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An Obamacare sign is displayed outside an insurance agency on Nov. 12, 2025, in Miami.Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said on Tuesday it canceled roughly 315,000 Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollments covering about 760,000 people last month, alleging unauthorized enrollments, characterized by Vice President JD Vance as “rampant fraud.”The enforcement action also involves verifying roughly 419,000 people to ensure they are legal U.S. residents and meet the income threshold requirements to receive benefits from the public exchanges of the ACA, also known as Obamacare, according to a CMS release. The…

Employees at Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery are preparing themselves for not-so-friendly competition as their companies merge in the coming weeks.”It’ll be quite competitive to see whose services and teams stick around,” a Paramount streaming manager said, reasoning that WBD has “some great engineers and teams doing very similar work to us.”Paramount’s $110 billion deal to buy WBD gives CEO David Ellison control over a treasure trove of media assets. HBO, CBS, CNN, TNT, and MTV will live under one roof, as will streamers Paramount+, HBO Max, Discovery+, and free ad-supported service Pluto TV.Ellison said in a Monday memo…

Get better at: Persuading othersToday’s moveIf you want to get your boss or colleague on board with an idea, think about what they care about and frame the pitch around that.Why it worksAmanda Nimon-Peters, a leadership professor and author of “Working With Influence,” said that people often resort to using rational arguments when they want to persuade someone else. While you may have strong reasons for why the other person should be invested, you may be better off appealing to their interests.Nimon-Peters said persuasion isn’t about getting people to do things they don’t want to do; it’s about finding ways…

DoorDash is paying millions of dollars to New York City delivery workers — and admitting that it messed up.The delivery company will pay $131.5 million to settle the city’s investigation into its pay practices, DoorDash said on Tuesday.New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection had been investigating whether DoorDash complied with a 2023 minimum pay law for delivery workers.”Simply put, we screwed up,” DoorDash said in a statement. “Our mistakes meant some Dashers were underpaid or paid late.” The pay mistakes were not intentional, DoorDash said.The settlement marks another win for New York City as it takes on…

I don’t think I would have had the courage to become a freelancer if I hadn’t been laid off.The year was 2014. I was 27, living in a tiny studio on the Upper West Side, conveniently located next to not one, not two, but three frozen yogurt shops. I had just lost my job, and my ego was crushed.Once the initial humiliation wore off, the layoff started to feel like a nudge toward something I’d wanted to try for a long time: Could I actually make it as a freelance writer?I gave myself six months. My definition of “making it”…

It seems like every chain wants a piece of the dunkable-chicken craze.McDonald’s launched its McCrispy Strips in May 2025, marking the first time chicken strips had been on its menu since the COVID-19 pandemic.Then, in June 2025, Taco Bell introduced its new Crispy Chicken Strips, with Taco Bell’s CMO Taylor Montgomery telling Business Insider that Gen Z was eating more crispy chicken than other generations, and “we need to evolve to where youth culture and the next generation of consumers are going.”I tried chicken tenders from 14 major fast-food chains across the US to see how they compared.When it comes…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Parul Somani, a working mother and the author of The Path of Least Regret. It has been edited for length and clarity.After giving birth to my second child in 2014, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was 31. That changed my life, including how I make decisions.I was always a high achieverI was raised in an immigrant family and saw the work ethic my parents demonstrated. They always valued education, and while there was never pressure from them, it was something that I absorbed: work hard, because nothing is going…

Take a drive in Texas on Interstate 45 between Houston and Dallas or I-20 between Fort Worth and El Paso, and you will see dozens and dozens of tractor trailers. They are two of the busiest highways in the country for trucks — and two routes where Aurora Innovation is operating completely autonomous semis.”It’s using lasers, radar, and cameras to look all around it and see the other cars, see the other trucks on the road, and figure out how to drive safely,” said Chris Urmson, Aurora founder and CEO. He talked with CNBC’s Phil LeBeau for more than three hours…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rhiannon Wood, a 26-year-old travel micro influencer who runs a social media business and leads group tours around the world. It has been edited for length and clarity.After graduating from the University of Birmingham in the UK in 2022, I knew I wanted to travel before settling into my journalism career. I took odd jobs around the world to scratch the itch, but I didn’t quite get back to the life I originally envisioned.Instead, traveling around the world — and finding a way to monetize it online — became my full-time…

McDonald’s Chris Kempczinski speaks about fresh beef expansion at a McDonald’s event in Oak Brook, Illinois.Richa Naidu | ReutersMcDonald’s is expected to share more details about its new strategy to win back diners at its investor day on Wednesday in Chicago.The company unveiled its new global growth plan, called McDonald’s > NEXT, in June at its biennial worldwide convention for franchisees. Pillars of the strategy include a new restaurant design, better-tasting food and drinks and consumer-led innovation. But executives have otherwise offered few details, holding back until Wednesday’s event.Nearly three years after McDonald’s previous investor day, the presentation comes after…