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Before I graduated from college, I feared I’d have no breathing room and would have to jump right into the workforce. Instead, I had to face something even worse: the prospects of no entry-level jobs on the market. Loading audio narration… After graduating in 2024 and having no set work prospects, I resorted to cold emailing and freelancing for multiple publications. I also worked in restaurants as my side gig until something more permanent came through. Though at times my part-time job in the food industry felt like my only job, and my desired career in journalism felt like a…

Americans searching for homes today are facing some of the harshest conditions yet. Some people are opting for extreme measures, like living in tiny homes in expensive neighborhoods, moving in with family members, or, sometimes, a combination of both.A number of prospective homeowners have uprooted their lives and moved to different parts of the country — or even the world — in search of a more affordable lifestyle.The South, in particular, saw a large influx of Northerners seeking lower home prices and a lower overall cost of living. The Midwest, too, has become a hot destination due to its growing…

CLIFTON, New Jersey — Along with aisles of diapers and colorful onesies, Target shoppers in some of the retailer’s big-box stores can now find baby brands typically carried by specialty boutiques. Shoppers can see, feel and test strollers, car seats and high chairs outside of cardboard boxes at about 200 stores, or roughly 10% of the retailer’s footprint. They can find merchandise from high-end brands, including a $1,000 UPPAbaby stroller. And customers can browse nearly 2,000 new baby items, which are available across all of the retailer’s stores and online.Target’s “baby boutiques,” which have rolled out over the past two…

He used to drive a New York City cab. Now, he’s in court going head-to-head with the world’s richest man. Loading audio narration… William Savitt has been spending the last couple of weeks in an Oakland, California courtroom representing Sam Altman and OpenAI in a blockbuster trial brought by Elon Musk.As the co-chair of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s executive committee and its litigation practice, he’s the elite Wall Street firm’s top enforcer.Before his 25-year career at Wachtell, Savitt had an unusual career path. A Philadelphia native, he drove cabs and played in a series of rock bands before going…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Princess Jahnavi Kumari Mewar, a member of India’s Mewar royal family who runs her family’s multi-family office and the private equity firm she founded, Auctus Fora. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I had this most tremendous privilege of birth. The last official, government-recognized king in India was my grandfather’s elder brother, and then after that, the monarchy didn’t really exist. It turned into a democracy.I grew up as most kids would. The difference was that I ended up going to school within the palace…

When Tejal Rives was laid off from Amazon in October 2025, she and her husband had a plan. Loading audio narration… They had bought a career-coaching and résumé-writing business, Do My Resume LLC, in 2024. Rives used some smart time management hacks to turn it into a side hustle alongside her job at Amazon, hoping she could one day quit and make it a full-time venture.After witnessing other layoffs at Amazon, the couple agreed that if her product marketing role were to be eliminated, she’d become the primary parent to their child while running the business.When the time came, Rives…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tom Pickett, the 57-year-old CEO of Headspace, a mental healthcare platform. He started his career as a pilot and graduated from TOPGUN, the US Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program. He is based in Menlo Park, California. This story has been edited for length and clarity.I became the CEO of Headspace in August 2024.This is my first time in healthcare. I was the chief revenue officer at DoorDash for the last four years before coming to Headspace. Before that, I spent 10 years at Google and also ran a startup.I spent…

A rising tide may lift all boats, but rising gas prices only lift a few. Loading audio narration… Costco is increasingly looking like a winner during this round of high fuel costs as US consumers look for ways to balance their weekly budgets.The US average price of a gallon of regular gas has remained above $4 for a month — topping $4.50 this week — leading more drivers to fill up at warehouse clubs like Costco.Those numbers are translating into a top-line boost for Costco, which saw 11.7% US comparable sales growth last month, of which 3 percentage points were…

The internet’s trending “monitoring the situation” meme usually features someone sternly squinting at a phone or a computer screen. Loading audio narration… In the real world, Americans are squinting at a more unsettling trend: rapidly rising gas prices.For Patrick De Haan, those two trends overlap in his career. The GasBuddy petroleum analyst spends his days parsing hundreds of data points flashing across screens that ultimately influence what drivers are paying at the pump.From his desk in Chicago, he regularly cycles between internal GasBuddy tools, spreadsheets tracking fuel prices, Energy Information Administration data, commodities markets, and market-shifting news stories to understand…

Ryan Cohen says he never wanted to be CEO of GameStop. Loading audio narration… Instead, he says he dreams of helming eBay and thinks he has a real shot at achieving that goal, despite critics’ claims that the e-commerce giant is beyond his reach.”I’m going to continue doing whatever I need to do in order to buy the business,” the GameStop CEO told Business Insider in a phone interview on Friday. “I’m going to make myself CEO of both.”Cohen surprised Wall Street earlier this week when he disclosed that GameStop had made an unsolicited bid of about $56 billion for…