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California Highway Patrol officers attempt to control crowds on the 101 Freeway during an anti-ICE protest in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday. Protests erupted after a wave of federal immigration raids began around the city, with National Guard troops deployed despite objections from local officials. Benjamin Hanson/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty hide caption toggle caption Benjamin Hanson/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty President Donald Trump’s order to deploy 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell anti-immigration enforcement protests — without the consent of Gov. Gavin Newsom — is an extraordinary move, according to experts in national security and…

When Andrew Cohan is hiring for a full-time role, he might spend an hour on the phone with each of a candidate’s references — and call as many as eight.”There’s never a bad reference,” said Cohan, founder and managing partner at the private equity firm Halmos Capital. “But there are good references and great references, and we’re looking for great references.”Cohan said hiring processes can stretch across several months, with dozens of candidates considered before one gets the offer.”When you hire the right people, you create more value and you make your life easier,” Cohan said.Cohan isn’t the only executive…

I thought I was strong. Then I saw their strange, toothy smiles.The Labubus — little plush monster toys specifically marketed at adults — hooked me. Over the next weeks, I embarked on an adventure of internet rabbit holes, hourslong TikTok livestreams, and several nights playing a game online before I finally learned a trick from Reddit that helped me snag one.I’m far from alone in my obsession: The Labubu craze has taken hold in the US, Asia, and the UK. There’s something mesmerizing about the creature, originally created by Hong Kong artist Kasing Lung a decade ago. Now it is…

Zoom’s CEO says he has two priorities: work and family. When they collide, family wins.On an episode of the “Grit” podcast published on Monday, Eric Yuan, who founded the company, said he doesn’t have bandwidth for much outside his job and his wife and three grown children.”I do not have a lot of hobbies at all,” he said. “Family and Zoom, that’s pretty much it.”Yuan said he wants to lead by example.”I tell our team, ‘Guys, you know, there’s no way to balance. Work is life, life is work,'” Yuan said. “However, whenever there’s a conflict, guess what? Family first.…

Starbucks is serving up cheap drinks in China this summer.Starting Tuesday, the coffee chain is lowering the prices of more than 20 drinks in its Frappuccino, iced shaken tea, and tea latte product lines, Starbucks representative Kok Kuan Tan told BI. He said the company hasn’t determined an end date for the promotion.The chain said in a Monday post on Chinese social media site Weibo that prices will be brought down to as low as 23 yuan, or about $3.20, for the summer.Tan said Starbucks’ grande drinks in the three lines will get cheaper by an average of 5 yuan.…

Even as accountants worry about a host of pressing issues, there are strong reasons to be optimistic about the future of the profession, according to Mark Koziel the president and CEO of the American Institute of CPAs.”We’ve had issues coming at us for decades, and in each and every instance we’ve tended to thrive,” he added.As an example, he cited the long list of technological developments that were all supposed to take accountants’ jobs, from the desktop calculator and the personal computer, to Excel and blockchain — all of which ended up only helping to make accountants more productive.”Every time,…

2025-06-10T01:54:45Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn 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. TSA said Costco cards are not valid as a Real ID for airport security. The agency posted on social media to tell people that Costco cards do not count as a Real ID. TSA said, “Unless your $1.50 hot dog has a passport, you’re gonna need a REAL ID.” “Can’t fly on…

The White House is ready to usher in a new generation of boss babies — and it’s enlisting the help of some of America’s most prominent executives.A small crowd of CEOs joined President Donald Trump at the White House for a roundtable on Monday to promote his plan to deposit $1,000 in investment accounts for newborn babies. The program is part of the president’s signature — and controversial — spending bill, which has passed the House but faces headwinds in the Senate after getting publicly bashed by Elon Musk.The CEOs who attended the roundtable included Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell,…

A person waves a Mexican flag in front of California National Guard members standing guard outside a federal building in Los Angeles on Monday. Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Trump is sowing “more chaos” after the Trump administration mobilized hundreds of active-duty Marines to Los Angeles intended to control days-long anti-immigration enforcement protests in the city. “He’s sowing more division,” Newsom told NPR on Monday. “He’s inciting just the same and more fear, more anxiety, more likelihood that people are going to be hurt.” Newsom’s…

Who doesn’t want to live in a classic American sitcom? The house featured in “The Brady Bunch” hit the market in May 2023 for a cool $5.5 million — and it sold in September of the same year for $3.2 million.HGTV, which purchased the home for $3.5 million in 2018, had to settle for a figure that was $2.3 million less than its initial listing and about 9% less than what it originally paid for the home, The Wall Street Journal reported. Built in 1959, the two-story home in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles measures 5,140 square feet and is…