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The longer you have to prepare for a disaster, the likelier you are to walk away from it mostly intact. Tornadoes can spin up in minutes, barely giving you time to hustle to a cellar or bathtub. Hurri...

One of the most surprising consequences of the Alternative for Germany’s spectacular success in two recent German state elections is a war between the radical-right party and the Christian establishment. The AfD wants to end the long-established system of state financial support for the major churches. The churches, which face a loss of subsidies worth €600 million ($675 million) a year nationwide and €40 million a year in Saxony-Anhalt alone, are predictably livid, warning that the change would

New research using a strand of hair from Thomas Jefferson has effectively settled a longstanding, acrimonious debate: He almost certainly fathered children with Sally Hemings, a young Black woman he enslaved.

Like all effective populists, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez long ago found a bogeyman to blame for voters’ problems: rich people and the corporate engines fueling their wealth. Now, the New York Democrat is staying current with the times by updating the age-old political scaremonger’s playbook to focus on AI.

Rising long-term bond yields are a global phenomenon, rooted in growing concern about government finances. But the US has led the way in this collapse of fiscal responsibility. As such, it bears outsized responsibility for thinking about solutions.

As a tumultuous era of airline consolidation — kicked off by deregulation in 1978 — reaches its end game, Alaska Air Group Inc. is well positioned to pull off the industry’s last large acquisition on its way to becoming a nationwide carrier.

The raw numbers are incredible: Mexico exported almost $550 billion in the first eight months of the year, most of it manufactured goods to the US, a jump of 29% from a year earlier.

The longer you have to prepare for a disaster, the likelier you are to walk away from it mostly intact. Tornadoes can spin up in minutes, barely giving you time to hustle to a cellar or bathtub. Hurricanes might give a few days’ notice, letting you at least get to higher ground.

Sometimes you can be too successful. “You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off,” Michael Caine tells an over-enthusiastic explosives specialist in The Italian Job, a heist movie that ends with a coach loaded with gold bullion hanging over a precipice. The Manchester City sports-diplomacy bus, laden with more than $1 billion of allegedly illicit wealth from Abu Dhabi, is also perched on a cliff edge.

The Citroën 2CV is a triumph of 20th-century automotive design, every bit as iconic as the Volkswagen Beetle and Fiat 500. Spotting one of these classics stirs up a yearning for holidays in rural France and nostalgia for a period when Europe wasn’t yet synonymous with industrial decline.

French bonds are tipping toward a full-blown crisis.

Andy Burnham’s speech at the Labour Party’s annual conference was memorable. Unlike his predecessor, the new British prime minister sounded heartfelt and hopeful. And he took a few big swings at hard policies as well. Reform is promised for elderly care and Britain’s bloated welfare regime, as is a “national conversation” on the relationship with the European Union and the UK’s outdated winner-takes-all electoral system.

With Nike Inc.’s North American turnaround starting to take root, the sportswear giant can now devote more attention to tackling its biggest problem: China. But fixing the second-largest market means accepting that the business will be smaller and less profitable in the long run.

You may have missed it, but hostile regimes that were once shunned are now quietly being normalized. From Myanmar to Afghanistan, Belarus to Venezuela, military dictatorships, hardline Islamists and autocrats are edging their way back into the global order.

Lots of tech businesses have hit the brakes on going public in the second half of 2026, but not the company behind Claude.

The Reserve Bank of Australia's interest-rate increase this week to the highest level in 15 years was a dress rehearsal for what's to come in bigger economies.

With its currency pegged to the US dollar, Hong Kong flinches when the Federal Reserve starts raising interest rates.

Performance fees, accredited investor tests, default shareholder voting and Knicks-Rangers deconglomeration.

James Uthmeier, Florida’s attorney general, wants to be known as a politician who is all fight, all the time. The ambitious 38-year-old Georgetown law graduate considers himself the standard-bearer fo...

President Donald Trump’s announcement on Wednesday that South Korea would invest $54 billion in a giant liquefied natural gas project in Alaska had a touch of the miraculous — as in, wondrous but tang...

President Donald Trump’s announcement on Wednesday that South Korea would invest $54 billion in a giant liquefied natural gas project in Alaska had a touch of the miraculous — as in, wondrous but tangential to reality. On Trump’s reading, Alaska LNG, having been little more than a pipe dream for decades, is now not only getting built, and with foreign money, but also secures its future just ahead of midterm elections by happy coincidence, and in a state with a tight, crucial Senate race, no less

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has published a letter to the American people ahead of midterm elections in the US. Suffice to say that this remarkable document ends with Jesus Christ and the last Imam, Mahdi, rising together to lead humanity into the Kingdom of Heaven. I read all 14,390 words — think of it a public service.

Letterboxd, once a niche social network for cinephiles to review, recommend and discover films, is now the subject of a potential nine-figure acquisition. As reported by the New York Times last week, the Canadian technology company Tiny is exploring selling its controlling stake in Letterboxd, with Sony Pictures, A24, and the Times itself expressing interest in a deal that could reach more than $300 million.

James Uthmeier, Florida’s attorney general, wants to be known as a politician who is all fight, all the time. The ambitious 38-year-old Georgetown law graduate considers himself the standard-bearer for the next generation of Republican culture warriors, and he’s using his office to make sure you notice.

The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the central bank’s $2.4 billion renovation of its Washington headquarters, which has run over budget and become a major flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s push to get policymakers to lower interest rates. Putting the core vindication aside, the details of the report show a pattern of carelessness that’s unforgivable at a time when the world’s most important financial institution is fighting to preserve its in

With the congressional midterm elections nigh and the midpoint of Donald Trump’s second presidency not far behind, it’s time to ask: How does Trump’s foreign policy measure up so far? And where is it likely to go once he’s a lame duck?

Markets are close to all-time highs and yet new stock sales are being pulled. How can both be true? Because soaring equity indexes are no guarantee of appetite for initial public offerings, and debutants are probably not offering enough value to investors who have the whip hand.

With 1789 and all that, the French relegated religion from its once vast earthly powers. So it was startling to see the saints go marching into the Stade de France, which is usually the stomping ground of the country’s much more secular football and rugby heroes. The crowd of 80,000 mostly young Roman Catholics cheered an all-star team of the blessed (played by actors), including Joan of Arc — the patron saint of France — on horseback and King Louis IX, holding up a replica of Jesus’ crown of th

Head over to Polymarket’s US website and you’ll be greeted with a panoply of crystal-ball trades on everything from the midterm elections to the likelihood of a fully reopened Strait of Hormuz. Try that in France, where I live, and you’ll see something very different: A sober page of black-on-white text under the words, “Illegal website.”

Nidec Corp.’s bond spreads widened amid investor concerns about growing credit risks with the company’s auditor withholding its opinion on its financial statements.

It’s hard to feel wealthy if you can’t feel your wealth.

Nidec Corp. shares dropped as much as 20% in Tokyo after the Japanese motor maker’s auditor declined to give an opinion on its long-awaited full-year results, fueling caution over the scandal-hit company.

Emerging Asia is the future of the LNG market — one that never seems to show up in present-day reality.

Covering the recent round of AI apocalypse warnings, I’ve tried to reject this cult-like deference toward all-powerful computer systems and the inevitability rhetoric: If Silicon Valley doesn’t build them first, someone else — likely China — will.

Also the Man City charges, cotton trade prints and investment bank apprenticeship.

Also the Man City charges, cotton trade prints and investment bank apprenticeship.

Higher-for-longer interest rates are forcing buyout firms to face facts. Struggling since 2023 to sell companies purchased in the long decade of ultra-cheap debt before the Covid pandemic, they’ve tri...

Has the stock market bubble quietly burst already? Even though the S&P 500 Index has mostly treaded water for the past four months, Wall Street analysts have continued to boost their earnings esti...

Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...

Manchester City has been found guilty of systematically breaking Premier League rules for almost a decade, in a watershed for the world’s richest football competition. The verdicts taint the legacy of...

Has the stock market bubble quietly burst already? Even though the S&P 500 Index has mostly treaded water for the past four months, Wall Street analysts have continued to boost their earnings esti...

I don’t know who will win the US-Iran war. But if you ask me who’s prevailing in the battle over the Strait of Hormuz, it’s clear US President Donald Trump has the advantage. As much as Tehran says th...

Higher-for-longer interest rates are forcing buyout firms to face facts. Struggling since 2023 to sell companies purchased in the long decade of ultra-cheap debt before the Covid pandemic, they’ve tried to placate investors with clever financial engineering to help keep some money turning over. But after several false dawns for a return to low rates, the classic private-equity leveraged deals industry is moving into the final stage of grief over its prospects: acceptance.

At an intersection near our house in Dallas, one home has a large Talarico sign in the front yard. The home directly across the street has a large Paxton sign. That’s what it’s like down here one month before Election Day. The candidates are neck-and-neck. Votes are split across streets and among families.

Banks in the US have plenty to celebrate these days, from record profits and higher stock prices to a strong economy and easier regulation. One thing they don’t need is an added discount on their deposit insurance — a crucial buffer that should be reinforced when times are good.