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Outgoing Walmart CEO Doug McMillon
Success

Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon out-earns the average American’s salary in less than 20 hours—during a typical 30-minute commute, he’s already made $1,563

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January 9, 2026
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
Health

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

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January 8, 2026
Lonely young woman in office
Success

Staff at a major Swedish pharmacy chain are being paid to take time off with friends to combat loneliness—they can even text loved ones during the $100 ‘friendship hour’

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January 7, 2026
Baby in hospital
Success

Chinese billionaire who has fathered more than 100 children hopes to have dozens of U.S.-born boys to one day take over his business

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December 25, 2025
Apple CEO Tim Cook
Success

Apple CEO Tim Cook out-earns the average American’s salary in just 7 hours—to put that into context, he could buy a new $439,000 home in just 2 days

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December 12, 2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Success

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says people need to find success in traditional factory jobs again: ‘Every successful person doesn’t need to have a PhD’

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December 8, 2025
Man on private jet
Success

CEO of $5.6 billion Swiss bank says country is still the ‘No. 1 location’ for wealth after voters reject a tax on the ultrarich

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December 2, 2025
Mining equipment sits inside the pit at the Mountain Pass mine, operated by MP Materials, in Mountain Pass, California, U.S. America's top rare earths producer, MP Materials, is expanding its vertical integration of mining and magnets production in the U.S. after years of shipping its output to China because there was no refining capacity available to handle its production. Photographer: Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Magazine

The U.S. aims to breathe easy amid China’s chokehold on rare earths, but loosening the grip takes years of concerted effort

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November 17, 2025
Alan Wells
Success

Meet the 73-year-old who splits his time between Panama and the U.S.: ‘$500 is my cost of living, plus food’

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November 15, 2025
New York City
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These are the U.S. cities where Americans can actually afford to live on a single person’s income—and the ones out-of-budget for singletons

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October 29, 2025
Young sad Gen Z graduates
Conferences

The Gen Z job crisis is real: 1.2 million recent grads in the U.K. competed for just 17,000 open roles

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October 28, 2025
Airline
Law

Alaska Airlines resumes operations after grounding planes for hours over IT outage

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October 24, 2025
Engineers buck against ‘vibe-coding’ label, saying responsibility still lies with the humans behind the code
AI

Engineers buck against ‘vibe-coding’ label, saying responsibility still lies with the humans behind the code

By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
September 29, 2025
Tennis sensation Coco Gauff
Success

Tennis champion Coco Gauff loves this $2 monthly subscription, cooks TikTok recipes, and treats herself with $3,000 shopping sprees

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September 4, 2025
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
News

Trump says he’s awarding former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom two days after being seriously injured in car crash

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September 3, 2025

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