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No United Airlines credit card? Soon you’ll earn fewer miles than other travelers.United is overhauling its MileagePlus frequent flyer program to reward travelers with more miles and lower redemption rates, including for some of its long-haul business-class seats — if they have one of the airline’s credit cards. It’s the latest move by an airline to reward its highest-spending customers.The changes mark the biggest shake-up to the lucrative program in more than a decade, when United began rewarding customers for how much they spent — not just how far they flew.United Chief Commercial Officer Andrew Nocella told CNBC in an…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jay Gulledge, 59, who is based in Tennessee. The termination of his employment at USAID and current employment have been verified by Business Insider. When the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development last year, I was one of the thousands of employees who lost their jobs. I was 58 at the time.A year on from being laid off, I’m happy with how things have turned out for me: I work for an exceptional organization with great colleagues.But, every so often, when I talk to a former colleague or…

Wayfair store in Wilmette, Illinois.Courtesy: WayfairWayfair’s annual sales grew last year for the first time since 2020 as the online furniture company continues to win over value-seeking consumers, the retailer announced Thursday. In 2025, Wayfair revenue grew 5.1% to $12.5 billion. The gains follow a more than 1% year-over-year decline in 2024.The e-commerce giant also beat Wall Street’s expectations on the top and bottom lines for its fiscal fourth quarter and delivered better-than-expected adjusted earnings as stronger sales flowed through to the business.”Q4 capped off a tremendous year for Wayfair,” said co-founder and CEO Niraj Shah. “… We had our third…

When Amazon tried to charge my business account $288.56 last month, the payment didn’t go through. Instead, I got an “insufficient funds” notification on my phone.Turns out, it’s expensive to let inventory — especially “aged inventory” — sit in an Amazon warehouse.The “aged inventory surcharge” quite literally bled my business partner and me dry. By February 2026, our business bank account balance sat just above $6. Kathleen Elkins Let me back up.In 2024, inspired by the successful e-commerce entrepreneurs and Amazon sellers I write about, I decided to start my own business. I convinced a friend to join me, and…

It’s a tough time to be just average.Workers who are decent at their jobs — but not superstars — are facing a tougher slog in industries like tech, where employers have the upper hand, and AI threatens to automate their roles.What used to be a spectrum of employee performance is hardening into something more binary. Companies are focusing more on two camps: hotshots and underachievers.This corporate sorting risks leaving the solid performers who make up the bulk of healthy companies feeling overlooked — and potentially vulnerable, workplace observers told Business Insider.”Good-enough, B player is the most dangerous place to be,”…

Dept. of Justice, Getty Images and Library of Congress/Collage by Emily Bogle/NPR Years before they were convicted sex offenders, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell used his wealth to gain access to a prestigious boarding school for young artists in Michigan, using a rental lodge Epstein donated to the school as a base from which to recruit some of their earliest victims, according to Department of Justice records and former campus administrators. The idyllic, nearly century-old Interlochen Center for the Arts, tucked between two lakes south of Traverse City, features grade-school- and high-school-level programs in music, theater, dance, and visual arts,…

Lorenzo Miro San Diego first learned about Polymarket after seeing the prediction market on an episode of “South Park” last fall.His first wager: $498 on the University of Houston beating Oregon State in a college football game. He netted more than $100 after the odds shifted further in Houston’s favor.For the next two months, things didn’t work out as well. He lost money, on net, on a series of bets related to professional football and basketball. He also began dabbling in cryptocurrency price movement wagers — and lost money on those, too.In total, he lost more than $1,700.”I wasn’t able…

Curious how your student-loan servicer is performing? You might be out of luck — for now.When asked by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren for data on their performances, the major student-loan servicers delivered nearly identical responses — exclusively reviewed by Business Insider — that referred the lawmaker back to the Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office.One servicer, MOHELA, wrote in a January 5 email to Warren that it has “a formal statement that FSA has requested we send.”The statement, which the other servicers also sent, stated: “Because your letter requests information and data maintained by the Department’s office of Federal…

Subsidies. Love ’em or hate them, they dominated the news during the Affordable Care Act’s sign-up season, and their reduction is now hitting many enrollees in the pocketbook.While lawmakers continue to disagree on a way forward, and the politics of affordability keeps the issue front and center, it would be understandable to think these are the only taxpayer-funded health insurance subsidies in the U.S. system.But that would be wrong.”The vast majority of people with health insurance get some kind of federal subsidy for it, from Medicaid to Medicare to the ACA to employer-sponsored insurance,” said Larry Levitt, executive vice president…

A member of the FBI’s Evidence Response Ream searches an area around Nancy Guthrie’s residence in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 11. Police say that DNA samples have been recovered in and around Guthrie’s home and that investigators are considering “additional investigative genetic genealogy options.” Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images Investigators in Arizona are hoping that DNA found in and around Nancy Guthrie’s house in Tucson could lead them to a suspect — and the missing woman. Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, was last seen on Jan. 31. So far, a…