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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Zoe Hawkins, 40, who lives in Anthem, Arizona, and is the director of content marketing and thought leadership at Sumo Logic, a software company. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.In the last year or so, some of the content coming across my desk for edits has started to slip in quality. I began seeing stuff that didn’t fit. I would be like, “Did you write this?” They would say, “Well, I helped write it.”I recently had someone hand in a piece of content that they had been sitting…

Harry Beller isn’t one of the boldfaced names who can be found all over Jeffrey Epstein’s social calendar and emails, like former Barclays CEO Jes Staley, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, or Prince Andrew.But for years, Beller was entrusted with managing some of the most delicate parts of Epstein’s financial life.Beller was part of a tight-knit team working for Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. He worked under the direction of Richard Kahn, Epstein’s top in-house accountant.Congressional investigators interested in how Epstein made and spent his money — and whether banks ignored red flags that…

During an anti-Trump protest outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 2, 2025, demonstrators set up file boxes to represent the Epstein files. On Wednesday, President Trump signed the legislation directing the Department of Justice to release those files. Mehmet Eser/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mehmet Eser/AFP via Getty Images New releases from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate shine additional light on the array of powerful figures who kept ties to the disgraced financier after his criminal charges came to light. Spread throughout the roughly 23,000 documents released by the House Oversight Committee last week, emails and…

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., condemns hate speech and misinformation about Haitian immigrants during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 20, 2024. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP MIAMI — U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The Democrat is accused of stealing Federal Emergency Management Agency overpayments that her family health care company had received through a federally funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract,…

A sign with the Walmart logo is seen outside of a Walmart store in Selinsgrove. Paul Weaver | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesWalmart will report fiscal third-quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday and give the latest read on consumer spending as the retail industry heads into the holiday season.Here’s what Wall Street expects for the company’s fiscal third quarter, according to a survey of analysts by LSEG:Earnings per share: 60 cents expectedRevenue: $177.43 billion expectedThe retail giant, which draws shoppers across incomes, is well-positioned to give a snapshot of U.S. consumer health and the impact of short-term…

Nvidia president and CEO Jensen Huang pushed back against fears of an AI bubble on the company’s blowout earnings call on Wednesday.”There’s been a lot of talk about an AI bubble,” Huang said. “From our vantage point, we see something very different.” Coming from the world’s most valuable company that powers nearly every major AI data center, that vantage point matters.Huang said that AI is fueling three transformative shifts that Nvidia is uniquely poised to capitalize on.The first stems from the slowdown of Moore’s Law — a trend that’s seen computer chips double in power roughly every two years. As…

The Financial Accounting Standards Board decided during a meeting Wednesday to add a project to its technical agenda related to the accounting for cryptocurrency asset transfers.The project will include expanding the scope of an existing standard from 2023 on crypto assets to address wrapped tokens and receipt tokens, as well as clarifying the derecognition guidance for crypto transfer arrangements to assess whether the control of a crypto asset has been transferred. During a meeting last month, FASB decided to add to its technical agenda a project on the classification of certain digital assets as cash equivalents and recently added a project…

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani (17) throws a pitch during the MLB game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 16, 2025 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CA. Brian Rothmuller | Icon Sportswire | Getty ImagesMajor League Baseball officially announced a new three-year media rights agreement with NBC, Netflix and ESPN on Wednesday, foreshadowing the league’s more significant TV deal to come in 2028.The new deal stems from ESPN’s decision to opt out of its “Sunday Night Baseball” package earlier this year. ESPN struck a new deal with MLB, acquiring the rights to MLB.TV…

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has made a pact with Lithuania’s audit regulator to allow the two organizations to cooperate on overseeing audit firms that operate in their jurisdictions.The Statement of Protocol, which took effect Nov. 12,  enables the Authority of Audit, Accounting, Property Valuation and Insolvency Management of Lithuania and the U.S. regulator to cooperate on exchanging information, help with investigations, conduct joint inspections, share work papers and other documents and more. “Open dialogue and cooperation among audit regulators are critical to meet the evolving challenges of the global capital markets,” said PCAOB acting chair George Botic in a…

Dana “Rick” Richardson, an accounting technology leader and CPA, passed away on Nov. 17, 2025. He was 81.Over his six-decade-long career in accounting, he was the recipient of numerous awards, including being featured several times on Accounting Today’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting list. Richardson was the managing partner at tech consulting firm Richardson Media & Technologies. He previously spent over 28 years at Big Four firm Ernst & Young, serving his last 12 years there as the national director of technology.  Rick Richardson “We lost a remarkable man. If you knew him, you understood immediately that he…