Long before becoming a Hollywood mainstay with a market cap of over $315 billion, Netflix was struggling to stay afloat. After the dotcom bust, the then DVD rental company was forced to make its first major round of layoffs in 2001, cutting roughly one-third of its workforce. For Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings, the experience drove
Lena Koropey’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease nearly a decade ago. Since then, she’s watched her once-independent mother come to rely on others for nearly every part of daily life. “It’s definitely getting harder each year,” Koropey, 48, told Business Insider. Six years ago, Koropey bought a three-bedroom home in Mattituck, on Long Island’s
Israeli settlers have been besieging two Palestinian families in their homes in the occupied West Bank since Sunday, with the families saying their supplies were running out and rights groups urging the authorities to step in. On Wednesday Israeli security forces were reported to have withdrawn from the Jewish settler outpost in the village of
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Families in Venezuela are still searching for the remains of their loved ones, lost in the rubble of collapsed apartment buildings that line the coast of La Guaira, the region hardest hit by two earthquakes on June 24. Government officials say the death toll has surpassed 5,300, although it is estimated that the number of
On July 21, 2025, a training aircraft took off from a Bangladesh Air Force base in Dhaka around 1:00 p.m. local time (07:00 GMT) and crashed shortly after in the Uttara neighborhood. Images from the scene hours after the crash showed dozens of emergency services workers sifting through the charred rubble in an attempt to