timef 05/30/2025

A judge queried lawyers during closing arguments on Friday about how A.I. should factor into his decision, which is expected by August.

The industry is bracing for the OPEC Plus oil cartel’s meeting on Saturday, which is widely expected to further increase oil production despite weak demand.

Beijing has high hopes for its C919 single-aisle jet after years of delay, but the plane depends on engines, avionics and other gear from Western companies.

President Trump said that Beijing was not honoring the terms of a temporary agreement and warned of further confrontation.

Made quickly and with minimal fuss, a park for skateboarders revived a downtown site — and offered a few lessons for urban revitalization.

Inland areas have suffered severe flooding in recent years, experts note. And standard homeowner policies don’t cover flood damage.

Gaping budget deficits, on-again-off-again tariff wars and now, soaring bond yields. No wonder the markets are jumpy, our columnist says.

The Federal Reserve has put interest rate cuts on hold until it has more clarity about President Trump’s policies.

An increase in deferred pay-later loans has raised alarms, as the Trump administration seeks to gut the agency tasked with policing the sector.

“These products are really explicitly being designed to take away people’s jobs.”

How falling airfares and foreign exchange rates influence where to look for deals this summer.

The unemployment rate for recent college graduates has jumped as companies try to replace entry-level workers with artificial intelligence.

A new DOGE tally claims that erasing rules on credit card fees, appliance standards and health insurance “saves the American people” money. Data show the opposite.

The question is how to fix Google’s monopoly. Is an order to force it to share data the solution?

The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

The number of people in the United States with multiple full- or part-time jobs climbed to over 8.9 million in March for the first time since 1994.

A planned merger of the Japanese and American giants, announced in 2023, has traveled through an election, two presidents and strong union opposition.

The dismissal of charges against Binance and its founder, Changpeng Zhao, is the Trump administration’s latest pullback in cryptocurrency enforcement.

A court ruling invalidating President Trump’s sweeping tariffs was halted hours later, throwing into question the administration’s overall approach to trade.

Companies welcomed a court decision striking down President Trump’s tariffs. Then a stay of that ruling left no one breathing easy.

Trump administration officials are getting a second chance to try to sever ties with China by starting a trade war, imposing export controls and revoking student visas.

The new supercomputer shows the increasing desire of government labs to adopt more technologies from commercial artificial intelligence systems.

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ transplant.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA technology, which is used in the company’s shot.

Williams, a pipeline company, said it was reviving pipelines that had been blocked on environmental grounds, as the Trump administration pushes states to accept more fossil fuel projects.

Jerome H. Powell stressed in his first meeting since the president returned to the White House that policy decisions would be “based solely on careful, objective and nonpolitical analysis.”

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach its closest point to the sun is in the year 26186.

Glacial ice will melt for centuries even if global temperatures stop rising now, according to new research.

The administration immediately sought a ruling to allow the U.S. to continue imposing stiff tariffs, and the White House said the Supreme Court needed to intervene.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA technology, which is used in the company’s shot.

Experts said it is the first wrongful death case targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in global warming.

The question for the justices was whether an agency had complied with a federal law by issuing a 3,600-page report on the impact of a proposed railway in Utah.