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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kevin Schreck, a 33-year-old from North Carolina who moved to Spain in 2018. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I was pursuing a master’s in Spanish when I met my husband, who was also working on his master’s. He’s from Valencia, so when we finished our programs, I thought, “He’s lived here for a couple of years, why don’t I go ahead and try Spain?”I applied to a Spanish program that places native English speakers in public schools as classroom language assistants. I got really lucky and was assigned…

Fox Corp. must turn over hundreds of documents that could shed light on how founder Rupert Murdoch handled major scandals. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Invision hide caption toggle caption Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Invision Sign up for alerts on breaking news and exclusive reporting from NPR Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corp. must turn over hundreds of documents that could shed light on how he and a key corporate director — the former head of Ford Motor Co. — handled major scandals at his properties over the past two decades. A Delaware judge issued the guidance Friday in a long-running case brought by Fox Corp. stockholders. The lawsuit…

Nansi Lynch never went to college. But she’s approaching retirement with a $156,000 student-loan balance.”I don’t get rid of it until I turn 75 years old,” Lynch said. “I’ve never heard of something so disastrous in my life.”The 60-year-old took out federal parent PLUS loans, which carry the highest federal interest rate of 9.07%, for both of her children. Previously, parents could borrow the full cost of attendance. In July, the Trump administration imposed a lifetime borrowing cap of $65,000 per dependent for new parent PLUS loans, in an attempt to address spiraling debt.Under her pre-existing income-driven repayment plan, Lynch’s…

This is a conversation with Justin Johnsen, the lead technical architect at KPMG. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.I joined KPMG six years ago, and I’ve been a forward-deployed engineer for about a year, working across different clients.When I started with KPMG as a software engineer, all the code was written by hand.I studied computer science. I built my career in architecture and later got into consulting and client work.A forward-deployed engineer works directly with a client and stays with the problem from understanding the business need through delivering a working solution. We work directly with client…

When Angela Davis discovered that her mother with dementia had changed the locks, she knew she had to intervene.After a standard care facility didn’t cut it, Davis, 65, moved her mother into her own home. Davis now manages her medications, assists with her hygiene, and monitors her at night. She sleeps on a love seat near her mom’s room in case anything happens.Her mom’s care, plus home maintenance, has cost about $7,000 a month. Her mom receives $3,200 monthly in retirement income, and Davis covers the rest. The stress has weighed her down; last week, she took what she thought…

At least once a year, Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler’s right hand cramps up from a few hours of writing. He’s not signing copies of a book.The pain, instead, comes from penning personalized notes to every member of the technology company’s 80-plus-person leadership team ahead of their annual retreat.”After every 10, I have to take a 30-minute break,” Shipchandler told Business Insider of the deliberately analog ritual, which is rooted partly in his own memories of being a more junior employee at GE and how special it felt to have a senior leader take notice of him.”I have no idea what…

Osahon Aburime opened his Lyft app on Mother’s Day last year to make some money.That day, the North Carolina driver had made about $80 to put toward taking his wife out to dinner and getting a gift for his mom. As he was on his way to pick up a passenger, though, he got into a car accident.”All of a sudden, I just saw this car in front of me, so I stepped on my brakes,” he said. “We just ran into each other.”Sixteen months later, he uses a cane to walk, he said. He tried unsuccessfully to return to…

If you ask most economists, market experts, and even the Federal Reserve, the story of the US economy for the rest of 2026 will be one of strong and steady growth. But there are serious reasons to doubt this forecast of calm waters.There’s no better example of the sanguine consensus view than the Fed’s latest Summary of Economic Projections, released as part of the central bank’s meeting on Wednesday. According to the FOMC’s rundown, no participants saw the risks to GDP growth as tilted to the downside. Meanwhile, after this week’s interest rate hike — the first in three years…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Oleksandr “Alex” Matsiuk, cofounder and CEO of RiseGuide, an expert-powered microlearning app. The company has grown to 110 employees across 12 countries since its founding in 2024. The essay has been edited for length and clarity.Becoming the CEO of a fast-growing company created a problem I hadn’t anticipated: Nobody was responsible for telling me how to improve.I decided that if honest feedback wasn’t reaching me naturally, I needed to build a system that would deliver it. That included hiring outspoken employees and bringing someone onto my board specifically to argue with…

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts towards members of the media after a courtesy call with Irish President Catherine Connolly at Áras an Uachtaráin on September 12, 2026 in Dublin, Ireland. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Charles McQuillan/Getty Images Europe WASHINGTON— Reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico on Saturday said they were denied access to White House grounds after President Trump announced a ban on the three media outlets. Trump said in a Truth Social post on Friday he was banning these outlets from the White House, citing negative coverage of his administration and saying media outlets…