Starship — the huge spacecraft that Elon Musk says will one day take people to Mars — failed during its latest test flight on Thursday… Read More »SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Disrupts Florida Airports With Unsuccessful Test Flight
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Ruth Marcus, a columnist and editor for The Washington Post’s opinion section, said Monday she was leaving the newspaper after Will Lewis, the paper’s publisher,… Read More »Washington Post Columnist Quits After Article Criticizing Jeff Bezos Is Shelved
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Japanese officials are visiting Washington this week to negotiate with the Trump administration ahead of sweeping U.S. tariffs that are set to affect exports, including… Read More »Japan to Send Trade Minister to the U.S. Amid Tariff Tensions
Ask any prominent podcast host for a list of dream interview guests, and it is quite likely that Michelle Obama’s name would be on it.… Read More »Michelle Obama Is Hosting Video Podcast ‘IMO’ With Her Brother, Craig Robinson
Concern about the cost of materials has tempered business enthusiasm about taxing imports. But steel and aluminum makers say they welcome the help.
Tesla shares plunged on Monday, hitting their lowest point since before Election Day, as investors registered the impact of falling sales and increasing protests over… Read More »Tesla Shares Plunge as Elon Musk’s Political Role Grows More Divisive
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Across the spectrum of uses for artificial intelligence, one stands out. The big, inspiring A.I. opportunity on the horizon, experts agree, lies in accelerating and… Read More »Lila Sciences Uses A.I. to Turbocharge Scientific Discovery
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Beth Crowell was proud to work for the Internal Revenue Service. She had spent much of her career as an accountant for large corporations, gaining… Read More »Inside Trump’s War on the I.R.S.: Dropped Audits and a Skeleton Staff
President Trump is planning to gut the work force while trying to turn the I.R.S. into a more political agency.
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President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders. Wages, consumer spending and corporate profits were rising. Unemployment was… Read More »Trump’s Policies Have Shaken a Once-Solid Economic Outlook
Beijing began imposing tariffs on Monday on many farm products from the United States, for which China is the largest overseas market. It is the… Read More »China’s Tariffs on U.S. Agricultural Products Take Effect
For about a year now, the labor market has existed in a state of eerie calm: Not many people were losing their jobs or quitting,… Read More »Fired Federal Workers Face a Sluggish Job Market
It might be a moment of hush before chaos ensues, or it may be business as usual. U.S. employers added 151,000 jobs in February, the… Read More »Jobs Report Is Steady, but Impact of Federal Cutbacks and Tariffs Looms
The stock market suffered its worst week in many months, after a series of dizzying policy shifts on tariffs from the White House amid simmering… Read More »Stock Market Has Worst Weekly Drop in Months as Tariffs Hang Over Wall St.
Damon Hininger, the chief executive of CoreCivic, which operates private prisons and immigrant detention centers, opened an investor call last month on a buoyant note.… Read More »Private Prisons Are Ramping Up Detention of Immigrants and Cashing In
Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, said the central bank is focused on the “net effect” of President Trump’s sweeping economic agenda amid… Read More »Powell Says the Fed Is in No Hurry to Adjust Rates Amid Trump Policy Uncertainty
President Trump’s family business sued Capital One on Friday for “unjustifiably terminating” more than 300 of its bank accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack… Read More »Trump Organization Sues Capital One for Closing Its Accounts
The Justice Department is in the early stages of investigating major egg producers in the United States over possible antitrust violations as the price of… Read More »U.S. Investigates Egg Producers Over Soaring Prices
A month ago, President Trump announced that he would impose sweeping tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico before reaching a last-minute deal to delay… Read More »Trump’s Delay on Mexico and Canada Tariffs Came in Response to Market Revolt
The railroad tracks that slice through downtown Freehold, N.J., used to be lined by dozens of men, waiting for work. Each morning, the men —… Read More »Undocumented Workers, Fearing Deportation, Are Staying Home
Businesses across Europe, including restaurants in Paris that make the dish, are being squeezed by sticky inflation.
After a few years of writing what she called a “niche newsletter for Washington insiders,” the political journalist Tara Palmeri decided she wanted to reach… Read More »A Political Reporter Takes Her Scoops to YouTube
Soon after the recent contentious Oval Office meeting between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, Senator Adam Schiff went on camera to offer… Read More »MeidasTouch Pops on Podcast Charts as Progressives Search for Answers
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