Category: Business
China’s Population Shrank Again in 2023 as Births Continue to Fall
China’s ruling Communist Party is facing a national emergency. To fix it, the party wants more women to more have babies. It has offered them…
Flush With Investment, New U.S. Factories Face a Familiar Challenge
The Biden administration has begun pumping more than $2 trillion into U.S. factories and infrastructure, investing huge sums to try to strengthen American industry and…
Howard Weaver, Who Helped an Alaska Newspaper Win 3 Pulitzers, Dies at 73
“I produced a steady flow of stories that played on the front page,” he wrote in his 2012 memoir, “Write Hard, Die Free,” whose title…
As Utility Bills Rise, Low-Income Americans Struggle for Access to Clean Energy
Cindy Camp is one of many Americans facing rising utility costs. Ms. Camp, who lives in Baltimore with three family members, said her gas and…
Elections and Disinformation Are Colliding Like Never Before in 2024
Billions of people will vote in major elections this year — around half of the global population, by some estimates — in one of the…
U.S. Steel Acquisition Proposal Tests Biden’s Industrial Policy
U.S. Steel is an iconic example of the lost manufacturing muscle that President Biden says his economic policies will bring back to the United States….
F.A.A. Orders Airlines to Ground Some Boeing 737 Max 9 Jets After Midair Emergency
The Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday ordered U.S. airlines to stop using some Boeing 737 Max 9 planes until they were inspected, less than a…
U.S. Awards Chip Supplier $162 Million to Bolster Critical Industries
The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to provide $162 million in federal grants to Microchip Technology, an Arizona-based semiconductor company that supplies the automotive,…
The Eugene Weekly Halts Publication After Employee’s Embezzlement
A weekly newspaper in Oregon abruptly stopped publishing and laid off all of its workers after an employee embezzled tens of thousands of dollars and…
U.S. and Europe Eye Russian Assets to Aid Ukraine as Funding Dries Up
The Biden administration is quietly signaling new support for seizing more than $300 billion in Russian central bank assets stashed in Western nations, and has…