Last Thursday, Clare Conroy turned on her window air-conditioner for its inaugural run of the season.A few hours later, she learned that her appliance, a U-shaped Midea unit that has…

Richard Beattie, a mergers lawyer who helped pioneer private equity takeovers — work that was immortalized in the much-lauded book “Barbarians at the Gate” — and who served in Washington…

President Trump said Wednesday that the United States and China had struck a deal to roll back some of the punitive measures they had taken against each other’s economies in…

Disney and Universal sued a prominent artificial intelligence start-up for copyright infringement on Wednesday, bringing Hollywood belatedly into the increasingly intense battle over generative A.I.The movie companies sued Midjourney, an…

The British government announced on Wednesday hundreds of billions of pounds in spending on defense, health care and investment in infrastructure and housing, as it laid out its economic priorities…

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Germany realized that its dependency on natural gas piped from Russia had endangered its energy security. It had no ports to bring in alternative…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing to investigate whether Harvard University violated federal sanctions by collaborating on a health insurance conference in China that may have included officials blacklisted…

Businesses across the United States have for months warned that they would raise prices on their customers in response to President Trump’s tariffs.The latest data show that it is happening…

ImageWe are hearing that the trade talks with China may be bearing fruit — or at least aren’t at an impasse. We’ve heard positive spin before, so we will wait…

The New York Times has appointed Ligaya Mishan and Tejal Rao as co-chief restaurant critics, the first time that the news organization will have more than one, the company announced…