Government yields are hitting multi-decade highs, reflecting anxiety about debt levels, deficits and inflation. The effects will extend to mortgages, business loans and other types of credit.
Japan’s finance minister, Satsuki Katayama, is under pressure to strengthen the yen while balancing competing demands from the prime minister and Washington.Japan’s finance minister, Satsuki Katayama, at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in January. She is seen as bridge between American and Japanese policym
Plus, a conviction in the Tupac Shakur murder trial.After Justice Antonin Scalia died in 2016, the other Supreme Court justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers.
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The Defense Department’s Office of Strategic Capital, founded by the Biden administration to give loans to bolster the U.S. defense industry, is helping lead President Trump’s oil deal.President Trump said his defense secretary and secretary of state reached an agreement with the Venezuelan governme
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.The office of Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, published the whistle-blower report on voting by mail.
Daniel P. Driscoll, the secretary of the Army, had clashed with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Jurors sent a note after about 18 hours of deliberations saying they were deadlocked. The judge sent them back to keep deliberating.Lindsay Clancy watching jury members on Monday.
Duane Keith Davis, 63, was found guilty of first-degree murder after he went on an interview tour discussing his role in the 1996 drive-by shooting.Duane Keith Davis, right, and his lawyer, Michael Sanft, after a jury found Mr. Davis guilty. He faces up to life in prison.
Duane Keith Davis, once a high-ranking member of the South Side Compton Crips, long said he was in a Cadillac with the shooter in 1996. Then he began to recant his accounts.Duane Keith Davis was convicted of murder in the 1996 shooting death of Tupac Shakur.
Shortly before he was murdered in 1996, the rapper had released “All Eyez on Me,” a landmark album that turned him into a superstar.Tupac Shakur performing in Milwaukee in 1994.
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After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
Big technology and management changes are greeting John Ternus, whose long-serving predecessor, Tim Cook, will stay on as executive chair.John Ternus, right, who became Apple’s chief executive on Tuesday, with Tim Cook, who held the job for 15 years, at the Sun Valley Conference in Idaho in July.
Vice President JD Vance also told Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, to “keep my wife’s name the hell out of your mouth.”Vice President JD Vance’s remarks at a campaign rally on Monday appeared aimed at stoking tensions in Michigan’s Jewish community over Dr. El-Sayed’s nomina
Senator Edward Markey, who began his congressional career in 1976, faces a challenge from Representative Seth Moulton.Senator Ed Markey and Representative Seth Moulton are up against one another in the Democratic primary for senator in Massachusetts.
While journalists can report freely on grief and anger in Nepal, China’s official media have presented a sanitized disaster aftermath in Tibet.A broadcast in Beijing last week showing state media coverage of the flood aftermath in Tibet.
Rajendra Dawadi had less than 15 minutes to act on a warning of approaching floodwaters. His swift evacuation plan saved hundreds of lives.Rajendra Dawadi was teaching at the Tribhuvan Trishuli School when a staff member burst into the classroom, shouting that a major flood was headed their way.
Novo Nordisk’s chief executive, Mike Doustdar, is a year into a corporate turnaround. He says investors are still underestimating the promise of the company’s drugs.Novo’s share price is languishing about 70 percent below its peak from mid-2024, when it was Europe’s most valuable public company.
The latest measures have forced the cancellation of English proficiency and graduate exams, isolating many Iranians most eager to foster ties with the world.University students crossing a bridge in Tehran after explosions began in February.
With a global audience, Ma models a way of being that goes against the grain of cynicism, polarization and isolation. It’s up to us to pay attention.“If we had nine or 10 Yo-Yos, the world would look different,” said the pianist Emanuel Ax, Ma’s longtime friend and collaborator.
We must be honest about the seriousness of the situation we’re in.
How senior leaders of the armed forces dodge accountability.
John Galliano and Anna Wintour in 2018.
