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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ward Chartier, a 70-year-old retiree living in Penang, Malaysia. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve lived border to border and coast to coast.Born in Wisconsin, I moved around the US as a kid because of my dad’s job. After college in Michigan, I headed to Texas for work and ended up calling it home for two decades.My career in high-tech manufacturing eventually took me abroad, and for the next 14 years, I lived and worked across the UK, Denmark, Ireland, Malaysia, and China. I eventually moved to San Francisco…

LOS ANGELES — Jeep’s new Recon all-electric SUV will start at $65,000, the American SUV brand announced Tuesday when it officially revealed the vehicle.The 2026 Jeep Recon has been years in the making, as the idea of an electric vehicle inspired by the brand’s iconic off-road Wrangler SUV was first revealed in 2021. It is expected to begin production early next year at a plant in Mexico.The Recon, revealed Tuesday ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show, includes familiar, boxy Jeep styling as well as removable doors, a spare tire on the rear and open-air roof — all synonymous with…

Real estate’s biggest turf war is playing out this week in a Manhattan courtroom, where a federal judge must decide if the so-called “Zillow ban” is fair.Compass, the nation’s largest real estate brokerage by sales volume, is fighting the ban, under which Zillow excludes home listings from its site and penalizes brokers when properties were previously listed as private “exclusives” elsewhere.”A listing marketed to any buyer should be marketed to every buyer,” Zillow, the nation’s most popular online destination for home buyers, said in announcing the strict new policy in April.Compass quickly sued to end the ban, arguing that it…

Think Craigslist, but for homes — that’s the idea behind Galleon.Galleon is an off-market, for-sale-by-owner residential marketplace that lets homeowners name their prices to see if any buyers bite.”We believe that there should be a free and open consumer-led marketplace,” Amanda Orson, the CEO and founder of Galleon, told BI.While similar to platforms like Zillow and Redfin, Galleon removes brokers and agents entirely — a move the company said can save sellers $30,000 or more, presuming a typical 6% commission.Galleon doesn’t post days-on-the-market data for its listings, which Orson said gives sellers “no incentive not to try” going without a…

President Donald Trump’s administration is taking a major step toward fulfilling its goal of dismantling the Department of Education.On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced that it has entered into six agreements to move programs to other federal agencies.The announcement includes a partnership with the Department of Labor to take on elementary and secondary education programs and institution-level higher education grants; a partnership with the Department of Interior to take on Indian education programs; a partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services to take on childcare programs and foreign medical accreditation programs; and a partnership with the State…

A group of former Internal Revenue Service leaders discussed the state of the IRS during a panel Tuesday at the AICPA National Tax Conference in Washington, D.C., after a wave of departures and layoffs.According to IRS records, approximately 25,386 employees have separated, taken a voluntary buyout offer under one of the deferred resignation programs, or used some other incentive to leave. That amounts to over 25% of the workforce that was there at the beginning of the year, although the IRS has rehired some much needed workers. “After 20 years in the private sector, the IRS workforce is as good a…

Audit and advisory leaders are hard at work implementing AI solutions that they feel will be vital to future growth but major implementation hurdles mean that most professionals remain largely dependent on manual processes. New data from audit solutions provider Fieldguide found a number of seemingly paradoxical points that show, on the one hand, a great eagerness to invest in AI solutions while, on the other, severely lagging behind on implementation. For example, while 94% report that engagements go faster when you have AI and 90% say AI reduces workloads, the survey also shows that 88% still rely on manual data…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brian Chukwuisiocha, a 22-year-old computer science student based in the Washington metropolitan area. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Apple taught me how to own my work and care more about who’s using the products I work on.I worked there in my sophomore year from May 2024 to August 2024 as an intern. It was a great experience, and it really aligned with my original motivation for getting into software engineering: to make things that people can use and help them in everyday life.They liked the amount of knowledge…

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Bad weather is usually good business for companies that help people repair and rebuild. On the flip side, sales can suffer when the skies remain clear.So it was for Home Depot, which said Tuesday that October’s better-than-expected weather meant fewer shoppers came into its stores to spend in the third quarter.”Our results were below our expectation, largely due to a lack of storms relative to historic norms,” the retailer’s head of merchandising, Billy Bastek, said on the third-quarter earnings call.And not only has this year’s weather been better than normal, last year was slightly worse than normal, which gave last…