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Trump Media Reports Lackluster Revenues and Large Losses
On Monday, former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company reported taking in $770,000 in advertising revenue in the first three months of the year, largely from its Truth...
Biden Will Choose a New Leader for Bank Regulator With ‘Toxic’ Culture
President Biden plans to quickly choose a new leader to oversee the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a bank regulator rocked by revelations of senior managers’ widespread harassment and abuse...
Russia’s War Machine Revs Up as the West’s Plan to Cap Oil Revenues Sputters
The United States and its allies in the Group of 7 nations set two goals in 2022 when they enacted a novel plan to cap the price of Russian...
Senate Inquiry Finds BMW Imported Cars Tied to Forced Labor in China
A congressional investigation found that BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and Volkswagen purchased parts that originated from a Chinese supplier flagged by the United States for participating in forced labor...
James Greenfield, Globe-Trotting Reporter and Times Editor, Dies at 99
James L. Greenfield, an urbane journalist who covered postwar world affairs for Time magazine, served as a State Department official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and for nearly...
Renting or Buying Is Often Personal, but It’s Also Helpful to Look at the Numbers
The Upshot last week updated one of its earliest and most popular projects: the Rent or Buy calculator. Its lasting popularity is no mystery: All of us make this...
Farm Animals Are Hauled All Over the Country. So Are Their Pathogens.
As they travel, farm animals can also leave pathogens in their wake. In one study, scientists found that disease-causing bacteria, including some that were resistant to antibiotics, flowed off...
A Safety Check for OpenAI
OpenAI’s fear factorThe tech world’s collective eyebrows rose last week when Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder who briefly led a rebellion against Sam Altman, resigned as chief scientist. Some...
Chinese Firms Face Authoritarianism at Home and Hostility Abroad
One April afternoon in 2018, Zhang Yiming, the founder of the Beijing-based online media company ByteDance, got a notice from Chinese regulators to shut down an app where people...
Disneyland Character Workers at California Park Vote to Unionize
A majority of Disneyland cast members who perform as characters such as Mickey and Minnie Mouse and dance in parades at the amusement park, in California, voted to unionize...
