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Rich DeThomas never thought ordering wine from Italy would be this complicated.In late August, he ordered a dozen bottles of red wine to be sent to his home in Huntsville, Alabama. It never showed up. Citing recent tariff changes, UPS requested more details about the shipment before saying it couldn’t deliver the wine to DeThomas at all.After receiving a replacement shipment from the vineyard, he also got a $13 bill from UPS for “abandoning” the first case.”It’s the headache of dealing with it all,” DeThomas said. “What the hell? What’s going on?”DeThomas is one of the Americans finally experiencing the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Oscar Cecena Fujigaki, a 47-year-old job seeker in Toronto who previously worked as a customer success manager at LinkedIn. Business Insider has verified Fujigaki’s income and employment with documentation. It has been edited for length and clarity.Earlier this year, rumors started circulating among my LinkedIn colleagues that layoffs were coming.One reason for the speculation was that in 2023, before the announcement of a major round of layoffs, the company canceled the in-person sales kickoff event — usually held in Las Vegas each July — and switched to a virtual format. So…

Members of the Texas National Guard stand guard at an army reserve training facility on October 7, 2025 in Elwood, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow the president to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois after lower courts blocked the deployment. In the appeal filed on Friday by the Department of Justice, Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that troops are needed in the Chicago area to “prevent ongoing and intolerable risks to the lives and safety” of federal agents. Thursday’s restraining order issued by…

A large shareholder in Core Scientific, a data center developer and operator, said he would reject a proposed purchase of the company by the rival data center firm CoreWeave in an upcoming shareholder vote.”Under the math of the deal today, I would have to vote no,” Trip Miller, the founder of the investment firm Gullane Capital, told Business Insider on Friday afternoon.Gullane, based in Memphis, Tennessee, is the third-largest shareholder in Core Scientific, behind Vanguard and BlackRock, and owns a stake in the company worth about $200 million.Miller’s opposition adds to other recent pushback against the deal, casting doubt on…

Shares of Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk dropped Friday, after President Donald Trump said his administration aims to cut the cost of brand name GLP-1 weight loss drugs to $150 per month, a fraction of their current list price.”In London, you’d buy a certain drug for $130 and even less than that … $88 as of… a month ago. And in New York, you pay $1,300 for the same thing,” Trump said during a Thursday afternoon event about in vitro fertilization at the White House. “Instead of $1,300 you’ll be paying about $150 and they’ll be paying $150 so we’re…

Boeing 737 Max aircraft are assembled at the company’s plant in Renton, Washington, U.S. June 25, 2024.Jennifer Buchanan | Via ReutersBoeing has won regulator approval to ramp up production of its best-selling 737 Max jetliners to 42 a month, a milestone for the manufacturer nearly two years after the Federal Aviation Administration capped its output after a midair near-catastrophe.In January 2024, the FAA restricted Boeing to building the planes at a rate of no more than 38 a month — though it had been below that level at the time — after a door plug from a nearly new 737 Max 9…

A pair of whistleblowers who worked for the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation unit have reached a settlement with the IRS and the Department of Justice over claims they faced retaliation for complaining about the IRS and DOJ’s treatment of Hunter Biden’s tax charges.Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who were both special agents with the CI division, testified in 2023 before the House Oversight Committee that then-President Joe Biden’s son Hunter received preferential treatment during a tax-evasion investigation, and said that they had been removed from the investigation after complaining to their supervisors in 2022. Hunter Biden agreed to a plea…

Not even multi-hundred-dollar fee hikes have stifled the consumer appetite for elite credit cards.American Express executives said that early demand for its revamped Platinum card beat their expectations on Friday’s third-quarter earnings call.”New Platinum account acquisitions are running at twice the level before the refresh,” CEO Stephen Squeri said on the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Friday. So far, he said it’s the “strongest start” the company has seen for a US Platinum refresh (this is the third in the last decade).Amex unveiled its new Platinum card in September, which has an annual fee of $895. Squeri said that retention…

Video game developers are benefiting from research and development tax credits and recent changes in the rules for deducting R&D expenses, with tax professionals helping claim valuable tax breaks for gaming companies.”For video game developers, improved cash flow can really translate into additional resources for hiring talent, developing their next product, their next title, accelerating timelines, expanding distribution, whatever the case is,” said Josh Harbin, a senior manager at Top 10 firm Baker Tilly in Sacramento.  “Ultimately the R&D tax credit is not only rewarding the innovation work that’s being done, it’s also fueling and continuing to grow the industry.”The…

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