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For jobless Gen Z, healthcare is the place to be as blue-collar hiring outstrips office jobs, says ADP’s top economist

ADP's jobs report delivered a sucker-punch to Gen Z grads this week: While hiring is up across private payrolls according to December data, it was...

yesterday 10

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Eleanor Pringle

If the Supreme Court rules against Trump’s tariffs it could threaten one third of his proposed military budget

Most observers are expecting the court to strike down his tariff regime or at least curtail it.

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Jim Edwards

The U.S. naval blockade of Venezuela has cost $700 million already—and is rising by $9 million daily

Trump is urging U.S. oil companies to return to Venezuela but question marks remain with instability, high costs, and weak oil prices.

yesterday 10

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Jordan Blum

Exclusive: Cyera CEO Yotam Segev on raising $400 million and why the stakes in cybersecurity are getting higher

Just six months after fetching a $6 billion valuation, cyber startup Cyera has raised $400 million at a $9 billion valuation.

yesterday 10

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Allie Garfinkle

Crystal Ball: What 2026 holds for cybersecurity, healthcare, robotics, and more

Term Sheet readers predict healthcare is due for a shakeup, cybersecurity breaches are imminent, and robotics is promising as ever.

yesterday 10

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Allie Garfinkle

Saks Global’s near bankruptcy is the result of risky dealmaking—and a neglect of business basics

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

yesterday 10

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Phil Wahba

Google and Character.AI agree to settle lawsuits over teen suicides linked to AI chatbots

The cases include claims that a chatbot engaged a 14-year-old in sexualized conversations before his death and encouraged another teen to harm his...

yesterday 3

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Beatrice Nolan

America’s healthiest state has clean air and water, good education, and safe cities—And says a lot about the country’s rural-urban divide

A report card for the country has a familiar winner, and underlines some enduring divides.

yesterday 3

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Tristan Bove

State Department suspends all U.S. aid to Somalia, citing ‘zero-tolerance policy for waste, theft, and diversion of life-saving assistance’

The suspension comes as the Trump administration has ratcheted up criticism of Somali refugees and migrants in the United States.

yesterday 3

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Matthew Lee

How to stop ‘death-by-measurement’ from killing your product’s vision

Former Xbox design head Chris Novak warns that well-intentioned measurements, meant to support a clear vision, can instead tear it apart.

yesterday 3

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Chris Novak

Tesla’s vote wasn’t about pay. It was about who really runs the company

At Tesla’s 2025 Annual Meeting, investors chose to evaluate strategy, incentives, and governance on their own terms.

yesterday 3

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Shane Goodwin

Diary of a CEO founder says he hired someone with ‘zero’ work experience because she ‘thanked the security guard by name’ before the interview

A virtually blank resume may spook employers, but job candidates don’t need a lengthy work career to land a gig—after all, one of Steven Bartlett’s...

yesterday 2

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Emma Burleigh

Trump’s $1.5 trillion military budget would add $5.8 trillion to the national debt, with interest, CRFB says

Meanwhile, the Peterson Foundation updated its projection: the U.S. would be spending more on defense than the next 35 countries combined.

yesterday 2

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Nick Lichtenberg

As Utah gives the AI power to prescribe some drugs, physicians warn of patient risks

State officials see the pilot as a way to expand healthcare access, but the American Medical Association warns that removing physicians from...

yesterday 2

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Beatrice Nolan

AI is boosting productivity. Here’s why some workers feel a sense of loss

As AI speeds up work, many professionals say it’s quietly changing how their jobs feel—and what they value about them.

yesterday 2

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Sharon Goldman

Trump would have wide-ranging ability to impose taxes if Supreme Court sides with his tariff plan, experts say

The legal argument justifying the president’s tariffs grants the executive branch powers reserved for Congress.

yesterday 2

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Jake Angelo

The Nobel Prize winners have a lesson for us all

I'm the former director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The Nobel winners show strong patent systems directly fuel economic growth.

yesterday 2

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David J. Kappos

Warner Bros. Discovery’s board isn’t choosing a deal — it’s avoiding one

The real scandal in the Warner Bros. sale isn’t about the bidders. It’s about the process.

yesterday 2

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Mark Desjardine

AI isn’t failing your company. Your operating model is

Why advanced technology accelerates dysfunction when decision rights, workflows, and culture aren’t built to execute.

yesterday 2

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Katerin Le Folcalvez

Tim Walz insists Minnesota has a role to play in investigating fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by ICE

The outgoing governor said “eople in positions of power" have "told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate."

yesterday 1

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Rebecca Santana

Vance on woman shot and killed by ICE: ‘a tragedy of her own making’

The vice president also called it "a tragedy of the far left who has marshaled an entire movement—a lunatic fringe—against our law enforcement...

yesterday 1

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Michelle L. Price

Nicolas Maduro and Luigi Mangione joined at Brooklyn lock-up by Tekashi 6ix9ine

The facility is the only federal jail in New York City but is so troubled that some have described it as “hell on earth."

yesterday 1

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Philip Marcelo

Greenland, Denmark officials meet with White House to discuss Trump’s ‘takeover’ threats

The U.S. is party to a 1951 treaty that gives it broad rights to set up military bases there with the consent of Denmark and Greenland.

yesterday 1

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Aamer Madhani

From George Floyd to Trump calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’ to a fatal ICE shooting, Minnesota’s in the crosshairs

In June, a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband were assassinated by a Trump supporter, although conservatives blame Tim Walz.

yesterday 1

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Nicholas Riccardi

Mass shootings on campus give rise to a new kind of life-saving service journalism: an anonymous message board called Sidechat

Described by Harvard Magazine as “the College’s stream of collective consciousness,” Sidechat allows anyone with a verified university email to...

yesterday 1

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Leah Willingham

Tennessee theater professor reinstated, with $500,000 settlement, after losing his job over a Charlie Kirk-related social media post

Sen. Marsha Blackburn had circulated a screenshot indicating the professor had posted a headline about Charlie Kirk's stance on the 2nd Amendment.

yesterday 1

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Jonathan Mattise

Why Trump’s Venezuela strike may have been about Cuba as much as it was about oil

Nicolas Maduro’s capture has effectively taken away Cuba’s closest ally.

yesterday 1

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Joseph J. Gonzalez

3 things Trump did in 24 hours to show that he’s in control of American business

“He’s taking an extreme left-wing position which looks like state capitalism,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a longtime corporate governance scholar and...

yesterday 1

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Eva Roytburg

Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett agree on advice to Gen Z: Choose vibes over money in your job search

Bloomberg took a lower salary for his first job out of school because he preferred the people who interviewed him.

yesterday 1

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Sydney Lake

I’m the SolarWinds CEO. Here’s why a $4.4 billion move to go private was right for us

Looking back, the deal succeeded not because we pushed harder or moved faster, but because we stayed balanced.

yesterday 1

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Sudhakar Ramakrishna

Self-made billionaire Tony Robbins went from being a janitor to making his first million by 24—he shares the 3 skills Gen Z need to thrive in today’s job market

From earning $40 a week cleaning floors to coaching Bill Clinton, and joining the billionaire’s club, Tony Robbins says these are the three skills...

yesterday 3

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Preston Fore

Google billionaire Larry Page copies the Jeff Bezos playbook, buying a $173 million Miami compound that will save him millions in taxes

Critics warned a wealth tax in California would lead to a billionaire exodus. Florida says come on in, the water's warm.

yesterday 1

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Nick Lichtenberg

Founder of $30 billion defense tech company Anduril embraces Trump’s threat to crack down: It’s ‘good to scare people sometimes’

When dealing with public money “the public should be able to impose whatever restrictions they want on you,” Luckey said.

yesterday 1

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Trump already has open door to grow U.S. military presence in Greenland thanks to a little-known Cold War-era agreement between the U.S. and Denmark

“This agreement is very generous, it's very open,” one foreign policy expert said. “The U.S. would be able to achieve almost any security goal that...

yesterday 1

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Sasha Rogelberg

Former ICE director says ‘wartime recruitment’ tactics like influencer campaigns and $50,000 bonuses could attract the wrong kind of agents

The Minneapolis shooting was the ninth since September.

yesterday 1

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Jacqueline Munis

Trump threatens to ban Wall Street from buying the house next door, saying ‘American Dream is increasingly out of reach for far too many people’

Trump has not yet released draft legislation or an executive order, but officials and outside analysts say the administration is exploring several...

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Nick Lichtenberg

Trump’s Venezuela plan just got a whole lot more expensive, as he says the U.S. could give ‘tremendous’ sums to oil companies building there

Before Trump suggested the U.S. government may end up footing the bill for rebuilding Venezuela's oil infrastructure, analysts were of the opinion...

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Eleanor Pringle

‘Largest LBO in history’: Warner rejects Paramount again, scoffing at $87 billion worth of debt in its $108 billion bid

Warner continues to stick with Netflix, the shock winner that emerged in early December from the auction begun by Paramount.

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Nick Lichtenberg

The 7 most overlooked CEOs in 2025—and the 4 to watch in 2026

The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute highlights the top performers of 2025 and the top leaders to watch in 2026.

previous day 10

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

‘We do pranks and stuff like that’: Craigslist ad that sought 20 child actors for Minnesota daycare centers taken down after fueling fake news

Screenshots of the ad were used in social media posts on multiple platforms, cited as proof of fraud at Minnesota day care centers.

previous day 10

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Melissa Goldin

The most honest prediction for 2026: nobody knows what’s next

To my fellow CEOs: stop chasing certainty. Stop waiting for perfect information. Stop anchoring decisions to forecasts that will never be stable.

previous day 10

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Christian Klein

What CEOs need to know about the new ‘Donroe’ doctrine

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

previous day 10

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Diane Brady

Minnesota fraud scandal gives Trump cover to withhold funding for kids in 5 Democratic-led states

Five states — California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York — are targeted, and the HHS said they had been notified.

previous day 10

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Geoff Mulvihill

AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that’s masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests

"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as...

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Nick Lichtenberg

The Education Department is garnishing wages for millions of student loan borrowers in default. Who is affected and how much they can take

Wage garnishment "is a scary concept since they can take 15% of after-tax income," Ashley Morgan, debt and bankruptcy attorney and owner of Ashley...

previous day 10

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Sydney Lake

How JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon notched $770 million in gains for his work in 2025

Dimon has accumulated a lot of equity through his compensation plan, personal purchases, and via a 2021 special award.

previous day 10

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Amanda Gerut

The curveball questions CEOs are asking job seekers amid Gen Z’s hiring nightmare: ‘Design a car for a deaf person’

Gen Z’s hiring nightmare is real. With fewer jobs and fiercer competition, employers are using curveball interview questions to separate candidates...

previous day 10

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Orianna Rosa Royle

Jollibee shares surge after the Filipino fried chicken chain says it’ll spin off its ‘higher-growth but more volatile’ global business

Jollibee is pursuing an aggressive global expansion, as it tries to grow beyond its profitable Filipino market.

previous day 10

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Angelica Ang

Exclusive: Fireblocks acquires crypto accounting platform TRES Finance for $130 million

This is the crypto infrastructure firm’s second acquisition over the past year.

previous day 10

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Ben Weiss

Crystal Ball: Where venture capital and private equity are headed in 2026

Term Sheet readers sound off what 2026 holds for venture capital and private equity investors.

previous day 10

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Allie Garfinkle