These days, retirement could come early. A growing cohort of young employees in the workforce are taking a “microretirement” — also referred to as an “adult gap year” — for months or even years at a time to fight corporate burnout.
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, a sharply divided Supreme Court rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s final bid to put his New York hush-money case on hold, clearing the way for him to be sentenced for felony crimes days before he returns to the presidency.
Mayor Adams seized on a spate of recent high-profile attacks in the subway system as he pitched his vision for the city going forward in his State of the City address, announcing an additional $650 million over the next five years to combat street homelessness and mental illness.
And in the American west in Los Angeles, firefighters hoped for a break Friday from fierce winds that have fueled massive blazes in the Los Angeles area, killing 10 people, obliterating whole neighborhoods and setting the nation’s second-largest city on edge. Meanwhile, Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, several weather monitoring agencies announced.
