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Americans are traveling abroad in droves, while the number of visitors to the United States is falling. Foreign visitors to the United States by air fell nearly 10% in March from the same month a year earlier and nearly 13% from before the pandemic to 4.54 million people, according to data from the International Trade Administration, part of the Commerce Department. Easter week last year was in March, causing some vacations to shift this year. However, U.S. citizens flying abroad increased 1.6% from last March and are up 22% from 2019 to 6.56 million travelers. The imbalance could further deepen the more than $50 billion gap between what the U.S. generates through travel and tourism services and what Americans spend abroad.

The CEOs of NPR and PBS said they're looking into options to challenge the Trump administration following the president's executive order to cut off public funding to the news and media organizations. "We're looking at whatever options are available to us," said NPR CEO Katherine Maher on Sunday's "Face the Nation" when asked if they would file a lawsuit. "I think it's a little preliminary for us to be able to speak to specific strategies that we would take." "We have never seen a circumstance like this and obviously we're going to be pushing back very hard," said PBS CEO Paula Kerger.

If you’re speaking with Mickey Drexler, ditch the formality. The 80-year-old chairman of clothing brand Alex Mill, and former CEO of Gap and J.Crew Group, says he’d much rather colleagues and employees address him like a regular person, using his first name only.

A group of unconventional antiheroes has jumpstarted the summer box office. Disney and Marvel's "Thunderbolts*" tallied an estimated $76 million during its domestic opening weekend, the third highest debut of 2025. Including international ticket sales, the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe flick snared an estimated $162.1 million globally.

Something unusual is happening in a market long dominated by index funds. Active management is staging a comeback. Take the action in equity ETFs two weeks ago. Amid more whipsaw action in stocks that has typified 2025 trading, there was a net outflow from equity exchange-traded funds. But in a surprise, the selling was mostly on the index fund side. There were net outflows of $1 billion from equity ETFs in all, but $3 billion in inflows to active equity ETFs to offset the $4 billion index fund withdrawals, according to ETF Action data. ETF experts say actively managed ETFs time in the spotlight marks a transformation that may reshape the ETF space for years to come. A record number of ETFs has launched this year, with 288 new funds and the potential for over 1,000 new ETFs by year-end. In total, there are now more than 2,000 active ETFs, rivaling the total number of index ETFs. While they only make up about 10% of total ETF market assets, they are now over one-third of the flows

Bela Bajaria has had an incredible nine-year run at Netflix. She joined in 2016 to oversee unscripted and scripted series, led the streaming giant's push into live events and sports, and worked her way up to becoming the company's chief content officer. But before then, she has what she calls a "big public failure" which turned out to be "the greatest learning lesson": She was fired from her job as president of Universal Television after a five-year tenure and big accomplishments, including building a strong comedy roster with top creators like Tina Fey and Mike Schur. "There's amazing books and quotes and all this stuff about [how] you learn so much from failure, and failure is important, and you're not trying hard enough if you're not failing," Bajaria told CNBC's Julia Boorstin at the recent 2025 Changemakers Summit in Los Angeles. "And all of that is true, but then when you fail, nobody wants to talk about it."

President Donald Trump took credit for the "good parts" of the economy in an exclusive interview with NBC News airing Sunday, but said that the "bad parts" are former President Joe Biden's economy. Trump defended his tariffs, even amid the economic uncertainty stemming from the sweeping announcement. "Ultimately, I take responsibility for everything, but I've only just been here for a little more than three months," Trump said.

The Panama Canal has spent the past few years battling extreme weather, with the El Niño phenomenon and severe drought leading to a water-level crisis. Now, it's President Trump's trade war that is threatening the global trade gateway. A critical passage for U.S. East Coast bound ocean freight container traffic, the Panama Canal is facing a potential business slump as a result of Trump's China tariffs and a rapid decline in manufactured goods being ordered by U.S. shippers. Forty percent of all U.S. container traffic travels through the Panama Canal every year, and in all, $270 billion in cargo annually. The U.S. and China are the top users of the Panama Canal, and its role in global shipping has increased in recent years due to the disruption of global supply chains. The Panama Canal Authority's revenue hit $3.38 billion last year, despite drought conditions, and revenue has increased every year since 2017. The trade war uncertainty and Trump's 145% tariff on Chinese goods — whi

Relationships don't fall apart overnight. More often than not, they crumble under the weight of small missteps that quietly accumulate — until they become too heavy to manage. As a psychologist who studies couples, I've seen many versions of this. Partners come into my office thinking their problem has something to do with frequent fights or arguments. But when we dig deeper, we often find the same root cause: what they say to each other in their arguments. There's one phrase I've seen come up in these exchanges that's more damaging than you may think: "Why can't you be more like [insert other person's name]?"

In some U.S. cities, it now takes more than twice the income to afford a median-priced home than to afford a median-priced apartment — and the gap keeps growing. Nationwide, a recent Redfin analysis finds that U.S. homebuyers must earn $116,633 to afford such a home — 82% more than the income needed to cover the cost of a median-priced rental. The figures are based on the standard assumption that housing costs shouldn't exceed 30% of gross income, a common affordability benchmark. The estimates reflect national and metro-level data for the three months ending in February 2025, comparing median home sale prices with median asking rents for newly listed apartments in buildings with five or more units. Homeownership calculations assume a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage with a 15% down payment and a 6.84% interest rate, and also factor in insurance and property taxes.