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 […]
Questions linger over what this year’s layoffs and ranger protests at the National Park Service will mean for travelers, who made a record 331 million visits to park properties last year. Adding to the confusion is the federal court ruling on Thursday that the firings were done unlawfully and agencies must rehire their cut workers. […]
PALM DESERT, Calif. — It’s a drizzly gray morning in the desert and Lance Davis, the country’s most famous bee catcher, is slightly cranky. He is sitting in his office on the backside of an industrial complex in the middle of the Coachella Valley, with no bees, no honey, no work and no money. There’s […]
The results of a rare, closely watched auction in Japan that ended this week are about to be released. But there were no paintings or antique cars on the auction block. The government is selling 165,000 tons of rice — equivalent to roughly two billion bowls — from its emergency stockpile to make up for […]
Alex Kirkland Graham Hunter Close Graham Hunter Spain writer Graham Hunter is a Barcelona-based freelance writer for ESPN.com who specializes in La Liga and the Spanish national team. Mar 12, 2025, 08:52 PM ET Real Madrid beat Atlético Madrid in a dramatic penalty shootout Wednesday as the reigning champions advanced to the quarterfinals, in another […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Is Elon Musk planning to use artificial intelligence to run the US government? That seems to be his plan, but experts say it is a “very bad idea”. Musk has fired tens of thousands of federal government employees through his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and he reportedly requires the remaining workers to send the […]
A judge has ordered several federal government agencies to reinstate the jobs of probationary employees fired en masse by the Trump administration last month. Judge William Alsup called the sacking of these employees part of a “sham” strategy that aimed to circumvent proper procedures for reducing the federal workforce. The order will apply to thousands […]