Qorvis worked for companies that authorities say are overseen by sanctioned kingpins. The firm says it doesn't take sanctioned money.

Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s Riot Games, maker of the popular video games League of Legends and Valorant, has discussed esports sponsorship deals with two of the leading prediction market operators, Kalshi...

Germany’s Defense Ministry is considering blocking access of a highly sensitive wartime crisis-response plan to the state premier’s office in Saxony-Anhalt if the far right takes power in the eastern ...

During the 2016 election, 8 million years ago, there was a big debate about whether we should take the many outrageous things President Donald Trump said seriously or literally, or both, or neither. S...

New York is considering a $100 million property tax break for a new Hudson Yards skyscraper proposed by developer Tishman Speyer, in what would be the largest economic subsidy since Mayor Zohran Mamda...

Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund is considering combining Electronic Arts Inc. with Savvy Games, people familiar with the matter said, in a deal that would bring blockbuster titles like Madden NFL and Pokem...

The fund managing the wealth of the Danish billionaires behind Lego A/S intends to significantly ramp up investments in plastics technologies, as Europe prepares to enforce much stricter recycling rul...

With little in the way of organization or themes, George Lucas’s new museum of graphic illustration in Los Angeles leaves it to the public to decide what it all means.

Remembering the noise, and then the silence, of 25 years ago.

For months, President Donald Trump has said affordability concerns are a hoax and his economy is roaring.

Temporary dining sheds that emerged during the pandemic became valuable extra real estate for restaurants facing brutal margins. Now they must survive another challenge: bureaucracy.

The Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia Corp. structured its $20 billion licensing agreement with AI chip startup Groq Inc. to avoid antitrust review.

Apple Inc. on Wednesday unveiled its first foldable iPhone, the $1,999-and-up iPhone Duo, finally entering a market segment that rivals such as Samsung Electronics Co., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Huaw...

A measure of producer price inflation showed renewed pressure from rising energy prices last month, potentially adding to the case for an interest-rate hike at the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week.

During his keynote speech at the first Republican midterm convention, US President Donald Trump made an extraordinary announcement: He said he would pay every American adult a $5,000 “Trump dividend” ...

As the Trump administration rolls back environmental rules, it’s also taking down resources that help corporations understand their environmental risk.

And oil is back above $100, with diesel at an all-time high.

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President Donald Trump predicted that the war in Iran would only end after the November midterm elections, and that significant gasoline price relief wouldn’t come before then, a scenario that could h...

The US Justice Department said Wednesday that the University of California Berkeley School of Law discriminated against applicants based on race, the Trump administration’s latest crackdown on college...

Apple Inc.’s breakthrough new iPhone Duo costs $3,199 for the highest-end configuration, setting a record for the price of a mass-market smartphone.

Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP coin began as a troll. Then traders did what they have done with short-lived internet jokes in this era of speculative boom and bust: send the token up before inevitably sending...

The US tactic of striking Iranian tankers in reprisal for attacks on American warships faces a key obstacle: Tehran likely values putting a hole in an American destroyer more than losing an empty carg...

An artificial intelligence researcher has resigned from Anthropic PBC and called on other staffers to rethink their work, citing his concern that the company and its top competitor OpenAI are acting i...

The rest of the world may need to learn to do without cheap Japanese funding.

Brasilia is finally getting rain, ending a punishing dry season. Inside the government’s iconic modernist buildings, though, the temperature is only rising.

So far, scientists have pulled off energy-generating reactions only in laboratory settings, and the path there has been slow and costly. But companies say they’re getting rapidly closer to commercial ...

US security agencies accused China’s top AI companies including DeepSeek and Kimi maker Moonshot AI of systematically extracting proprietary knowledge from American firms and warned Silicon Valley dev...

Travelers in the UK face a second day of severe travel disruptions after a technical glitch at a key node on Tuesday forced Heathrow Airport and other hubs to cancel hundreds of flights, in one of the...

Apple Inc. is set to debut a roughly $2,000 foldable iPhone Duo on Wednesday as part of a wide-ranging product event, which kicks off at 10 a.m. local time from Cupertino, California.

The Trump administration is hiring private contractors to track down deported migrants who it claims owe the US government hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid penalties, a move that will test ho...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent challenged traders to counter his efforts to strengthen Japan’s currency, saying when he makes market calls these days he’s effectively doing so with inside informatio...

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Brent oil advanced to the highest since late July as another round of strikes on Middle East energy infrastructure, including reported explosions at Iran’s vital export hub Kharg Island, stoked fears ...

LIV Golf filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday, a dramatic fall for the Saudi-backed league that had big ambitions to challenge the supremacy of the PGA Tour.

The Trump administration cemented the Food and Drug Administration’s senior leadership, naming officials in charge of regulating drugs, vaccines and tobacco, just weeks after White House aide Heidi Ov...

Socialists and progressives enjoyed a summer of success, but lasting change to the Democratic Party requires winning wary moderates.

Drought is emptying thousands of US reservoirs. Wildfires and extreme rain are filling them with sediment.

Over the holiday weekend, the Trump administration appealed a Friday ruling on mail-in ballots, asking the US Supreme Court to allow it to use the US Postal Service to choke off access to the voting m...

Putin is intent on stepping up attacks on Ukraine through the winter, testing its resistance and the resolve of Kyiv’s allies, according to European officials familiar with the matter. President Donald Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, made no significant progress at weekend talks in Moscow and Kyiv, the officials said, asking not to be identified discussing policy issues.

The European Union and Canada are working toward a new, all-encompassing relationship that will range from trade to security, as the transatlantic partners seek to build a new alliance to offset the g...

Across Canada, companies are losing orders, contemplating job cuts and paying higher costs

Around 2020, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook returned from a trip to Asia unusually energized about a new product category: foldable phones.

France’s Champagne output is set to fall by almost half from 2025 as extreme weather batters yields.

At Jackson Hole last month, all eyes were on Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh in his first speech at the Fed’s annual conference. But all thoughts were about the Fed’s rate decision next week.

A popular metaphor for climate change is the boiling frog, the idea being that we’re getting cooked so slowly that we don’t realize it until it’s too late. In reality, if humans are the frogs, they’re...

Thailand urged Israel to ensure its citizens respect local laws and customs after a series of incidents involving Israeli visitors fueled tensions in some of the Southeast Asian nation’s most popular ...

New Hampshire hasn’t elected a Republican Senator in 16 years but Democrats are now at risk of losing a seat to the scion of a political dynasty, jeopardizing their chances of controlling the upper ch...

A rebound in Chinese oil buying is driving up the prices of African, Canadian and Latin American crudes as disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz see refiners ranging farther afield for alternatives.