Amid signs of a prolonged period of high energy costs, policymakers are urging restraint as governments open up the public till to protect households and businesses.Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, second from left, with other officials at a news briefing in Berlin this week.
Investors appear to be treating an end to the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran as a foregone conclusion.
Higher inflation is leading companies to raise prices without sacrificing margins.Johnson & Johnson, the drug and medical-device maker, reported strong earnings and boosted its full-year earnings forecast.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was once considered one of President Trump’s closest European allies. Their friendship now appears in danger.President Trump greeting Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at the White House last year. They were once considered close allies.
Jerome H. Powell’s term as chair of the Federal Reserve ends on May 15, but it appears increasingly likely that he will stay on in some capacity at the central bank after that.Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, said that if the Senate did not confirm a successor by May 15, he would stay on
The administration has invoked national security in a variety of matters, including the White House ballroom and offshore wind farms, drawing rebukes from some judges.Construction of the White House ballroom project last month. An appeals court signaled that the Trump administration’s assertions abo
WPP, Dentsu and Publicis settled claims they colluded on policies to combat misinformation, denying ad revenue to publishers on the right.The Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, D.C.
As artificial intelligence makes many tasks easier, the human work of cajoling, arm-twisting and reassuring appears to be rising in importance.
A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well can help predict what jobs it may replace.
An influential order of nuns decided to complete its mission when the last sister dies. The only question left is how to finish well.Water is poured over the hands of Sister Mary Kay Finneran during Maundy Thursday Mass at Kittay Senior Apartments in the Bronx.
In a verdict that could have far-reaching consequences in the music industry, the live colossus that includes Ticketmaster was found to have violated antitrust laws.Live Nation faced allegations of antitrust violations in court even though the federal government settled with the company soon after t
The focus in recent weeks has been on the conflict in Iran, but European leaders said it was crucial to keep aid flowing to Ukraine.Mark Rutte, NATO’s secretary general, met with the defense ministers of Ukraine, Germany and Britain in Berlin on Wednesday.
A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities.Yale has not been directly targeted in the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education, but its president commissioned a report to understand public mistr
Vivek Ramaswamy has all but cleared the field ahead of the May primary for Ohio governor, but whether a finance and pharma billionaire is the man for the moment is another question.“This idea of doing economic abundance is something that really animates me,” said Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican cand
Across the city’s fire zones, there’s a surge of experimentation — collective rebuilding, catalog homes and new technologies that are safe and reduce costs.An empty home lot overlooking the Pacific after the fires, one of 16,000 homes destroyed. Challenges to rebuilding are stiff: labor shortages, t
Stefan Pildes “siphoned” more than half of the money donated over five years for the outing, a raucous New York City bar crawl promoted as a charitable event, prosecutors said.SantaCon NYC draws tens of thousands of attendees each year.
Mark Rosenblatt’s Broadway play, starring John Lithgow as the British children’s book author, draws from Dahl’s comments over the years.The British author Roald Dahl in 1971.
In Mark Rosenblatt’s play, a powerful portrayal of the beloved children’s book author who almost gleefully exposes his bigotry.John Lithgow in “Giant” at the Music Box Theater in Manhattan.
Your pet is (probably) not a genius, and that’s OK.
Presidents can fight with popes. God is another matter.
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico is under pressure to end one of her country’s most painful tragedies: the disappearance of more than 133,000 people.Izaguirre ranch in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, where volunteer groups found charred human remains. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel had been using it as
The woman forced the child, who was sitting in a cart, and his babysitter out of the store at knife point. She had the boy when police arrived, the department said. The shooting is under investigation.Two officers from the Omaha Police Department who were involved in the shooting went to the Walmart
The dismissal of Brazil’s top labor inspector has landed the leftist government of President Lula, a former union leader, in an awkward spot.A factory for the automaker BYD under construction last year in Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil. A labor ministry inspection found that Chinese workers building the pl
A levee breach near Cheboygan had forced evacuations and officials continue to monitor a nearby dam. Rain and snowmelt have affected the area.Emerick Passeno and his sister watched the Cheboygan River rush through a dam in Michigan on Tuesday.
