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Last June, a new Polymarket account with the name “ricosuave666” began betting thousands of dollars on specific questions regarding Israeli military strikes on Iran.The gamble paid off. When Israel struck Iran in the early hours of June 13, ricosuave666 pocketed roughly $155,000 before going dormant for seven months. The account resurfaced in January 2026 to place new wagers — before analysts flagged its activity and it was promptly deleted.Ricosuave666’s moves were among more than 210,000 suspicious Polymarket trades analyzed by researchers at Columbia Law School and the University of Haifa. The trades netted $143 million for the “informed” traders who…

Amid the chaos of March Madness is a simple leadership lesson: Know your team.On Sunday, Brenda Frese, the University of Maryland basketball coach, went viral after cameras showed her shouting passionately at one of her players.”I believe in you, but you got to want this moment,” she told junior guard Oluchi Okananwa, just a few inches away from her face.While the interaction might appear abrasive at first — and sparked debate online about whether it crossed a line — Frese’s message turned out to be exactly what Okananwa needed in that moment.”I love to be coached hard, and that’s what…

The Department of Education to millions of student-loan borrowers: Get off SAVE — and pay up.The department announced on Friday that it will begin sending notices to the 7 million borrowers enrolled in the SAVE plan detailing their next steps for repayment.Starting on July 1, according to the department, servicers will notify borrowers enrolled in SAVE that they have 90 days to select a new repayment plan and resume making payments. Borrowers who do not select a new repayment plan will be moved to a standard repayment plan, and loan servicers will notify them of their specific enrollment deadline.”The 90-day…

Paramount Skydance has unveiled “Phase 2” of its return-to-office plan, and it’s telling managers how to sell the changes to staffers.Employees assigned to US offices outside New York or Los Angeles were told Thursday that they’d be expected to return to in-person work full-time starting on September 14. Staffers at Paramount’s NY and LA offices have already been working five days in the office since January.Additionally, some full-time remote employees — who don’t live near any Paramount offices — will be expected to return to the office starting in 2027.Managers who encounter resistance to RTO should help their team bond…

Americans are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Claude to help prepare their tax returns, but experts warn the technology can deliver outdated or inaccurate guidance, raising the risk of costly mistakes.About 26% of people are now using AI to file their 2025 tax returns during the current tax season, up from 11% in the prior year, according to polling from Adobe. In a post on X, Elon Musk said that his Grok AI chatbot “can help with your taxes.” He was responding to another X user who said in a post that the tool helped boost a tax refund by…

Transportation Security Administration workers could finally start seeing paychecks as soon as Monday after an ongoing weeks-long partial shutdown, according to the Department of Homeland Security.”TSA is grateful to the President and Secretary for their leadership to put money back into the pockets of TSA employees who worked without pay during the ongoing Democrat DHS shutdown,” a DHS spokesperson told Business Insider in a statement.TSA workers have missed two paychecks and American travelers have been stuck in hourslong lines at airports across the country. Hundreds of TSA workers have quit, and thousands have called out as they go without pay.President…

Do you wake up from that same nightmare in a cold sweat, worried about whether you’re going to be replaced at work by the breakdancing restaurant robot? Do you fear getting a calendar invite from your manager, with an HR rep added and — for some reason — Sam Altman?No? Just me? Well, we might have some help for those fears: a quiz!It is reasonable — healthy, even — to feel anxiety about what the near future will look like as AI increasingly shapes more of our lives. Underneath conversations about AI — whether they’re hopeful, skeptical, or fearful — is one…

Richard Bernstein Advisors CEO and CIO Richard Bernstein offers insight on investment strategies during conflict and rising inflation on Barrons Roundtable. Tax season is in full force as the deadline to file or request an extension is less than three weeks away, and some Americans who have already filed their returns are waiting to receive a refund from the IRS. Nearly 70 million taxpayers filed their returns as of March 13 and most taxpayers can expect to receive their tax refund within three weeks of filing their return, and the IRS has a tool that taxpayers can use to track the status…

Savannah Guthrie said in an emotional interview that aired Friday that the “Today” show is “part of my purpose” as the network announced her plan to return as co-host of the NBC morning program early next month. Loading audio narration… “It’s hard to imagine doing it, because it’s such a place of joy and lightness, and I can’t come back and try to be something that I’m not, but I can’t not come back because it’s my family,” Guthrie told co-anchor Hoda Kotb in the interview, adding, “I think it’s part of my purpose right now.”Guthrie has been on hiatus…

In a previous life, I was a ratty, vagabond mountain girl. I never thought of myself as a writer, and I definitely didn’t plan to build a career as a ghostwriter. I rarely planned where I’d sleep each night.During a gap year from college in winter 2020, I was working full-time at a ski resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. As a side hustle, I wrote off-the-cuff LinkedIn content for coaches and solopreneurs. Even though I enjoyed the occasional peppermint vodka shooters that skiers would give me as a tip, I knew working at a ski resort wasn’t my long-term career…