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wsj.com - Kimberly Lankford - What Life Insurance Companies Look for in Your Driving Record
What Life Insurance Companies Look for in Your Driving Record
Wall Street Journal

Life insurance companies check your motor-vehicle record when you apply for a policy. Your driving record affects your mortality risk and has a correlation with other risks. You usually can't qualify for the best life insurance rates if you have a…

bloomberg.com - Zachary R Mider - Billionaire Boehly's Allies Showered Money on Kansas Official Ahead of Regulatory Action
Billionaire Boehly's Allies Showered Money on Kansas Official Ahead of Regulatory Action
Bloomberg

Todd Boehly and dozens of his associates contributed more than $300,000 to the Kansas insurance commissioner's gubernatorial campaign, weeks before her office helped one of the billionaire's companies win a delay of new capital rules. A slew of…

arstechnica.com - Nate Anderson - Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves
Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves
Ars Technica

“What kind of doctor was dr. pepper,” Utah real estate agent Kouri Richins once asked a search engine. (Sadly, there was no actual Dr. Pepper.) But it was Richins' less innocuous online searches that helped a jury find her guilty of…

timharford.com - Betting on risk changes the world
Betting on risk changes the world
Tim Harford

It was one of the most astonishing displays of persuasion I have ever seen. In the audience, a group of Midwestern agribusiness types, who by profession should have been well attuned to climate change, but by culture were deeply sceptical. On the…

marketbeat.com - HC Wainwright Predicts Strategy's Q2 Earnings (NASDAQ:MSTR)
HC Wainwright Predicts Strategy's Q2 Earnings (NASDAQ:MSTR)
MarketBeat

Islamabad Aftershocks: Why Bitcoin Didn't Flinch Strategy Inc (NASDAQ:MSTR - Free Report) - Stock analysts at HC Wainwright dropped their Q2 2026 earnings per share estimates for Strategy in a research note issued on Wednesday, May 6th. HC…

fastcompany.com - Andy Hamilton - Leaders shouldn't toss around the 'AI' buzzword in layoffs. Here's why
Leaders shouldn't toss around the 'AI' buzzword in layoffs. Here's why
Fast Company

Layoffs used to be something that made a company's stock tank. But after Block announced layoffs recently, its stock went up. And they weren't the only ones: Snap did the same thing a few months earlier, as did Meta and Amazon. The common thread?

cornwalllive.com - Christopher Sharp - Dawn French says 'these are my decisions' as she shares reality of ageing
Dawn French says 'these are my decisions' as she shares reality of ageing
Cornwall Live

Actress Dawn French has spoken candidly about the choices she has made regarding her appearance as she ages, as well as how she feels about those who choose to criticise her looks. The Vicar of Dibley star, 68, revealed she has no intention of…

cnbc.com - Kamaron McNair - ALS and the crushing cost of care: How 4 Americans face the 'bankruptcy disease
ALS and the crushing cost of care: How 4 Americans face the 'bankruptcy disease
CNBC

For the roughly 5,000 people diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, each year, the disease is terminal. And that number is increasing. An estimated 33,000 Americans had ALS as of 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control…

fool.com - Jonathan Ponciano - What to Know About This Fund's $23 Million Appian Buy Amid AI Automation Growth and a 40% Stock Drop
What to Know About This Fund's $23 Million Appian Buy Amid AI Automation Growth and a 40% Stock Drop
The Motley Fool

Mudita Advisors initiated a new position in Appian (APPN +2.56%) during the first quarter, acquiring 839,400 shares in a trade estimated at $22.78 million based on quarterly average pricing, according to a May 14, 2026, SEC filing. According to a…

irishtimes.com - Joe Brennan - Intact chief Kevin Thompson: 'We want to be Ireland's most respected insurance company'
Intact chief Kevin Thompson: 'We want to be Ireland's most respected insurance company'
The Irish Times

Kevin Thompson represented Ireland in his youth as a cross-country and mountain runner and still clocks 10-12 kilometres several mornings a week in Marlay Park in south Dublin, before arriving at his desk at Intact Insurance Ireland in nearby…

radaronline.com - Daniel Gura - EXCLUSIVE: Alex Murdaugh's Sick Suicide-for-Cash Plot Exposed - Before Previously Convicted Killer Granted Shocking New Retrial
EXCLUSIVE: Alex Murdaugh's Sick Suicide-for-Cash Plot Exposed - Before Previously Convicted Killer Granted Shocking New Retrial
RadarOnline

Just three months after his wife and son were brutally murdered, disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh, who had been convicted of their deaths, hatched a plan involving hiring a hitman to shoot and kill him, so his lone surviving son, Buster, could…

taipeitimes.com - 台北時報 - Kouri Richins handed life sentence for murder
Kouri Richins handed life sentence for murder
Taipei Times

Kouri Richins, a Utah mother who published a children's book about grief after the death of her husband is to serve a life sentence for his murder without the possibility of parole, a judge ruled on Wednesday. Richins was convicted in March of…

walesonline.co.uk - Christopher Sharp - Dawn French says she's 'made decisions' as she addresses ageing and trolling
Dawn French says she's 'made decisions' as she addresses ageing and trolling
Wales Online

Actress Dawn French has revealed she has made up her mind about how she wishes to manage her appearance as she grows older, while opening up about how she feels towards those who pass judgement on her looks. The Vicar of Dibley star, 68, said she…

jewishpress.com - Jonathan I. Shenkman - How To Maintain Financial Peace of Mind in Retirement
How To Maintain Financial Peace of Mind in Retirement
The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com

There is plenty of guidance on how to save for retirement, but far less clarity once retirement actually begins. The shift from building wealth to spending seems to introduce many financial and psychological challenges, and I am struggling with how…

themarysue.com - Terrina Jairaj - Mom who wrote book on grief post death faces life for murder
Mom who wrote book on grief post death faces life for murder
The Mary Sue

Kouri Richins, the mother who wrote a children's book on grief after her husband's death, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for poisoning him with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. The 35-year-old real…

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