This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Travis Carrasquillo, 37, a content creator living in Da Nang, Vietnam. It has been edited for length and clarity. I’ve been living in Vietnam for six years now. Before moving here, I was based in Hawaii, working as a behavior analyst supporting children from military families…

While going through a divorce in 2020, the topic of after-school care for our two children came up, along with the associated cost. My son was in third grade, and my daughter was starting kindergarten. The thought of my kids being home alone after school gave me so much anxiety. I was insistent about adding…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reportedly helping employees scam their bosses with phony expenses receipts. The rise of new image generation models from companies like Google and OpenAI have led to a wave of AI-generated receipts submitted in-house, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (Oct. 26), citing interviews from leading expense software platforms. For example, software…

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — When the summer crowds fade and spring break is still months away, New Smyrna Beach quiets down. Locals call it the “shoulder season,” a time when the sand is still warm, but business cools off. What You Need To Know New Smyrna Beach businesses face a slowdown during the “shoulder season”…

President Donald Trump is expected to make headway on two pressing issues this week while meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea: tariffs and TikTok. During a Sunday interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said trade talks between the US and China were progressing. He said the additional…

Have you heard of Reg A? Neither had Austin Allison — until he used it to fund Pacaso, a real estate startup for luxury vacation homes. Allison, Pacaso’s cofounder and CEO, started the company with Spencer Rascoff. They were both veterans of the real estate and consumer technology industries when they launched Pacaso in 2020….

Take a trip through some of Pueblo’s pumpkin patches Take a trip through some of Pueblo’s pumpkin patches Driven Plastics named to 2025 Cleantech 50 to Watch list Driven Plastics — a Pueblo recycling company that converts hard-to-recycle plastic waste into advanced asphalt additives — has been named to Cleantech Group’s prestigious 2025 Cleantech 50…

It’s tough to wrap up everything that’s unfolded at Hoyo Sambusa since it started a decade ago. Hoyo, which means “mother” in Somali, was founded to help empower women from Somalia. Ghita Worcester, a Blue Cross executive, came out of retirement to help start a company she believes in. “If we can get more efficient here,…

At age 84, Milt Horowitz is a scrappy fellow. He’s not one to get pushed around. The retired mathematics teacher from Montclair is very active, taking classes in music, sculpture and even running for a seat on his local board of education this November. But he also has tight hip flexors, weak ankles and kyphosis,…

Will Arkansas nonprofits weather what is being called the “perfect storm” of financial and operational challenges? Absolutely. But they will need community support to do it. Like nearly every industry, the philanthropic sector faces unique circumstances as more people turn to local organizations for help amid rising costs for everyday essentials and dwindling government dollars….

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Bruce Springsteen’s early-career stresses and anxieties are laid bare in the new biopic, “Deliver Me from Nowhere,” often manifesting onscreen in his fickle treatment of his girlfriend Faye Romano. Australian actor Odessa Young stars opposite Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen‘s love interest Faye, a young single mom from Springsteen’s hometown and fan of the budding…

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A business was damaged, and a firefighter is recovering after battling a fire in Gwinnett County Saturday night. According to Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services, firefighters responded to calls about a business fire at the 4500 block of Nelson Brogdon Boulevard in Buford around 7:17 p.m. 9-1-1…

As AI reshapes white-collar work and graduate schemes shrink, one City veteran says the safest hedge may be to stop waiting for callbacks — and start building something. Quentin Nason, a 35-year finance veteran who spent two decades in investment banking and 15 years in asset management, has watched both his children and countless students…

Dear Liz: I paid for several magazine subscriptions online. At the end of the transaction, I received notice that I had also been signed up for automatic renewal. While I will be notified prior to the end of the current subscription period and given the opportunity to cancel the subscription, this seems like an underhanded…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Annie Liao, a 24-year-old startup founder based in San Francisco. It’s been edited for length and clarity. After raising $1.75 million in the pre-seed round for my startup last year, I quit my job and moved from Australia to San Francisco to go all in as…

New partnership with Waseel Investment and renewed backing from Shorooq, underscore investor confidence in COLABS’ cross-border vision. Aligned with Vision 2030, the expansion aims to accelerate entrepreneurship, create jobs, and attract new investment flows between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. A bridge between Saudi and Pakistani ecosystems, COLABS will help companies launch, scale, and operate through…

HLTH is one of the biggest and flashiest healthcare conferences of the year, so it’s no surprise that 2025’s edition delivered the health AI hype in full force. But beneath the sheen lurked mounting AI fatigue, fears of formidable new competitors, and a plaguing awareness of an AI bubble. Healthcare VC is facing many of…

Kigali, Kigali City / Syndication Cloud / October 24, 2025 / HCA Kigali If you’ve been following Rwanda’s remarkable journey toward becoming a knowledge-based economy, you know that education and skills development are at the heart of Vision 2050. On October 11, 2025, a significant milestone was reached when Hubbard College of Administration (HCA) Kigali…