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Ananya Joshi loved her life in Chicago.After moving from India for a master’s degree in biotechnology at Northwestern University, she landed a $75,000-a-year job as a scientist at a lab-grown meat startup in 2024. She was doing research, living in an affordable apartment in a suburb, and road-tripping with friends on weekends.But her life in the US had an expiration date. Joshi’s company said it couldn’t sponsor her for an H-1B visa. Her Optional Practical Training, or OPT — a work authorization for foreign students — was set to expire in July 2025.She had two choices: She could take a…

If you followed the World Cup this past summer, chances are you saw a blur streak across your screen at least a few times.That was probably Kylian Mbappe, the fleet-footed French striker who buried 10 goals at the tournament, bringing his lifetime total to a record-setting 22. Oh, and did I mention he’s still only 27?No stranger to high-profile transfer news, Mbappe shocked the sports world last Friday by switching his sponsorship allegiance from Nike to … On? Apparently the running-shoe company — which has already taken a bite out of Nike sales — is making a push into the…

An immediate — and effective — response to your boss’s Slack could help you land that promotion.PwC’s Dallas Dolen has spent the better part of two decades conducting performance reviews and promotion meetings, and he said there are two things workers can do to improve their chances of getting ahead. Dallas Dolen has been at PwC for over two decades.  PwC As the leader of the Big Four firm’s US technology, media, and telecommunications practice. Dolen oversees a business of about 7,500 people and is based in San Jose. Promotions depend on several factors, he said, including whether colleagues recognize…

Justin Blinder was lugging Taco Bell burritos from neighborhood to neighborhood on his bike for his Uber Eats gig in 2020, watching as skyscrapers and modular apartment buildings gave way to brown-bricked housing projects and cracked streets.It made the Brooklyn-based artist and software developer think viscerally about affordability, and how abstracted the concept had become in modern discourse.”We’re sort of confronted with that via top-down maps, and it really doesn’t touch upon the lived experience,” Blinder told Business Insider. “That was sort of like the seed of the project.””The project,” as Blinder describes it, is a 3D printed CitiBike attachment…

This interview is based on a conversation with Nina Ottevanger, 31, a surf instructor and co-owner of Ilyana Surfhouse, a small business in Rabat, Morocco. It has been edited for length and clarity.Eleven years ago, I was traveling in Morocco with two friends. While in Rabat, we wanted to surf and found a place online. We were greeted by a man named Ilyass. The main group had already left, but he offered us a private lesson. Something clicked between us.He shared his number in case we wanted to go out that evening, but we chose an early night so we…

Moving to a new country comes with plenty of adjustments, from language to social rules, but I didn’t expect to feel out of place in my own body.Before moving to Japan from New Zealand, I was mostly content with how I looked, having already survived the body-image hurdles of early motherhood.Despite being a plus-size woman, I considered myself to be confident and rarely cared what others thought of my appearance.After three years here, the visibility that comes with being a foreigner has brought along a level of self-consciousness I have never grappled with before.I couldn’t stop comparing myself to everyone…

Donald Trump reupped his battle with the “FAKE NEWS” media on Truth Social Friday, banning CNN, MSNOW and POLITICO for reporting “LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States,” with “Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow.”POLITICO called sources in and around the administration to find out why — after months of low approval ratings for the president and his signature issues — now?Here’s what POLITICO learned.Many senior staff were surprised by the directive, which happened while chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, and weren’t aware it was coming until they saw the post, according…

As a teenager, I’d sit on my bed flipping through glossy magazines, fascinated and completely absorbed by the empowering stories about women. The news felt dominated by men, but magazines seemed to offer a different world — one where women’s lives, bodies, careers, and opinions were worthy of entire pages. I knew from an early age I wanted to help bring more of those stories to life.In 2012, after studying journalism at Northeastern University, I moved to New York City as quickly as I could, interning at Ladies’ Home Journal and Self, then gravitating toward parenting publications including What To…

Jim Nielsen puts the finishing touches on a radial arm saw at Original Saw Co. in Britt, Iowa.Photo: Jennifer EdenFewer, pricier flights. Freight surcharges. Manufacturers hoarding inventory. Even bankruptcy.For American companies large and small, the combination of tariffs imposed under President Donald Trump’s trade policies, surging fuel prices from the Iran war and, now, rising interest rates is forcing executives to make tough choices.Allen Eden has been holding onto extra inventory for his 25-person business, the Original Saw Co. in Britt, Iowa, which makes industrial power saws for wood and metalwork, as he grapples with spiking prices for aluminum, steel…

Bill Franke, co-founder of Indigo Partners and chairman of Frontier Airlines Inc., speaks during an interview in New York, Oct. 28, 2022.Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — For decades, William Augustus Franke, Frontier Airlines’ chairman and a serial airline investor, made a killing selling cheap plane tickets and charging fees to check bags, to pick seats and for everything else. Now, he says first-class seats and other traveler comforts are in order — at least in the United States.Frontier is planning to roll out first-class seats next year on its Airbus fleet. It’s also joined a growing…