The tech giant Meta Platforms Inc. continues to refresh its board of directors, naming Dina Powell McCormick and Patrick Collison as board members, effective April 15. Collison is the co-founder and CEO of the payments platform Stripe, while Powell McCormick is vice…

The United States and China have sharply raised tariffs on each other’s imports over the last week, raising the prospect of a long and painful trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Even as investors rallied to his decision to…

MaryAlice Ashbrook remembers the rain on the night the Los Angeles police retrieved her, the 8-year-old child of a pill-addicted mother, and took her to the MacLaren Children’s Center, the county-run foster home where she was preyed upon. Shirley Bodkin…

A dizzying escalation of tariffs has unraveled a trade relationship between the United States and China forged over decades, jeopardizing the fate of two superpowers and threatening to drag down the world economy. The brinkmanship displayed by the two countries…

As the United States and China barreled headfirst into full-fledged trade war this week, one of Beijing’s most fashionable shopping districts was still bustling. People browsed a high-end perfumery, lounged outside coffee shops and waited in a wraparound line for…

President Trump on Wednesday abruptly reversed course on steep global tariffs that have roiled markets, upset members of his own party and raised fears of a recession. Just hours after he put punishing levies into place on nearly 60 countries,…

In the Lower Manhattan neighborhood of TriBeCa, known for its liberal politics and sky-high rents, a new retailer, known for its conservative Christian convictions, rock-bottom prices and steadfast customers in rural America, is moving in. Now the question is, can…

The sun was bursting through the sandstone arch of Window Rock in northeastern Arizona, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in bluejeans, was finally in his element: on a hike. It was the last day of his multistate Make…

A sharp sell-off in U.S. government bond markets has sparked fears about the growing fallout from President Trump’s sweeping tariffs and retaliation by China, the European Union and others, raising questions about what is typically seen as the safest corner…

A few carmakers have closed factories, laid off workers or shifted production in response to the auto tariffs that took effect last week. President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on imported vehicles, which went into effect last week, are already sending…

Robert W. McChesney, an influential left-leaning media critic who argued that corporate ownership was bad for American journalism and that Silicon Valley billionaires who dominated online information were a threat to democracy, died on March 25, at his home in…

Stock prices fell sharply on Thursday after President Donald Trump the day before announced sweeping tariffs of 10% on all U.S. trading partners and higher levies on countries with which the U.S. has a trade deficit. With Thursday’s decline, the S&P 500 — a…

President Donald Trump’s trade policies are roiling financial markets and escalating recession fears. Some executives are using terms such as “disastrous” and “economic nuclear winter” to describe White House plans, unveiled last week, to impose 10 percent levies on all…

The stock market staged a brief rally Tuesday on hopes that President Donald Trump would turn from raising tariffs to cutting deals, before sinking amid renewed tough talk by administration officials. The S&P 500 index closed down 1.5 percent, bringing…

Beijing on Wednesday called for “dialogue” with Washington even as it vowed to take “forceful measures” to protect the Chinese economy from President Donald Trump’s 104 percent minimum tariffs. A worsening trade war between the world’s two biggest economies has…

At least 113 people were killed and more than 155 injured when a nightclub’s roof collapsed in the Dominican Republic’s capital city early Tuesday, local officials said, including a prominent local singer, a governor, and two former Major League Baseball players. Juan…

Kari Lake, senior adviser to the parent agency of Voice of America, is set to be detailed to the State Department, a move that could thwart her ambition of transforming U.S.-backed news content worldwide, according to two people with knowledge of…

The acting head of the IRS plans to resign after being bypassed over a new agreement to share the tax data of undocumented immigrants with Homeland Security personnel, according to two people familiar with the situation. Acting IRS commissioner Melanie…

At least half of the front-line lawyers in the elite Justice Department office that represents the Trump administration at the Supreme Court are preparing to leave or have already announced their departures — an unusually high amount of turnover at a…

Radhika Jones, the editor of Vanity Fair since 2017, said on Thursday that she would step down, a surprise decision that opens up one of the most highly visible jobs in American journalism. Ms. Jones, 52, said in an email…

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will impose a new 10 percent tariff on all imported goods along with higher import taxes tailored for each of about 60 countries that his advisers say maintain the largest barriers against U.S.…

In a landmark ruling that underscores rising judicial resistance to corporate attempts at using bankruptcy to manage mass tort liabilities, a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Friday rejected Johnson & Johnson’s third attempt to use Chapter 11 protection to resolve tens…

Jeff Bezos is shaking up the Washington Post again. The billionaire owner of the newspaper said Wednesday he will change the focus of the opinion section to focus on “support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” According to Bezos,…

In the cutthroat arena of global media mergers, few names evoke the blend of ambition and audacity quite like Mathias Döpfner, the silver-haired CEO and co-owner of Axel Springer SE. The 62-year-old German billionaire, a board member at Netflix and…

James “Jim” Simons, a renowned mathematician who built a fortune on Wall Street and then became one of the nation’s biggest philanthropists, died May 10 at his home in Manhattan. He was 86. The charitable foundation that Dr. Simons co-founded…