• Blue Origin announced its all-women space crew, including Gayle King and Katy Perry.
• This mission marks the first all-female crew since 1963, led by Jeff Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sánchez.
• The 11-minute journey will use Blue Origin's reusable, autonomous New Shepard rocket.

Jeff Bezos' fiancée is headed to space.

Helicopter pilot and former journalist Lauren Sánchez will lead an all-women crew, including "CBS Mornings" cohost Gayle King and pop star Katy Perry lifting off to space this spring on a Blue Origin spaceship.

The six-person crew will also include research scientist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Amanda Nguyen, former NASA scientist Aisha Bowe, and film producer Kerianne Flynn. Sánchez "brought the mission together," Blue Origin announced on Thursday.

"She is honored to lead a team of explorers on a mission that will challenge their perspectives of Earth, empower them to share their own stories, and create lasting impact that will inspire generations to come," it added.

The 11-minute journey will take a six-person crew past the Kármán line, which is the "internationally recognized boundary of space." Blue Origin says it will be the first all-female flight crew since Valentina Tereshkova's flight to space in 1963. It marks the 11th human flight with Blue Origin's New Shepard program, which uses Blue Origin's reusable, suborbital rocket system built for human flight. The rocket is fully autonomous with no pilots.

Sánchez is following in Bezos' footsteps with the launch.

The first passengers of the New Shepard program included Bezos and his younger brother Mark Bezos, who owns a private equity firm and volunteers as a firefighter. The crew had about three minutes to float around before gravity pulled them back toward the ground.

"I'll tell you something very interesting: zero gravity feels very natural. I don't know if it's because it's like a return to the womb," Bezos later said in a podcast interview.

Bezos also said that the crew on his flight experienced the overview effect — or overwhelming feelings that astronauts can experience when viewing the Earth from space.

"You see how fragile the Earth is. If you're not an environmentalist, it will make you one," he added.

However, in a later flight, "Star Trek" actor William Shatner also flew up to space with Blue Origin's New Shepard program and had a less pleasant experience. Shatner wrote in his book that it was a dark experience for him that "felt like a funeral," and he experienced "the strongest feelings of grief" during the trip.

"I love the mystery of the universe," he wrote. "All of that has thrilled me for years…but when I looked in the opposite direction, into space, there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold...all I saw was death."

"I had a different experience because I discovered that the beauty isn't out there, it's down here, with all of us," the actor wrote. "Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound."

Blue Origin is an aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight company headquartered in Washington. It's owned by Bezos and currently headed by former Amazon exec Dave Limp. Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 and has said it's his "most important work.

• I tried Ina Garten's baked rigatoni with lamb ragù.
• The pasta recipe tastes like a cross between a Bolognese and baked ziti.
• I made the dish for a small dinner party, and it was a huge hit.

From a light summer garden pasta to a rich five-cheese penne, none of Ina Garten's pasta dishes have ever disappointed me.

Her weeknight Bolognese is one of my favorites, so I was excited to try another "Barefoot Contessa" red-sauce pasta when I found the recipe for her baked rigatoni and lamb ragù.

While Garten's weeknight Bolognese cooks in 30 minutes, her baked rigatoni takes over an hour. Would the extra effort be worth it?

I decided to find out.

• Romanian lawmakers approved a bill allowing its military to shoot down drones over its airspace.
• The NATO country has seen Russian drones entering its territory, with some crashing on its land.
• Russia has targeted Ukrainian civilian and energy infrastructure near NATO's borders.

Romania could start shooting down drones that enter its airspace after lawmakers approved a new bill on Wednesday.

The legislation allows Romania's military to "destroy, neutralize, or take control of" unnamed aircraft illegally breaching its airspace.

It's set to be signed into law by interim President Ilie Bolojan.

Romania, a NATO member bordering Ukraine, has seen regular incidents of Russian drones entering its airspace or crashing on its territory since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Last month, Romania's defense ministry said that its investigation team had found Russian drone debris in two areas near its border with Ukraine.

Romania has also scrambled fighter jets in response to Russian drone activity. In July, two F-18 jets were dispatched after Russian drones attacked Ukrainian civilian targets and port infrastructure near their shared border.

In September, two Romanian F-16 fighter jets and two Spanish F-18 jets were also deployed after Russian drones targeted Ukrainian infrastructure nearby.

Drones have been a hallmark of the war in Ukraine, with both sides using the rapidly evolving technology to devastating effect. This has raised the alert level in nearby countries.

In an interview last year, Gheorghita Vlad, Romania's defense chief, advocated for legal revisions to empower the military to shoot down drones.

Other countries neighboring Ukraine, including Poland and Latvia, have also reported Russian drones illegally entering their airspace.

NATO spokesperson Farah Dakhlallah told BI in September that "shooting down drones or missiles violating Allied territory are decisions for national authorities."

"We are strengthening Romania's defense," Mircea Abrudean, Romania's interim Senate president, said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

"Romania's safety is non-negotiable," he added.

Abrudean also said another law passed in the Senate on Wednesday would allow Romania's military to better collaborate with NATO partners on its territory during peacetime missions and military operations.

• I lived in Tucson, Arizona, as a child. After leaving for college, I hadn't been back in 15 years.
• Recently, I visited Tuscon as an adult and it was even better than I expected.
• The city was filled with excellent food, hiking trails, and beautiful sunset views.

I live in Oregon and enjoy traveling, though I usually focus on exploring new places or returning to beloved spaces in the Pacific Northwest again and again.

However, my most recent trip was a bit different: I returned to where I grew up for the first time in 15 years. Although I was born in Canada, I spent second grade all the way through middle and high school in Tucson, Arizona.

As a kid, I didn't enjoy Tucson. Once I was accepted to a university in Washington State, I left the Sonoran Desert as quickly as I could and never looked back.

Years later, though, I wanted to see the place where I'd spent years growing up — this time through the lens of an adult and visitor.

My visit to Tucson was nothing like I'd expected. After spending several days exploring the city, I was surprised by how much I loved it, and I'm already booking my next flight back.

• A Gen X woman is on track to earn nearly $300,000 this year across two full-time remote jobs.
• However, one of her managers asked her to move from Arizona to Texas and work from the office.
• She's looking for a new remote role to maintain her high earnings and overemployment.

Working two remote jobs simultaneously helped Kelly buy a home and support her children. But one employer's return-to-office push is threatening her "overemployed" lifestyle.

In 2020, Kelly was working remotely as an engineer for a NASA contractor but felt her salary was insufficient to afford a home she desired in the Los Angeles area. To boost her income, she took on a part-time remote job with another NASA contractor — and didn't tell either employer she was juggling two jobs. When the part-time role ended six months later, she'd grown used to having the additional income, so she started another remote role.

"Having two remote jobs that were nearly full-time was a lifestyle that I missed," said Kelly, whose identity was verified by Business Insider but who asked to use a pseudonym, citing a fear of professional repercussions.

This year, Kelly is on track to earn nearly $300,000 secretly working two full-time remote jobs, roughly doubling her income from when she worked one job. The additional income helped her buy a home in Arizona — where she relocated to in 2021 — and, as a single mom, it's helped her financially support her adult children. What's more, she said she generally works no more than 40 hours a week across the two roles.

But one of her managers has asked her to relocate to Texas and work from the office a few days a week. If she quits, her income will be cut in half. She said she'll do whatever she can to continue juggling two jobs.

"I've been in a situation where I'm tight on money, and I just don't want to be in that situation again," said Kelly, who's in her late 40s.

Kelly is among the Americans who have secretly juggled multiple remote jobs recently to boost their earnings. Over the past two years, BI has interviewed more than two dozen overemployed workers who've used their extra income to afford expensive vacations and weight-loss drugs. To be sure, holding multiple jobs without employer approval could have professional repercussions and lead to burnout. However, many job jugglers have told BI that the financial benefits have generally outweighed the downsides and risks.

Looking for a job while delaying RTO

Even before her employer asked her to move to Texas, Kelly faced some obstacles in her overemployed journey.

In 2023, a couple of years after her part-time role ended, Kelly accepted a new full-time contract position that she worked in addition to her full-time, remote job. However, the new role required her to work in the office a few days a week. She said it was very difficult to juggle both roles, particularly when she worked from the office.

"Every time I had a NASA meeting, I would get in my car, sit in the scorching Arizona sun, use my NASA laptop, and connect to my personal hot spot on my phone," she said. "After I got home from my local job, I would stay up late to complete my NASA work."

After six months, Kelly said she left the hybrid job and began looking for a second remote role. In late 2023, she connected with a company that she thought was hiring for positions in Arizona. However, she learned the company was based in Texas and wanted employees who could work from a Texas office a couple of days a week. When the company offered her the job, she declined the offer.

A couple of weeks later, Kelly said the manager for the position she declined called her and said she'd be allowed to work remotely. The manager pushed her to commit to relocating after a year but Kelly said she never agreed to those conditions. She accepted the updated offer and, for the first time, began juggling two full-time remote jobs.

However, over the past year, Kelly has been moved to a different contract within the company and reports to a different manager. She said this manager wants her to move to Texas, using a relocation package that expires in a few months. She said some coworkers have also been asked to move.

Kelly has been traveling to Texas occasionally for the job, but she said she doesn't want to move there. She likes Arizona, prefers being remote, and can't juggle two full-time jobs from an office.

"It just limits me when I'm sitting in an office, someone's over my shoulder," she said.

For now, Kelly said her plan is to look for a new remote role — or a hybrid position based in her area — and not tell her manager that she won't be moving. She said she's interviewing for a few roles.

However, remote roles can be hard to get. Some companies have called workers back to the office at least a few days a week, and the share of hybrid and remote job postings has fallen in recent years from pandemic-era highs.

Kelly said she's not sure what will happen if she continues to delay her move. If she loses the job, she said she'd be able to rely on the income from her other role — which pays more than $100,000 annually — while she continues her job search.

While balancing two jobs can be stressful, she said she's learned how to make it work. She records meetings she doesn't have time to focus on and takes vacations from one job on the rare occasion she has to travel for the other.

"My friends and family always think I'm crazy for doing all of this, but it's kind of like an adrenaline rush and it makes me stay busy," she said.

Do you have a story to share about secretly working multiple jobs or discovering an employee is doing so? Contact this reporter at [email protected] or Signal at jzinkula.29.

• Goldman Sachs mentioned diversity just 3 times in this year's report.
• It said its "aspirational hiring goals" will expire this year without saying if it would set new goals.
• The firm's CEO, David Solomon, pointed to the political landscape under the Trump administration.

Goldman Sachs tamped down the diversity language in its annual report as DEI efforts come under fire from the Trump adminitration.

The bank also said "aspirational hiring goals" it set five years ago expire this year without saying whether it planned to set new goals.

Goldman's 2024 annual report, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, referenced diversity relating to human capital just three times, versus 14 in the 2023 report and 16 times in the 2022 report. The Wall Street bank also eliminated a section of the report previously titled "Diversity and Inclusion," its hiring breakdown by race and gender and its diverse hiring goals by race and gender.

Earlier this year, Goldman dropped a policy requiring companies its advises on IPOs to have at least two women directors.

Goldman isn't alone. The $11 trillion asset manager BlackRock this week also cut mentions of its "three pillar DEI strategy" in its annual report, as well as a breakout of its employee demographics by race and gender. It also amended the metrics used to determine borrowing costs for a $4.4 billion credit facility which was previously tied to its efficacy in boosting internal DEI targets.

The changes come as President Trump cracks down on DEI. In January, he invoked directed the Department of Justice to investigate DEI policies, prohibiting private organizations from instituting such initiatives in employment practices related to federal contracts.

In a statement, Goldman CEO David Solomon cited changes to the law.

"We have made certain adjustments to reflect developments in the law in the US," he said. "Our people are a powerful example of that and that's why we will continue to focus on the importance of attracting and retaining diverse, exceptional talent."

Goldman said in the report that it still believes in a diverse workforce and would "continue to develop programs consistent with our fundamental commitment to inclusive merit-based promotion and compliance with the law."

The bank's 2023 report set goals to hire of 50% women analysts and associates, 11% Black professionals and 14% Hispanic/Latinx professionals in the Americas, and 9% Black professionals in the UK.

In 2023, it also broke down its workforce by race and gender, saying its analyst and associate hires included 49% women professionals, 9% Black professionals and 13% Hispanic/Latinx professionals in the Americas, and 15% Black professionals in the UK.

Also gone are mentions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs. In the 2023 report, Goldman said it would seek to double the number of campus hires in the US recruited from HBCUs in 2025 relative to 2020.What's more, a breakdown of the firm's aspirational goals for diverse hiring is also missing.

For Goldman, DEI has historically been framed as a business imperative. In its 2022 annual report, the firm stated that "diversity at all levels" was "essential to our sustainability" and cited efforts to increase representation among women and underrepresented groups. At the time, the firm touted stats, such as one where it said approximately 57% of Goldman's board was diverse by race, gender, or sexual orientation.

Even so, its track record on DEI has come under fire for other reasons. Last year, reporting from The Wall Street Journal found that numerous senior women at the bank felt it hadn't done enough to support their career prospects or advancement, and was still heavily male-dominated.

Reed Alexander is a reporter for Business Insider. He can be reached via email at [email protected], or SMS/the encrypted app Signal at (561) 247-5758.

• When DOGE was first announced, GOP lawmakers expected to be at the forefront.
• One month into Trump's presidency, they're largely in the backseat.
• One key DOGE-focused lawmaker says he wants to see lawmakers get more input.

When Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy made a splashy visit to Capitol Hill in December to tout their new "Department of Government Efficiency," the excitement among Republican lawmakers was palpable.

GOP leaders moved to set up a DOGE subcommittee led by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Lawmakers established DOGE caucuses in both chambers to serve as the focal point for legislation, and in the House, it was even bipartisan. "If this is where that conversation is going to happen," Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida told BI at the time, "I'm happy to be at the table."

Two months later, it's clear that Congress is not where the most consequential DOGE conversations are happening, or where key decisions are being made.

Instead, even Republicans who broadly support DOGE's mission have been left watching from the sidelines as Musk's team has shuttered entire agencies, frozen federal funds, and asserted control over the federal workforce, spurring a flurry of lawsuits and fears of a constitutional crisis along the way. At the same time, those same lawmakers are still bearing the brunt of the public outcry over DOGE cuts, with some now public suggesting that the effort should slow down.

Rep. Blake Moore of Utah, one of the three GOP co-chairs of the House DOGE caucus, recalled on Tuesday feeling "very encouraged" when Musk visited the Capitol in December, when lawmakers took the microphones in a subterranean auditorium to offer up the variety of ideas that they'd spent years developing around government efficiency and eliminating waste.

"There was just very much an interest in taking and collecting input for stuff that we've already been working on," Moore told BI. "I want to see more of that."

Musk's shock and awe campaign across the federal bureaucracy has made parallel efforts in Congress feel quaint. Later on Tuesday, a handful of members of the House DOGE caucus held a "DOGE Day" press conference, where they highlighted various bills aimed at clamping down on government waste. When it was time for questions, those lawmakers weren't asked about any of those bills — they were instead pressed over the cuts that Musk's team has already been making.

Rep. Aaron Bean of Florida, another co-chair, told reporters that the "uncomfort factor" for members of Congress came from the speed of it all.

"A lot of members of Congress haven't seen this speed," Bean said. "But I can tell you, it has to be done."

Republicans on Capitol Hill have continued to assert that they remain behind the steering wheel when it comes to the flow of federal funds and the structure of the federal bureaucracy, even as they're increasingly in the back seat. Others blame the perennially slow pace of congressional legislating.

"Congress will have its time," Rep. Greg Murphy, a North Carolina Republican who's in the DOGE caucus, told BI. "But as slow as Congress moves, and as difficult as it is to get 535 opinions, this is one thing where the executive branch has come in."

Some argue that the administration's moves to withhold congressionally approved funding and fire thousands of workers merely constitute a "review," and that Congress will have the final say. Others, such as Republican Rep. Michael Cloud of Texas, say their main concern is the longevity of the executive actions driven by President Donald Trump and Musk.

"We've got to codify what President Trump is doing," Cloud, a member of both the DOGE caucus and the DOGE subcommittee, told BI. "Otherwise, it's just a great blip on the radar."

Sen. Rand Paul is urging the administration to send a rescission bill to Congress, arguing that it would be "messier" to attempt impoundment, which would "likely be challenged in court" and take some time to resolve.

"Rescission won't be challenged in any way," the Kentucky Republican told BI. "It's a much cleaner way of doing it."

Congress played second fiddle to DOGE yet again on Wednesday, when Greene's DOGE subcommittee held a hearing centered on the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID. Over the course of nearly two hours of testimony and questioning, few of the panel's Republican members acknowledged the elephant in the room — that the agency is already shuttered and nonfunctional.

After the hearing, Greene insisted that Congress remained at the forefront of DOGE.

"We're actually filling our role here on the DOGE subcommittee," Green said, "looking into the waste, fraud, and abuse, making our recommendations, and hopefully putting that into legislative actions."

Toronto Blue Jays superstar infielder Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is set to hit free agency at the end of the 2025 season and he may be worth over $600 million.

"The days in which taxpayer dollars are used to subsidize illegal immigration are over," Agriculture Secretary Rollins said.

Elon Musk claimed that USAID's Ebola initiative was quickly restored after it was accidentally canceled.

FreshPoint Central Florida Inc. issued a voluntary recall in January for a limited amount of its garden salad due to undeclared peanuts.

An expert told Newsweek it is possible for guinea pigs to "react to the death of a group member, possibly search for him and suffer from being alone."

It certainly wasn't the look Erin O'Sullivan was aiming for that day, but one TikTok user joked that her sweater had been "given character."

It comes amid the new Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vocal criticism of water fluoridation.

Sean Curran tells Fox News' Sean Hannity he is "confident in the process" of the agency's internal review.

Russian forces are using donkeys, camels and horses to transport supplies and deploy troops in Ukraine amid equipment shortages.

"I had just scrolled past a few workwear videos from influencers that I just knew had never been inside of an office before," Danira told Newsweek.

The mission, scheduled for this spring, will be the first all-female crewed spaceflight since 1963.

"My husband pointed out they were the ones who childishly believed they could name our child for us," the Reddit user wrote.

Whitney Beckett told Newsweek her son Tommy "loves games" and seems to have met his match in their new rescue dog, Kevin.