timef 04/18/2025

Social media feeds are awash in images of lavish baskets overflowing with expensive gifts. Some parents are giving their children bikes. Others are pushing back.

Within a year, two federal judges declared the tech giant a monopoly in search and ad technology. The tide may be turning for antitrust.

The cap, approved last year, never took effect, though some banks voluntarily lowered or eliminated their fees. Here are some tips on how to avoid or reduce your costs.

In their meeting, President Trump made clear that he had special regard for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy. She said he had accepted an invitation to go to Rome.

“The market for social networks, or even what Meta is, is very different now than it was even a couple of years ago.”

The United States accounted for only 3 percent of China’s natural gas imports last year. Those purchases could now dry up entirely in the trade war.

A Nepali investigation blamed lawmakers and officials for looking the other way. The $216 million airport receives only one international flight a week.

Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that.

After years in which “plant-based” was the mantra, meat once again dominates the national conversation about dinner.

President Trump’s policies have shaken the markets. Protect yourself first, and, only then, take advantage of investment bargains, our columnist says.

The chief executive of QVC, David Rawlinson II, on tariffs, TikTok, and other threats to the company’s future.

The plight of American honeybees drew a journalist away from his usual beat covering energy.

The president said the move was aimed at making the United States the world’s “dominant seafood leader.”

She and Steve Wynn were known as the king and queen of Las Vegas. After their divorce, Ms. Wynn became a force in her own right.

James Bennet, the former New York Times Opinion editor, took responsibility for an error in an editorial at the center of the case.

Eli Lilly reported promising results from a study of its experimental oral drug that could rival popular injections to treat obesity and diabetes.

The shift to cleaner power needs resources from China. An export ban just cut off some supplies.

The streaming giant brought in $10.5 billion in revenue in the first three months of the year. For the first time, it didn’t disclose its quarterly subscriber figures.

Surges in Mennonite communities near the U.S. border may complicate containment efforts, experts say.

The building has been added to a list of properties that the administration says it is trying to offload in order to eliminate waste.

The trade war has hurt the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy luxury empire. Bernard Arnault, head of the company, said a failure to strike a deal with Mr. Trump would be “the fault of Brussels.”

Giorgia Meloni has come to the White House representing Italy, but in many ways on behalf of the rest of Europe.

In her second day on the stand of a landmark antitrust trial over Meta’s power, Ms. Sandberg, the former chief operating officer, also said the company faced plenty of competition from TikTok.