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Suzie lifted the box of diapers from her trunk and glanced down the street to be sure she hadn’t been followed. It was a bright Thursday afternoon, and her boots crunched across the icy Minneapolis pavement as she crossed to the curtain-drawn house of a Target coworker.The street was quiet. It was just a few blocks from where Renee Good, a mother of three, was shot and killed by an ICE agent three weeks earlier. The coworker, who is Latina, has been too afraid to venture into a store.”The first time I did this, I was very nervous — almost…

A photograph of the pistol recovered by immigration agents after a shooting in Minneapolis is shown on a screen behind U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem as she speaks during a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 24. Federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti that day during operations in Minneapolis. Al Drago/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Al Drago/Getty Images On a Saturday in early October, Marimar Martinez, a 30-year-old teacher and American citizen, was driving her car when she noticed federal immigration agents in her Chicago neighborhood. She began following them, as did the driver…

Local businesses across the US forwent income for the day to protest the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and the fatal shooting of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis.In what was billed a “National Shutdown,” organizers called for a 24-hour general strike, asking students to skip school, business owners to close up shop, and consumers to refrain from spending for the day.Some small and medium-sized businesses from coast to coast posted on their social media stating that they’d be closed on Friday as part of the demonstrations. Others said that they’d remain open to support their workers,…

The US federal government is shutting down again, but it won’t be like last time.Funding for a slew of federal agencies runs out at midnight late on Friday, and lawmakers on Capitol Hill failed to send a series of bills to fund those agencies to President Donald Trump’s desk in time.Even though the Senate passed a series of bills to fund the government on Friday, the House is not set to vote on them until late Monday at the earliest, meaning the shutdown will last at least a few days.Some parts of the federal government have already been funded, meaning…

2026-01-30T23:14:36.814Z 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. Nike and Costco teamed up for the release of the Kirkland Signature SB Dunk Lows. The unexpected sneaker launch caused frenzy at selected Costco stores. Resale prices for Nike SB Dunk Lows hit $350 on StockX. Fly kicks probably aren’t what you think of when you hear about Costco,…

CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn’t come to Meta’s earnings call on Wednesday promising a breakthrough AI model that would silence the skeptics.Instead, he offered something more careful: a bet on momentum.”I expect our first models will be good,” Zuckerberg said in his opening remarks, “but more importantly, we’ll show the rapid trajectory that we’re on, and then I expect us to steadily push the frontier over the course of the year as we continue to release new models.”In June, Meta launched a new AI initiative, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), headed by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. When Wall Street sought…

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has voted to add a project to its technical agenda on market-return cash balance plans.Processing ContentDuring a meeting on Jan. 14, FASB decided to add the project based on the recommendation of its Emerging Issues Task Force. The project will address the discount rate used to measure the projected benefit obligation under Topic 715, Compensation — Retirement Benefits, for market-return cash balance plans.FASB agreed with the EITF’s recommendation to apply amendments under the project to market-return cash balance plans as long as they meet the following conditions:Pension benefits are communicated to employees in the form…

Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks on Friday said upcoming Medicare coverage of obesity drugs could be a major catalyst for the rollout of the company’s closely watched experimental weight loss pill, orforglipron.In an exclusive interview with CNBC, Ricks said Lilly expects to have Medicare coverage for the treatment “immediately following that launch, and that will change the game a bit too.” He said that’s because many patients are currently paying in cash for competitor Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1 pill for obesity. That launched earlier this month and is off to a strong start, even with spotty insurance coverage. Ricks said he noticed…

Let’s get this out of the way: “Melania,” the new documentary about first lady Melania Trump, is not a good movie.I mean: It’s possible you’ll like it if you’re a Trump superfan who likes everything Trump does.The movie is full of drone shots and lingering looks in and outside of SUVs and private planes. There are lots of glimpses inside the White House, Trump Tower, and Mar-a-Lago. There’s also some very expensive music licensing that brings you a sampling of artists you might hear at the beginning of a Trump rally, including the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, and Tears for…

A group of Senate Democrats is demanding answers from the Internal Revenue Service about the sharing of confidential taxpayer information with the Department of Homeland Security and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.Processing ContentIn a letter Thursday from the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, and 10 other Democrats, they argued that the IRS and Treasury Department have refused to answer questions about the agreement they reached with ICE last year to share legally protected taxpayer data. They pointed to public filings by ICE last June seeking “the last known address of approximately 1.28 million individuals.”…