DOGE cuts have arrived at a federal weather agency. Air travel forecasts and hurricane alerts are at risk.
As California recovers from devastating wildfires and hurricane season fast approaches, President Donald Trump and the White House DOGE team are slashing the workforce at the federal agency responsible for monitoring extreme weather. Business Insider spoke to more than a dozen current and former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who said that…
What Mark Zuckerberg should change about Facebook, according to MrBeast
Mark Zuckerberg met MrBeast years ago on Zoom and floated an MMA training session. MrBeast has a few gripes about Facebook — and got to deliver them straight to the source. In a joint interview on the Colin and Samir YouTube channel, MrBeast — YouTube’s top star, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson — said…
NATO’s newest ally is sending its Gripen jets made for war with Russia out to patrol alliance borders for the first time
Three Swedish Saab JAS-39 Gripen fighter jets escort a B-52H Stratofortress in a 2022 flight. NATO’s newest member is deploying a fighter jet that is designed for a fight with Russia to protect alliance borders for the first time. Sweden’s armed forces said that six of its Jas 39 Gripen fighter aircraft landed at an…
The shipbuilding industrial base is warning that the US Navy’s aircraft carrier delay could be a disaster
USS Gerald R. Ford sails alongside two destroyers in the Atlantic Ocean. The industrial base building the US Navy’s next-generation aircraft carriers is sounding the alarm on another potential delay that could affect thousands of suppliers — and tens of thousands of workers. The Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition, representing more than 2,000 businesses and…
I got a first look at Virgin Atlantic’s new luxury LAX Clubhouse. I get why business travelers splurge on the airline’s first class.
Virgin Atlantic’s newest luxury Clubhouse is opening at LAX. Virgin Atlantic is set to open its newest Clubhouse this Friday at Los Angeles International Airport, and the luxurious vibe and unique amenities like a private workout space showed what attracts premium business travelers to the airline. On Wednesday, Business Insider got an early look at…
Elon Musk’s DOGE has worked quickly to cut federal agencies. Here’s a list of what’s been targeted so far.
Trump has tasked Musk with gutting government spending through the Department of Government Efficiency. Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has wasted little time sending his newly created DOGE office after federal agencies. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order officially creating DOGE. With billionaire SpaceX and Tesla…
Florida may abolish property taxes. Here’s what they are in every state.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has proposed eliminating the state’s property taxes, which account for most school district funding. Watching your home value soar is a great feeling for many homeowners. Getting hit with a much higher property tax bill as a result, not so much. In Florida, Republican lawmakers are responding to homeowners’ uproar over…
Lending money can earn you passive, double-digit returns — but you’ll need 2 things to compete
There are a variety of ways to earn interest on your money — including, lending. “I like to think of it as turning normal folks into the bank,” Mike Gorius, a Louisville-based, real-estate investor who prefers to work with private money lenders rather than traditional lenders, told B-17. “Banks lend people’s money at higher interest…
We stayed at Kah-Nee-Ta Hot Springs Resort in Oregon for $120 a night. It wasn’t all glamorous, but we had a great time.
Staying at Kah-Nee-Ta Hot Springs Resort in Oregon in the winter was amazing. For my husband’s 40th birthday in December, we visited the newly renovated Kah-Nee-Ta Hot Spring Resort on the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon. The resort closed in 2018 but reopened in the summer of 2024 after a remodel. It’s about two hours…
