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It’s breakfast time in America, where the utilitarian morning meal has taken on a new life.”To me it’s simple, unpretentious. It doesn’t have the same sort of baggage as dinner,” said Phil Vanner, a Gen X breakfast lover and former diner owner.In an America increasingly obsessed with health, budgeting, and accessible third spaces, breakfast is on the rise, especially for the young and affluent. Research firm IBISWorld found that revenue at breakfast restaurants and diners has grown from $13.8 billion in 2019 to around $15.6 billion in 2025. Breakfast is increasingly the meal that meets the economic mood and cultural…

This story is based on an interview with Sierra Balgar, 27, the founder of City Girl Golf. It has been edited for length and clarity.I really didn’t think my life would look the way it does now when I started my business in May 2023. I was just focused on creating something women would enjoy.Then all of a sudden, it felt like a lot of opportunities started happening at once, and I was trying hard to keep up. One opportunity would lead to another, and before I knew it, I was constantly traveling, planning events, building relationships, and trying to…

An FBI official places an evidence card in Biddeford where a man was killed in a shooting involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on July 13, 2026. Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald hide caption toggle caption Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald David Brouillette, the ICE officer who allegedly killed Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero during a traffic stop in Maine last week, had a history of domestic violence and a number of serious mental health issues, his ex-wife told NPR. The killing, along with a fatal ICE shooting in Texas the week before, comes on the heels of a rapid hiring spree…

When Charles Leak and his wife purchased his home in East Hampton, they thought they’d found an oasis of quiet. Far away from their Tribeca apartment in the Near Northwest Woods, a neighborhood known for its secluded calm, their contemporary saltbox style sits back on a one-acre lot, surrounded by Japanese cedars and bamboo.About five years after he moved in, the leaf blower roars started.”You know what a chainsaw sounds like? These are louder. Usually, there are multiple. It becomes a symphony,” Leak, who has worked as a contractor and a fine artist, tells me. “It’s quieter in the city.”Leak…

Matt Damon said Jon Bernthal inspired the rest of the cast with one grueling scene early in production.Damon recalled that Bernthal was half-submerged in icy water in Morocco during winter while filming a scene inside the Trojan Horse.”Jon was shaking and putting his hands together and pressing so that he could get the shivers out so he could get one line of dialogue out,” Damon told People in an interview published last Thursday.Christopher Nolan repeatedly checked in on Bernthal, but the actor simply urged him to keep filming. “John was just like, ‘Just go, just go,'” Damon recalled.”That set the…

Amazon is required to pay out $1.5 billion to affected customers as part of its FTC settlement — and you have less than a week left to claim your share.The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon in 2023, accusing the company of enrolling customers in Amazon Prime without their knowledge or consent and making it difficult for them to cancel.Amazon settled with the FTC last year, agreeing to pay out a large sum to customers and a $1 billion civil penalty, for a total of $2.5 billion.The settlement followed a Business Insider investigation that revealed Amazon Prime’s sign-up tactics could be…

When it comes to debates over the role of artificial intelligence in marketing, Jill Kramer, chief marketing and communications officer at Mastercard, is focused on the upside.”We need to give ourselves permission to embrace the positive first,” she said in a video interview for CMO Insider. “Let’s see all that it could be.”Kramer joined Mastercard in December 2025 as chief marketing and communications officer, after more than a decade at Accenture.She said that marketers need to give themselves permission to embrace the positives of AI because it can be an engine to foster creativity and deeper insights. Kramer said it’s…

Paramount+ is preparing to add micro dramas to its app in the coming months, Business Insider has learned.Paramount will test micro dramas — soapy series with snack-sized episodes — on its flagship streamer’s mobile app this quarter, streaming leaders told employees in a town hall on Wednesday afternoon.These short, buzzy vertical shows are designed to build “mobile daily habits at scale” by “recalibrating consumption behavior” as audiences get used to watching Paramount+ on the go and during the day, according to a screenshot of the town hall presentation viewed by Business Insider.The presentation included mocked-up examples of what micro dramas…

A Mercedes-Benz logo is displayed on a used vehicle for sale at a dealership on November 11, 2025 in San Diego, CA.Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe Senate Commerce Committee advanced bipartisan legislation Wednesday aimed at toughing a ban on Chinese automakers from the U.S. market, even as Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned that it could unintentionally bar Mercedes-Benz from selling vehicles in the country.Cruz said during the committee’s markup of the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act of 2026 that the bill’s 15% Chinese ownership threshold would cover Mercedes-Benz because two Chinese investors collectively own nearly 20% of…

European Union antitrust regulators said on Wednesday they had signed off on Paramount Skydance’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.The approval, which included concessions made by Paramount, comes as the deal has been delayed in the U.S. due to concerns raised by state attorneys general. In order to garner the approval, the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, said Paramount agreed to divest its stake in a film distribution joint venture with United International Pictures in Europe, and said it would not enter into any film distribution deal with Universal for the next 10 years in Europe. “These…