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Between the Trump Administration declaring private accounts a red flag for foreign students and prospective employers using AI to find fake applicants, the old rules are becoming obsolete.

#ForbesOver50: Kelly Bishop took her first professional job as a performer at 18, and every year since, has pushed forward with purpose to her next professional stepping stone. https://trib.al/y8EBhFj (Photo: Amanda Edwards/WireImage via Getty Images)

#ForbesOver50: Vanna White first appeared on the Wheel of Fortune stage and on television screens across America in December 1982. Forty-two years and more than 8,000 dresses later, the 50 Over 50 listee remains at her puzzle board, standing the test of time in an industry where few stars maintain their shine. https://trib.al/BbmgQ3m (Photo: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)

Animal testing has been mandated by law since 1937, when a new formulation of a common antibiotic had a poisonous new ingredient — and killed more than 100 people. Nearly a century later, drugs are still being pulled from shelves because they have toxic effects, even though animal testing showed they were safe. Now, politicians, scientists and entrepreneurs are pushing for new, more accurate ways to test drugs before they get to human clinical trials — potentially saving lives and billions of dollars in the process. Read more: https://trib.al/yHnIHaQ (Illustration: Macy Sinreich for Forbes; Images by Svetlana Shamshurina; Serhii Borodin; Kristina Velickovic; Nosyrevy via Getty Images)

American employers have already cut more jobs this year than in all of 2024, a new report showed Thursday. The government has cut 292,294 jobs this year—the leading sector in job reductions by far—followed by 89,251 cuts in technology and 80,487 in retail. https://trib.al/kBumSl0

Longtime drug developer Suma Krishnan was in her late-40s when she had the idea for a topical gene therapy to treat a rare and terrible skin disorder in which the skin becomes as fragile as butterfly wings. In 2016, at 51, after a few months of modeling the idea and starting the process of patenting it, she and her husband Krish Krishnan, with whom she’d worked in biotech for more than a decade, cofounded Krystal Biotech. #ForbesOver50 (Photo: Jamel Toppin for Forbes) https://trib.al/vZ6zdYf

Figma CEO Dylan Field slashed its valuation in half in early 2023 and offered staff buyouts after antitrust pressure killed its $20 billion takeover by Adobe. On Thursday, Figma went public on the New York Stock Exchange and is now worth nearly the same amount that Adobe had offered. (Photo: Gabriela Hasbun for Forbes) https://trib.al/euAwLSD

Julia Somerdin’s test subjects line up for work before dawn, their tails swishing at flies as a robotic milking machine attaches to their udders to complete work once done by a farmer’s hands. Somerdin has a particular interest in the robotic milking agents—and specifically, the ways in which this 21st century technology is still failing to solve a challenge to milk production as old as dairy farming itself: mastitis. The bacterial infection of the udder can spread through a herd, reducing milk supply and requiring milk be discarded. This not only causes pain for the animal but added expenses for farms. Somerdin is building a tool, via her agtech startup Labby, that can detect an infected cow from a rise in immune cells in her milk—often before the cow begins to show physical symptoms. #ForbesOver50 Keep reading: https://trib.al/nOt1SUb (Photo: Courtesy of Julia Somerdin)

Born and raised in a Nigerian household in the U.K., Michelle Adepoju, 29, grew up with a knack for restitching thrift store finds into unique pieces. Her hobby transformed into a business idea during her post-college trip when she imagined a fashion brand that merged contemporary designs with traditional African craftsmanship. (Photo: Sebastian Nevols for Forbes) #ForbesUnder30 Europe Read more: https://trib.al/pwSxDyB

The cult canned iced tea and vodka beverage, led by Clement Pappas and Matt Quigley, could bring in $300 million this year—in the golden age of ready-to-drink cocktails. Read more: https://trib.al/wKPMciA (Photo: Surfside)