Worried about supply chain delays? Discover how a leading American manufacturer bypassed global logistics chaos with domestic production and direct-to-consumer efficiency.
In an era defined by global supply chain chaos, port bottlenecks, and inflation-driven scarcity, reliability has become the ultimate luxury. For years, traditional retail models have left consumers vulnerable to distant disruptions. While others struggled, one pioneering American manufacturer fundamentally changed the game.
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Discover the top five ways to make money online in 2026, from freelancing to digital products, and learn the exact strategy that creates automated, compounding wealth.
The internet is full of “get rich quick” noise, but generating actual income online boils down to providing value through proven systems. In 2026, the landscape has shifted. AI has commoditized basic tasks, meaning the real money is in strategy, automation, and scalable assets.
If you are looking to escape the traditional 9-to-5, here are five legitimate ways to generate digital income today—and why only one of them builds true, walk-away wealth.
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Discover how to build a scalable, automated, and truly sustainable work-from-home side hustle in 2026, creating compounding assets without sacrificing your day job or trading hours.
The Sustainable Side Hustle Trap Most ‘side hustle’ advice in 2026 fails because it promotes a new form of manual labor. If your side business relies on you constantly creating content, manually chasing clients, or delivering custom services in your spare time, you haven’t built a sustainable income source—you’ve created a stressful, unscalable second job. A truly sustainable work-from-home income is not built on effort, but on automated assets.
The Core pillars of a Sustainable Asset In 2026, sustainability is a multi-dimensional strategy. Your side hustle must prioritize three key areas to grow into a compounding asset:
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The US Embassy in Riyadh was struck by drones, Saudi officials said.
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The US Embassy in Riyadh targeted by drones, Saudi officials said, causing minor damage and a small fire at the building.
Saudi Arabia’s defense ministry said the attack caused a small fire and some building damage.
The US Embassy in Riyadh issued a shelter-in-place alert in Saudi Arabia.
The US Embassy in Riyadh was struck by drones, officials in Saudi Arabia said in a post on X.
Saudi Arabia’s defense ministry said in a statement around 3:30 a.m. local time that the embassy was attacked by two drones, according to initial estimates, and that it resulted in a small fire and some minor damage to the building.
A few minutes prior, the US Embassy in Riyadh issued a “shelter in place” security alert for Saudi Arabia.
“The US Mission to Saudi Arabia has issued a shelter in place notification for Jeddah, Riyadh, and Dhahran and are limiting non-essential travel to any military installations in the region — we recommend American citizens in the Kingdom to shelter in place immediately,” the alert said, adding it encouraged all Americans to ” maintain a personal safety plan.”
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Earlier on Monday, the State Department ordered Americans in over a dozen countries in the Middle East to evacuate immediately via commercial travel. Most airlines, however, have temporarily suspended almost all flights to and from the region.
The region has been under high threat from Iranian missiles and drones after the US and Israel launched strikes using warplanes, warships, and ground-based launchers against hundreds of targets in Iran on Saturday. Iran’s longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in the first salvos.
As the American and Israeli bombardment continues, Gulf countries known to partner with Washington or host US military bases say they’ve intercepted hundreds of Iranian retaliatory attacks.
The resulting conflict has plunged the Middle East’s wealthiest cities into chaos, with drones and missile debris damaging luxury tourist spots, airports, and residential areas over the weekend.
Saudi Arabian military authorities have so far reported over a dozen drone attacks.
On Monday, smoke was reported rising in the vicinity of the US embassy in Kuwait, which told Americans in the country to shelter in place.
“There is a continuing threat of missile and UAV attacks over Kuwait. Do not come to the Embassy,” its statement read.
President Donald Trump said on Monday that the strikes could last four to five weeks, but that the US was prepared for the campaign to “go far longer than that.”
US officials have said that the airstrikes were carried out in part to cripple Iran’s conventional ballistic missile infrastructure, drones, and naval assets.
State Secretary Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday that Tehran was growing its missile stockpiles and technology, and would have used them to shield a revived nuclear weapons program.
However, Trump also said on Saturday that the decapitation strikes against Iran could allow its citizens to topple their theocratic government. It remains to be seen how and when the US might assess that its strategic objectives have been met.
Meanwhile, at least six US military service members have been killed after an Iranian strike at a fortified tactical operations center in the region.
Some flights to and from the UAE resumed on Monday after three days of uncertainty.
More missile threats in the region forced planes to hold outside UAE airspace, with two diverting.
Flights headed to Riyadh are holding or diverting after reported attacks on the US embassy.
Some flights from the Middle East resumed in the wake of the strikes on Iran — but the process hasn’t been without confusion.
Twelve Etihad Airways flights departed Abu Dhabi as of about 5 p.m. local time on Monday, even as the airline said operations remain suspended. Emirates in neighboring Dubai also announced it would operate a “limited number of flights.”
However, more apparent missile threats in the area forced two Etihad cargo flights headed to Abu Dhabi to divert to Muscat, Oman, early Tuesday morning local time, according to Flightradar24 data.
An Emirates A380 passenger jet from Mumbai was holding off the coast and eventually turned around, but it ended up doing a double U-turn and landed in Dubai at about 3:00 a.m. local time.
Flightradar24 shows some planes using UAE airspace as of 6:30 a.m. local time Tuesday, but most flights to and from Dubai are still canceled.
Reported attacks on the US embassy in Riyadh have sparked disruptions at an airport that had largely been running flights as normal. Flightradar24 shows at least six flights holding or turning back.
Screenshot of Riyadh-bound flights holding or turning back early Tuesday morning.
Flightradar24
The US State Department has urged Americans to evacuate over a dozen countries in the Middle East, including the UAE and Saudi Arabia, via commercial means — but it’s unclear how easy that will be amid the latest attacks and closed airports and airspace.
The developments come after the UAE partially reopened its airspace for certain flights, giving travelers hope they’d finally be able to escape after days of waiting. Some did get out.
The first flight carrying passengers to leave the UAE since the attacks, an Etihad Airbus A380 headed for London Heathrow, took off at 2:39 p.m. local time.
It was soon followed by 11 wide-body jets bound for cities in Europe, Asia, and Africa. They were:
Flight 41 to Amsterdam
Flight 33 to Paris
Flight 843 to Moscow
Flight 294 to Karachi, Pakistan
Flight 204 to Mumbai
Flight 300 to Islamabad, Pakistan
Flight 216 to New Delhi
Flight 555 to Riyadh
Flight 611 to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Flight 571 to Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Flight 713 to Cairo
About an hour earlier, Etihad Airways had said in an X post that “all flights to and from Abu Dhabi are suspended” until Tuesday afternoon.
Meanwhile, a notice on the airport’s website told passengers to check directly with their airline before heading there, “due to the temporary closure of UAE airspace.”
However, the site also showed several flights available for check-in.
In a statement shared with Business Insider following the departures, Etihad said that flights returning people to their home countries — or delivering cargo or repositioning the airplane — could operate “subject to strict operational and safety approvals.”
A flight from Islamabad to Abu Dhabi landed around 11:00 p.m. Monday. Another from Riyadh landed shortly after.
“All scheduled commercial flights to and from Abu Dhabi remain cancelled,” Etihad said.
Interest in the flights was high among aviation enthusiasts, with over 100,000 people tracking both the first Etihad and Emirates flights out of the UAE on Flightradar24.
Other airlines are similarly revving back up.
At 9:12 p.m. local time, the same Emirates Airbus A380 that landed from Mumbai took off from Dubai heading for the Indian city. Around 15 minutes later, another departed for Chennai. Further Emirates flights to Hyderabad and Bengaluru in India departed Dubai on Monday night.
Other carriers, including Saudia, AirSial, Fly Jinnah, and Flynas, used the UAE’s airspace to fly between cities in Saudi Arabia and India on Monday night.
Meanwhile, IndiGo, Royal Jordanian, Flydubai, and Air India planes took off from Dubai around the same time. Though all of the destinations were blank on Flightradar24.
It’s unclear whether these flights carried passengers or were specially approved. The airlines didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
An Emirates Airbus A380.
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On Sunday, a Nepali national was killed, and seven people were injured by debris after an Iranian drone targeting Abu Dhabi airport was intercepted, officials said.
All flights from Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait remained suspended on Monday.
A Lufthansa Airbus A380 also took off from Abu Dhabi earlier on Monday, bound for Munich. The enormous airplane can carry over 500 passengers, but an airline spokesperson told Business Insider that there were only two pilots on board.
That’s because the jet arrived in Abu Dhabi for maintenance three months ago, which has now been completed.
The spokesperson said Lufthansa reviewed the possibility of flying passengers, but it would require at least 17 flight attendants who can’t be flown in “due to the current massive restrictions on air traffic in the United Arab Emirates.”
They added that airport accessibility for any potential passengers is “unclear and difficult to organize.”
“Reliable planning of check-in, security checks, and boarding cannot be guaranteed under these circumstances.”
OpenAI is amending its contract with the Pentagon after public backlash.
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OpenAI said it revised Pentagon contract amid backlash over AI use concerns and surveillance fears.
Sam Altman assured OpenAI’s products won’t be used for domestic surveillance or war intelligence.
Protests erupted against OpenAI’s Pentagon contract.
OpenAI said it is amending its contract with the Pentagon.
After public concerns that OpenAI’s new deal with the Pentagon would allow the government to use its AI for mass surveillance, CEO Sam Altman posted an internal memo to X on Monday evening, saying that the company is working with the Pentagon to “make some additions in our agreement.”
“Consistent with applicable laws, including the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, National Security Act of 1947, FISA Act of 1978, the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of US persons and nationals,” Altman wrote on X.
“The Department also affirmed that our services will not be used by Department of War intelligence agencies (for example, the NSA). Any services to those agencies would require a follow-on modification to our contract,” Altman added.
Here is re-post of an internal post:
We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear.
1. We are going to amend our deal to add this language, in addition to everything else:
Altman’s memo came after OpenAI struck a deal with the Pentagon on Friday to deploy its AI models on classified military networks. The contract stepped into a standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic and happened just a day before the US struck Iran.
In his note, Altman said that he got things “wrong,” saying the company should not have “rushed” to seal the deal.
“The issues are super complex, and demand clear communication,” he said. “We were genuinely trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome, but I think it just looked opportunistic and sloppy.”
Hours before the OpenAI deal was announced, President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to halt use of Anthropic’s Claude system, following a breakdown in talks over the military use of AI. Anthropic had specific red lines: explicit contractual bans on mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, which are systems capable of killing without human oversight.
As of Friday, nearly 500 OpenAI and Google employees signed on to an open letter in support of Anthropic’s decision.
The OpenAI deal soon triggered backlash and concerns that OpenAI’s tools would be used for domestic surveillance or for lethal autonomous weapons, claims which Altman immediately disputed. Protests took place in front of the OpenAI office in San Francisco and London, and QuitGPT, an advocacy group against OpenAI, has launched a boycott and organized a protest scheduled for Tuesday.
Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
