• Russia launched a massive overnight bombardment that included 23 ballistic missiles.
• Ukraine didn’t shoot down any of the ballistic missiles in the attack, which killed and hurt dozens of people.
• Officials said Kyiv’s stocks of high-end US-made Patriot interceptors are running low.

Ukraine didn’t shoot down a single Russian ballistic missile during a massive attack that began Sunday night and killed and wounded dozens of people.

Ukrainian officials said that the ballistic missiles were able to penetrate their country’s air defenses and strike their targets because Kyiv lacks critical interceptors, specifically the much-sought-after Patriot PAC-3 made by the US.

Russia launched 23 ballistic missiles, more than three dozen cruise missiles, and hundreds of drones in the attack, which mainly targeted the capital, Kyiv. Ukraine’s air force said defenders shot down most of the threats; however, they didn’t intercept any of the ballistic missiles.

“Our warriors performed well today in intercepting drones and cruise missiles, but unfortunately not Russian ballistic missiles,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, a day after he warned that a large-scale attack was imminent. “The reason lies in the insufficient supply of interceptor missiles.”

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s defense minister, said that Russian forces are ramping up their ballistic missile use, “launching them at a scale not previously seen while exploiting the critical shortage of interceptor missiles for Patriot air defense systems.”

Ukraine has multiple air defense layers to protect major cities such as Kyiv, and these rely heavily on Western-donated systems. The most high-profile of these is the MIM-104 Patriot battery — widely regarded as the country’s best defense against high-speed Russian ballistic missiles.

The US-made Patriot fires several different types of interceptors, including the Patriot Advanced Capability-3, or PAC-3, which has an estimated price tag of nearly $4 million. Ukrainian officials have repeatedly said that Kyiv doesn’t have enough of these in its arsenal and have pleaded with NATO countries to send more.

Ukrainian officials renewed these calls on Monday, arguing that there are plenty of Patriot interceptors in global stockpiles and that they would be of better use in Kyiv’s hands.

“Interceptor missiles belong in Ukraine’s air defense system now — not sitting in stockpiles,” the defense ministry said.

Zelenskyy is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump this week on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, a White House spokesperson told reporters on Sunday. In previous meetings, air defense has been central.

Mark Rutte, the NATO secretary general, confirmed to reporters on Monday that interceptors are still flowing into Ukraine. However, he acknowledged that there’s a “limit to the amount of interceptors there are” in alliance territory and called on member states to ramp up production.

While industry is surging the production of Patriot interceptors, these defensive tools are in high demand globally. The US and its allies in the Middle East fired hundreds during the weekslong conflict with Iran earlier this year. Air defense doctrine typically calls for at least two interceptors for each incoming missile, so stockpiles can rapidly dwindle in a high-intensity conflict.

Global stockpiles were already under significant strain, and production has long struggled to keep pace with demand. To address its critical supply problem, Ukraine has been turning to its European partners for help with the long-term acquisition of interceptors.

“We have already signed contracts for Patriot interceptor missiles and continue to secure additional agreements, with deliveries scheduled to begin next year,” Fedorov said Monday.

“Our appeal to our partners is straightforward: transfer missiles from your stockpiles now, and replenish them later through our future deliveries,” he added.

• A healthcare worker is making $330,000 secretly juggling two full-time jobs.
• RTO, layoffs, and employee tracking have forced him to adapt.
• The extra income has brought financial security, but longer hours have also fueled burnout.

Editor’s note: In February 2025, Business Insider wrote about a medical professional named “Daniel,” who was secretly juggling two full-time remote jobs and on track to earn about $280,000. (Daniel is a pseudonym, but Business Insider has verified his identity and employment.) Read that story here. In a recent interview, Daniel shared how his overemployment situation has evolved.

When Business Insider spoke with Daniel last year, secretly juggling two full-time remote healthcare jobs was relatively straightforward.

Since then, one employer has required him to come into the office a couple of days each month. The other one is now tracking how he spends his time. To make matters worse, Daniel’s working longer than ever — going from roughly 40 to 50 hours a week across both jobs to as many as 60.

Yet Daniel is still secretly juggling both jobs. In fact, he’s on track to earn roughly $330,000 this year — more than ever before.

“We go to the grocery store, we buy whatever we need, we never tap into credit cards,” said Daniel, who’s in his 40s and lives in Texas. “So it’s kind of surreal to see the struggles around me.”

Daniel’s experience reflects a broader shift in the overemployment movement. In recent years, secretly juggling multiple jobs has become considerably more difficult amid return-to-office mandates, a tougher job market, layoffs, and new employee-monitoring measures.

Yet changing workplace norms have not stopped workers from juggling multiple full-time jobs. Several of them told Business Insider they have simply had to change how they approach the practice.

Some have embraced AI tools to work more efficiently, while others have adapted in other ways.

For workers like Daniel, the financial rewards remain powerful enough to keep them going.

Adapting to overemployment’s new challenges

After one of Daniel’s employers began requiring some in-person work, he began bringing his other job’s laptop to the office, carefully squeezing in work there when time allowed.

The arrangement is possible in part because his second job has become much less demanding over time. Additionally, Daniel said some coworkers know he has outside work, which has made him less concerned about being discovered. In his experience, they seem more concerned with the quality of his work than the hours he spends on it.

Other challenges have proved harder to solve.

One employer began requiring workers to manually track how they spend their time. Daniel said he’s delayed complying for as long as possible, because the policy could force him to stretch the truth.

The same employer also conducted layoffs recently. In response, Daniel said he’s worked to maintain a reputation as a strong performer, taking on additional responsibilities and positioning himself for a potential promotion.

This has meant working considerably longer hours in the past year. He said AI-powered medical tools have helped offset some of the added workload, allowing him to complete certain tasks more quickly and prevent his hours from climbing even higher.

The rewards of job juggling — and the tradeoffs

The extra income from job juggling gives Daniel plenty of motivation to persevere through the challenges that arise.

Earlier this year, he purchased a rental property, hoping to eventually have enough passive income to reduce his dependence on full-time work. The additional income has also made it easier to cover his child’s college tuition.

“I can’t even imagine going back to just a single job,” he said. “I’ve gotten used to the income.”

While the financial benefits of job juggling have been substantial, Daniel said it’s come with tradeoffs. His desire to perform well, combined with a heavier workload and the demands of juggling two jobs, has left him at times feeling exhausted. Though he remains committed to the arrangement, he said the pace can be difficult to sustain.

“It seems like every day I’m living just to see the next day,” he said. “I think I need a vacation or something, but it’s doable.”

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• Summer has officially begun.
• Summer vacation these days looks quite different from how it did in the 1920s.
• Kids used to play sports in the streets, explore on bikes, or play on “dangerous” playgrounds. 

Summer vacation used to mean two months of freedom: pools, playgrounds, and hours spent hanging out with your friends.

But for Gen Alpha and the youngest members of Gen Z, summer is starting to look a little different.

Changing technology, safety standards, more cautious parents, and social media have all changed how summer looks. Imagine explaining a unicorn pool float to a Victorian child — it’d send them into a tailspin.

These photos show how summer vacation has changed over the last century.

In the early 1900s, school used to be centered on crops, and summer wasn’t a vacation — it was a time for hard work.

Before child labor laws were adopted in the first half of the 20th century, an 1890 United States Census report showed that 20% of kids ages 10 to 15 were workers, or over 1.5 million children. A decade later, that went up to 1.75 million gainfully employed kids, according to The Social Welfare History Project.

Bathing suits used to be a little more elaborate.

Bathing suits have come a long way over the past century.

Kids didn’t need any fancy technology; a stick and a hoop used to be more than enough to keep everyone entertained.

Officially, this was called hoop rolling or hoop trundling. It’s been around since the 1600s and lives on today in a different fashion: the hula hoop.

Stickball was the sport of choice, especially when there was no grass to be found.

Stickball has been around since the 1800s and is still played now, but many parents are wary of the potential dangers of playing a sport in the middle of the street.

Who doesn’t remember sliding down a burning hot metal slide in the dog days of summer?

Playgrounds used to play fast and loose with kids’ safety … which was half the fun anyway.

They’re considerably safer today, although some anthropologists argue there are developmental benefits to playing on challenging structures, like those of the past.

“Generally, researchers have found that risky play helps children build resilience and confidence, skills that resonate throughout life,” said Zane Thayer, an associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College, in a 2024 report from the school.

Over time, metal was replaced by wood and wood chips, which still wasn’t great. Remember all the splinters?

That’s pretty much the only downside of them, though.

Kids used to have to meet up with each other just by biking around the neighborhood and seeing who was available.

It’s rare now to see a pack of young kids biking around without a chaperone.

Pool floats were a lot simpler.

In general, most things were simpler. There were no Instagram or TikTok followers to show off for.

Arcades eventually became the entertainment of choice, with games like “Pac-Man” and “Asteroids” taking over.

After “Asteroids” was released in 1979, it reportedly became Atari’s best-selling arcade game. “Pac-Man” was also at its peak in the early 1980s, after its US release in 1980.

Now, in 2026, arcades are something of a dying institution — you can play all your favorite video games in the comfort of your own home. The only arcades left are the big chains like Dave and Buster’s, or bars like Barcade that are for adults, not kids.

But before ’80s kids even had video games, they had comic strips and crosswords.

Kids and adults would crack open the daily newspaper and play the games, whether it was a crossword, a word scramble, or a word search.

And, of course, you can’t forget about the comics section — Charlie Brown was just as famous as Bluey or the pups of Paw Patrol.

Sometimes, all you needed for a fun time was a tarp, soap, and a hose — voila! A makeshift slip-and-slide.

Never mind that sticks, rocks, and anything else on the ground could rip the tarp and cut up your arms and legs. That was part of the fun.

And it didn’t matter if there was nothing to stop your momentum — sliding into your friends and knocking them over was the whole point.

Ideal summer jobs were lifeguarding or being a camp counselor.

Even though working teenagers are in high demand and could be making good money, the labor force participation of teens is much lower than it used to be.

In 2024, 5.7 million 16-to-19-year-olds worked over the summer, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s a five-year high, but nothing compared to the 8.3 million teens who worked during the summer of 1978.

Now, bathing suits look a little different.

Vintage-style bathing suits are coming back, though, like the ’80s-era high-cut one-pieces or belted bathing suits of the ’70s.

For kids with access to virtual-reality games, the devices mean they don’t even have to go outside to get the summer experience.

According to a Florida Atlantic University study in 2024, one in three kids has access to a VR headset. But even if a kid doesn’t have access to an Oculus or an Apple Vision Pro, they might have a tablet or some type of video game system.

“In our research, we found that kids were spending a lot less time outside,” Ruslan Slutsky, an education professor at the University of Toledo, told Vox. “They were spending a lot less time in traditional forms of play because they were playing with devices.”

Playgrounds are so safe that some kids have forsaken them altogether.

A study conducted in 2012 published by Pediatrics Digest found that kids aren’t using playgrounds anymore because they’re not stimulated enough.

The Atlantic reported that lead researcher Kristen Copeland found that “some participants said that overly strict safety standards made much of the climbing equipment uninteresting, thus reducing children’s physical activity.”

Per a 2024 report by the World Playground Research Institute, not much has changed in the intervening 12 years. In the UK, 27% of kids reported playing outside regularly.

Teens and tweens make plans via text, and even when they’re together, phones still compete for their attention.

In 2018, Common Sense Media found 54% of surveyed teens agreed that social media “often distracts me when I should be paying attention to the people I’m with.” When it came to their preferred ways of communicating with friends, texting ranked top at 35%, ahead of in-person communication at 32%.

Now, a pool can’t be seen without a gigantic float.

There’s an overwhelming amount of pool floats to pick from in 2026.

Sports are well-organized these days and significantly less dangerous.

Though it’s probably a good thing that kids aren’t allowed to roam the streets without being able to call home, or play sports in the street, or play on potentially dangerous playgrounds, it’s just not the same. 

Even slip-and-slides have been commodified into giant events.

Slide the City was a cool event while it lasted — a giant slip-and-slide took over a few blocks of your city — but it was not the same as getting covered in dish soap with your friends.

However, in 2026, there’s an emerging trend toward play habits of the past, especially as some families seek to reduce their use of tech.

Some families are attempting to replace devices with more outside play, as well as unstructured play, for their young children.

Surveys, including a Pew Research Center survey released in October 2025, show that many parents are trying to manage their children’s screen time through household rules and by offering alternate entertainment. That shift echoes a broader interest among some Gen Z members in seeking out more analog experiences.

• I brought my baby, toddler, and husband with me on a work trip to Palm Springs.
• Balancing parental responsibilities with work obligations was challenging, but not impossible.
• My husband was a huge help, and I’m glad we were able to make new memories as a family.

Being a freelance writer and editor means I have the flexibility to work from wherever, whether that’s on a hospital bed getting induced, late at night after the kids go to sleep, or in a nice hotel on a work trip.

It’s not always glamorous, but it certainly has its moments, and it’s a joy to include my family when possible.

When I went on a three-day work trip to Palm Springs — about a 2½-hour drive from our home in San Diego, but closer to 3½ with all the pit stops — I was happy that the hotel allowed me to bring my 3-month-old, my 2½-year-old toddler, and my husband.

It’d be my first time bringing both kids on a work trip, and our first overnight excursion as a family of four.

I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was excited to spend time together

The car was packed to the brim with diapers, clothes, carriers, and anything else we could think of for a multi-night stay away from home.

I’d just gotten back from my first-ever work press trip away from the kids the day before, and my husband had returned from a work trip a couple of days before that.

I’d put a lot of work experiences on hold with my first child and couldn’t afford to do the same with my second.

Despite feeling overbooked, I said yes to both trips and was glad to take my family along for the second one; I didn’t want to be away from them again, at least not in such a rapid succession.

And with my husband and me both traveling, we just want to spend a couple of nights together as a family. I knew I’d be busy, but I didn’t know how intense the trip would be.

Navigating work commitments and family was challenging

On day one, I was shuttled around with a couple of other journalists for a three-course lunch and a dessert tasting. During breaks and at night, I rushed back to the hotel to help my husband.

I recall walking into the hotel the first night to him baby-wearing the 3-month-old in a carrier while patting my toddler’s back; both were successfully asleep.

That night, we all slept soundly through the whole night, unbothered. The next day was not nearly as streamlined.

Between scheduled events, I returned to the hotel for a quick break to nurse and was out again.

Meanwhile, my husband was behind on work, since he couldn’t do virtually anything with the two young kids, other than entertain them and explore the hotel.

That night, I nursed the baby and patted my toddler’s back at the same time so my husband could work. I kind of felt like a superhero there for a second.

Once they were finally sleeping soundly, my husband and I hung out in the bathroom since the hotel room was otherwise one big open area, and we didn’t want to wake them up.

We whispered next to the shower, eating the cold mashed potatoes I’d brought back from an event. After that, we both attempted to catch up on work on our laptops and ultimately went to sleep exhausted — but our night didn’t end there.

The baby woke up more times than we could count, and the toddler roused from all the hubbub, too. We were drained and exhausted, and all I could think of was that I had to be up early for a tour of a date farm at 8 a.m.

Despite all the hubbub, I’d happily do this again

I had fun going out for a few hours at a time and being an adult without having to monitor two kids, but I came back to reality every break and evening at the hotel.

Granted, my husband did the brunt of the work while I was out and about, but it’ll remain a family memory and a trip we otherwise would’ve never had.

Even with the disarray, I still got to share parts of the experience with my children: bringing back restaurant dishes to try together, watching my toddler take in beautiful hotel room views, and enjoying nice hotel breakfasts.

Despite long hours and late nights working, we still fit in small family moments into an otherwise work-focused trip. I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

• I’ve learned what works — and what doesn’t — when traveling with teens.
• Flexibility matters more than perfect itineraries.
• A few simple strategies help reduce conflict and increase fun.

When they were really little, we used to call vacationing with the kids “babysitting with palm trees.” Now that they’re teens, maybe it’s more like “traveling with jerks.”

I mean, sometimes they’re grateful and engaged. But just as often, it can feel like every decision is getting evaluated by the most ruthless, cool-kid jury of tired, bored, entitled judges.

We travel a ton, and I have come to realize there are tricks for making your vacation teen-worthy, while still having the best time yourself. Some are easy, some are annoying. But when the kids are happy, everyone’s happy, right?

We spend 30 minutes in museums, max

If you do not have museum kids, still go, but limit your time. (If you do have museum kids,your vacations are clearly very different than mine.) This is really the key.

Even in the NYC area where we live full-time, we visit museums regularly, but we don’t stay hours. Yes, you paid all that money for your ticket, but you get to decide how long to spend there. For my kids, 30 to 45 minutes is often more than enough time to see the stars of the show and pick their favorite pieces to talk about over pizza later.

No one gets cranky. No one dreads the visit. As they get older, maybe you can stretch it.

We still do things we can do at home

Yes, we all saw the go-cart place we just passed on the highway. But we are in Barcelona. And why on earth would we waste a precious afternoon in Catalonia doing what we can do 20 minutes from home?

Because somehow, it will be an adventure, different than the place back home in interesting and unexpected ways, and you will all actually have fun. Do it.

We like to explore cities in different ways

Take a city tour of Budapest, but do it riding a three-wheeled Segway. My kids love to look for the weird way to sightsee now, and they actually learn a ton about our locations.

In Marrakesh, we toured the city from the vantage of Soviet-era motorcycle sidecars. Sometimes there are age restrictions that mean you have to skip, but when it works, it’s hard to beat.

Know what your kids are into and plan around that

Are they a teen club kid? If so, amazing! When you go on a beach vacation, that means you’ll have a lot of options. We’ve loved Grand Velas in Riviera Maya, Mexico, any Club Med (the new one in Miches, DR is incredible), or Beaches in Turks and Caicos. The best possible outcome is that they make friends and have the best week doing their own thing with their peers. If teen clubs aren’t their thing, don’t make it a thing. Nothing is worse than having your mom force friends on you.

Take cool classes

We do a cooking class wherever we go now. In Santa Fe this year, we took a super interesting one, making sauces from the region. We learned a ton about the indigenous history while also developing a POV on the ubiquitous local question: “red, green, or Christmas?” In Bogota, we learned how to make delectable smashed plantains that my kids now request whenever they see them on a menu and compare to their memory of what they tasted like in Colombia. In Fez, we made a full 5-course meal from a private home deep inside the medina.

My kids both love to cook (we do too) so this is a destination “souvenir” that we cherish and refer back to again and again.

Screen time is flexible

If only they would put the phone down, they could appreciate the incredible, once-in-a-lifetime view. But spending every minute traveling (and maybe sharing a hotel room) with your parents can be tough.

If they are spending more time than you’d like on their device, but still otherwise engaged, I let it slide. Offer to help by being the photographer and shoot them in 4,567,354 poses for their one IG “post” of the trip. There. Now you’ve made it a family activity.

Divide and conquer to do what everyone loves

My son loves golf — I couldn’t care less. So we build in some divide-and-conquer time when we each do what we love. (And hey, they’re teens now, so they don’t need me every minute!) I walked the Canyon Road galleries in Sedona, having the best morning of my life, while my son took his dad to play nine holes against the most spectacular, surreal red-rock backdrop. It was his favorite day of the trip.

• Marta Milans is an actor currently starring in Peacock’s new series, “M.I.A.“
• She gave birth to her first daughter at 42 via IVF.
• Here, she shares what it’s like on her journey to baby number two.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marta Milans. It has been edited for length and clarity.

I got married in 2021. I got pregnant naturally shortly after, but sadly, it was an ectopic pregnancy. My doctors found out I had some uterine problems that needed to be addressed.

I didn’t want to waste more time, so I jumped right into an IVF journey.

I went to my native Spain to receive IVF treatments. It was successful, but it was a ride.

My baby was born when I was 42

There’s a clinic in Valencia called Equipo Juana Crespo. Dr. Crespo is a legend. She clocked the problem, and I had some surgeries to prep myself. I then did a bunch of IVF cycles back-to-back to try to get a healthy embryo. We put in two and hoped one would stick.

We had my baby daughter when I was 42. She is now 18 months and is perfect, everything I could hope for.

No one prepared me for how lonely the IVF process is, and how hard it is on your body and mind. Everyone reacts differently, but hormones, at least for me, changed what I thought was real. It took me into a darkness, and it was hard for me to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

At one point, I had vertigo, lack of sleep, lost a lot of weight, and had suicidal thoughts. It changed my personality completely. No matter how amazing your partner is, it’s on you to share these things with them. They won’t understand what your mind is going through.

I called my doctors and said sorry, I don’t want to die to become a mother.

We have to do IVF again

I only had two embryos, and we implanted both. That meant that if I wanted to have another child down the road, it would require more IVF.

I lost my grandmother, but before she passed, she told me, “Don’t worry, when I get to heaven, I’ll send you a baby girl.” I decided to have faith that it would work.

I now want baby number two, and we have to go through it all over again. I’m more prepared this time.

Biology is biology, and our ovarian reserves go down, and our eggs get worse. It’s harder to become a mother later in life, but it shouldn’t be something we don’t talk about. We shouldn’t have to suffer in silence and pretend like it’s not happening.

I want people to know that you can do it all — have a career and have a baby later in life

There’s so much stigma around fertility later in life. I chose to have my career, and I shouldn’t be punished for that later in life just because I want to become a mother. I booked an amazing job on Peacock’s “M.I.A.,” but I was three and a half months postpartum when we started filming. I had also just evacuated our home in Malibu from the fires. I had to fly back to LA to test for the job, then move my family to Miami, and began shooting two weeks after we moved.

I was pumping in my trailer and putting milk in the fridge for my 4-month-old baby. Call times were 4:45 a.m. My daughter was waking up once or twice a night. I navigated that with my husband. I’m glad I have my support system of women, friends, my mother, and my grandmother in heaven. I’ve been very lucky, because I could not have done this alone.

I think once you become a mother, you realize you can do anything. I’ve birthed a human. I am unstoppable.