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Emil Bove, then a Justice Department official, testifies during his nomination hearing as U.S. Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit in June 2025 in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images At a Justice Department conference in February, then-acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove told the department’s top drug prosecutors that the Trump administration wasn’t interested in interdicting suspected drug vessels at sea anymore. Instead, he said, the U.S. should “just sink the boats,” according to three people present for the speech. At the time of Bove’s comments, President Trump had only been back in…

Protesters march against the use of ICE and other federal law enforcement in Chicago on Oct. 25. Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images The Defense Department is scaling back the number of federalized National Guard troops in Chicago and Portland, Ore., as weekslong court battles have stalled their deployments. A defense official, not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed to NPR that 200 California National Guard members in Oregon and 200 Texas National Guard members in Illinois will return to their home states in the coming days. The troop withdrawals were first reported…

2025-11-16T22:21:36.993Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link 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. Treasury Secretary Bessent said Trump’s proposed $2,000 tariff checks might need approval from Congress. Trump initially proposed the payments in August to redistribute tariff dividends. Bessent said on Sunday that there would be income limits on the checks. It may be a while before President Donald Trump’s proposed $2,000…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tatiana Bolaños, founder of The Lilac Agency. It has been edited for length and clarity.Ask any Latina growing up in the 1990s, and she’ll know the variety show “Sábado Gigante.” For me, the show was life-changing. I won the competition when I was only 6 years old. Not long after that, I performed for a room full of Sony Executives in Key West and signed with the label.I started my singing career as “La Chiquita Divina,” singing traditional Mariachi music. I was born in LA, but learned these songs from my…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Clarke Byard, cofounder of The Byard Family Legacy Fund. It has been edited for length and clarity.Kevin was the new kid when we met in 10th grade. I was busy dancing; he was busy joining the football team. Eventually, our circles overlapped, and we started dating. By 11th grade, however, I dumped him. He wanted to do football camps all summer instead of hanging out with me. But by senior year, we got back together, and the rest is history. We’ve been together for over 15 years and have been married…

Updated 2025-11-16T14:32:01.228Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link 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. President Franklin D. Roosevelt turned a Maryland camp into a presidential retreat in 1942. President Dwight Eisenhower changed the name to “Camp David” after his grandson. Subsequent presidents added amenities including a pool, a chapel, and “Golf Cart One.” Located in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains, Camp David serves as…

Where diners once recoiled from the idea of rubbing elbows with strangers, Gen Z is pulling their chairs a little closer.According to new data from the online reservation service company Resy, 90% of Gen Z diners say they enjoy communal tables, compared to just 60% of boomers, highlighting a generational revival of one of the restaurant world’s most polarizing trends: seating multiple groups of diners together at large banquet tables.For a generation raised online but hungry for real-world connection, sharing a table with strangers has become less about awkward proximity and more about the promise of controlled socialization, and the…

Noura Sakkijha and Majed Masad met in 2009 through mutual friends, and they were instantly drawn to each other’s entrepreneurial drive.They got married two years later, and launched jewelery company Mejuri together in 2013. Sakkijha is the CEO, while Masad, the cofounder and president, oversees marketing, data, retail, merchandising, and real estate.Being married cofounders can present some unique challenges.”We’ve had many instances where we’re like, ‘should we be doing this together?'” Masad said. But their relationship has also been an asset in building the company, both told Business Insider. ‘Crazy trust’Both Sakkijha and Masad said that their greatest strength is…

If done right, scarcity can be one of the most valuable tools in a famous person’s toolkit.Actor Daniel Day-Lewis famously is only in a movie every several years, and basically every time he is, he gets a Best Actor nomination at the Oscars. Electronic-dance duo Daft Punk has slowed its output to a trickle, releasing just two albums in the last 20 years, the last one 12 years ago. That’s only built their mystique as industry legends.Investor Michael Burry is the finance version of this.He skyrocketed to fame during the 2008 financial crisis by making an absolute killing shorting the…

The exterior of the main entrance of Ford Motor’s new world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.FordDEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor is swapping its 1950s “Glass House” headquarters for a new, modern industrial facility to promote collaboration and better appease thousands of employees who have returned to offices in recent years after remote working.The new 2.1-million-square-foot facility in Dearborn, Michigan, is ceremoniously opening Sunday, although construction is expected to continue into 2027.It replaces a 12-story, rectangular-shaped headquarters roughly three miles away in the city that is expected to be demolished. The new building marks Ford’s sixth headquarters since its founding in 1903.Currently…