Westend61/Getty Images This post originally appeared in the Insider Today newsletter. You can sign up for Insider's daily newsletter here. Welcome to the weekend, friends! I'm hoping to play a bit of pickleball now that the weather is cooling...
Auto workers went on strike against Ford, GM, and Stellantis after a contract agreement could not be reached Thursday night. Marta Lavandier/AP The United Auto Workers went on strike on Friday after the union's four-year contract expired. The s...
Adah Fitzgerald bought Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina in 2015. Courtesy of Main Street Books A former biology teacher, Adah Fitzgerald, bought a small-town bookstore in 2015. Over the past nearly nine years, she's enhanced the sh...
Auto workers at the UAW last went on strike at GM in 2019. AP UAW-GM workers were fighting plant closures in 2019. Four years ago, about 46,000 GM workers went on strike for 40 days. The last auto worker strike targeted GM, not all three Detroi...
Jeffrey Snow, a former math teacher who lacks housing, sits under the I-95 expressway in Miami. Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Baby boomers, especially younger members, comprise a growing percentage of homel...
Southeast Asia has a rare opportunity to attract global investments amid a diversification of supply chains from China, said a Malaysian minster. Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images Global supply chains moving away from China is an opportunity for Sou...
Members of the United Auto Workers union last week on strike in 2019. Reuters After weeks of negotiations with Ford, GM, and Stellantis, United Auto Workers are on strike. The labor union did not reach an agreement with the Detroit 3 before its...
A hacking group with members as young as 19 breached MGM's digital systems, weeks after apparently forcing Caesars Entertainment to pay millions of dollars in ransom. R: Photo by George Rose/Getty Images L: Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) M...
Passengers on the MV Ocean Explorer spent three days stranded on the luxury cruise ship before it was pulled free in Greenland. Sirius/Joint Arctic Command via AP The 206 passengers on a luxury cruise ship will be heading home soon. The MV Ocea...
Elon Musk did take some time off in July 2022 when he visited the Greek island of Mykonos. MEGA/GC/Getty Images Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk shines new light on the world's richest person. Musk once took a safari during a vacation ...
"Lipstick King" Austin Li Jiaqi is one of China's top livestreamers. VCG/Getty Images A livestreamer in China is under fire for his response to a viewer complaining about the price of an eyebrow pencil. Li Jiaqi told the viewer to reflect on wh...
Alexander Nguyen (not pictured) moved to Seattle after he got a job offer from Amazon during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the $150,000 salary, he wishes he had stayed in New York. Arantza Pena Popo/Insider This as-told-to essay is based on a c...
