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I don’t typically spend my Friday afternoons flitting across Orlando in search of undeveloped plots, but nearly 80 acres of land have become a source of tension for some residents of Horizon West.The master-planned community, complete with five villages and a town center, spans over 20,000 acres and is about 20 minutes from the Magic Kingdom.Construction for nearly 1,400 mixed-income housing units — developed by The Michaels Organization on land owned by Walt Disney World — will begin this year. More than 1,000 units will be dedicated to affordable housing. A rendering of the housing units coming to Horizon West.…

Capital One has acquired Discover Financial, becoming the sixth-largest bank in the US by asset size.In an earnings call last month, Capital One’s CEO, Richard Fairbank, said the goal was to “preserve the best” of what Discover does, such as its advertising and focus on customer experiences.Capital One’s $35.3 billion acquisition of Discover was first announced in February 2024.The deal was approved by regulators last month, despite pushback from top Democrats and consumer advocates who raised concerns about lower competition and risks to low-income customers and those with poor credit scores.Representatives of Capital One and Discover didn’t respond to a…

2025-05-19T09:09:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link 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. A British billionaire emphasized the importance of an applicant’s personality to work at his hedge fund. Chris Hohn values employees motivated by more than money. The hedge fund’s small team prioritizes trust and teamwork, seeking open-minded candidates. British billionaire Chris Hohn said there’s one thing that really matters in job interviews.The founder…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chikara Kennedy, the 42-year-old CEO of Chikara Power Coaching, who splits her time between Mexico and Washington, DC. Business Insider has verified Kennedy’s employment with documentation and edited her words for length and clarity.I’d been working in HR for nearly 15 years when I was hired by Facebook, now known as Meta, in 2018 as a senior HR manager.I was working out of the Chicago office and then became a remote employee in 2020 during COVID. I moved to DC in 2022, still as a remote worker, to be closer to…

Harmeet Dhillon, now the assistant attorney general in charge of the civil rights division, prepares for her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is in upheaval amid a mass exodus of attorneys as the Trump administration moves to radically reshape the division, shelving its traditional mission and replacing it with one focused on enforcing the president’s executive orders. Some 250 attorneys — or around 70% of the division’s lawyers — have left or will have left the department in the…

Two years ago, Zechariah Osburn sat down to fill out the Common Application for college. He dreaded going to school and sitting at a desk all day, but he’d always done well, so an undergraduate degree seemed like a no-brainer. His parents had pushed it, too. But staring down the application at midnight one night during his senior year, Osburn decided to scrap the plan. “I felt like a fraud,” he tells me.He didn’t know what kind of career he wanted, and didn’t have the money for college. Instead of taking out student loans and spending a few semesters partying…

During the colder months, Barbara O’Keeffe, 79, her husband, and their friends journey into the rocky deserts of Arizona. With the intense sun shining on their sunscreen-covered faces, they take walks and admire the vastness.When May hits and the blistering heat traps them inside, O’Keeffe occasionally wakes up early, tries a new breakfast spot, and bookmarks it for when her snowbird friends return in the winter.Their finances are stable, but the O’Keeffes have tried to keep costs down while maintaining a healthy social life, though they will splurge on concerts. We want to hear from you. Are you an older…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Private equity myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.US college endowments are struggling to sell stakes in ageing private equity funds, hampering their ability to fund new investments, as the university sector comes under pressure from federal funding cuts. At least four US universities — including Harvard and Yale — have either recently completed or are actively exploring discounted secondary market sales of private equity stakes held by their endowment funds to meet capital calls, according to public disclosures and interviews conducted by the Financial Times.Pressure to raise cash from older…

Last year, at 53, my husband and I quit our jobs in oil and gas and retired early to travel the world. Many friends assumed we were fearless — that anyone who leaves behind home, routines, and everything familiar must be chasing adventureThe truth? I’m not fearless. I’m a total scaredy-cat.I didn’t grow up traveling. We didn’t hop on planes or dream about faraway places. Our family vacations were road trips to Ohio to visit relatives — reliable, predictable, safe. Most of my family still doesn’t have a passport.If you’d asked me in my 20s whether I’d ever sell everything…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Krishna Ganeriwal, a senior engineer at Meta in California.Meta dubbed 2023 its “year of efficiency” and made several changes to the company’s structure, including flattening management layers and laying off about 10,000 employees. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Business Insider has verified Ganeriwal’s employment history and compensation.I moved to the US in 2021 for my master’s, after working for four years as a software engineer at Texas Instruments in India.In the summer before I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I had the opportunity to intern with…