timef 10/10/2025

It is a well-worn strategy to temporarily create a government benefit and hope that its eventual expiration will create a standoff like the shutdown fight.

Financial tech companies are connecting outside financial advisers to your retirement accounts, and at least one investment firm, Fidelity, is resisting.

The league’s popularity has given rise to online sexism and racism — and misinformation that traffics in both.

The third quarter was fabulous for investors, and market signals are upbeat. It’s as though all were calm in the world.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said stabilizing the country was in the United States’s interests. Critics say some investors may have also benefited.

The fund-raising round comes as online prediction marketplaces gain mainstream prominence.

Why a start-up brand is associating its boxers and briefs with wellness. Plus, Sandy Liang designs for Gap and new clothes from an old Gucci designer.

At DevDay, OpenAI signaled its ambition to take everything you can do on the internet and shove it inside ChatGPT.

Workers, who were quitting at high rates a few years ago, are now “job hugging” — or, as one consulting firm put it, “holding on to their jobs for dear life.”

Why a start-up brand is associating its boxers and briefs with wellness. Plus, Sandy Liang designs for Gap and new clothes from an old Gucci designer.

Is it OK to check your phone’s power bank Can you charge your tablet in the overhead bin? What about a cordless hair dryer? The rules have changed this year. Here’s what to know.

How a turbocharged upstart brand came to threaten Red Bull and Monster’s dominance.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is at odds with the news media to a degree unseen in modern times, former Pentagon officials say.

At the annual Bridges conference, mathematical creativity was on dazzling display.

Sea turtles are making a surprising comeback, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The news was not so good for Arctic seals.

David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter who has covered the cryptocurrency industry since 2022, has come to embrace learning on the fly.

Joachim Nagel, the president of Germany’s central bank, warned against “complacency” in European capitals over tariffs, competition with China and attacks on institutions.

China is using the high-altitude expanse for immense solar panel farms and wind turbines and has begun work on the world’s largest hydroelectric dams.

The company, which says it plans an initial public offering next fall, announced on Thursday that it would seek to raise up to $500 million selling private shares to investors.

The scientific Nobels announced this week — in Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry — honored achievements rooted in fundamental research from decades ago.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is calling back some employees to produce the Consumer Price Index for September. That data is needed to calculate the annual cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security beneficiaries.

The supermarket chain said it was complying with state law, including a ruling last month that overturned a ban on openly carrying firearms.

The United States finalized a $20 billion lifeline for Argentina that will benefit Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s allies.

In the Trump administration’s latest example of dialing back cryptocurrency enforcement, Roger Ver agreed to pay about $48 million to end a tax fraud case.

He made billions selling energy with his Coastal Corporation, courted presidents and dictators, and eventually went to prison for paying kickbacks to the Iraqi government.

For the first time, scientists documented direct evidence of a bat preying on a bird at high altitude.

An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.

He made billions selling energy with his Coastal Corporation, courted presidents and dictators, and eventually went to prison for paying kickbacks to the Iraqi government.

The chancellor said he planned to urge the European Union to back off a policy that has been widely interpreted as a ban on combustion engines after 2035.