterie of humanoids.The pair wanted more freedom to bring that technology into the real world and left in 2024 to found Flexion Robotics, a startup building robot intelligence.As they dialed in from a conference in Munich, Huang didn’t try to talk them out of leaving, though he…

David Schneider is all for people having fun on the golf course — to a point.The 47-year-old reached said point recently on a rare three-generational outing with his father and son on a municipal course in San Diego. They got stuck behind a foursome of 20-somethings who were downing Coors Lights, smoking cigars, and playing at what he describes as a “snail’s pace,” oblivious to the groups piling up behind them. “They really didn’t care about pace of play,” says Schneider, who runs a curated golf experience company in Southern California. The situation reached a boiling point when the increasingly…

FILE – The U.S. Department of Justice logo is seen on a podium before a news conference, May 4, 2026, in Washington. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP hide caption toggle caption Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP For the first time, the Justice Department brought a case before a decades-old but until now unused special court to deport a legal US resident to Afghanistan after she conceded to being an “alien terrorist,” court records show. Prosecutors alleged Nazira Haji Zada, 47, originally from Afghanistan, supported a plan by her son and son-in-law to commit an Islamic State-inspired mass shooting on Election Day in 2024, according…