President Trump’s top trade official defended the administration’s aggressive tariff moves on Tuesday, arguing before a Senate committee that the U.S. economy is facing “a moment of drastic, overdue change” after decades of being propped up by the financial sector and government spending. The remarks by Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, came as […]
Currency traders watch computer monitors near a screen showing news reporting with a picture of President Trump at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul on Tuesday. Lee Jin-man/AP hide caption toggle caption Lee Jin-man/AP Shares in Europe and Asia rebounded slightly on Tuesday after several days of sustained sell-offs that saw equity markets crater […]
EPA A Ukrainian soldier operating a howitzer on the frontline Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly acknowledged for the first time that his troops are active in Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine. “We continue to carry out active operations in the border areas on enemy territory, and that is absolutely just – war must […]
This time, maybe the stock market is the economy. Financial markets around the world have plummeted in the days since President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, setting off a global trade war. The S&P 500 declined more than 10 percent in two days last week, and it swung wildly on Monday amid news of further tariffs […]
I’m one of those scrappy entrepreneurs you see on Kickstarter and Shark Tank. Eleven years ago, shortly after starting a new job that was a bad fit, I had a life-changing encounter with a pair of pan-seared duck breasts. The first created a cataclysmic mess of my stovetop. The second, a few weeks later, inspired […]
The Skechers SKX_1.5 signature style follows an incredible year where he earned the 2024 European Golden Boot as Europe’s best goal scorer and recently made history by becoming the first English player to score 10 goals in a Champions League campaign. The Bayern Munich star debuted the boots on April 4, scoring a goal as […]
President Trump’s global trade war has significantly raised the bar for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, as tariffs risk worsening an already knotty inflation problem while also damaging growth. Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, drove home that message in a hotly anticipated speech at the end of a turbulent week as financial […]
The Trump administration has dismissed the few remaining health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable people: more than 500,000 children and more than 600,000 pregnant women with H.I.V. in low-income countries. Expert teams that managed programs meant to prevent newborns from acquiring H.I.V. from their mothers and to provide treatment […]
“I do think there is so much to be said for your ability to exist, even in the presence of that — it takes a very strong cookie,” Ms. Herd told Meghan, adding, “When I was going through the media storm and being called this and that, and this and that, at Tinder, I didn’t […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. — It’s Masters Week. The azaleas are popping, the gnomes are flying off the shelves in the merchandise building, and the egg salad sandwiches are in abundance. The golf world has descended on Augusta National Golf Club for the 2025 Masters Tournament, including The Athletic. To get the week started, three of our […]