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Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of online lender Klarna.
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said President Donald Trump's plan to cap credit card interest rates for a year makes sense.
  • Klarna's CEO backs Trump's one-year plan to cap credit card interest rates.
  • Sebastian Siemiatkowski says high rates trap lower-income borrowers in costly debt.
  • He says credit card rewards mainly benefit wealthier consumers.

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A viral app in China that checks if users are alive is sparking frank conversations about loneliness and isolation.
  • "Are you dead?" — a Chinese app that alerts an emergency contact if users go silent — has gone viral.
  • Its popularity has triggered debate about loneliness and living alone in China.
  • A user on RedNote said they "sense a deep loneliness" behind the app's success.

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  • Oprah Winfrey, 71, says she views GLP-1 medications as a "tool" to help her manage obesity.
  • The "food noise" went away within hours on the first day she took a GLP-1 medication, she said.
  • "I have regret that I didn't discover it in 2013," Winfrey said.

Oprah Winfrey, 71, says growing older has made her more appreciative of her health, especially after using GLP-1s


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The 46th Separate Air Mobile Brigade showcased a clip of a drone with a fishing rod-style device trying to take down enemy quadcopters. Red annotation by Business Insider.
  • A Ukrainian brigade has been testing a fishing rod-like device on one of its drones.
  • The line attached to the apparatus appears to be for entangling in the propeller of enemy drones.
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  • Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank has received grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department.
  • Economists, business leaders, and analysts are weighing the implications of the development.
  • All three living former Fed chairs criticized the move in a joint statement.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said late Sunday that the central bank had


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Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
  • Jerome Powell says the DOJ criminal investigation into him centers on his Senate testimony.
  • At a June hearing, he got into a heated exchange with Sen. Tim Scott about Fed building renovations.
  • One Republican representative said Powell lied and sent a

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President Donald Trump speaks during an American Technology Council roundtable in the State Dinning Room at the White House in Washington, DC on Monday, June 19, 2017. From left, Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Apple, Trump, Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, and Jeff Bezos, Chief Executive Officer of Amazon. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
  • President Donald Trump asks tech companies to "pay their own way" for their data centers.
  • Data centers drove up utility bills in at least 13 states, Business Insider previously reported.
  • Trump says that Microsoft will be the first to work with the White House to keep utility bills down.

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Kris LeBoutillier says that living in Singapore gave him opprotunities he never would have found back home.
  • Kris LeBoutillier grew up in Upstate New York and knew early on that he wanted to travel the world.
  • A job opportunity led him to Singapore, where he was able to build his career as a photojournalist.
  • He still carries guilt about not being closer to his mom when she

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Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and — thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains — rarely get tired of doing their job. Over the last few years, these floor-sweeping bots have gone from utilitarian devices to full-fledged home robots that vacuum and mop your home, clean themselves, and trundle off to prepare themselves for the next run.

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