The Seattle Seahawks have their Geno Smith replacement in Sam Darnold. Now they need to get him some help. Seattle’s agreement with Darnold is a three-year, $100.5 million contract with $55 million guaranteed, according to The Athletic’s Dianna Russini. On paper, it’s essentially the same deal Baker Mayfield signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last […]
President Trump made a lot of promises on the campaign trail last year. Investors and business leaders enthusiastically cheered some, like lower taxes and relaxed regulation, and expressed wariness about others, like tariffs and reduced immigration. But when Mr. Trump won the election, there was little sign of that ambivalence: Stock prices soared, as did […]
The long-awaited trial of medical staff who treated the late Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has started in the capital, Buenos Aires. Maradona was convalescing when he died of a heart attack at his home in 2020, aged 60. He had been recovering at home from surgery on a brain blood clot earlier that month. […]
Airlines flashed an early-warning signal on Tuesday, suggesting that consumers and businesses were starting to get nervous amid wider economic and political uncertainty. Several carriers cut their financial forecasts for the first few months of the year, saying that revenue would be weaker than expected. They pointed to a number of reasons: bad weather, high-profile […]
In his first meeting with top executives from PepsiCo, W.K. Kellogg, General Mills and other large companies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, bluntly told them that a top priority would be eliminating artificial dyes from the nation’s food supply. At the Monday meeting, Mr. Kennedy emphasized that it was a “strong desire and […]
Dalvin Modore walked as if there was broken glass beneath his feet, stepping gingerly, his frail shoulders hunched against the anticipation of pain. His trousers had become so loose that he had to hold them up as he inched around his small farm in western Kenya. Mr. Modore has tuberculosis. He is 40, a tall […]
As Delaware lawmakers prepare to hold hearings tomorrow about a bill that could reshape corporate America, some of the biggest corporate law firms are coming out in favor of it. On Tuesday, 21 law firms — including Simpson Thacher and Bartlett; Cravath, Swaine & Moore; and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison — will publish […]
Trump faces an increasingly tough crowd President Trump won over Americans with a promise to return the country to “boom” times of low taxes and deregulation. Fifty days into office, he’s now pitching an economy in “a period of transition” for which he can’t rule out a recession. His stay-patient message may get tested on […]
A few weeks remain in announcing the NBA’s most valuable player, but what Nikola Jokić recently has brought into focus is the hard choice voters will have to make. Jokić’s historic triple-double, 31 points, 22 assists and 21 rebounds, in the Denver Nuggets’ overtime win over the Phoenix Suns on Friday had never been done […]
Tom Espiner BBC business reporter Getty Images US President Donald Trump has said he will “buy a brand new Tesla” after shares in the electric car firm fell more than 15%. Trump blamed “radical left lunatics” boycotting the firm to “attack and do harm” to Tesla owner Elon Musk. However, stock analysts said the main […]