The stunning comeback that secured Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva a fourth term a president of Brazil has given the politics of Latin America a major twist. The colossus of South America will remain on a l...

A suspected hack impacting billions of dollars of funds on the Binance crypto exchange spurred emergency asset freezes and sent the price of digital assets tumbling. Executives of the world’s biggest ...

Los Angeles voted to ban new oil and gas drilling and to phase out existing wells, becoming the largest US city to move toward ending extraction within its borders.

Dreame’s Huo is working on artificial intelligence algorithms and humanoid machines to handle cleaning, washing and other chores.

President Vladimir Putin said Russia is coordinating on low-Earth-orbit satellite networks with billionaire SpaceX chief Elon Musk and other US partners despite political tensions between Moscow and W...

The alliance between Silicon Valley and the White House is at risk of unraveling in the face of rising AI backlash

Alphabet Inc.’s shares fell about 10% in early trading, setting the stock up for its biggest-ever market value wipeout, after the company reported disappointing search and advertising sales that reinf...

A new study that tracked smoke from the Eaton fire in LA last year found high levels of airborne toxic chemicals in neighborhoods untouched by the flames.

After a crackdown on wind projects, the White House is now also letting a select few through to pressure Democrats into supporting a sweeping permitting bill.

The boom is set to produce enough greenhouse gases to cancel out 15 years of declines in power-sector emissions, according to a Sierra Club analysis.

As AI transforms writing and detectors like Pangram police what counts as machine-generated, authors and students are reshaping prose to prove they’re human.

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is set to face a war of attrition with members of Congress from both parties who are determined to hold him responsible for the Iran war and other issues after next week’s ...

South Africa’s water shortages are acute in the country’s economic center, where there’s a gaping divide between those who can afford emergency fixes and those who can’t. It’s a big issue in next week...

Polymarket stopped trading on its international exchange on Thursday after it said that a third-party software provider was compromised.

Outside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last week, a small group of university students staged an irreverent rally that sparked a serious debate among some of America’s financial elite about what can ...

Investors were thoroughly unimpressed with Alphabet Inc.’s third-quarter earnings on Wednesday evening. Shares tumbled nearly 11% after the company missed sales and profit expectations. It was a sign,...

The share of Asian-American students enrolling at Harvard College rose to the highest in at least a decade, while the percentage of Black freshmen fell for a third year, extending a shift in the Ivy L...

Europe is gaining ground on the US this reporting season, with profit growth forecast within touching distance for the first time in more than three years.

President Christine Lagarde announced she’ll leave the European Central Bank in early 2027, intensifying the struggle to replace one of the world’s most powerful monetary policymakers.

Exxon, Occidental and Diamondback are among those touting efforts to end routine gas flaring, but their flames keep spewing pollution around the world.

New World screwworm was found in Arizona for the first time, detected in a dog, as cases of the deadly parasite accelerate.

Mansour argued that speculators fare poorly with many products that have recently become popular with retail traders, including options and futures, and said Kalshi is talking with regulators about creating additional safeguards.

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem warned that US borrowing is on an unsustainable trajectory as he offered an unusually blunt assessment of American tax and spending policy, which is putting pressu...

Will the real Federal Reserve follow suit?

“Networks of New York” serves as a spotter’s guide to the city’s internet infrastructure, updated for a new era of data centers, surveillance tech, and AI fears.

Is that Flávio Bolsonaro instead of Leonardo DiCaprio on the poster for Catch Me If You Can? In the wild world of Brazilian political memes, yes.

Data center developers are turning to natural gas to meet AI’s immense electricity demand.

Welcome to open enrollment season, when millions of Americans are yet again wracked with anxiety over the sizable chunk of their paychecks being sucked up by healthcare costs.

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz is questioning whether investor recommendations by Glass Lewis & Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. were tainted by political consideration...

Netflix has found itself in the news lately for all the wrong reasons.

Anybody who has lived through the past quarter century or so is familiar with the concept of a debt doom loop. Big government deficits, say, cause higher interest rates, making the government pay more to borrow and also bail out the banks that own its sinking bonds, driving it even deeper into debt. Rinse, repeat.

A new anxiety is gripping Wall Street as it bankrolls the vast network of data centers and chips behind the artificial intelligence boom: Early signs suggest that the credit market is approaching the ...

The world’s most popular podcaster has raised questions about the war with Iran and ICE’s tactics.

A web of interlinked investments raises the risk of cascading losses if AI falls short of its potential.

The Alexander brothers, two of whom were once among the nation’s top luxury real estate brokers, were each given 30 years in prison for using their wealth and glamorous lifestyles to traffic women for...

Timing and anticipation are key skills for elite footballers. Kylian Mbappe displays plenty of both on the pitch; the same can’t be said for his off-the-field performance.

Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro arrived in Miami on Tuesday after fleeing his country following a defeat in its presidential election, O Globo reported.

Cyberattacks causing physical damage are on the rise in NATO countries, and the hackers carrying them out don’t always understand what they’re doing.

Apple Inc., after successfully betting this month that consumers are willing to pay $2,000 or more for a foldable iPhone, is preparing to test their appetite for another pricey new product: touch-scre...

The US Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it is readying a proposal to loosen federal rules designed to cut methane releases from oil and gas operations.

Anthropic PBC set itself a challenge by opening its books to prospective IPO investors right after a punishing week for the artificial intelligence trade. When Wall Street took a close look, it genera...

Around a third of trucks sold in China this year will run on electricity, furthering Beijing’s goal of bolstering energy security.

The two candidates for state insurance commissioner want to rework homeowners’ insurance after two devastating wildfires last year.

President Donald Trump is set to unveil a plan to dial back federal requirements designed to slash methane emissions from oil and gas operations, casting the proposal as a way to encourage more domest...

Black voters — especially in southern states — are casting early ballots at a pace well ahead of previous midterm elections, giving Democrats a reservoir of likely support a week before Election Day.

British Columbia elected its first Conservative Party majority in 98 years, swinging Canada’s third most populous province to the political right.

Severe heat, wildfire smoke and intense rainfall and flooding are increasingly complicating our efforts to spend more time outside.

Anthropic PBC’s seven co-founders each hold roughly 1.4% of the company, its IPO filing revealed Monday, giving them individual fortunes of more than $13 billion.

The state alleges that the company’s scores are faulty and lead to negative financial consequences for homeowners.

Finland’s President Alexander Stubb and Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre held a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the prospects for a peace deal in Ukraine.