timef 05/03/2025

The cash pile at Warren Buffett’s conglomerate grew to a record $347.7 billion as it found few attractive buying opportunities. The report came out ahead of the annual shareholders’ meeting.

The group agreed to raise output in June, a sign that Saudi Arabia and its allies appear to be weary of cutting output and may be trying to appease President Trump, who has pushed for lower prices.

Pricing strategists are navigating the possibility that input costs, the economy and consumer behavior may all shift drastically.

To many, atmospheric rivers are a West Coast phenomenon. But they’re also responsible for the devastating flooding that hit the Central United States in early April.

A new training program teaches aides to stop baby talk and address older people as adults.

As official research positions are lost to budget cuts, the work of citizen scientists to preserve federal forests is becoming more valuable.

Residents of Oakdale, Calif., have abandoned traditional media outlets for a mishmash of online sources. These days, they’re often not sure what information to trust.

Although a will is crucial to making sure your assets go where you want them when you die, you are likely to need something else, too: designated beneficiaries.

For Meta, Alphabet and other platforms, the elimination of the tariff exemption for inexpensive goods is already cutting into advertising revenue.

World, a start-up backed by Sam Altman, has launched in the United States with the goal of verifying your humanity.

Tariffs on imported parts will have a broad impact because all vehicles use components made abroad.

Staffing shortages at an air traffic control center have added to the effects of a runway closure, prompting United Airlines to cut flights at the hub.

Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention.

One expert said the consequences would be “catastrophic” if Congress enacts the White House agenda of sweeping budget cuts.

Michael S. Jeffries had been accused of luring male models to secret sex parties. He has dementia, and a judge ruled him to be “mentally incompetent.”

Many of the suggested cuts, which would require congressional approval, target federal programs that benefit the poor.

Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.

The Trump administration sued to block two state laws designed to force oil companies to pay the costs of climate change. Several other states are joining the fight, too.

Wall Street has recovered from April’s sharp sell-off, buoyed by hope for trade talks. But the economic fallout from President Trump’s policies still has investors on edge.

NPR called the order, which could upend public media, “an affront to the First Amendment.”

The picture of a steady job market, even if backward looking, reassured investors worried about a trade-induced economic slowdown.

The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.

President Trump first threatened Harvard’s tax status last month. It was not immediately clear if the I.R.S. was in fact moving forward with a change.

That budgetary change aligns with the priorities of Elon Musk, who founded his SpaceX rocket company two decades ago with dreams of one day sending colonists to Mars.

In a hearing on Friday, lawyers for the Justice Depart. indicated the government would double down on its requests to break up the tech giant’s business.

The organizations said they planned to publish the assessment even after the Trump administration’s decision to dismiss all authors on the project.

Employers added 177,000 jobs in April, a slight dip in hiring from 185,000 in March. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.2 percent.

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.

President Trump’s trade policies are already starting to frustrate American consumers who have noticed higher prices in their shopping carts.

The American automaker’s quest to become the sport’s 11th team began two years ago. It joins the grid in 2026.