timef 04/19/2025

“You have to laugh to keep from crying,” one Republican pollster said about recent comments by the billionaires on the stock market, retirement funds and Social Security.

Sometimes you just have to be OK with being vague. Plus, what to do when a co-worker has a challenging personality.

Wary of directly criticizing the president’s trade policies, automakers are emphasizing how much they have already invested in U.S. manufacturing.

Some young adults with disposable incomes for the first time in their lives are trying to make sense of how tariffs are affecting how they should save and spend.

The arms race for talent seems to have made collective action, within and between firms, nearly impossible.

Losing your home in a disaster when you’re at or near retirement age can derail your finances and jeopardize the funds you were counting on.

An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

The glowing object was a bolide, fireballs that explode in a bright flash, according to experts. It streaked across Mexico’s predawn skies on Wednesday.

An interim U.S. attorney is demanding information about the selection of research articles and the role of N.I.H. Experts worry this will have a chilling effect on publications.

A professional skeptic, he took on hundreds of mysteries, offering rational explanations for the Loch Ness monster, the Shroud of Turin and countless hauntings.

The new fees are aimed at countering China’s dominance of the shipbuilding industry, but critics say they will simply raise prices for American consumers.

Government websites that once provided basic information about the virus now redirect to a page citing a number of misleading or heavily contested claims.

He produced and directed major events like the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys, as well as Super Bowl halftime shows and Olympic opening ceremonies.

Sewell Chan, who started as executive editor of the publication in September, said his firing after several staff complaints was “baffling.”

The designer Conner Ives hoped to do some good with his “Protect the Dolls” T-shirt. Worn by celebrities, and sold out online, the shirts are raising money for a trans cause.

New restrictions on semiconductor exports to China are scrambling sales and fueling concerns that the Chinese tech giant will become a chip-making powerhouse.

Two regulators signed off on the $35 billion deal, which the banks say will create a competitor to Visa and Mastercard. But consumer advocates warn that the deal may raise costs.

The bond market has emerged as one of the few brakes on the White House at it pursues its agenda on trade, taxes, personnel and more.

President Trump again attacked the chair of the Federal Reserve this week, but advisers say the president has turned more cautious on policies that could stoke extreme financial volatility again.

As of August, the president’s investment portfolio showed significantly more in bonds than in stocks. It is unclear if his personal holdings had any bearing on his decisions regarding tariffs.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the acting commissioner had been installed without his knowledge.