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Jeff KassoufOct 16, 2025, 11:02 AM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.A committee working on behalf of U.S. Soccer has recommended that men’s college soccer switch to a season that stretches across the full academic year beginning fall 2026.The recommendation comes after U.S. Soccer tasked the 17-person “NexGen College Soccer Committee” with finding solutions to evolve college soccer to, among other things, better prepare players to turn professional and compete…

Alvaro Gonzalez | Moment | Getty ImagesMore from Financial Advisor Playbook:Here’s a look at other stories affecting the financial advisor business.Here are some key things to know about ACA health insurance subsidies — and how changes could impact future Roth conversions.How the ACA health insurance subsidies workEnacted via the Affordable Care Act, the premium tax credit was designed to make marketplace health insurance more affordable for Americans with incomes between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level.In 2021, Congress expanded eligibility above 400% of the federal poverty level, a benefit that was extended through 2025. The legislation also capped…

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker stands with other elected officials to discuss federal deployments in Chicago, Sept. 29, 2025.E. Jason Wambsgans | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesIllinois Gov. JB Pritzker won $1.4 million from gambling on cards during a single vacation trip to Las Vegas last year with his wife and friends, he said Thursday.”I was incredibly lucky,” Pritzer said at a press conference, a day after his gubernatorial campaign released federal income tax returns that detailed his gambling earnings. “You have to be, to end up ahead, frankly, going to a casino anywhere,” the Democrat said. “It was in…

Key PointsApple is about to announce a $140 million per year media rights deal with F1 for its U.S. rights, according to people familiar with the matter.Apple’s Eddy Cue said his company would like to buy more sports rights and would seek to change how broadcasts are done.”We’re not going to compromise,” said Cue. “We don’t have to do sports the way that they are. There’s plenty of people doing that. So the world doesn’t need us to do that.”A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Sport newsletter with Alex Sherman, which brings you the biggest news and exclusive interviews from…

The CNN building in Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday, May 17, 2021.Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCNN is trying again at a full-service streaming subscription.The news network, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, announced Thursday its “All Access” subscription will launch in the U.S. on October 28 and cost $6.99 per month or $69.99 annually.The new plan is pitched as a centralized hub for CNN’s journalism and includes access to live and on-demand U.S. and international video programming, CNN.com articles and subscriber-only content across all platforms. To attract early adopters, the company is offering a limited-time annual subscription for $41.99 for…

Dara Khosrowshahi, chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc., speaks during an unveiling event in New York, US, on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesUber plans to offer drivers and couriers in the U.S. ways to make money through the company’s app when they’re not ferrying around people or food.The ride-hailing company said on Thursday that it’s starting a pilot with its AI Solutions Group that will allow drivers to complete small online jobs. The example Uber gave is “uploading photos to help train AI models,” which the company said is already being tested in…

When Sahil Bloom was in college, he turned to the richest people he knew for career advice. That’s how the Stanford baseball player — whose athletic aspirations were curtailed by a shoulder injury junior year — ended up in investing.”By the time I turned 30, I had achieved every marker of what I believed success looked like. I had the high-paying job, the title, the house, the car — it was all there,” he writes in his book “The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.” “But beneath the surface, I was miserable,” he writes. “All…

When Brooke Cooper started at the Worcester Red Sox as a merchandise intern in 2015, there were days where she’d go to work in the team store and leave without talking to a single person.Because of how the team’s stadium, then in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was set up, “the team store was so isolated,” the now 33-year-old general manager of the Triple-A minor league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox tells CNBC Make It. The store was physically separated from the ticket office and where the operations team sat, so on non-game days, Cooper says there were times where she…

Friday’s selloff in the stock market resulted in the biggest options volume day ever and the latest sign of the retail trading crowd’s incredible support of the stock market. Scott Rubner, head of equity and equity derivatives strategy at Citadel Securities, said Friday, Oct. 10 resulted in over 108 million contracts traded, only the second time its topped 100 million ever. The interest was driven by retail traders and they had a distinct bullish bias. “Retail’s bullish conviction remains extraordinary,” Rubner wrote. Retail flow skewed 11% better to buy through the firm’s call/put direction ratio, topping the 4% average over…

Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran speaks with CNBC during the Invest i America Forum on Oct. 15, 2025.CNBCFederal Reserve Governors Stephen Miran and Christopher Waller provided conflicting views on how quickly the central bank should lower interest rates in the face of a weakening labor market and heightened geopolitical tensions.Miran said Thursday he plans to repeat his push for a half percentage point interest rate cut when the Fed meets later this month.In a speech delivered in New York, Waller advocated a quarter percentage point reduction at the October meeting, a position that appears more in line with the Fed…