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Gen Z isn't big on Facebook, and they feel the same about the man who made it.

In a July Business Insider survey done in collaboration with YouGov, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ranked lowest in trustworthiness among the demographic when compared with a list of fellow business icons.

Meanwhile, the business exec who won over the greatest proportion of Gen Z: media and entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey, who was ranked trustworthy by 46% of Gen Z respondents. Read more.
The biggest threat facing the home-buying industry is a mounting wave of class-action lawsuits that accuse the National Association of Realtors conspiring to rip off consumers by keeping the commissions paid to agents unfairly high.

These cases are expected to reach major milestones in the next year, and the ramifications could be staggering: Tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars hang in the balance.

The old way of buying and selling homes could go away forever. Read more

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Former Tesla owner Shreyansh Jain was hit with a $14,000 repair bill from an issue he encountered less than 24 hours after taking his brand new Model Y home, according to a recent report.

The Model Y's suspension broke with only 115 miles on the odometer, the report said.

Reuters found that Tesla has faced thousands of complaints over suspension and steering issues. Read more

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Jotham Lim left his corporate gig to become a full-time shopping livestreamer in October.

These livestreams involve two or more hours of nonstop talking.

He's seen a big windfall since making the switch, but is worried about the unstable pay. Read more

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Holiday gifting is hard enough for people that do have wishlists. So what about the people who really have it all?

The founder of luxury styling firm Lalaluxe, Nicole Pollard said billionaires and centimillionaires often like things that can be personalized.

Warren Buffet famously used to give each of his family members $10,000 in cash — but after he learned they were blowing it, switched it up and now gives stock to some and chocolate to others. Read more
ChatGPT isn't the only AI-powered tool that can help make your job easier.

There are plenty of other AI-based apps and browser extensions that can boost your productivity.

The apps range from helping you with note-taking to creating spreadsheets for you. Read more
An estimated 102 million people are eligible for a small payout after a Google settlement.

Google is paying to settle an antitrust lawsuit over its Google Play Store.

About 70% of eligible people can expect to get paid automatically. Read more
Bakhmut's destruction was near total, reminiscent, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, of Hiroshima after the atomic blast in 1945.

Thousands of men and women had been sent into this fight, and yet it's done little to alter the course of this slow and increasingly desperate war. Read more
For decades, the military might of the US was unchallenged.

But as 2023 draws to a close, conflicts are flaring across the world, and Russia and China are growing increasingly aggressive in their shared ambition to topple the US as the world's biggest power.

China has provided Russia with vital economic and diplomatic support in its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, while the US has provided billions in aid to Kyiv. Read more. 

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Former President Donald Trump said he was "not a student of Hitler," following backlash to his controversial comments that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country."

Trump said that he never knew Adolf Hitler had used similar language to describe Jewish people and said he had never read Hitler's "Mein Kampf" manifesto.

"I know nothing about Hitler. I'm not a student of Hitler," Trump said in a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt. Read more. 

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The Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas, which is about 1,187 feet long and took its maiden voyage in 2010, cost about $1.4 billion to make, according to Statista.

That's why cruise ships are rarely outright abandoned if they're ever decommissioned or retired due to the ship's age or, in some cases, catastrophic disasters.

Oftentimes, these vessels are taken to scrapyards to be dismantled for their valuable parts such as the metal. Materials from a single ship can bring in around $4 million, Business Insider reported in 2021. Read more.
Victor Muller was a popular student at the highly regarded Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. One student said he was the last person they would ever suspect of being a spy.

But in March, Muller's true identity was revealed. Prosecutors in the Netherlands said that Muller was, in reality, Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov, a Russian military operative. 

Not long after, four individuals with Bulgarian identities were arrested in the UK. British prosecutors said they were in fact Russian intelligence agents, living under false identities to gather information on key parts of the UK infrastructure. Read more. 

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South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun was found dead inside a car, police announced Wednesday, according to multiple reports.

Lee, who played the wealthy patriarch Park Dong-ik in the Oscar-winning movie "Parasite”, was 48 years old.

Yonhap News Agency, citing police, said that Lee was found at a park with a charcoal briquette in his passenger seat. Police also told the agency that his wife had reported that he walked out of his home after leaving what appeared to be a suicide note. Read more. 

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Families of Ukrainian prisoners of war held in Russia have staged protests in several cities urging the government to work on their release. According to a new report, Russia may be purposefully using the POWs to foment distrust of Kyiv.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have been taken as prisoners of war. Some 4,000 are still being held months after they were taken. Read more
In June, the world's attention was rapt, as a submersible that escorted wealthy customers to see the sunken Titanic disappeared with five souls on board.

In the Mediterranean, a different horror was unfolding — a fishing trawler converted to transport migrants out of Libya capsized off the coast of Greece, claiming hundreds of lives.

Business Insider interviewed survivors of the sinking of the Adriana, and after several interviews adapted the experiences into this comic. Read more
An online petition calling on the Ukrainian government to legalize same-sex marriage and give same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples passed the 25,000 signatures required to trigger a presidential review.

But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy struck it down, saying that "the constitution of Ukraine may not be amended in the event of martial law or a state of emergency."

Ukrainian LGBTQ+ soldiers told Business Insider about their experiences on the front lines and fighting for equality. Read more
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has fought fiercely to keep Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim region in the North Caucasus, firmly under Moscow's thumb.

Chechnya sought to break away from the Russian Federation, but after two brutal wars it was subjugated by Vladimir Putin under the Kadyrov family.

In this comic, you will hear about the rise of the Kadyrovs, what it is like to endure your country being taken over by thugs and killers, and how to survive in a brutal authoritarian regime. Read more.

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GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she'd pardon Donald Trump if she wins in 2024.

"I would pardon Trump if he is found guilty," Haley said at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Thursday, per NBC News.

Haley added that pardoning Trump would allow the country to break clean from the embattled former president. Read more.

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Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the woman who conspired with her then-boyfriend to have her mother killed, was released early from prison on Thursday, and picked up by her recently-wed husband.

Blanchard, 32, married Ryan Scott Anderson last year while she was serving a 10-year sentence at the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri.

She was granted parole after serving eight years for her role in the death of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard, who prosecutors also acknowledged was abusive. Read more.
The public uproar spearheaded by some of the biggest names in business has ended with Harvard President Claudine Gay resigning from her role after weeks of blowback and plagiarism allegations.

Gay announced Tuesday in a letter that she was stepping down, and reactions have poured in on social media from both her supporters and critics.

Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary and Harvard president emeritus recently named to OpenAI's interim board, applauded Gay's decision to step down. Read more. 

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