About one-third of 16- to 19-year-olds in the US were employed last summer, federal data show, down from a peak of about 60% in the late 1970s. Experts’ pessimistic forecasts are combining with reports from frustrated jobless young people around the country to form a seasonal outlook far from bathed in sunshine. “The opportunities for workers at the start of the career ladder started to dry up,” says ZipRecruiter economist Nicole Bachaud, adding that teens are among the labor market’s “most marginalized groups.”
Analyzing data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found the number of jobs secured by teens fell 25% last summer from the year prior. The firm says inflation, oil prices, and cautious hiring are likely to lead to even fewer jobs this year, resulting in the lowest summer hiring total for teens since the federal government began tracking it in 1948. Teens most commonly work in food preparation and serving jobs and sales, according to BLS data.

Claude Guillemot, a co-founder of Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft alongside his four brothers, has died in a plane crash in France.
French media reported that Guillemot died on Friday evening when the Cessna 421 twin engine plane he was piloting crashed close to the aerodrome of the beach resort of La Baule in Western France where he has a vacation home. His instructor is reported to have died as well.
“Ubisoft learned with deep sadness of the death of Claude Guillemot, co-founder of the group and President of Guillemot Corporation, in an accident. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones during this ordeal,” an Ubisoft representative said in a statement.
The entrepreneur and businessman and the unnamed plane instructor had reportedly set off from the city of Rennes for La Baule on Friday afternoon for the Fly In La Baule meeting gathering light airplane enthusiasts.
Claude Guillemot, who was 69, co-created video games specialist Ubisoft with brothers Michel, Yves, Gérard and Christian in their hometown of Carentoir in Brittany in 1986.
Kicking off with early games Zombi, Iron Lord, it steadily grew into one of the most influential game makers in the world with titles Assassin’s Creed, Rayman, Driver, Rabbids, Tom Clancy’s, and Watch Dogs.
He also led on the development of their other joint company Guillemot Corporation, specialized in gaming accessories and digital audio technology, which was created prior to Ubisoft in 1984.
In 2000, the brothers also formed Gameloft, which would go on to become a major player in downloadable video games for smartphones.
Claude Guillemot handed the day-to-day running of Guillemot Corporation to his son Valentin Guillemot in July 2025, appointing him CEO, but remained attached to the company in the role Chairman of the Board of Director and continued to guide its overall direction.
Over at Ubisoft, which is headed by brother Yves Guillemot, Claude Guillemot was on the board under the title of Deputy Chief Executive Officer but was not part of the day-to-day leadership team.

Three Democratic senators have urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to put the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger on pause over concerns about foreign investors controlling what would be one of the largest media companies in the United States.
In a joint letter to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, Sens. Cory Booker, D- N.J., Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., demanded he “must foreclose any attempt by Paramount to close this transaction” before an adequate review of the involved foreign investors is completed.
The lawmakers said the FCC must conduct this review to evaluate possible “national security threats posed by foreign government investment” in the $110 billion entity. If approved, the merger would bring CNN and CBS News under one corporate owner, further consolidating the news media landscape.
Paramount, led by CEO David Ellison, acknowledged in an April financial disclosure cited by the senators that foreign ownership in the new corporation will rise to “approximately 49.5 percent.” In that document, Paramount also said that all voting rights will be “controlled by the Ellison family through U.S. entities.”
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The document revealed that Saudi Arabia’s public investment fund and various entities based in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar would be equity holders.
Paramount told the FCC in April that this arrangement would not present “any national security, law enforcement, or foreign or trade policy concerns.”
The senators want a more rigorous check of what this level of foreign ownership would mean, telling Carr in their letter that he should not take the Ellison family’s statements “at face value.”
They argued that the FCC should reject Paramount’s petition for preemptive approval. Under Section 310 of the 1934 Communications Act, foreign individuals, companies and governments are generally prohibited from owning more than 25% of a U.S.-based firm that has an FCC-issued broadcast license.
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Booker, Schiff and Warren gave Carr a July 1 deadline to notify Paramount that the deal cannot close until the foreign investment review is completed.
The FCC’s pending approval is the largest regulatory hurdle in the way of the merger. The Department of Justice signaled last week it would not challenge Paramount’s bid to acquire Warner Bros.
The DOJ’s antitrust division concluded after an eight-month review that “the transaction is not likely to result in harm to competition or American consumers” with regard to on-demand streaming, linear television and studio development, and the production and distribution of films.
Warren criticized this decision by the DOJ and urged state attorneys general to continue fighting the transaction. California Attorney General Rob Bonta was already leading a coalition of states in preparing a lawsuit to block Paramount from adding Warner Bros. to its growing portfolio.
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More than 5,000 filmmakers and actors working in Hollywood signed an open letter in April furiously demanding that the merger be stopped. They argued that it would stifle competition and reduce job opportunities.
“Our industry is already under severe strain, in large part due to prior waves of consolidation. We have witnessed a steep decline in the number of films produced and released,” according to the petition. “We are deeply concerned by indications of support for this merger that prioritize the interests of a small group of powerful stakeholders over the broader public good.”

Whoops.
1. The person who must now ghost their own wedding:
2. The person who is going to be cleaning up cards until the cows come home:
3. The person who was so close, yet so far:
4. The person who is about to ask Pennywise for a quick favor:
5. The person who is absolutely hated in bird communities:
6. The person who is about to perform an incredible feat:
7. The person who might want to put that thing in rice:
8. The person who might want to also put this thing in rice:
9. The person who just came up with a delicious new recipe:
10. The person with the worst lemon luck of all time:
11. The person who now must pop that which they love most:
12. The person whose hood ornament got absolutely annihilated:
13. The person who learned a valuable life lesson:
14. The person whose AirPod is about to go on the adventure of a lifetime:
15. The person who is stuck in fast food purgatory:
16. The person who needs to just burn their house down:
17. The person will be spending some time in a federal penetentiary:
18. The person whose hardshell is hard no more:
19. The person who played games with the Sun and lost:
20. The person who might just want to go back to work:
21. The person whose water had a little extra flavor these last few months:
22. The person who has a straight-up Where’s Waldo situation going on with their wedding ring:
23. The person who didn’t just spill the beans, they exploded them:
24. The person who is now the proud owner of a baby sweatshirt:
25. The person who is now projected to go numbe one overall in the 2026 NBA draft:
26. The person who is about to be the cleanest person on the block:
27. The person who lived the American NIGHTMARE:
28. The person who is evidently at the start of an incredible journey:
29. The person whose car is about to go on some sort of Cars inspired Dante’s Inferno voyage through the underworld:
30. The person who, you know, at least wasn’t the one who fell through the attic:
31. The person who gave their stairs a wonderful coat of beautiful white paint:
32. The person who might want to work on their reflexes:
33. The person whose cake had a heartfelt message on it:
34. The person who loves their cat very much, I’m sure:
35. The person who has a bit of a Jack Torrance situation on their hands:

“I Don’t Need That Nasty In My House”: People Are Revealing The Modern Home Design Trends They Absolutely Hate
“Gray floors, gray walls, gray everything. Prison gray is horrible. Stop doing it.”
We recently wrote a post where people revealed the modern home design trends they deeply hate (and are hoping will become “outdated” soon). In the comments, readers shared more popular trends they can’t stand, and it gets pretty heated. Here’s what they had to say:
1. “A farmhouse apron sink. I wish I had never put one in, and I will get rid of it ASAP. It constantly has water on top and scratches on the front from people leaning against it. And it’s so deep, I don’t really want to run a sinkful of water for cleanups. Wasteful.”
—Anonymous, 69
2. “Removing the kitchen cabinets to add shelves is the worst design concept ever. I see flippers do this all the time. No one wants their mess on display. Plus, it’s subject to grease and dust being left out in the open. No one has time to do all that cleaning. Families need storage in their kitchens! These older homes they remodel usually lack enough kitchen storage for a family to begin with.”
—Anonymous, 55, Texas
3. “Microwaves above the stove. Reaching over boiling pots is dangerous.”
—Anonymous, 76, Utah
4. “I really, really detest garage doors on the front of a house. Sure, it’s convenient, but it’s hideous and destroys the whole aesthetic of the house. No beautiful home with historical significance has a garage facing the street. Stop doing that! Stop building whole neighborhoods like that!”
—Anonymous, 55, female, Dallas
5. “Having different colored top and bottom kitchen cabinets. Blue on the bottom, white on the top. Yuck!”
—Anonymous
6. “Having master bedrooms on the main floor (unless you have a disability, of course). Why would I want to sleep right next to the door when someone breaks in? I want to be upstairs where I hear it and have defenses ready!!!”
—Anonymous
7. “Hell no on carpets. No. Nope. Nada. Never. I had only a couple of rules for my realtor: I had to be able to get my boat into the driveway, the basement couldn’t have water, and NO carpets. Period. I don’t need that nasty in my house. Hardwood or tile only on floors. Hard rule. Unbreakable.”
—trendycoach557
8. “Gray floors, gray walls, gray everything. Prison gray is horrible. Stop doing it.”
—Anonymous, 60, Canada
9. “Cabinets that wrap around corners that go out, it looks nice, but you have a cabinet that is almost unusable because it’s just a tiny corner of space of about a few inches.”
—Anonymous, Ohio
10. “These aren’t necessarily ‘modern,’ but I would like to see bigger closets. When we were looking at houses, there were huge houses (over 2,800 square feet) with tiny closets.”
—Anonymous, 56, Texas
“I hope a modern design that will be outdated is the massive master suite, tiny secondary bedrooms, and few closets. Never did I figure out over the past decades why the architects thought lower-income people had fewer clothes. They have as many or more because they buy at a discount.”
—Anonymous
11. “I detest open concept. I need a kitchen with a door. I don’t want to walk in the front door and see a cooking mess. Also, carpet sucks so bad. Bring back real wood floors and rugs.”
—Anonymous
12. “The ‘farmhouse’ white with black accents design for the outside of a house. In my opinion, it is just ugly on 99% of houses. Give me some color!!! Aesthetics aside, it has to be repainted constantly, or it looks bad; white stains and black fades quickly, especially if you live in a sunnier area.”
—Anonymous, 36, Texas
13. “When the faucet is too close to the back of the sink, and it’s impossible to wash my hands without big puddles of water behind the knobs.”
—Anonymous, 36, USA
14. “Putting pot fillers behind the stove.”
—Anonymous, 67, Florida
15. “Open pergola-type roofs at a front door entrance. Doesn’t keep you dry as you fumble for the house key.”
—Anonymous, 72, Rhode Island
16. “Dull, gray-colored fake wood floors. I grew up in the era of real hardwood floors that were beautiful and classic! ”
—Anonymous
And finally…
17. “What ‘cost-cutting moron’ decided to save the builder some money by removing bathroom doors? Even if the toilet has its own room, who wants to try and sleep while their partner is getting ready?”
—Anonymous
Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.
What are some modern home design trends that you actually dislike or think will be “outdated” soon? Tell us in the comments, or if you prefer to remain anonymous, you can use the form below.