US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen traveled Saturday to the mouth of the Amazon River, pitching the idea that fighting climate change would bolster economic growth in the region and across the globe. The shift required to lower carbon emissions is...
In the year since the Federal Reserve brought interest rates to a more than two-decade high, the central bank has succeeded in taking the steam off of an overheated US economy. But higher borrowing costs have also had some unexpected...
Vice President Kamala Harris is zeroing in on a group of potential running mates, as she faces a two-week dash to make the biggest decision of her nascent presidential bid. Harris is considering a wide range of vice presidential candidates from the...
Apple has reached a tentative collective bargaining contract with the first unionized company store in the country. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which represents the employees at a retail location in Maryland, announced Friday...
After a one-year delay due to COVID for the Tokyo Games, the Olympics are now back on their normal schedule—and the world’s best athletes will once again compete for their countries and themselves. The much-anticipated Paris Games are underway, and...
Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Israel was approaching an all-out war against Hezbollah and Lebanon after a rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed ten people on Saturday, Axios reported. "The Hezbollah attack today crossed...
OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman detailed steps that the private and public sectors should take to ensure that a “democratic AI” will prevail over an “authoritarian AI” model. In a Washington Post op-ed Thursday, he said control of artificial...
It was mid-morning on a Tuesday this month when a Ferrari NV executive started receiving a bunch of unexpected messages, seemingly from the CEO. “Hey, did you hear about the big acquisition we’re planning? I could need your help,” one...
Advisers to Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign have been contacting key players in the crypto industry to develop relationships that could eventually inform a regulatory framework, sources told the Financial Times. In recent days, that outreach effort has included crypto...
As former President Donald Trump faces a supercharged Democratic fundraising effort, a persistent drag on his campaign’s coffers may be easing: legal expenses. A new report shows that the Save America political action committee paid about $827,000 in June for Trump’s legal...
