timef 02/28/2025

The cost of steel pipe used to line oil and gas wells rose after President Trump said he would impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

Rules on bank and credit card fees, medical debt and payment apps are in limbo. One thing you can do is carefully check your financial statements, one expert says.

Redstone, who controls Paramount, has been trying to close a merger with the Hollywood studio Skydance. President Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News is complicating matters.

The central bank wants to see further progress that price pressures are easing before it lowers interest rates again.

Consumer sentiment has turned south as high prices weigh on households. Could that crimp big pieces of the president’s economic agenda, including tariffs?

“I’m just worried that it’ll be a shock to people when it happens.”

Tucked away near the White House is a tribute to the environmental agency and its history — for the time being, anyway.

As rewards programs proliferate and shift to spending rather than miles flown, it has become harder to earn awards. We explain why, and help you plan a strategy to maximize your rewards.

The president has promised big results, from raising revenue to reviving domestic manufacturing. But many of his goals undermine one another.

Marketers followed consumers to social media and their phones. “Low Buy 2025” influencers are sharing tips for how to resist them.

The term, coined by a sociologist in the 1980s, refers to informal public spaces where people can linger — and some say they’re disappearing.

Delegates at global biodiversity talks in Rome agreed on a framework for monitoring environmental commitments and other measures.

The agency said the novelty digital assets were not securities, a month after President Trump issued his own memecoin.

The release of flight logs and Jeffrey Epstein’s contact list by the attorney general was met with criticism from those who had expected the documents to reveal new information.

For today’s entrepreneurs, work isn’t merely a way to get things done; it’s also a “superpower” that confers the right to impose their vision on the world.

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

Last year, Canadians visiting the United States were responsible for $20.5 billion in spending. Some are now changing their travel plans as the neighboring nations battle over trade.

The employee objected to a post on X by Mr. Musk, Tesla’s chief executive and a top adviser to President Trump, that referred to Nazi leaders.

They will be aboard the New Shepard, the centerpiece rocket of Blue Origin’s space tourism business, in a launch this spring.

The new technology, called GPT-4.5, signifies the end of an era for OpenAI.

The tech giant’s co-founder said Google could reach an artificial general intelligence breakthrough if workers were in the office “at least” every weekday.

The move, on a suit that had accused the bank of tricking customers, was one of several dismissals ordered by Trump officials who are dismantling the agency.

As the president pressures countries to buy more American energy, Asian officials and investors are reconsidering a hugely expensive plan stalled for decades.

I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence.