The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.5% annual pace from January through March as President Donald Trump’s import taxes at least temporarily disrupted business, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in a a downgrade from its previous estimate
The European Union is reassessing its ties with China strained relations with the United States
Carnegie Corp. of New York's 2025 class of Great Immigrants, Great Americans include composer and conductor Tania León, last year's Nobel Prize winner in economics Simon Johnson, and Voto Latino CEO Maria Teresa Kumar
The former chief executive of Barclays Bank, Jes Staley, has lost a legal challenge against a 2023 decision by Britain’s financial regulator to ban him from holding senior financial roles in the United Kingdom for misleading it over the nature of his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
North Korea will open a tourist site on its east coast next week that it calls a prelude to a new era in its tourism industry, though the country still mostly blocks foreign visitors
Cambodia’s powerful former leader Hun Sen and Thailand’s prime minister have made separate visits to border areas
Oprah Winfrey has arrived in Venice before Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's star-studded weekend wedding
Investigators have started analyzing data from the black boxes of the Air India Boeing 787 that crashed two weeks ago, killing at least 270 people
Young people graduating from college this spring and summer are facing one of the toughest job markets in more than a decade
World shares are mixed and the U.S. dollar has weakened as investors catch their breath following recent bouts of volatility
Greenland is covered in ice and snow, and its locals retreat indoors for most of the year
British oil giant Shell is denying reports that it is in talks to buy rival BP
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has signed a controversial labor reform into law, delivering a significant increase in worker protections
Thailand’s government is further restricting cannabis with a ban on sales of the plant to those without prescriptions
Across the country, artificial intelligence tools are changing the teaching profession as educators use them to help write quizzes and worksheets, design lessons, assist with grading and reduce paperwork
New disclosures with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission show that President Donald Trump will control the so-called “golden share” that’s part of the national security agreement under which he allowed Japan-based Nippon Steel to buy out iconic American steelmaker U.S. Steel
A federal judge on Wednesday sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their works to train its artificial intelligence technology
One key issue stalling progress on President Donald Trump’s big bill in Congress is particularly daunting
President Donald Trump is insisting U.S. strikes delivered a crushing blow to Iran’s nuclear program
A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. Department of Labor from shutting down Job Corps, a residential program for low-income youth, until a lawsuit against the move is resolved
After months of job cuts, leadership turnover and other turmoil at the Social Security Administration, the agency’s newly minted commissioner faced pointed questions from lawmakers about the future of the agency and its ability to pay Americans their benefits and protect their privacy
The head of the federal government agency that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wants the mortgage giants to consider accepting a homebuyer’s cryptocurrency holdings in their criteria for buying mortgages from banks
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has fired New York administrative judge Karen Ortiz, who has openly criticized the agency’s compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order defining male and female as “immutable” sexes
U.S. stocks hung near their all-time high as financial markets caught a breath following two big days bolstered by hopes that the Israel-Iran war will not disrupt the global flow of crude oil
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