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2026-03-04T23:26:01.228Z 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. Raising kids across 3 countries — the US, Australia, Switzerland — changed how I approach parenting. It opened my eyes to how different cultures empower children to reach their full potential. My kids learned early independence in Switzerland and the power of preparation in Australia. Parenting my children across…

No one really tells you how to look for a home — and I don’t mean a structure with four walls and a front door. I mean the place you’re proud to be part of, to describe to people who’ve never been, to bond over with strangers you’ve just met.If I’m honest, my husband Cody and I started our search for a new home from vastly different perspectives: I’m a Guyanese-American Black woman raised by Caribbean parents in an eclectic corner of North Jersey. I grew up proudly wearing my badge of independence as I took the bus and train…

2026-03-05T19:30:43.697Z 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 Loading audio narration… This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Low-rise jeans are making comeback as brands like Lucky Brand launch denim campaigns. American Eagle said it’s seeking to push into the low-rise trend amid wider denim market pressure. Celebrities like Kylie Jenner and Jennifer Lopez have embraced the return of low-rise jeans. The jeans millennials…

2026-03-06T10:36:01.284Z 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. The software-apocalypse is hitting private credit, putting the biggest players on defense. Following concerns over Blue Owl’s software exposure, other leaders are talking up their portfolios. Execs like Marc Rowan and Jon Gray defended their portfolios against software risk this week. Months of concern over the private credit industry…

Billy Joel is moving out. The main piece of the “Piano Man” singer’s Long Island estate just sold for $28.75 million, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Laffey International Realty, the home’s realty company, announced in a post on Instagram earlier this week.The 26-acre waterfront estate, known as “MiddleSea,” in Centre Island, New York, first went on the market in 2023 after completing a five-year renovation project.The original asking price for the whole property, which is comprised of four distinct houses, was $49 million. After going on the market in 2023, it was relisted in 2024 with additional renovations.The estate’s sale was eventually…

Daniel Mazur’s near-decade-long run at $66 billion hedge fund Citadel is a lifetime in the cutthroat hedge fund world, but his time is finally up at Ken Griffin’s firm. Loading audio narration… A person familiar with the move told Business Insider that Mazur, a stockpicker for Citadel’s Global Equities unit since the summer of 2016, is joining Izzy Englander’s Millennium as a senior portfolio manager. Citadel and Millennium declined to comment.A person close to Citadel told Business Insider the manager liquidated Mazur’s portfolio earlier this year and promoted two people under him — Brad Gemberling and Greg Fitter — to…

Kristi Noem might not be a Hollywood star, but her department spent like the big studios.The former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security was ousted from her post on Thursday, following months of controversy over her handling of immigration enforcement in Trump’s mass deportation campaign.During Noem’s appearance before Congress on Tuesday, Senator John Kennedy, among other lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle, pressed Noem about the department’s spending of taxpayer dollars, including a $220 million ad contract.The ads, which Noem said were intended to encourage undocumented immigrants to leave the US, included footage of the now-former secretary…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Luana Ribeira, founder of Dauntless PR. It has been edited for length and clarity.Little about my relationship with Al is traditional. For starters, Al was my former husband’s best friend. After my husband and I divorced, I moved to Portugal, where Al was living. I was planning on spending time with Al as a friend, but the second time we hung out, he called my ex to say, “There’s something here.” Luckily, my ex gave his blessing.I started dating Al soon after, in 2017. In 2020, we moved to the UK,…

Alexa Occhipinti’s family has been through a lot in their home. Loading audio narration… Occhipinti, 34, and her husband, Doug Occhipinti, bought their house in Sacramento in 2020, where Occhipinti works at the Sacramento County Department of Technology. It became the backdrop to huge milestones in their lives: getting engaged, married, and welcoming their two children. The Occhipinti family. Alexa Occhipinti As their lives have evolved, so has the house. For instance, Occhipinti turned a second-floor loft into a bedroom for her son, helping to move their home from an adult-focused space to a kid-friendly one.And in December 2025, Occhipinti…

“Either we give this a real shot, or we don’t,” my husband said during one of our nightly phone calls.By that point, we’d been together for five years (off and on) and married for one. We’d skipped all of the ceremony and quietly wed at City Hall. It felt quick, in part, for practical reasons — I could get on his health insurance, and know where he was when the United States Navy sent him out on deployment.Shortly after we eloped, we returned to our separate lives, connected only by a nightly phone call and occasional visits. He went back…