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McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski named the villain behind his infamous viral February video testing out a new burger. Loading audio narration… “I blame it all on my mom, because she told me, ‘Don’t talk with your mouth full,'” he said in an interview about the Instagram reel with The Wall Street Journal, released on Monday.”And I think probably in that case I should have just said, ‘You know what? To hell with it. I’m gonna talk with my mouth full,'” he added.In the reel he posted on February 4, Kempczinski taste-tested McDonald’s new Big Arch burger, to the internet’s dismay.Social…

Nikki Glaser, 41, says the pressure to look good grows when you have the means to afford it. Loading audio narration… On Monday’s episode of “Armchair Expert,” the comedian spoke about Hollywood’s beauty standards and why having the resources to change her appearance can make it harder to ignore them.”I’m kind of obsessed with this thing of like, looking a certain way gets you stuff in life, and how that’s unfair if you’re not just born gorgeous,” Glaser told podcast hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman. “But then now there’s this whole thing that you can become gorgeous with enough…

Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz speaks during an event sponsored by the Action for Progress Coalition, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 2, 2026.Al Drago | ReutersThe Trump administration on Monday finalized a 2027 payment rate increase to privately run Medicare plans that was far bigger than initially proposed, a boost to health insurer stocks.The government will increase average Medicare Advantage payments by 2.48%, or more than $13 billion, in 2027, according to a release from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The Trump administration in January proposed a…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a new warning: Living in the city with kids could cost you at least $150,000 a year. Loading audio narration… The Mayor’s Office of Equity & Racial Justice released its inaugural “NYC True Cost of Living Measure” report Monday. The TCOL figure adapts an economic security framework used by the Urban Institute, comparing a household’s financial resources to their actual cost of living. Using 2022 data, it accounts for line items like housing, food, healthcare, childcare, transportation, and taxes. Are you a New Yorker working to afford the city? Reach out to this…

Jamie Dimon warned that companies could leave high-tax cities like New York — but so far, they aren’t. Loading audio narration… In his annual letter to shareholders, the JPMorgan CEO said New York City has “much going for it,” but it also has high corporate and individual income taxes that are inhospitable to some businesses. Dimon, the man behind JPMorgan’s new $3 billion building in Manhattan, said some individuals might move, noting that the wealthy are already fleeing a few states with high taxes and costs of living. A proposed wealth tax in California, the state with the most billionaires, has…

MrBeast has hired hundreds of employees since starting his namesake YouTube channel in his bedroom, but that doesn’t mean he’s cut back on his workload. Loading audio narration… “It was a miracle if a day was less than 15 hours for me,” he said of his work schedule when his team was making his Amazon show “Beast Games.”The YouTuber, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, recently lifted the curtain on his jam-packed agenda. In a video with creator Jon Youshaei, Donaldson said he works nearly non-stop in a schedule that’s “literally planned down to the minute.””Everything has to be perfect…

Rising gas prices might not be hurting consumer spending as much as feared. Look at Pokémon card sales. Loading audio narration… Average gas prices in the US passed $4 a gallon last week, increasing more than a dollar over one month after the US and Israel began a war with Iran that disrupted oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.”If there was ever a time for a gas price shock, this is it,” Mizuho analyst David Bellinger wrote in a note to clients on Monday.A slew of economic and spending data, from Pokémon cards to movie tickets, suggests that gas…

Growing up, I wanted to live in every city my family visited on vacation. As an adult, I started to work through that list. Loading audio narration… After college in Virginia, I moved to DC, went to grad school in Wisconsin, and then followed jobs to Denver and New York. I loved city life, and leaving never crossed my mind.That changed when my father died. Worried about my 75-year-old mom living alone in Louisville and struggling with grief, I felt guilty about not living closer. For the first time, I questioned whether living so far away was what I really…

Losing your job to AI could be even more costly than workers expect, Goldman Sachs says. Loading audio narration… In a report on Monday, the Wall Street bank said it analyzed 40 years of labor market data and found that workers who lost their jobs due to technological disruption were still paying the price years after their initial displacement. “Our analysis suggests that, similarly to previous waves of technological change, AI-driven displacement could impose lasting costs on affected workers, worsening labor market outcomes for several years. These effects could be substantially larger when displacement coincides with a recession,” analysts wrote.…

Steve Bannon Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to dismiss the criminal case against Steve Bannon, the Trump ally, over his failure to testify before Congress about the Jan. 6 insurrection. Bannon was a prominent figure in President Trump’s first administration.  known for a variety of legally questionable activities, including his guilty plea to fraud charges arising from his “We Build The Wall” nonprofit. He spent four months in prison after defying a subpoena from the  House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. Before serving prison time, Bannon asked…