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2025-05-18T20:38:24Z 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. Capital One Financial Corporation completed its acquisition of Discover Financial Services. The deal, first announced in February, is valued at $35.5 billion. The acquisition combines two of the world’s largest credit card issuers. Capital One Financial Corporation has completed its acquisition of Discover Financial Services.Richard D. Fairbank, Capital One’s founder and CEO,…

Billy Long speaking at a Donald Trump campaign eventAl Drago/Bloomberg The week before confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump’s nominee for commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, former Missouri Congressman Billy Long, Democrats in the Senate are asking questions about the timing of campaign donations he received immediately after his nomination.In a letter sent last Thursday to seven different companies — including an accounting firm, a tax advisory services firm, and a financial services provider — Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, questioned donations that the companies and some of their employees made…

2025-05-18T17:25:17Z 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. Scott Bessent said on Sunday that Donald Trump could raise tariff rates again for certain nations. “This means that they’re not negotiating in good faith,” Bessent told NBC’s Kristen Welker. All eyes are on the Trump administration’s trade talks, particularly with China. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday during an NBC interview…

Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom presents his revised 2025-2026 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, May 14, 2025. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption toggle caption Rich Pedroncelli/AP Democratic governors in states offering health insurance coverage for immigrants without legal status are proposing to roll back coverage that they signed into law. As states grapple with budget holes, efforts to limit access to the programs are becoming a common thread. Debates about rolling back coverage or eliminating it entirely come as Congress considers a proposal that would reduce state Medicaid funds from 90% to 80% if they offer health…

Eyebrow trends are always evolving, so I’ve never wanted to try anything permanent with my brows. Instead, I’ve turned to trendy products to experiment with the hottest new looks.However, I spent years trying to find the best products to make my brows look flawless, and instead, I always ended up with an empty wallet.A few years ago, I finally found a product that’s both extremely effective and incredibly affordable — ELF’s $6 brow-lift gel.Thankfully, the brow gel is super easy to use The ELF brow-lift gel can be applied with a spoolie or an applicator. Lacey Brown When I first…

About once a week, I down my coffee and sprint to the bathroom, moments later, only to find the door locked. Someone beat me to it. I pace in the hallway for a minute or two, imagining that they must be almost done.But time is not on my side, so I take two flights of stairs to the basement to do my business in the spider-infested half bathroom, ripe with annoyance. On my long climb back up to my bedroom, I ask myself why I live in a five-bedroom, three-bathroom house with four roommates.Sometimes, I wonder why I’m still living…

I think Indeed may be trying to break me.I recently found a job listing on the site. I sent in my application, but, because I have been through this before, I called the company after a day just to make sure that I didn’t waste another hour. I spoke to a real person over the phone and asked if they received my résumé.”No, sir. We don’t have any openings here.”This isn’t the first time I’ve applied to a ghost listing. It’s been my new normal ever since I graduated from college less than a year ago.I’ve been forced to move…

Mark Quinn said he lost his previous job to AI, though he doesn’t think it was a sign of a coming employment purge at the hands of bots.Quinn was working for a generative artificial intelligence startup running a team he set up to oversee the answers the bots kicked out — the proverbial human in the loop.Eventually, as the AI improved, the company found it could manage with a smaller, more efficient set of workers, the longtime tech exec said.”My skill and the job I was hired to do was truly no longer needed,” Quinn told Business Insider.Because there wasn’t…

Warren Buffett won’t be conducting many job interviews once he steps down as Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO at the end of this year.Dairy Queen CEO Troy Bader revealed what it’s like to be grilled by the legendary investor, and shared two big takeaways from the experience, in a conversation with Business Insider in Omaha ahead of Berkshire Hathaway’s historic 60th annual meeting.Berkshire paid nearly $600 million to take Dairy Queen private in 1998. As a big fan of the chain’s Blizzard soft-serve ice cream, Buffett joked at the time that he brought a “modicum of product expertise” to the deal.Dairy Queen…

Illuminated by a large desk lamp, Fay Pacchioli, 93, crunches numbers in Excel under the watchful eyes of her dogs, immortalized in framed photos on her wall.It’s midnight in Easton, Pennsylvania, and she’s hours into her shift. It’s when she focuses the best, kept awake by the scent of spring flowers on her desk and the scuttling paws of her petite dog, Miss DeeDee.Her patterned cane, the black-and-white photo of her late husband, and the medications she’s been taking since having a stroke in August are signs of how much has changed in the 50-plus years since she opened her…