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World Cup spectators visiting the US have a new place to pick up ranch dressing.Some airport stores located past the security checkpoints have started selling bottles of ranch dressing. The offering solves a problem for World Cup fans, enough of whom tried to get on planes with containers of the dressing that the Transportation Security Administration warned travelers not to pack it in their carry-on bags earlier this month.Paradies Lagardère, which operates airport retailers, told Business Insider that it’s selling the dressing at six airports, from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport. All six airports are in cities that…

President Donald Trump’s student-loan changes are here — and for many borrowers, the biggest change will be their monthly bill.On July 1, the Department of Education rolled out new repayment plans, stricter borrowing caps for graduate students and parents borrowing for their kids, and new limits that could reshape who qualifies for a popular loan forgiveness program for public servants.Millions of borrowers “will face massive sticker shock this summer and autumn as they are pushed to transition into other repayment plans,” said Sara Partridge, associate director of higher education at the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress.Cassandra Kormendy, a…

People stand near a voter registration table at a 2022 event in Fredericksburg, Texas. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP Republicans are mounting a push for courts to reinterpret a longstanding ban on mass purges of voter rolls just before a federal election. That legal protection for eligible voters is now set to be reviewed by the Supreme Court during its upcoming term, beginning in October, through a case out of Arizona, as President Trump and GOP leaders continue to spread false claims of widespread voter fraud by non-U.S. citizens, even as state reviews have found illegal voting…

When Fatema Ali was laid off from her IBM project manager job in 2024, one of her biggest concerns was how she and her husband would support their three children, the youngest of whom was 8 months old.She hoped to find another job quickly. But she’s still looking for full-time work.A few months earlier, her husband had left his job to pursue a startup idea that wasn’t yet generating income.”I didn’t want that pressure to show on my face,” said Ali, who’s in her 30s and lives in Texas. “I don’t want my children to feel like there is anything…

Former Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter testifies during a Senate Rules and Administration Committee hearing on artificial intelligence and the future of elections on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Sept. 27, 2023. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Supreme Court struck down limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with their candidates in a 6-3 decision split along ideological lines. The ruling is the latest in a series of Supreme Court decisions that have loosened campaign finance restrictions, overturning a 2001 precedent that upheld the spending limits. Former Federal Election Commission…

Kalshi’s CEO said insider trading poses a bigger threat to the stock market than to prediction markets.In an interview with lawyer Max Raskin, published in the Washington Post on Sunday, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour talked about the biggest criticism of prediction markets — that it facilitates insider trading.He said detecting insider trading in the traditional stock market is much harder than in prediction markets.”The stock market is hard because you may have a piece of information, like a certain product is going to be released, and then you buy the stock. It’s very broad,” Mansour said to Raskin.But in prediction…

President Donald Trump reported more than $1 billion in income tied to cryptocurrency ventures in 2025, his annual financial disclosure shows, underscoring how digital assets have rapidly become one of the most lucrative parts of his business empire.The filing shows Trump collected hundreds of millions of dollars from token sales through World Liberty Financial, alongside a massive payday from licensing his name to a Trump-branded memecoin.The disclosure offers the clearest accounting yet of how the president and his family have monetized the crypto boom after embracing digital assets during his second White House campaign and underscores how closely his financial…

It was easier to leave our New York life than we thought it would be.My partner, James, and I had both lived there since the ’90s. But downtown Manhattan had lost both its appeal and its affordability. The spike in hate crimes against Asian and LGBTQ+ communities also left us feeling unsafe. The streets felt mean.I was already working remotely for a New York literary magazine and freelancing on the side, while James had left his design job at a consulting firm, so we were no longer tied to the city for work. Have you relocated abroad for career opportunities,…

The U.S. Supreme Court Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images The Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the long-established right of children born on U.S. soil to automatic American citizenship, regardless of their parents’ immigration status. In so doing, the court rejected President Trump’s most aggressive attempt to limit immigration in the United States. Writing for the court majority, Chief Justice John Roberts traced birthright citizenship back to the founding of the nation. Just as the colonists demanded “the rights of Englishmen” more than 250 years ago, he said, Congress, after the Civil War, amended the Constitution to…

Before falling in love with a home, make sure you run the numbers. If you’re a first-time homebuyer, understanding your debt-to-income ratio and monthly obligations are important first steps in the mortgage process.Evaluating your financial health and building out your monthly budget are key to determining your home buying power. Here’s a guide to figuring out how much home you can buy.How to evaluate your home buying powerTo determine your home buying power, these elements can help you assess your financial health to set a realistic budget.Gross household income: Calculate your total annual and monthly income, including consistent bonuses.Total monthly…