PORTLAND, Ore. — When the Portland Trail Blazers were in Utah on Feb. 24, there was a special meeting after the game. Danny Berger, a 34-year-old former basketball player at Utah State, reconnected with former NBA player and now Blazers assistant coach Ryan Gomes. They met years before in Connecticut at a charity golf tournament […]
Investors watching the S&P 500’s plunge this week are processing a mix of signals. Will the threat of tariffs push the economy into a recession or is this simply a retrenchment from the highly valued technology companies that some analysts and investors argued were due for a pullback? There is a different stock index that […]
A contracting firm called Leidos took in more than $16 billion in revenue last year, most of it through contracts with federal agencies like the Department of Veterans Affairs. So when the Trump administration’s budget cutters took aim at the V.A. last month, it seemed like bad news not just for the department’s employees but […]
The Chinese government has strongly criticized a planned deal by a Hong Kong conglomerate to sell ports in Panama and elsewhere to an investment group led by an American asset manager, warning that the deal would deprive China of needed influence over key shipping routes. The criticism marks an abrupt shift in Chinese policy toward […]
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the TV celebrity doctor, is expected to face a tense confirmation hearing on Friday, with Democratic senators planning to question how he would oversee Medicare and Medicaid now that Republicans and the Trump administration are weighing significant changes affecting millions of Americans. Among the possible plans being considered by Republican lawmakers and […]
Two teams rarely meet each other more than two or three times in a single season. Beyond the usual double of home-and-away league fixtures and occasional cup clash, facing a team four times in one campaign is almost unheard of. But what is more exceptional is facing an opponent four times in a row. Starting […]
CrossFit, the crisis-riddled fitness company, is for sale once again. The sale comes against the backdrop of several tumultuous years for the fitness brand, after a drowning at last year’s CrossFit Games, a significant drop in registrations for its annual membership-wide competition and deepening financial concerns. The company, which has 10,000 affiliate gyms across the […]
Tom Espiner BBC business reporter Getty Images The UK economy shrank unexpectedly by 0.1% in January, with a slowdown in manufacturing one of the main reasons for the dip. The performance was weaker than expected, and came after the economy had grown by 0.4% in December. It will be seen as a blow to the […]
The NFL never sleeps, especially when it comes to the swirling tornado of activity otherwise known as free agency. Whom would the Las Vegas Raiders target as their next signal caller? Where would Sam Darnold land? And don’t forget the surprise contract extensions that pop up out of nowhere. But the past week also featured […]
Earlier this year, everything seemed set for a major renovation to make two Chicago apartment buildings for mostly lower-income elderly residents more energy efficient. An affordable-housing organization had secured a federal loan, a state loan and money from private investors. But the project, which was to start in a few weeks and include the installation […]