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In 2012, Sam Newell worked on a project that would help define his career in energy consulting, advising Texas policymakers on investment incentives to ensure grid reliability. Rather than advocating for a single solution, Newell said he laid out the full range of options and their trade-offs for policymakers and stakeholders.His report became widely cited and sparked a wave of follow-up assignments, but it also taught him a key lesson he’s carried through his career: The role of a consultant is not to prescribe answers, but to deliver rigorous, objective analysis that helps decision-makers navigate complex choices.Now, Boston-based Newell is…

In 2023, Allison Hale realized her mother could no longer live on her own. Though she was relatively young at 67, her recent retirement had exacerbated a longtime struggle with drinking. She declined quickly, culminating in a diagnosis of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, a dementia-like condition caused by alcohol-induced brain damage. Suddenly, she needed 24/7 assistance.For Hale, who works full-time as a marketing director for a retirement plan adviser and is raising two teens on her own in Washington state, the only option was to move her mother into a residential memory-care facility in Oregon. None of its $9,000 monthly fee was…

Skims cofounder Emma Grede, 43, says the real cost of working from home isn’t being talked about enough. Loading audio narration… Speaking on the “Leaders with Francine Lacqua” podcast episode released on Monday, Grede said that remote work could have broader social consequences that people are overlooking.”Working from home is career suicide. And we only talk about the upside of working from home,” Grede told podcast host Francine Lacqua.The downsides aren’t what people want to hear, but Grede says she believes the effects are already visible in everyday life.”Think about what’s happening in the world. Declining birth rates, declining marriage…

Don’t pursue computer science just for the money, says Replit’s CEO. Loading audio narration… On an episode of the “20VC” podcast released on Saturday, Amjad Masad said that young people who are not deeply interested in CS should not study it.”If you don’t feel like you’re drawn to it like a fly drawn to a light, then don’t go into it because someone told you you’re going to make a boatload of money working for Google,” he said. “It’s pretty dumb to tell people to go into computer science if they’re not really intrinsically interested in it.”Masad cofounded Replit, an…

Jimmy Kimmel joked about his ongoing feud with the first lady Melania Trump in the first minute of his show on Monday. Loading audio narration… In the episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” the late-night host said, “You know, sometimes you wake up in the morning, and the first lady puts out the statement demanding you be fired from your job? We’ve all been there, right?”He said on the show that his “widow” joke on Thursday went unnoticed until Monday, when he “greeted the day facing yet another Twitter vomit storm.”Kimmel made his initial joke during a sketch on Thursday’s show,…

The General Motors global headquarters at Hudson’s Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, US, on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. Jeff Kowalsky | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDETROIT – General Motors is set to report its first-quarter earnings before the bell Tuesday.Here’s what Wall Street is expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:Earnings per share: $2.62 adjusted Revenue: $43.68 billion Those results would mark a roughly 1% decline in revenue compared with a year earlier and a 5.8% decrease in adjusted earnings per share. GM’s 2025 first-quarter results included $44.02 billion in revenue, net income attributable to stockholders of $2.78 billion, and…

The lobster and steak dinners that went uneaten after a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this week did not go to waste. Loading audio narration… The Washington Hilton, the site of the annual gala, donated the meals to two shelters for abused women and their children.That’s according to Weijia Jiang, the CBS News correspondent and president of the journalists’ association that throws the so-called “nerd prom.””They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life,” Jiang said in a post on X on Monday. “HUGE thank you to the staff that worked through the night under terrible…

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A French farmer sprays Roundup 720 glyphosate herbicide produced by U.S. agrochemical giant Monsanto in 2018 on a field of no-till corn in northwestern France. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard a dispute over labels on the popular Roundup pesticide, which thousands of plaintiffs blame for their cancers. Jean-Francois Monier/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jean-Francois Monier/AFP via Getty Images A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard a dispute over labels on the popular Roundup weed killer, which thousands of people blame for their cancers. How the Supreme Court rules could have implications for tens of…

The U.S. Supreme Court Heather Diehl/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Heather Diehl/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court seemed divided Monday on the question of geofencing, a relatively new and powerful tool that allows police to tap into giant tech databases in order to find out who was in the vicinity of a crime scene. In this case, the crime was an unsolved bank robbery that was ultimately solved by tapping into Google’s database to determine the identities of people who were near the bank in the two hours before and after the heist. Although police obtained a warrant, it…