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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with McKenna Shamburg, 25, who moved from Utah to Indiana to be closer to her family to help raise her children. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve lived in eight states now.I was born and raised mostly in South Carolina. I left when I was 12 years old to go to Louisville, Kentucky, for two years. Then we moved to Austin for a year, and then we moved back to South Carolina when I was 15. That’s where I met my husband in high school.Then we moved to Norfolk,…

President Trump holds up an executive order calling to restrict mail-in voting in the White House in March. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images The Supreme Court has paused a lower court’s ruling that blocked key directives from President Trump’s executive order to restrict mail-in voting for this fall’s midterm election in about two dozen states and Washington, D.C. But with the start of absentee voting for the midterms just weeks away, legal and practical hurdles loom over whether the U.S. Postal Service and other federal agencies can finish carrying out Trump’s directives. Released Monday, the…

It’s tariff time in America and Canada — again.On Saturday, after trade talks between Canada and the US collapsed, the Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs on a slew of Canadian items, including alcohol and hockey equipment. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has already announced a dollar-for-dollar counter-tariff, marking yet another bumpy moment in tensions between the two formerly friendly neighbors.The specificity of the tariffs means that different sectors of the economy — and your everyday purchases — will get hit unevenly. The tariffs affect alcohol, milk, plywood, and more. For consumers craving Canadian whisky or finally getting around to home…

The UK job market is looking grim for people fresh out of university.According to the latest UK Job Market Report from job-matching platform Adzuna, the company’s index — which aggregates online listings from more than 1,000 sources — counted an average of 8,383 live UK graduate vacancies in July.That’s down 45.6% from July 2025 and the lowest level since Adzuna launched the monthly series in April 2016. The figure has collapsed from more than 55,000 at its mid-2017 peak. Are you a recent graduate getting creative as you try to land a job in this job market?Get in touch with…

A group of New York City businesses filed a lawsuit Monday morning against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run grocery store initiative, alleging that the supermarkets will cause “unfair competition” with local vendors.The plaintiffs, an organization called the Multicultural Business Coalition, are calling for a halt to all city-run grocery store rollout activity until the administration has undertaken additional land use review, study, and analysis to protect small grocers and bodegas.Mark Jaffe, a founder of the MBC, told Business Insider last week that he views the city-backed stores as unfair to local businesses. He did not immediately respond with additional comment on…

A screen displays the the company logo for Goldman Sachs on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., May 7, 2025. Brendan McDermid | ReutersA Goldman Sachs partner leading one of the bank’s flagship artificial intelligence projects warned that AI’s spread across Wall Street risks hobbling the thinking capabilities of the next generation of financiers.”There’s a huge danger here that in the era of AI, we outsource our reasoning to these models, and we have cognitive atrophy that stops us being able to reason from first principles ourselves,” said Chris Churchman, who leads…

An economist who studies financial crises says the US may only have until the end of the year before it faces a huge debt reckoning.Tuomas Malinen, a professor at the University of Helsinki who specializes in geopolitics and financial crises, is updating his call for a coming US recession. In a note published on Substack, the GnS Economics CEO said that he now sees the US entering a downturn by the end of the year or early 2027 at the latest. The recession is likely to be triggered by extreme amounts of leverage in the US financial system, such as…

Sam Altman says scrolling through his inbox makes him feel productive even though AI could do it faster.On an episode of David Senra’s podcast, released Sunday, the OpenAI CEO said that even with Codex available, he still defaults to working through email manually.”I should not be scrolling mindlessly through my emails and trying to figure out which one is least painful for me to open and respond when I don’t want to be dealing with it,” Altman said.Instead, Altman said, he should be handing more routine work to Codex, including moving information between apps and working through his to-do list.…

Karen Attiah is set to return to The Washington Post in dramatic fashion.The columnist was dismissed last fall for making controversial social media posts following conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death. Now, an independent arbitrator has ruled that Jeff Bezos’ newspaper wrongly fired her. Attiah is part of the newsroom’s union, and the arbitrator ruled that the Post had not met the bar for firing her under its collective bargaining agreement.”The Washington Post did not have good and sufficient cause to terminate the employment of the Grievant, Karen Attiah,” arbitrator Sarah Miller Espinosa said in the ruling, which was announced on…

David Einhorn rapped a remix of Eminem’s hit “Lose Yourself” at Greenlight’s 30th anniversary party, but saved his best disses for SpaceX.In the $5.3 billion firm’s second-quarter letter, seen by Business Insider and dated from the beginning of August, the IPO of Elon Musk’s rocket-meets-artificial-intelligence company was called “a marker that a speculative top is near.”The letter congratulates investors who invested in the company during private fundraising rounds on their big win, but questions the massive valuation at which the company went public.”We don’t know if it is best described as the meme-ification of the market at scale, the latest…