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The U.S. Supreme Court Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday about a relatively new law enforcement technique that allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to find out who was near the scene of a crime and may have been involved. Essentially the question before the high court is whether that technique is ingenious, Orwellian, or both? And, ultimately, is it constitutional? The technique is called geofencing, and it allows the government to draw a virtual fence around a geographic area where a crime was committed. After that, the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Fiona Li, a director of marketing at an AI startup. Li graduated from the University of California, Davis, in 2023. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… My mom raised me as a single parent, and I didn’t want her to pay for school. I did have financial aid, but it only covers so much of the rent.I wanted to save money and also attend school, so I looked to scale my career.I consistently compared myself to students from other top schools. I knew that if…

On Sunday, President Donald Trump reckoned with the string of assassination attempts he has faced this term. Loading audio narration… During an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Trump said he had read a manifesto written by the gunman who entered the annual press dinner in Washington, DC, on Saturday and was quickly subdued”He’s radicalized. He was a Christian — a believer, and then he became an anti-Christian, and he had a lotta change,” Trump said.The president pushed back when “60 Minutes” host Norah O’Donnell read a line from the manifesto that called Trump a pedophile and a rapist, among other…

Nick Burns was making six figures in the US and still finding it hard to save. Loading audio narration… Burns, now 35, grew up in Connecticut and served in the Navy. It was during that time that he first visited Singapore.Impressed by the country’s clean and fast public transport system, he began to imagine what it might be like to live there one day. “But it felt impossible, like a crazy idea,” Burns told Business Insider. This story is part of Business Insider’s ongoing “Priced Out” coverage, which examines the lives and finances of Americans who have been priced out…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Derek Laan, 39, a senior program manager at Interlink, a global business development consultancy. His words have been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… When I was a little kid, my favorite book was “The Lorax.” It’s about someone chopping down all the trees.I grew up in Minnesota, and when I was 12, there was a big forest by my house where I’d go hiking and mountain biking. One day, they tore down half of it to build houses. I remember thinking: Why don’t we all just live in…

The price of oil inched upward on Sunday as a second round of peace talks between the US and Iran never materialized. Loading audio narration… Brent crude oil futures rose nearly 2% to $101.07 a barrel when the markets opened at 6 p.m. in New York. West Texas Intermediate inched up by around 1% to reach $95.57 a barrel.An end to the conflict, which has lasted nearly two months, remained uncertain this weekend. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would travel to Islamabad for negotiations during a press briefing on Friday.However, an…

Apparently, nothing rattles Lloyd Blankfein, the senior chairman of Goldman Sachs — not even a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Loading audio narration… The 71-year-old billionaire, who was raised in the public housing projects of Brooklyn’s East New York before he went to Harvard, reportedly had a nonchalant reaction to the chaos unfolding around him Saturday.CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss wrote in a post on X that while writer and podcaster Coleman Hughes was crouched under a table, Blankfein piped up, “Are you going to finish that salad?”things I never thought I’d hear while crouching under a table…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maria Johnson. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’m a content creator. My niche is sharing tips and tricks to get things cheaper, mostly at Disney World but also at other places in Orlando. I stumbled upon Bin Wins at my local Staples in Florida, which was an interesting way to bargain hunt. So, I decided to give them a try. Bin Wins is a new program that the company started a few weeks agoI passed by Staples and saw a yellow sign right up front…

At 8:36 p.m. on Saturday night, shots were fired outside the ballroom of the Washington Hilton, where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was well underway. It marked the third time in three years that President Donald Trump faced the threat of assassination. Loading audio narration… That news, however, did not make The New York Times’ Sunday paper.The Times covered the shooting extensively on its website. For its Sunday print edition, however, the next day’s news had already been set when the shooting occurred, setting it up for a backlash from its critics, who believed it was intentional.”This seemed so outrageous…

Photos of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter posted online by President Donald Trump on Saturday night appear to match the LinkedIn profile of Cole Allen. Loading audio narration… Multiple outlets, including the Associated Press, have reported that Allen is the suspect now in custody. Business Insider was not able to independently confirm the suspect’s identity. Authorities have not yet publicly identified the suspect by name.Trump told Fox News on Sunday that the suspect left a “manifesto” that called for the targeting of Trump administration officials.Here’s what we know so far.Allen, 31, is a resident of Torrance, California. Police conducted…