timef 04/07/2026

Bankers say companies are braving higher oil prices and whipsawing stock prices to seize on the willingness of federal antitrust enforcers to approve mergers.

While science can seem colorless and plain, NASA’s lunar crew members have brought expressiveness and emotion about their journey to mission control and the public.

The White House and NASA released imagery captured by the cameras of the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission.

Oil prices are rising and stocks are selling off as investors fret that the president will carry out his threats to “decimate” Iran.

The complex transaction pitched by the billionaire hedge fund manager would need to pass muster with the music label’s shareholders.

Broadway Across America will not be prosecuted after acknowledging it signed a noncompete agreement with another presenter, the agency said.

The entrepreneur Glen Tullman is betting people want to dress up and watch magicians in a luxury setting. Either it will work or $50 million will go poof.

Eliminating outreach to people with severe mental illness set off such a cascade of bad outcomes that Idaho has scrambled to reverse the cuts.

Owls, oases and the Milky Way reward adventure seekers in and around this Arizona city in the Sonoran Desert.

The company’s A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.

Ben Blatt, a data reporter for The Upshot, dreams up inventive ways to answer questions like: “Is Taylor Swift actually increasing N.F.L. ratings?”

President Trump's Tuesday evening deadline for a deal approached after he rejected a cease-fire proposal as “not good enough.”

The NASA lunar flyby took the four crew members farther from Earth than any humans. They witnessed a solar eclipse and received praise in a call from President Trump.

The conversation celebrated a small, but significant, step in an ambitious plan for missions to the moon and Mars that Mr. Trump had set early in his first term.

The president indicated he would ask an unnamed media outlet to reveal the sources behind its coverage of Iran’s successful strike on a U.S. fighter jet, and of its crew.

Scientists prefer to call the backside of the moon its “far” side.

The astronauts will head into a communications blackout at 6:44 p.m. Eastern time as they become the first people to travel around the moon since 1972.

Three Americans and one Canadian traveling on NASA’s Orion spacecraft surpassed a milestone set by the crew of Apollo 13 in 1970.

The crew shared an emotional moment with mission control and the family of Reid Wiseman, whose wife, Carroll, died in 2020, on the ground in Houston.

As Artemis II flies around the far side of the moon, our graphics editor Marco Hernandez describes what the astronauts are looking for.

Prosecutors say Amit Forlit ran a global hacking operation on behalf of a Washington lobbying group that aimed to thwart environmental lawsuits against oil companies.

The new tax-sheltered savings and investment accounts will start accepting deposits this summer.

The government is supposed to let many vendors compete for contracts, to get the best deal for taxpayers. We are looking at cases where it did not.

The crew of four will become the humans who have traveled farthest from Earth at 1:56 p.m. Eastern time. Later, the astronauts will pass behind the moon.