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Royal Siu, who lives near Los Angeles, quit his job as a pharmacist in 2023 with hopes of moving to a different part of the healthcare industry. The 29-year-old eventually landed a new role, which he started in April. Siu’s search took nearly 18 months and involved applying to hundreds of jobs. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.In my old job as a pharmacist, I was robbed at gunpoint. After that, I committed to moving into the biotech or pharmaceutical industry, which is where I’d always wanted to go anyway.I graduated with my PharmD during COVID, so…

Senate Republicans plan to unveil key details of their version of President Donald Trump’s giant economic policy bill as soon as Monday, with the party pushing to enact the $3 trillion tax package by July 4.Republican lawmakers are slated to return to the U.S. Capitol to receive a briefing on the legislation Monday afternoon. The bill text, which could be released later that day, will represent a major breakthrough for the GOP as it seeks to continue to advance the centerpiece of Trump’s economic agenda.Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo has toiled for weeks to forge a compromise between four factions…

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity begins this week. The week is stuffed with official programming, brand activations, and parties.The Cannes Lions awards have been around for more than 70 years, so they must constantly evolve to keep up with industry trends. This year, there are a number of changes that mirror what’s happening not only in the marketing industry, but society.One of these includes expanding the aperture of Glass: The Lion for Change, which celebrates creativity that promotes equal representation, beyond just gender, to include disability, race, sexuality, and social inequity.”Expanding its scope allows us to celebrate ideas…

Back in 2022, we were a childless, broke-but-not-poor filmmaker couple in Los Angeles. We adored our Koreatown apartment, but between soaring rent, gas, utility, and grocery bills, we were truly scraping by. With our dreams of financial stability and having a child in the next couple years, we decided it was time to leave LA. We were able to work remotely so we had flexibility to do it.In July 2023, we packed our dog and belongings into an F150 and made the move to a small town in rural Oregon.Living here has been cheaper, and we’ve made some surprising adjustments…

More than a decade after Meta spent $19 billion to buy WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app is finally starting to look like a business.Starting Monday, Meta will begin showing ads inside WhatsApp — not in your private chats, but in the app’s Updates tab, a feed that half of WhatsApp’s 3 billion month users go to each day to view ephemeral “Status” posts (WhatsApp’s version of Instagram Stories), and follow one-way “Channels” from creators, sports teams, and businesses. The company is also rolling out paid subscriptions for Channels, letting users pay a fee to access exclusive updates from…

This booking photo provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office shows Vance Boelter in Green Isle, Minn., early Monday morning — shortly after a two-day manhunt ended in his capture and arrest. Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office/AP hide caption toggle caption Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office/AP Law enforcement in Minnesota have arrested the man wanted in the attack early Saturday morning that killed one state lawmaker and left another wounded. Vance Boelter, 57, was apprehended on Sunday night after what Brooklyn Park police Chief Mark Bruley called “the largest manhunt in state history.” Bruley said at a Sunday night press conference that…

Anna Barclay | Getty ImagesThe long-running rivalry between the country’s top premium credit cards is about to heat up again.JPMorgan Chase announced last week that a refresh of its Sapphire Reserve — the travel and dining rewards card that went viral when it arrived in 2016 — was imminent.In response, American Express on Monday said that “major” changes were coming to its consumer and business Platinum cards later this year. While short on details, the New York-based card company said that its update would be its largest ever investment in a card refresh.”We are going to double down on the…

On paper, Target is struggling. Shopping in some of its stores offers clues as to why.The retailer has reported lackluster financial performance over the past two years. Its sales have struggled to grow while competitors like Walmart and Costco have posted strong gains.The Minneapolis-based retailer’s growth soared during the pandemic years, but it has since reported declining comparable sales in five of the last eight quarters.Visits are also down this year. Target said foot traffic fell 2.4% year over year during its first quarter. Data from the foot traffic analytics firm Placer.ai suggests the decline at Target has been starker…

After a long day of work, there’s nothing like opening an app and ordering dinner from your couch. That comforting feeling of not having to decide what to cook — or do the dishes afterward — is hard to beat.When I lived with my partner, who doesn’t know how to cook, I was juggling work and grad school. I didn’t want to think about dinner — I just wanted something quick and easy. So we ordered out 2-3 times a week, which came out to about $150/month on takeout.During the pandemic, we started ordering takeout almost every day — about…

Akshay Phadké knows what it takes to move up in the tech industry. The Seattle-based 31-year-old’s résumé includes positions at startups and behemoths alike, including Ericsson, Microsoft, Vareto, and his current company, Webflow, where he is a senior software engineer.He’s also secured final-round interviews at Meta, Amazon, Dropbox, and Yelp and job offers from 23andMe and Wayfair.Some people might think that once you’ve secured a job, you don’t have to update your résumé — but that’s not true, Phadké told Business Insider.Updates as a self-check-inHe believes that current and aspiring tech industry employees, including software engineers like himself, should prioritize…