Mitchell Labiak Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images Under-22s with long-term illnesses or disabilities will no longer be able to claim a health top-up on universal credit under government plans. It was one of the measures announced by Work Secretary Liz Kendall in a shake-up of the benefits system she said would cut UK’s growing […]
TOKYO — During the early innings of a nighttime exhibition between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Yomiuri Giants, Nori Kawana walked through the concourse of the Tokyo Dome in disbelief. As the head of Fanatics’ East Asia operation, Kawana leads MLB’s merchandising in Japan, and the day had already set his company’s sales record in […]
The wholesale price of eggs has dropped sharply since the beginning of March after soaring for months, but it may take a few weeks for grocery shoppers to see the decline. Wholesale egg prices, which is what retailers pay to procure eggs, have fallen to a national average of just over $4 for a dozen […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip. Instead of culling birds when the infection is discovered, farmers “should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, […]
Mar 18, 2025, 12:15 PM ET We are getting closer to the end of the Premier League season, and in my humble opinion, this campaign has been the football version of a tasty sandwich for neutral fans: It’s not the top or bottom that is most appealing, but the middle. Beginning with the title race, […]
Private equity likes the long ball The San Francisco Giants, one of Major League Baseball’s most successful franchises, have sold about 10 percent of the team to the private equity group Sixth Street, Ken Belson and Lauren Hirsch are first to report. The team will use the cash to help pay for upgrades to the […]
March 18, 2025, 4:00 a.m. ET A satellite image showing the International Space Station docked with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft on June 7.Credit…Maxar Technologies, via Reuters In August last year, NASA announced that Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore would return to Earth in February in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. That was their substitute ride […]
ABUNDANCE, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson In 1833, John Adolphus Etzler, a German engineer who immigrated to Pittsburgh, announced that earthly paradise was suddenly in reach. Economic growth and modern technology were changing everything. Coal might run out, but humanity would harness wind, tidal and solar power. A trillion or more people could call […]
Presidents usually do all they can to avoid recessions, so much so that they avoid even saying the word. But President Trump and his advisers in recent weeks have offered a very different message. Yes, a recession is possible, they have said. Maybe one wouldn’t even be that bad. Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, has […]
Mar 17, 2025, 12:09 PM ET Wesley Fofana was subject to racist abuse against Arsenal. Robin Jones/Getty Images Chelsea have strongly condemned the racist abuse faced by defender Wesley Fofana in the aftermath of their loss to Arsenal on Sunday. “Chelsea Football Club is appalled and disgusted by the recent rise in online racial abuse towards […]