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The news business is gloomy these days, and lots of companies are bracing for more grim news: Changes in the distribution landscape are making it harder to get the news you produce in front of people who want to consume it, which means you have less revenue to make more compelling news. Which can lead to a grim cycle.But last week, Semafor, which pitches itself as a news outlet for the global leadership class, said it was bucking the trend: The startup, launched by former BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith and former Bloomberg executive Justin Smith in 2022, had turned a…

If Hollywood ever makes a TV show about Warren Buffett’s three children — Howard, Susan, and Peter Buffett — it might look more like “The Brady Bunch” than “Succession.”People “love to feed on” shows like “Succession” that feature wealthy siblings squabbling and having problems with each other, Peter said in a CNBC interview aired Tuesday night as part of a two-hour special titled: “Warren Buffett: A Life and Legacy.”But the Buffetts had “no trappings or any of that growing up, so we’re just not, we’re not that,” he said.”We grew up expecting nothing, to be honest,” Howard said. “It’s like…

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) is leading a congressional subcommittee re-investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Trump Administration has promoted a distorted and whitewashed history of that day’s events. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP A new Republican-led congressional subcommittee to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol held its first public hearing this week, and GOP lawmakers used the opportunity to criticize the Biden administration and, at times, promote conspiracy theories about the riot. An NPR fact check has identified multiple false and misleading claims from the hearing, which coincides…

Earlier this week, a government shutdown appeared highly likely. Now, there’s a chance that a prolonged shutdown will be avoided.In the days after Border Patrol agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Democratic senators vowed to oppose a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, the department that oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), without significant changes to immigration enforcement.In the span of just a few hours following the deadly shooting on Saturday, shutdown odds rose from roughly 10% to the high 70s on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.Late on Thursday night, after The New York Times first…

When Motolani Adedipe moved from Oklahoma to Seoul, South Korea, in August, she didn’t just pack her suitcase — she brought along her 6-year-old daughter, newborn baby, and mom.Adedipe, who is from Nigeria and moved to the US to attend grad school in Texas, first grew curious about South Korea while interning at a biotech firm in Boston, where she shared an apartment with a Korean roommate.”For that summer, I ate a lot of Korean food. She put me on K-dramas,” Adedipe, now 39, told Business Insider. That early curiosity soon grew into an interest in Korea’s history, economy, and…

A person enters a polling station to vote on Nov. 4, 2025, at First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, Calif. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images The Trump administration on Thursday was dealt its first legal setback in its unprecedented effort to consolidate voter data traditionally held by states. Federal district Judge David O. Carter dismissed a lawsuit in California that sought to give the Justice Department access to that state’s unredacted voter file, which includes sensitive data like Social Security numbers and driver’s license data. A district judge in Oregon also said in court Wednesday…

Jamie Dimon didn’t have much trouble telling Warren Buffett he’d hired one of his top lieutenants.The JPMorgan CEO said that he called Buffett after hiring Todd Combs in December, who will lead a new $10 billion group at the bank and act as a special advisor to Dimon.”It’s a free country, and people make their own decisions,” Dimon said in an interview at the Chamber of Commerce on Thursday. “I did call Warren. He probably wouldn’t have preferred it, but he said, ‘if he’s going anywhere, at least he’s going to you.'”Combs had been at Berkshire since 2010, where he…

The SEC’s green light for dozens of investment firms to offer ETF share classes of traditional mutual funds has opened new avenues for active vehicles built in the tax-efficient structure.Processing ContentEven before the Securities and Exchange Commission approved the so-called dual share classes for 30 fund companies — including BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase, Fidelity Investments, State Street and Morgan Stanley last month and Dimensional Fund Advisors in November — active ETFs were launching in record numbers. Now that Vanguard’s patent for dual share classes has expired and the SEC has ratified more firms’ use of the structure with many more expected…

Hours after President Donald Trump toured a Ford pickup truck assembly plant, the big news story wasn’t about manufacturing jobs or the economy. It was about a Ford worker who heckled him and was later suspended.The incident raised questions about the limits of free speech in the workplace — and when companies can discipline workers for political protest.Business Insider spoke to five experts, including four employment lawyers and an HR executive, to find out.Their conclusion was blunt: an employee’s words can quickly become fireable offenses.’An employer has the ability to discipline an employee for speech’All four lawyers said workers retain…

California National Guard members stand in formation during the protest in Los Angeles, California on June 14, 2025. David Pashaee/AFP via Getty hide caption toggle caption David Pashaee/AFP via Getty Costumed protesters and President Trump’s brash social media posts grabbed headlines during the administration’s push to deploy National Guard troops to California, Illinois and Oregon. But ultimately, the deployments ended because of esoteric case law and round-the-clock legal preparation and wrangling, according to the Democratic attorneys general from those states. Earlier this month, President Trump pulled hundreds of National Guard troops from California, Oregon and Illinois after the Supreme Court…