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It’d be nice to meet someone the old-fashioned way: Passing by them on the street, meeting at a restaurant, or sharing an exchange at a party.However, apps dominate the modern dating experience, replacing kismet meet-cutes with scrolling and DMs.222, a startup focused on relationship building with the help of AI, thinks it can bring back the spontaneity of making a new friend — or falling in love.”We’re trying to get as close as possible to you walking into someplace with other people there, and connection just naturally happens,” CEO Keyan Kazemian told Business Insider.At a high level, 222 matches people…

An observer films ICE agents this month in Minneapolis. A new lawsuit alleges federal agents are unconstitutionally retaliating against people who are lawfully observing and recording federal immigration enforcement operations by gathering their personal information and labeling them as domestic terrorists Stephen Maturen/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Last month, Colleen Fagan was observing an immigration enforcement operation at an apartment complex in Portland, Maine, when federal agents scanned her face with a smartphone and appeared to record her car license plate number. In a social media video she recorded, Fagan can be heard asking why the…

In this photo illustration, a Domino’s pizza sits in a take-out box on July 21, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesDomino’s Pizza shares climbed on a Monday after the company posted a better-than-expected quarter and laid out ambitious growth plans. The strong performance came as the pizza chain said it saw higher transactions and better traction among lower-income diners with its value offerings.The pizza chain reported same-store sales growth of 3.7%, better than the 3.1% projected by Wall Street. Revenue of $1.54 billion was also higher than the $1.52 billion estimated by analysts, at a time when…

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department released interim guidance on a special depreciation allowance for qualified production property under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.Processing ContentThe interim guidance in Notice 2026-16 says the Treasury and the IRS plan to issue proposed regulations on a new provision of the law allowing taxpayers to elect to take a depreciation deduction of up to 100% of the unadjusted depreciable basis of any qualified production property that’s placed in service during a taxable year. Qualified production property is typically considered to be nonresidential real property used by a taxpayer as an integral part…

The Internal Revenue Service onboarded nearly 19,000 employees in 2024, but the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that many of those hires did not receive equipment or performance expectations in a timely manner. Processing ContentIn a report, TIGTA found that 40% of employees (an estimated 7,505) received their laptop more than five workdays after their start date, resulting in employees unable to perform job duties, participate in online training, access agency systems, connect with colleagues or complete onboarding tasks. It also found that 44% of employees (an estimated 8,253) did not receive their critical job elements, such as performance…

A stock market sell-off had investors rushing to the relative safety of the bond market Monday morning, causing yields to drop and mortgage rates to follow. The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 5.99% on Monday, according to Mortgage News Daily, matching its lowest levels since 2022. Last year at this time the rate was 6.89%. The drop in yields is due to a combination of factors, including new uncertainty over tariffs, cooling inflation and economic weakness shown in a lackluster gross domestic product report Friday. While rates briefly dipped into the 5% range for a…

Locksmiths, tattoo artists and pedicab drivers are among those who could benefit from a new deduction this tax season that lowers the burden on workers who received tips as part of their income last year. Eliminating taxes on tips, accomplished through the 2025 passage of the “big, beautiful bill,” allows eligible workers to deduct up to $25,000 in tips from their federal taxable income. Deductions reduce a filer’s taxable income, so the new tax break will benefit workers in industries where tipping is common. The Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, estimates that those who…

A departure board dispays information about cancelled flights, during a winter storm at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, U.S., February 23, 2026. Shannon Stapleton | ReutersA powerful blizzard ground air travel to a near halt at major airports serving New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and other areas of the eastern U.S. on Monday. Disruptions are set to last through at least Tuesday, again testing carriers on how quickly they can recover at the tail-end of winter break.Much of the East Coast from Maryland to Maine was under a blizzard warning, with heavy snow already totaling nearly two feet in…

The Supreme Court’s nixing of President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs is throwing fresh confusion over the raft of trade deals negotiated by global partners as the inescapable reality of ongoing levies remains a threat.Processing ContentThe European Union is poised Monday to freeze the ratification process of its agreement with Washington, according to Bloomberg News reporting that sent European stocks to a session low. Meanwhile, Indian trade officials postponed a trip to the U.S. that would have aimed at concluding their interim accord.The Trump administration swiftly announced plans to replace the prior tariffs with a new, across-the-board 15% levy on U.S.…

You can call me a dork, but working in public radio was my dream as a teenager — and the hours I spent mapping out my career path and building up my résumé paid off by the time I was an adult.After graduating from college in 2019, I interned at NPR, then landed a job at my local public radio station. Within a few years, I’d worked my way up to being a beat reporter, the role I’d always wanted.Once I’d hit this big goal so early in my career, in my early 20s, I didn’t know what to do…