MaryLou Costa Technology Reporter Donatas Ališauskas Ieva Mackeviciute uses car sharing to get around Vilnius Ieva Mackeviciute lives in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, but works in the capital, Vilnius. She takes the hour-long train into her company’s Vilnius office once a week, where she uses a car-sharing service to drive herself to client meetings throughout […]
President Trump has called the word tariff “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” He imposed hefty tariffs during his first term and promised expansive new ones as he pursued his second. On his first day back in the White House in January, he issued an executive order directing his cabinet picks to prepare even […]
It’s not clear who will benefit if President Trump follows through on his threat to impose 200 percent tariffs on all wines and alcoholic beverages from the European Union, but it certainly would not be American consumers. The tariff warning was posted by Mr. Trump on social media Thursday in retaliation to 50 percent tariffs […]
President Trump’s cabinet has been busy rolling back regulations that will make it far easier to extract and produce fossil fuels. But who will buy them? Nearly everyone, it turns out, particularly under the threat of tariffs. At an annual energy-industry conference in Houston, executives spoke openly about how companies from around the world are […]
As the hours tick by with the New York Giants awaiting word from a 41-year-old who quarterbacked a 5-12 team last season, there’s an inescapable feeling that they picked a terrible time to be on the hunt for a QB savior. The Giants are in a particularly perilous position this offseason. The Daniel Jones experiment […]
The world’s most widely followed stock-market benchmark slid into a correction on Thursday, a drop that underscores how the two-year-long bull market is running out of steam in the early days of the Trump administration. The move stems from investors’ growing pessimism about the whipsawing policy pronouncements from Washington over the past few weeks. On-again, […]
Cheshire Police Lucy Letby is serving 15 whole-life prison sentences for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others (one of whom on two occasions) between June 2015 and June 2016 A police investigation at the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby murdered seven babies and attempted to kill seven others has been expanded to […]
Simon Jack Business editor, BBC News Getty Images Taxpayers and the pension schemes of Thames Water workers would both suffer if the UK’s largest water company was temporarily nationalised, the water regulator and Thames’ pension trustees have warned. Ofwat has not disputed that placing Thames under government control in the event the debt-laden company collapsed […]
Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Mar 13, 2025, 06:00 AM ET Barcelona president Joan Laporta was furious with the way he felt the team faded at the end of big games last season. Barça lost both Clásicos against Real Madrid to stoppage-time goals, results which if reversed would have flipped the final standings at the top […]
For the second time this week, President Trump has threatened to disrupt trade with a close ally for retaliating in a trade war that he started — a tactic that could lead to compromise, or to economic spats that spiral further out of control. On Thursday morning, Mr. Trump tried to cow the European Union […]