Cheap Chinese goods helped keep inflation low in the early 2000s, but at the cost of U.S. manufacturing. As those imports surge again, here’s what’s changed and what it means for American jobs.
Polls ahead of the U.K. election show the opposition Labour Party and its leader, Keir Starmer, on course to win by a margin of about 20 percentage points, ending 14 years of government by the Conservative Party.
National Rally’s Jordan Bardella, playing up a childhood in the projects, pulls in young people and others with nationalist message, TikTok savvy; calling Le Pen “my queen.”
A private gauge of China’s services sector signaled the slowest pace of activity growth in eight months in June, reflecting the trend seen in official data.
Fighters from Sudan’s paramilitary-turned-rebel Rapid Support Forces opened a new front in the country’s war with raids and looting in the southeast, as aid groups warned of an impending famine.
Germany and Poland pledged to boost defense cooperation amid fears that a Trump victory in November could herald a period of vulnerability for NATO in its confrontation with Russia.
The Biden administration released long-anticipated proposed rules that would establish the first federal safety standard for protecting workers from extreme heat on the job.
Rudy Giuliani was disbarred after making repeated false and perjurious statements to federal courts as he challenged the results of the 2020 presidential election, the New York Supreme Court said.
A judge delayed Trump’s hush-money sentencing until Sept. 18, granting the former president’s request to weigh whether the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling impacts his New York criminal conviction.
Fed Chair Powell said he was pleased with how inflation had resumed a downward trend, but said it was too soon to say whether the central bank might be able to lower interest rates by the end of the summer.
A network of buyers, sellers and couriers is conveying Nvidia’s advanced artificial-intelligence chips into China, bypassing the Biden administration’s restrictions aimed at denying Beijing that access.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit records, rising 0.6% and 0.8%, respectively, with help from the jump in Tesla’s share price, while the Dow industrials rose 0.4%.
Tesla’s vehicle sales slid for a second straight quarter but not as much as expected, lifting the company’s stock price by 10% at Tuesday’s close and keeping the company ahead of rival BYD as the world’s largest seller of electric vehicles.
An appeals court reinstated a $10 billion antitrust lawsuit against 10 banks after finding that a judge who had earlier dismissed the case should have recused himself because of an apparent conflict of interest.
Skydance Media reached a preliminary agreement to buy National Amusements, with plans to then merge with Paramount Global, a deal that would be subject to approval by a panel of Paramount directors.
Care packages from friends have provided a measure of relief for The Wall Street Journal reporter wrongfully held in prison in Russia for over 15 months. Now, his colleagues and supporters around the world are expressing their solidarity…