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Bosses are fighting a new battle in the RTO wars: It’s not about where you work, but when you work

Burnout has moved from a state of place to a state of mind.

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Nick Lichtenberg

If Venezuela becomes a major oil producer again, ‘that could cement lower prices’ long term and put pressure on Russia, analyst says

“There’s been a big benefit for Russia to see Venezuela’s oil industry collapse. And the reason is because they were a competitor on the global...

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Josh Funk

The U.S. accuses Maduro and his wife of ordering kidnappings, beatings and murders, among other charges

Maduro’s wife is also accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in 2007.

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Alanna Durkin Richer

Maduro is now in the U.S. to face criminal charges after deposed Venezuelan leader smiles while escorted by DEA agents

After arriving at a small airport in New York City's northern suburbs, Maduro was flown by helicopter to Manhattan.

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Regina Garcia Cano

Trump snatches Maduro but leaves his regime in charge for now

For now, there’s no plan spelled out to have American troops or administrators in Venezuela.

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Catherine Lucey

Bank of America CEO says he hired 2,000 recent Gen Z grads from 200,000 applications, and many are scared about the future

Brian Moynihan says the fears are understandable, but urges young grads not to lose hope about the job market.

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Ashley Lutz

Before Maduro arrest, Nobel Prize winner said Venezuela has a $1.7 trillion opportunity to privatize over 500 companies and undo socialist ‘disaster’

Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves, but “our people don’t even have gas even to cook. That’s a disaster,” María Corina Machado told...

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Nick Lichtenberg

What happens next in Venezuela? The regime’s foundation remains in place even after U.S. capture of Maduro, analyst says

"So removing Maduro did not necessarily change the fundamental equation of control."

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Jason Ma

Nicolas Maduro rose from bus driver to president before presiding over Venezuela’s economic collapse

In 1986, Maduro traveled to Cuba for a year of ideological instruction, his only formal education after high school. He quickly became a union leader.

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Regina Garcia Cano

Trump has been laying the groundwork for a strike on Venezuela for a full year. Here’s the timeline

President Donald Trump had long threatened that he could order military strikes on targets on Venezuelan territory after months of attacks on boats...

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Ben Finley

Ouster of Maduro government sparks celebrations among Venezuelans in South Florida

"There’s fears. There’s excitement. There’s so many years that we’ve been waiting for this. Something had to happen in Venezuela. We all need the...

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Vanessa A. Alvarez

You probably use the same password for 30 different websites. It’s time for a passkey. 

Many companies think of passkeys as just a security upgrade, but they’re really a crucial user experience initiative.

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Rishi Bhargava

French tourists didn’t believe the young guy on the subway was New York City’s new mayor, so he held up the newspaper to prove it

Zohran Mamdani also has to move to the mayor's mansion on the Upper East Side before the lease in Queens apartment ends later this month.

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Jake Offenhartz

‘This isn’t how I thought the story would go’: Sprinkles Cupcakes founder mourns company shutdown after starting in her kitchen

Private equity has come for your favorite vending machine cupcake.

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The Associated Press

‘It was the chillest dog I’ve ever seen in my life’: Rhode Island firefighters rescue yellow lab trapped in ice

“The dog never made a sound," said Steve Howard, deputy chief of the Misquamicut Fire Department, in a phone interview on Friday. "He was pretty...

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The Associated Press

CEO of $90 billion Waste Management hauled trash and went to 1 a.m. safety briefings—‘It’s not always just dollars and cents’

Jim Fish took his father-in-law’s advice and attended early-morning safety meetings to meet with workers, ride in truck cabs, and talk about...

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Amanda Gerut

Trump says ‘we’re going to run’ Venezuela and is not afraid to put U.S. troops on the ground after Maduro’s capture

"We're not afraid of boots on the ground. We're not afraid of it. We're we don't mind saying it, and we're gonna make sure that that country is run...

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Jason Ma

Meet the ’empowered non-complier’: A certain kind of valuable worker who flouts return to office whenever they feel like it

JLL's Workforce Preference Barometer finds that your most valuable employees probably least want to be in the office—and they have the power to...

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Nick Lichtenberg

Angry town halls nationwide find a new villain: the data center driving up your electricity bill while fueling job-killing AI

In many cases, municipal boards are trying to figure out whether energy- and water-hungry data centers fit into their zoning framework.

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Marc Levy

Elon Musk promised a ‘major rebound’ for Tesla in 2025. Instead it fell behind its biggest rival from China

It's a stunning reversal for a company whose rise once seemed unstoppable as it overtook traditional carmakers and helped make Musk the world's...

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Paul Harloff

Trump seeks to revive Venezuela’s oil-based economy and says it’s ‘America first’ while affordability crisis lingers in the U.S.

"We have tremendous energy in that country. It's very important that we protect it. We need that for ourselves."

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Jason Ma

Deploying U.S. troops in Venezuela could become a ‘force protection nightmare’ amid potential insurgency threat, retired colonel warns

"The risk with Venezuela is that it could be a hostile environment as well, and that could put U.S. forces in great danger."

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Jason Ma

Trump makes it clear shocking Venezuelan regime change is largely about oil: ‘They stole our oil … We’re going to make a lot of money’

Trump says American oil companies will rebuild the Venezuelan industry and take a "tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground."

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Jordan Blum

Maduro’s deputy demands his release after U.S. arrest as Venezuelans wonder who’s in charge

“What is being done to Venezuela is an atrocity that violates international law,” she said. “History and justice will make the extremists who...

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Isabel Debre

More than 150 U.S. military aircraft were used in the operation to capture Venezuela’s Maduro, including stealth fighters and bombers

“This thing was so organized,” Trump said. “And they go into a dark space with machine guns facing them all over the place.”

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Meg Kinnard

5 takeaways on Venezuela in the aftermath of Maduro: a memo to CEOs

There is little dispute about the character of Nicolas Maduro, but there is little incentive for U.S. corporate leaders to gloat and be used as foils.

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Countries must move beyond seeing AI as a race, where one side must beat the other

When it comes to AI, cooperation between countries can yield greater benefits than working alone.

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Boris Babic

Airlines cancel hundreds of flights across the eastern Caribbean after U.S. raid on Venezuela

JetBlue said it canceled about 215 flights “due to airspace closures across the Caribbean related to military activity.”

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Matt Obrien

Meet Sweden, the unicorn factory chasing America in the AI race

Stockholm has the highest number of unicorns per capita of any city in the world outside of Silicon Valley.

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Oscar Täckström

Red Lobster’s 36-year-old CEO led the company after bankruptcy. Now he’s plotting the ‘greatest comeback in the history of the restaurant industry’

“Of course it’s risky,” Damola Adamolekun told Fortune’s Ruth Umoh. “I took over a company that’s bankrupt and had a lot of problems.”

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Sydney Lake

Happy New Year! There’s now less than a month until the next potential government shutdown

When signing the funding deal back in November, Trump said: "We’re sending a clear message that we will never give in to extortion"—fighting talk...

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Eleanor Pringle

Behind glam luxury brands Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo lurks a troubled holding company losing millions

Capri CEO John Idol’s fashion powerhouse of Michael Kors, Versace and Jimmy Choo was supposed to rival LVMH. Seven years in, the company lost $1...

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Amanda Gerut

Could 2026 be the year of the 4-day workweek? Here’s what top business leaders have predicted about the shift

Business titans from Elon Musk to Bill Gates made bold predictions that the workweek will soon be reduced to four days—or shorter.

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Preston Fore

Man says Goldman Sachs put him through a gauntlet of 39 one-on-one interviews—and the decisive conversation was less than a minute

Goldman Sachs’ acceptance rate for internships is less than 1%.

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Dave Smith

Even top CEOs check their phones first thing in the morning—these are the apps business executives are reaching for

Business leaders are checking weather, wellness, news, email, and messaging apps every morning, with one Visa exec "addicted" to LinkedIn and...

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Emma Burleigh

U.S. stocks had a terrible year (relatively speaking)—you could have bet on Greece in 2025 and come out ahead

Investors are using non-U.S. stock markets as a hedge against the dominance of AI-related stocks in the S&P 500.

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Jim Edwards

Michael Saylor’s Strategy flirts again with the danger threshold at which his company is worth less than his Bitcoin

Why hold a stock that is worth less than the underlying asset it represents?

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Jim Edwards

How former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is motivated by Henry Kissinger to keep working past 70

Eric Schmidt launched Bolt Data & Energy and took control of aerospace manufacturer Relativity Space in 2025.

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Jordan Blum

Michigan college survey says ‘6-7’ is lowkey cooked, put in on the ‘Banished Words List’

The Lake Superior State University roundup of overused slang started in 1976 as a New Year’s Eve party idea.

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Corey Williams

Farmers see a ‘Band-Aid on a deep wound’ as White House reveals the size of their soybean tariff bailout

The details arrived after most farmers have already met with their bankers to arrange financing for next year's crops and placed orders.

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Josh Funk

‘I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart'”: Trump talks health concerns, saying he takes more aspirin than recommended

“In retrospect, it’s too bad I took it because it gave them a little ammunition,” Trump told The Wall Street Journal about having a scan done.

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Michelle L. Price

Trump backs down on sending National Guard into Chicago, LA and Portland

“We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!" he said on social...

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Michelle L. Price

BYD posts slowest annual sales growth in 5 years, but China’s EV giant is still set to outsell Tesla for the first time

BYD sold 4.6 million vehicles last year, compared to 4.3 million in 2024. Monthly sales for December dropped by 18.3% year-on-year.

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Angelica Ang

AI chip designer Biren’s shares surge 76% on debut in Hong Kong

Biren’s strong start will likely augur well for two other AI-related stocks—MiniMax and Zhipu—that are set to list in HK next week.

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Sangmi Cha

Asking employees to come back to the office like the old days is the same as trying to ‘jam the toothpaste back in the tube,’ workforce expert says

Companies including Amazon, JPMorgan, and AT&T have faced obstacles trying to get employees to return to office.

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Mikaela Cohen

Cash machines in this former communist country issue euros for the first time after becoming the 21st member of the currency union

The country of nearly 6.7 million people was one of the poorest when it first became a member of the European Union in 2007.

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The Associated Press

This is the next Trump construction project, joining the White House ballroom, Rose Garden replacement and others

The Courses at Andrews — inside the secure confines of Joint Base Andrews in Maryland — are known as the “president's golf course."

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Will Weissert

Bridgewater, D.E. Shaw among top hedge fund gainers of 2025

Michel Massoud’s event-driven Melqart Opportunities Fund surged 45%, and Citadel’s flagship hedge fund posted a 10.2% increase in 2025.

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Nishant Kumar

Google ex-CEO Eric Schmidt jumps into the AI data center business with a failed, 150-year-old Texas railroad turned oil giant

Bolt and Texas Pacific Land aim to attract hyperscalers with bespoke land, power, and water services for data center campuses.

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Jordan Blum

Runaway boulder on Indiana Jones set rolls over Disney World worker

“We’re focused on supporting our cast member, who is recovering," Disney said in a statement.

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The Associated Press