On Wednesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s election campaign had brought him to the bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, over which $300 million worth of auto parts cross daily. He unveiled a series of promises of programs for workers and auto-related industries that would be rolled out if President Trump imposed tariffs on products from … Read more
“How old do you think these chickens are?” Levy Phiri asked the crowd, after scooping four multicolored birds out of a crate and setting them down in the courtyard outside the primary school in Kambvumbe, a village in Zambia’s rural Eastern Province. The roughly 200 people who came out in the midafternoon heat for this … Read more
Steve McDougall earned about $900 a week delivering for Uber Eats and DoorDash, whizzing through the heavy traffic of Gloucester, Mass., on an e-bike. The flexible hours allowed him to tend to his 15-year-old daughter and two parents with disabilities. “It’s not great money, but it’s freedom,” said Mr. McDougall, 40. “I get to come … Read more
Bloomberg, the financial news powerhouse, has been experimenting with using artificial intelligence to help produce its journalism. It hasn’t always gone smoothly. The news outlet has had to correct at least three dozen A.I.-generated summaries of articles published this year. One happened on Wednesday, when Bloomberg broke news about President Trump’s auto tariffs. The article … Read more
When Christina Cassotis, the chief executive of Pittsburgh International Airport, heard about the power outage that forced London’s Heathrow Airport to suspend operations last week, she thought of the workers who were frantically trying to manage the chaos. But when an outage hits closer to home, she has a more restrained response: Keep calm and … Read more
It is a cornerstone of American democracy, enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution: People have the right to challenge the actions of their leaders. Countless citizens, companies and others have exercised that right by filing lawsuits against the U.S. government. This has been happening for more than 200 years. But the barrage of … Read more
President Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of Carlos Watson, a co-founder of the now-defunct digital media company Ozy Media, on the day he was set to surrender to prison, three people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Watson was sentenced in December to almost 10 years in prison for trying to defraud investors and … Read more
The private equity giant Blackstone is weighing taking a small stake in TikTok ahead of an April 5 deadline set by President Trump for the Chinese-owned app to change its ownership or face a U.S. ban under federal law, two people familiar with the situation said. Investing in TikTok would give Blackstone the chance to … Read more
Two tractor-trailers picked up some 80,000 pounds of beef from a slaughterhouse in northeastern Tennessee, and then vanished, the authorities said this week. They can’t figure out where the beef is, but a fake trucking company made off with enough meat to make about 320,000 quarter-pounders, the Grainger County Sheriff’s Office said. The meat was … Read more
Charlie Javice, who made big headlines in 2023 when JPMorgan Chase accused her of faking her startup’s customer list, was found guilty in federal court Friday of fraud. . She now faces the possibility of decades in prison . The bank has its own civil lawsuit on standby, as it attempts to claw back her … Read more