This year’s boom includes the most spent on global deal-making in a six-month period in a decade. But questions persist about whether it can continue.The frenzy has heavily favored large companies, with 44 deals announced in the first six months of this year that were larger than $10 billion.
While shoppers may get better deals on some items, it’s unlikely their overall grocery bill will fall.Consumers are making fewer trips to traditional grocery stores in favor of discount chains like Aldi, which opened a store in Westlake, Fla., last year as part of its U.S. expansion.
Graham Platner’s bid for the Senate inspired progressive Democrats. But the campaign, which he suspended Wednesday, was messy, disorganized and ultimately doomed by a steady drip of scandal.
The state Democratic Party has said it will pick a replacement through a nominating convention before a July 27 deadline. Candidates are already lining up.Graham Platner and Troy Jackson at a joint campaign rally at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus in May.
Graham Platner is one of just a handful of candidates in recent decades who have withdrawn from a Senate race after securing a major party nomination.Alan Keyes, right, was a replacement Senate nominee in Illinois in 2004 after the winner of the Republican primary withdrew amid scandal. He lost to B
Iran’s history shows it is willing to dig in, even when it may suffer big losses.Vessels on the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday. Traffic last weekend was about one-third of the prewar level of more than 100 ships daily, split evenly between the Iranian and Omani sides of the waterway.
A New York Times review of city records shows that the firm, Domani Inspection Services, was repeatedly accused of breaking New York City rules.An ambitious building project at 235 East 42nd Street in Manhattan was evacuated suddenly after workers noticed columns beginning to buckle.
History hangs over the World Cup quarterfinal between France and its former protectorate. These days, national teams intermingle and overlap.Morocco fans gathered in Boston on Wednesday, before their match against France.
President Trump said the United States would license Ukraine to produce Patriots, which can intercept ballistic missiles. But it could be months or years before those are ready.President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine meeting with President Trump on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey,
Two American allies, Germany and Japan, already have permission to build the American interceptors, a license that President Trump says he will also grant to Kyiv.Japan’s defense minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, second right, inspecting a Patriot missile interceptor unit in Tokyo in December.
While President Trump insulted allies and demanded loyalty, the military alliance moved quietly closer to accepting more European responsibility for defense.President Trump and the leaders of other NATO countries in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday.
The Secret Service is said to have asked that the president not use the Qatari-donated jet when he left Ankara. The swap deepens questions about the retrofitting of the new plane.The older jet used as Air Force One as it was prepared for departure from Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday.
With a voice both weathered and operatic, she minted 1980s pop anthems like “Total Eclipse” and “Holding Out for a Hero.”Bonnie Tyler in 1983. Her biggest hit, “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” became a cultural mainstay that has 1.1 billion streams on Spotify and 1.3 billion views on YouTube.
Emma Waters, pregnant with her third child, is crafting policy to encourage early parenthood. Some think she is pushing an ideology that does not meet reality.Emma Waters, 28, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, has in a few short years become a rising voice for traditional marriage and fam
The Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas militant but was aware of reports that “uninvolved civilians” were harmed.Mourners carrying the body of Mohammed al-Waheidi, an aid worker killed in an Israeli strike on Tuesday, during his funeral, in Gaza City, on Wednesday.
The country’s leader, Xi Jinping, called on the authorities to make every effort to investigate the cause of the blaze in Fujian Province.In an image released by Chinese state-run news media, firefighters responded at the scene of a shoe factory fire in Jinjiang, a city in southeastern China, on Thu
Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.“I don’t think of myself as a hoarder,” Mendel Uminer said, “but I guess my building did.”
The data center boom has roiled communities across the country, but on Native land, a Big Tech push for quick approvals has pitted the need for development against a history of exploitation.“True wealth is the well-being of our families,” Chebon Kernell, a tribal council member for the Seminole Nati
The Graham Platner experiment has failed. “There have been so many errors of judgment at every step of the way,” the columnist Michelle Goldberg argues following the implosion of the senate candidate’s campaign in Maine.
The trouble in Maine goes beyond a single candidate.
We look at the state of the conflict with Iran.President Trump
Ambassador Brian Burch must navigate the relationship between the two most prominent American men in the world. His priority is the one in Washington.Brian Burch, the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.
