Brenda Davis, a retiree who worked at Ford in Ohio for more than 20 years, was dismayed to learn that a new Buick she bought from General Motors was manufactured entirely in China. Foreign vehicles are strongly discouraged from...
The founder who opens Slack at 9pm on a Saturday isn’t proving how committed they are. They’re keeping something at bay.
The conventional wisdom says high-output founders are wired differently, that the inability to switch off is the price of...
In late 2023, Boitumelo Mosege fell sick. Her neck swelled up, her whole body itched and she fainted frequently. She was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and had to give up her work as a farmer on the outskirts of Molepolole,...
On a graffitied Sarajevo backstreet, a path leads past an overgrown patch of garden to a white door. Beyond is the registered office of a company that is on the brink of winning contracts worth more than $1bn.
AAFS Infrastructure...
For such an uncannily successful politician, Donald Trump exhibits a perplexing political myopia. His most recent own-goal was endorsing Ken Paxton, a state attorney general, against four-term senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary for Senate in Texas. Trump’s...
Oil prices are on track for their biggest monthly fall since 2020, as investors hoped for an end to the US-Israel war on Iran.
The price of Brent crude futures, the global benchmark, was down 1.3% on Friday at about...
The New York City elite are growing irritated by a proliferation of private members’ clubs from London’s Mayfair opening branches on their doorsteps.
Over the last year, London clubs have started popping up like unexpected guests in the US city....
Amid rising questions about 60 Minutes’ editorial integrity, CBS News on Thursday announced major changes for the Sunday newsmagazine show, appointing the former New York Times tech journalist Nick Bilton as executive producer for the 59th season, which begins...
The White House is pushing Congress to approve a $250 bill bearing Donald Trump’s portrait, the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said, which would require changing longstanding federal law that prohibits any living person from appearing on US currency.
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US inflation increased at its fastest pace in three years in April, driven by higher energy prices amid the war with Iran, and cementing economists’ views that the Federal Reserve could hold interest rates unchanged well into next year.
Surging...
