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Barry Biffle, president and CEO of Frontier Airlines, prior to a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights hearing in Washington, Sept. 30, 2025.Kent Nishimura | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFrontier Group Holdings, the parent company of budget airline Frontier, replaced its nearly decade-long CEO, Barry Biffle, with the carrier’s president, the company said Monday.James Dempsey is taking over as interim CEO effective immediately.”Jimmy has been an invaluable member of Frontier’s senior leadership team for more than 10 years and has played an instrumental role in the company’s evolution and growth during that time,” Board Chair Bill Franke…

Mourners gather at the Bondi Pavilion as people pay tribute to the victims of a mass shooting at Bondi Beach. Izhar Khan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Izhar Khan/Getty Images At least 15 people were killed at a beach in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday when a father and son opened fire on a crowd celebrating the beginning of Hanukkah. At least 42 people were hospitalized. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the shooting as a “terrorist incident” targeting Jewish Australians. Mass shootings are rare in Australia, which has historically strict gun laws. But Sunday’s deadly massacre has prompted Albanese and other…

After a blockbuster Black Friday week, TikTok and its owner ByteDance are shaking up their global e-commerce product and data science teams, according to two company staffers and a December memo viewed by Business Insider.The move was designed to streamline collaboration in areas like artificial intelligence, as well as “improve operational efficiency,” per the memo.As part of the change, which was implemented in the first week of the month, global e-commerce product and design team leader Zhou Sheng is stepping aside. Zhou helped build the company’s e-commerce product and “greatly facilitated” its global development, ByteDance e-commerce head Bob Kang wrote…

A Ford logo on a Ford F-150 pickup truck for sale in Encinitas, California, U.S. Oct. 20, 2025. Mike Blake | ReutersDETROIT — Ford Motor expects to record about $19.5 billion in special items related to a restructuring of its business priorities and a pullback in its all-electric vehicle investments, the company announced Monday.The Detroit automaker said most of those charges will occur during the fourth quarter. That will be followed by $5.5 billion in cash to be charged through 2027, and the the majority of that chunk will be paid next year, Ford said.The charges will impact the automaker’s…

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act makes the opportunity zone program permanent and also introduces some changes in the real estate investor tax breaks, creating a new category for qualified rural opportunity funds and requiring states to designate opportunity zones every 10 years.Processing ContentStates will need to adjust to the new designation cycle, and there may be some confusion at first. Under the original legislation that created opportunity zones, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the zones were designated a single time and set to expire. The OBBBA creates a permanent, recurring cycle to ensure OZs stay relevant…

A gurney in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla., on Oct. 9, 2014. A report from the Death Penalty Information Center noted a spike in executions in Florida in 2025. Sue Ogrocki/AP hide caption toggle caption Sue Ogrocki/AP Executions in the U.S. nearly doubled in 2025 over the previous year as Florida executed more prisoners in a 12-month span than ever before, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The organization, which tracks capital punishment, released its year-end report on Monday. It showed a complicated picture: although public support for the death penalty remained at…

President Donald Trump promised Americans big tax refunds next year. Many filers — particularly those who could most use the financial boost — may soon be disappointed. Processing Content”Your sort of typical W-2 worker with no kids will see very little change year-over-year,” said Adam Michel, director of tax policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. He estimates slightly more than half of taxpayers fall into that group.That disconnect between Trump’s public promises and the reality for many Americans threatens to create a political liability for congressional Republicans ahead of midterm elections focused squarely on voters’ concerns about affordability. Trump has…

Brian Walshe stands in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Mass., on Monday, after a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder of his wife Ana in 2023. Greg Derr/AP/Pool The Patriot Ledger hide caption toggle caption Greg Derr/AP/Pool The Patriot Ledger Brian Walshe admitted to disposing of his wife’s body but denied killing her, in a case that has drawn significant national attention for the last two years. On Monday, a Massachusetts jury found him guilty of first-degree murder. Ana Walshe was 39 years old when her employer reported her missing in early January 2023. That sparked a search that…

Simone Migliori liked the idea of an October wedding so much she had two — a backyard elopement in 2023 and a bigger bash in 2024. Part of the decision, at least on wedding No. 1, was that it was the anniversary of when Migliori, 27, and her husband first met. But it was also because she’s always wanted to get married in the fall. Both events were held in Massachusetts, and she loves the color palette and the cooler weather at that time of year. Plus, Taylor Swift has a fall aesthetic, and there’s the Pumpkin Spice Latte. “I…

Young tech talent hoping to land a job in the private sector has a new way in: the public sector.President Donald Trump’s administration announced the launch of the United States Tech Force on Monday, a two-year program that offers participants federal government jobs and eventual recruitment opportunities for private sector roles.The government is partnering with at least 28 tech companies on the program, including Apple, Amazon Web Services, Anduril, Dell, Box, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Palantir, Oracle, Uber, and xAI, among others.The Office of Personnel Management is spearheading the early-career program in partnership with other agencies. Participants will be placed…