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The chief executive, Scott Kirby, said that buying a smaller airline might not be worth the effort.

The Senate Banking Committee advanced Kevin Warsh’s nomination as Fed chair on Wednesday, teeing up the full chamber to hold a vote soon.

In partnership with Expedia, the ride-booking, food-delivering, package-transporting service takes another step toward becoming a super app.

Zap Energy says its ultimate goal is safe, clean energy from fusion. To help get there, it’s starting to build fission reactors.

Fidelity cited the Justice Department’s recent lawsuit against the civil rights organization in emails to holders of its charitable-giving funds explaining its decision.

The Federal Communications Commission is clashing again with the media giant. It’s another warning about the costs of angering President Trump.

The national average price of a gallon of gasoline hit $4.23, following oil prices upward as supplies from the Middle East remain disrupted.

Josh D’Amaro, who took the helm in February, will have to lead Disney through surprising new scrutiny from the president.

The exit of the United Arab Emirates is the most significant in a series of departures from the oil cartel in recent years.

Google and Meta are enjoying a digital ad boom, as artificial intelligence automates marketing and drives record sales.

A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to explain whether it intends to contest President Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the I.R.S. over the disclosure of his tax returns.

The U.S. central bank is widely expected to hold interest rates steady at what is scheduled to be Jerome H. Powell’s final meeting as chair.

The U.S. central bank is widely expected to hold interest rates steady at what is scheduled to be Jerome H. Powell’s final meeting as chair.

Add these new or newly revamped accommodations to your summer driving itinerary.

The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies reveal.

From Salt Lake City to New York City, parents are demanding more sway over the digital tools that schools give children.

Only two places in the world allow tourists to enter the water with the ocean’s apex predator. But the safety of both species is a growing concern.

Scientists shared transcripts with The Times in which chatbots described how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in public spaces.

European Union regulators said the company did not have effective controls to check a user’s self-declared date of birth, in violation of an online safety law.

In 2025, the world razed less forest than any other year in the last decade. The bad news: global warming is making wildfires more frequent and intense.

The chain’s chief executive credited its turnaround plan for improved U.S. same-store sales, but said higher gas and utility costs were a concern.

In the trial’s first day of testimony, Elon Musk said greed led co-founder Sam Altman to pull the A.I. lab away from its nonprofit roots. OpenAI says that’s nonsense.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s budget update keeps to his path of diversifying away from the United States.

The collapse of the talks could pave the way for another spirits company, Sazerac, to open negotiations with Brown-Forman.

A headset recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses a weak electric current to shock the brain. Some researchers hope it could challenge the current pill-centric paradigm.

The measures aim to crack down on Iran’s shadow banking system and Chinese purchases of Iranian oil.

The group of oil-producing countries supplied more than 25 percent of the world’s oil before the war in Iran. Its members have influenced energy markets through the years.

The court’s decision could have broader implications for lawsuits seeking to hold companies liable for international human rights abuses.

The agency said the review was related to the network’s diversity and inclusion policies. But it came amid a fight between the president and the network’s late night host, Jimmy Kimmel.

The Pentagon has also signed deals for using A.I. on classified networks with OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI, amid a dispute with Anthropic.

Prosecutors accused Dr. David Morens, a former adviser to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, of hiding records related to the onset of the pandemic.

The tennis player Mackenzie McDonald has earned well up to this point, but high expenses and a short career timeline have prompted him, and others, to search for a backup plan.

Elon Musk, Sam Altman and several other key artificial intelligence industry figures are slated to testify in the trial, which is expected to last several weeks.