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Prominent Democrats are seizing on Donald Trump’s Supreme Court tariff loss to wage a populist election-year campaign to refund the overturned import duties to the U.S. public.Processing Content”I’m calling for a $1,336 refund for every Ohio household,” progressive Democrat Sherrod Brown said in a social media post Monday. Brown, who is seeking a return to the Senate after a 2024 defeat, portrayed the levies as driving inflation and blamed his opponent, Republican Senator Jon Husted.”Jon Husted supported them at every turn,” Brown wrote. “Ohioans are being crushed by soaring prices and they deserve their money back.”Senator Bernie Moreno, who defeated…

The logo of pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk is displayed in front of its offices in Bagsvaerd, Copenhagen, Denmark, Feb. 4, 2026.Tom Little | ReutersNovo Nordisk on Tuesday said it plans to slash the monthly list prices of its popular obesity and diabetes drugs in the U.S. by up to 50% starting in 2027, in a bid to make the treatments more accessible to patients with insurance coverage. The obesity injection Wegovy, its new pill counterpart, the diabetes shot Ozempic and the oral diabetes drug Rybelsus will have a new lower list price of $675 per month starting on Jan. 1, 2027. The…

An aerial view of the Paramount logo on the water tower at Paramount Studios on Feb. 23, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesWarner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday said it had received a higher takeover offer from Paramount Skydance and will review the new bid under the terms of its existing deal with Netflix. Last week, WBD announced it would re-engage Paramount in deal talks under a seven-day waiver from Netflix. WBD and Netflix have an agreement to sell the legacy media group’s studio and streaming businesses to the streamer. Paramount is seeking to buy the entirety…

Leon Black, then-CEO of Apollo Global Management, at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, May 1, 2018.Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.A $484 million art loan secured by billionaire Leon Black and disclosed in the latest Epstein files highlights one of the fastest-growing and most lucrative corners of the art world.According to a March 2015 document released as part of the Epstein files, Black…

Home Depot on Tuesday posted a roughly 4% quarterly sales decline, as a sluggish real estate market and selective spending by homeowners continued to weigh on home improvement demand.The company also stuck by the current fiscal year forecast that it shared in December at an investor day. It said it expects full-year total sales growth to range between about 2.5% and 4.5% and adjusted earnings per share to be between roughly flat and up 4% from $14.69 in the prior fiscal year. It expects full-year comparable sales growth, which takes out one-time factors like store openings and closures, to range…

2026-02-24T10:46:02.529Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. OpenAI’s Codex lead Alexander Embiricos shares why he thinks now is a great time to be an engineer. He said because it’s easier than ever to build things, engineers need to show agency and taste. Embiricos said an email with a link to an interesting project stands out a…

Being new to the job market is never easy. But in a field like software engineering, it can feel especially daunting as AI takes over many tasks that used to belong to entry-level workers.Some companies have grown cautious about hiring recent graduates as they figure out how AI will reshape their teams. Others, however, are celebrating the new wave of talent.Leaders at Blackstone and Salesforce have told Business Insider that the entry-level talent pool is particularly strong and stands out with its AI fluency.Here are seven companies, including major tech firms such as IBM, LinkedIn, and Dropbox, who have increased…

At a Wall Street conference in December, Toby Neugebauer, the CEO of Fermi America, pitched his company as a cutting-edge utility built to power the artificial intelligence boom.”We’re one of the most sophisticated utilities on the planet,” Neugebauer told an audience of UBS clients. “There will not be a more sophisticated utility. When you look at redundancy, when you look at technology, there won’t be another one.”There’s just one problem. Fermi America has a specialized corporate structure that limits its income sources. And selling power isn’t one of them.More specifically, it’s a real estate investment trust, or REIT. Under IRS…

This as-told-to essay is based on an interview with Nerine Mak, a 33-year-old former senior commercial counsel for TikTok who’s traveling the world on a motorbike. It has been edited for length and clarityI’m the eldest of five children. Our house was full of sibling squabbles, lots of negotiation, and mediation, which is probably why I joined the school debating team. A legal degree was a natural progression.I moved to Australia for college, then returned to Singapore, where I began working as a legal counsel at Ernst & Young in April 2017.Eighteen months later, I became the regional legal counsel for…

Earlier this year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the AI lab would “dramatically slow down” hiring to avoid the kind of mass layoffs that have roiled the tech industry.OpenAI is still growing. Federal filings show OpenAI continues to hire from abroad. And the company’s latest high-profile addition — OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger — underscores that the AI talent wars are still alive and well.OpenAI’s workforce hails from elite universities like Stanford, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon, and they’re compensated accordingly. The company’s more than 4,000 employees receive an average of $1.5 million in stock-based compensation, The Wall Street Journal reported.While OpenAI…