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I grew up spending weekends, school breaks, and holidays in my grandparents’ home, but moving into it years later with a husband wasn’t something I ever pictured.We moved into my grandparents’ basement not long after we got married in spring 2025. We both traveled as kids and have gone on a few short adventures as a couple, but we’d never done any long-term.With our lease ending in the fall, it felt like the perfect time to make a big change, and we started looking at flights to Japan.I eventually came across a deal on December plane tickets that we couldn’t…

After a tough year for the labor market, economists touted January’s robust gains.”It was a January job surge. The surprisingly strong job gains in January were driven mainly by health care and social assistance,” Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, said in a statement. “But it is enough to stabilize the job market and send the unemployment rate slightly lower. This is still a largely frozen job market, but it is stabilizing. That’s an encouraging sign to start the year, especially after the hiring recession in 2025.” After a tough year for the labor market, economists touted…

Before Brad Karp resigned as chairman of Paul Weiss, the elite Wall Street law firm said he interacted with Jeffrey Epstein to “negotiate a series of fee disputes” on behalf of Leon Black, the billionaire former Apollo Global Management CEO.Recently released records from the Justice Department show the two men also discussed how to handle a woman who allegedly demanded Black pay her $100 million.The emails show Epstein and Karp trading notes about secret recordings, professional surveillance, and efforts to have the woman arrested for what Epstein described as an “extortion” attempt. “I have come to the conclusion that we…

For my entire life, I’d dreamed of moving to a different country.In 2020, I did just that, leaving my job in my home state of Washington to spend six months living in Montreal with my then-partner. From there, I continued my adventures living abroad, spending a year in Luxembourg to study multilingual education while working part-time, followed by just under two years in France (small-town Provence and Paris).I had some incredible experiences, and I’m sure my Instagram feed made it look like my commute involved cobblestone streets and fresh pastries and my weekends were always spent hiking the Alps or…

2026-02-11T13:41:01.233Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads 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. Greenland features numerous mineral deposits, but mining there poses many challenges. Lumina, Greenland’s sole fully operational mine, extracts anorthosite in tough Arctic conditions. Lumina’s year-round operations serve as a blueprint for advancing Greenland’s mining industry. Greenland is believed to hold significant deposits of critical raw materials, including valuable rare-earth…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a delayed January jobs report on Wednesday, beating economists expectations and showing the US economy added 130,000 jobs in the first month of 2026.Mark Zandi says don’t get comfortable with the upbeat data. The figure is substantially higher than the 75,000 jobs that economists anticipated, but the Moody’s Analytics economist isn’t optimistic that the growth will continue.Zandi has repeatedly warned that the US economy is on shaky ground, and could tumble into a recession. In a post on X on Wednesday, he said that the latest jobs data didn’t do anything to ease his…

Does Meta want to make our social media accounts immortal?The company was granted a patent in late December that outlines how a large language model can “simulate” a person’s social media activity, such as responding to content posted by real people.”The language model may be used for simulating the user when the user is absent from the social networking system, for example, when the user takes a long break or if the user is deceased,” the patent says.Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s CTO, is listed as the primary author of the patent, which was first filed in 2023.”We have no plans to…

He worked in Big Tech. Now, he fears half of its software engineers are on the chopping block.Steve Yegge worked with Jeff Bezos in Amazon’s early years. Then he went to Google, where he worked for over 12 years and earned the title of senior staff software engineer. He also knows a thing or two about AI engineering, having written a book on the topic titled “Vibe Coding.”On “The Pragmatic Engineer” podcast and newsletter, Yegge described an imaginary dial of the percentage of engineering staff a company can lay off, ranging from zero to 100. He said he believes the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Katie Bloomfield. It has been edited for length and clarity.A lot of people tell me they could never work with their spouse. But I didn’t find Danny, my husband, until I was in my 30s, and once I did, I wanted to spend as much time with him as I could — to catch up on the years we hadn’t known each other. We met in 2017 and married two years later. Between us, we had five children. I was working in hotel management and helping a friend build her own…

The real-life Hollywood drama of Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni played out behind closed doors in a New York City courthouse on Wednesday — and will continue for a second day on Thursday.After a day of negotiations, the actors and their legal teams left a Manhattan federal courthouse without a settlement in their high-profile legal battle, which began in 2024 when Lively sued Baldoni over their collaboration on the film “It Ends With Us.”The two sides spent six hours in separate but adjacent courtrooms, sealed to the press and public, as their lawyers hashed out a possible deal with a…