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☆ Happiness researcher: This mental hack can turn your everyday routine into a source of 'joy and satisfaction'
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

In reality, you can find joy in your everyday routine, says author and behavioral decision making expert Cassie Holmes. Holmes, for example, has been taking her daughter on coffee dates since she was four years old, she recently told the "Everyday Better with Leah Smart" podcast. "But then I was like, 'Okay, how many coffee dates do we have ahead of us?'" Then she's going off to college … going to go live [in New York.]" Calculating how much time she had left helped her find "joy and satisfaction" in more mundane tasks.

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☆ 7 of the best sweets to make in your air fryer, according to chefs and bakers
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Sophia Mitrokostas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementHere are some sweet treats you probably didn't know you can make in an air fryer. "The air fryer is perfect for making a small batch of brownies without heating up the whole house with the oven," he said. "This classic dessert can easily be prepared in an air fryer without having to turn on the oven. "Chocolate-chip cookies bake in around five minutes in the air fryer," Riley told BI. You can shorten the baking time of banana breadBanana bread takes less time to bake in an air fryer.

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☆ Patrick Schwarzenegger says the upcoming third season of 'The White Lotus' is 'insane'
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

AdvertisementPatrick Schwarzenegger spoke to Business Insider about season three of "The White Lotus." Patrick Schwarzenegger can sum up season three of "The White Lotus" in one succinct phrase: "Absolutely fucking insane." Season one was set in Hawaii, while season two took place in Sicily, Italy. Details remain under wraps, but the cast includes Schwarzenegger, "Fallout" actor Walton Goggins, Blackpink member Lisa, and returning "White Lotus" star Natasha Rothwell. While fans eagerly await more crumbs of information about season three of "The White Lotus," Schwarzenegger is looking forward to spending time with his friends and family — and enjoying an espresso martini or two.

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☆ I dropped 80 pounds by changing my diet, walking my dog, and competing with friends over our step count
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The flight attendant took action by improving her diet and taking her little dog for long walks. She lost 80 pounds in less than a year and is able to keep up with her energetic, 6-year-old child. I did it by changing my diet and walking my dog more. I only put on 20 pounds during my first pregnancy with my son, Andy, in 2000 and lost it pretty quickly. I no longer took the elevator in the New York subway and went for the stairs.

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☆ I'm an Australian living in the US. I love New Orleans, but there have been a few culture shocks along the way.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Ree Winter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementI'm Australian but spend part of the year in New Orleans, and there's been some culture shock. Long before my first visit to New Orleans, I fell in love with the US city's historic culture. I'm still getting used to American coffeeI don't see much drip coffee in Australia, but it's everywhere in the US. I'm used to a certain standard and flavor. Bubbers BB/ShutterstockCompared to what I'm used to in Australia, everything is supersized in the US.

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☆ Meta is helping brands reach more audiences across social media — and it's all thanks to AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Generative AI helps brands build more engaging ads with creative variations. Using Meta's AI tools, ObjectsHQ simply loaded lifestyle photos of its best-performing products, along with a few captions. AI for advertisingObjectsHQ is just one of many brands harnessing the power of AI-powered ad tools. AI — particularly generative AI — gives businesses of all sizes the tools to connect with the right people and create diverse, engaging content. With AI tools that save time and complement human creativity, marketers can create ad campaigns that reach audiences everywhere.

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☆ McDonald’s has temporarily stopped selling espresso drinks at some US locations
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —A machine is giving McDonald’s a headache, and this time it’s not the one that makes ice cream. Melitta, the manufacturer of the $3,000 espresso machine, informed customers of a problem with the equipment, forcing McDonald’s to temporarily decommission them while the issue is resolved. As a result, McDonald’s customers can’t order its espresso-based drinks, including frappés and Americanos. The chain recently launched a spinoff restaurant called CosMc’s that focuses on specialty coffee drinks. “One area of focus has been identifying ways for McDonald’s to participate in attractive and fast-growing categories … we’ve honed in on specialty beverages and coffee,” McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski previously said.

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A lawyer said his client was allegedly paid to have sex with Matt Gaetz at a 2017 party. A man accused of three fatal stabbings in New York City has an extensive criminal history. Gaetz, a former Republican U.S. representative from Florida, has long denied the allegations against him and has claimed he was the target of an extortion plot. A Trump transition team spokesperson called the allegations “baseless.” Gaetz resigned from Congress last week after Trump announced plans to nominate him for attorney general. The stabbings happened yesterday morning at three separate locations.

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☆ Cher says her mother wanted to put Sonny Bono 'in jail' because of their 11-year age-gap relationship
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

These days, Cher prefers younger men: She has a 40-year age gap with her current partner, Alexander Edwards. There's at least one person who didn't initially approve of Cher's age-gap relationship with Sonny Bono — her mother. So I said, 'OK, I'm not 18 but next month is my birthday' — which was true — 'and I'm going to be 18,'" Cher told Mason, recounting her words. AdvertisementEven though Bono didn't find her attractive initially, their relationship eventually blossomed, she said. Looking back on their relationship, Cher says that their 11-year age gap never felt strange.

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The best Walmart Black Friday deals are often available the week of Thanksgiving, but some enticing savings opportunities are available now. We've rounded up some of the best deals currently available at Walmart across home, kitchen, tech, and more. Make sure to check out our guide to the best early Black Friday deals. Best early Walmart Black Friday home and kitchen dealsThe best early Black Friday home and kitchen deals at Walmart feature products from Ninja, Dyson, Keurig, and more. View at WalmartBest early Walmart Black Friday tech dealsWalmart's best early Black Friday tech deals include everything from TVs to headphones to smartwatches to gaming consoles.

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☆ Rocket Lab's CEO practices founder mode like Elon Musk — but he'd rather pan for gold on Earth than live on Mars
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementHeadquartered in Long Beach, California, Rocket Lab employs over 2,000 people globally. It's an "end-to-end space company," providing launch services, spacecraft, satellite components, and on-orbit management. Rocket Lab is valued at a fraction of that, with a market cap of around $9.5 billion. He said that's the nature of who he is — and the job of running a rocket company. AdvertisementBeck describes running a rocket company as "running through a maze in the middle of the night."

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☆ Visa and Mastercard execs grilled by senators on 'duopoly,' high swipe fees
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Ece Yildirim | In Ecedyildirim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Interchange fees, also known as swipe fees, are paid from a merchant's bank account to the cardholder's bank, whenever a customer uses a credit card in a retail purchase. "In 2023 alone, Visa and Mastercard charged merchants more than $100 billion in credit card fees, mostly in the form of interchange fees," Durbin told the committee. Visa and Mastercard, however, stand by their swipe fees. But the current high credit card swipe fees for retailers translate to higher prices for consumers, the National Retail Federation told the committee in a letter ahead of the hearing. "Last year, the average American spent $1,100 in swipe fees, more than they spent on pets, coffee or alcohol."

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☆ Shake Shack cheeseburgers to be served in first class on Delta flights
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The airline announced a “first-of-its-kind partnership” with Shake Shack to serve the chain’s cheeseburgers in first class on long-distance domestic flights beginning December 1 on flights out of Delta’s hub in Boston and expanding to other cities throughout 2025. For example, Alaska Airlines created a hot coffee that tastes better in the skies, while United Airlines added cold brew coffee from Illy. Delta has served a generic cheeseburger in first class over the past few years to mostly positive reviews online. And it’s not the first airline to partner with a burger chain — United Airlines once served McDonald’s Happy Meals in the 1990s. The partnership between Delta and Shake Shack marks an expansion of the airline’s relationship with celebrated chef Danny Meyer, who founded the burger brand in 2004.

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☆ Columbus, Ohio: Neo-Nazi demonstrators waving swastika flags condemned by local officials
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Hanna Park | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

At least one person yelled, “N***er,” again and again, according to the video that’s garnered online attention far beyond Ohio’s capital. Columbus public safety dispatchers got 911 calls around 1:30 p.m. reporting a group marching in the Short North area, the dispatchers told the station. In Ohio, no arrests were made during Saturday’s event, though police briefly detained some marchers, according to WBNS. Columbus community leaders organized a unity march Sunday in response to Saturday’s neo-Nazi gathering, CNN affiliate WSYX reported. Your hate isn’t welcome in our city,” City Attorney Zach Klein said on social media of Saturday’s march.

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☆ Watching TikTok videos with my teen keeps us connected. We've had thoughtful conversations thanks to social media.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Nina Mccollum | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

He sends me TikToks, and we watch them together, which helps us stay connected. TikTok and Instagram have allowed me to continue communicating with my kid even when the sound of my voice is annoying. Related storiesWe watch videos togetherI have shared custody, so I see him every other week. He sometimes sends videos from school or at night after I've gone to bed so we have daily content to watch. I send him funny videos of parents teaching their kids to drive, and he sends them back to me.

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☆ I moved from the US to Canada for my husband. But living here is what helped me afford my second child.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Sarah Dimuro | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementI moved from the US to Canada for my husband's job and family. If we had stayed in the US, we could have never afforded the surrogacy for our second child. Much like my first date with my now husband, I immediately connected with our potential surrogate upon our first meeting. I met her husband and their three amazing kids, and by the following day, we were discussing the next steps. But living in Canada gave me the chance to grow our family, something we could've never afforded had we stayed in the US.

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☆ At my first job out of college, all my coworkers were older and had children my age. I struggled to earn their respect.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Anna Wenner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementMy coworkers had adult children my age and liked to bond by complaining about 20-somethings. But I didn't consider that my coworkers might not be quite so quick to dismiss our age gap. Related VideoMy coworkers often talked poorly of young people and seemed to ignore that I was one of them. The focus on age made it difficult for me to earn my team's respect and have my input taken seriously. My coworkers disparaged young people in a meetingOn one particularly memorable morning, my teammates got sidetracked from a meeting to complain about their children.

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☆ 16 of the best specialty items to get at Aldi this month for $5 or less
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Paige Bennett | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

AdvertisementAldi is kicking off November with plenty of festive items for the late-fall and winter holidays. Christmas-lovers will enjoy items like the themed hot chocolate products and coffee creamers. With the most wonderful time of the year just around the corner, Aldi is ready to start celebrating with plenty of holiday-themed products hitting shelves in November. Whether you're shopping for Thanksgiving or the winter holidays, the fastest-growing grocer in America has plenty of festive foods and beverages to ring in the season. AdvertisementHere are the best items coming to Aldi this month, each for $5 or less.

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☆ Grocery prices are high. Trump’s mass deportations could make matters worse
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Matt Egan | Maya Blackstone | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Soon, Trump’s ability to fix America’s affordability crisis will collide head-on with another, perhaps more prominent, campaign trail promise: Mass deportations. And perhaps no industry relies on undocumented workers more than the food and agriculture industries. “The only question is how high prices will go.”Zandi noted that food prices could also be pushed higher by another element of the Trump agenda: Massive tariffs. The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment about how mass deportations would impact food prices. The current immigration system does not allow for green cards for farm workers.

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☆ MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ hosts reveal they met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago ‘to restart communications’
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Brian Stelter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —The news was so shocking that some “Morning Joe” viewers probably spit out their coffee. MSNBC co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski “went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally” with President-elect Donald Trump, Brzezinski revealed at the beginning of Monday’s show. We are not here to defend or normalize Donald Trump,” Scarborough said. When Trump entered the presidential race in 2015, he frequently called into “Morning Joe” and schmoozed with the hosts. Trump’s defenders said he was just fighting “fire with fire” because “Morning Joe” was so critical of him.

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☆ Costco's founder met Jeff Bezos for coffee—his advice helped turn a near-death Amazon into a $2 trillion business
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-17 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

After 30 years in business, Amazon is a $2 trillion behemoth and one of the world's largest retailers. Some critics believed Amazon was doomed to never recover, but founder Jeff Bezos turned things around — with some helpful advice from Jim Sinegal, founder of rival retailer Costco. Amazon, Bezos added, would always aim to be the second type of company. Bezos credited the rebound to lower prices and promised to eliminate unnecessary costs in order to make more discounts possible, the Times reported — a similar strategy to Costco's. And what really drove it was lower prices for customers…" Bezos told Fox News in January 2002.

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☆ I'm an Aussie who spent 7 hours in line to try some of the best barbecue in Texas. The wait was well worth it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-17 | by ( Ash Jurberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementI waited for seven hours to try Franklin Barbecue, considered the best barbecue in Texas by many. One of the most famous places to get it is Franklin Barbecue in Austin, where people wait in line for hours to order. Established in 2009, Franklin Barbecue has made quite a name for itself in the past few years. It's regularly recommended in Michelin Guides, and publications from Texas Monthly to Bon Appetit have listed it among the best barbecue in Texas (and even the country). The long wait was worth itThe food and experience made the wait worth it.

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☆ Starbucks Exec Quit to Launch a Rum Brand, 3 Tips for Success
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-17 | by ( Maria Noyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementMarc Farrell became Starbucks' youngest vice president at the age of 33. He left to launch his rum brand, Ten To One, which counts Howard Schultz as an investor. AdvertisementMarc Farrell left behind his role as Starbucks' youngest VP to launch his own rum brand. On the surface, a global coffee giant, and an up-and-coming rum brand don't seem to have much in common. Don't wait until the product is perfectAt Starbucks, Farrell was he was very well paid and great colleagues and mentors.

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☆ Ole Andreas Halvorsen's Viking Global opened stakes in two turnaround stories in the third quarter
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-16 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Ole Andreas Halvorsen's Viking Global bought into two big, second-half turnaround stories in the third quarter. Halvorsen bought almost 1.7 million Starbucks worth $162 million during the quarter. Starbucks shares surged more than 24% the day of the announcement, its best day ever. So far in the fourth quarter, shares have risen less than 1%. Stocks that Viking Global zeroed out in the quarter ranged from Meta Platforms to Dollar Tree to UnitedHealth .

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