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Airline Pilots in the DC Plane Crash Acted as Expected, Experts Say
Just after 8:43 p.m. on Jan. 29, an air traffic controller at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, posed a question to the pilots of American Airlines Flight 5342:...
Trump Trade Nominee Defends Plan to Reorder International Trade
Jamieson Greer, President Trump’s nominee to be the next U.S. trade representative, defended the president’s plan to impose sweeping tariffs on all imported products and told senators he would...
As Elon Musk Attacks DEI, Tesla Quietly Addresses Racism Complaints
In Washington, Elon Musk has been at the forefront of Trump administration efforts to gut programs designed to promote diversity.At the same time, Tesla, the electric car company that...
Trump, the Panama Canal and China’s Role: What We Know
President Trump’s claim that China controls the Panama Canal has placed a Hong Kong tycoon and his conglomerate at the heart of a showdown between the United States and...
Trump Amplifies Conspiracy Over U.S. Payments to Politico
President Trump amplified unfounded claims on Thursday that the government had been paying news media outlets to generate positive coverage of Democrats.The conspiracy theories appear to have been generated...
Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing
A few days after President Trump issued an order urging the private sector to end “Illegal D.E.I. Discrimination and Preferences,” the Rev. Al Sharpton led about 100 people into...
Hosting Its Next Super Bowl, New Orleans’s Superdome Is Turning 50
Branford Marsalis has traveled the world over, but one trip back to his hometown, New Orleans, still stands out. He was visiting from Los Angeles, where he was the...
Green Energy Ambitions of European Companies Take a Beating
Rasmus Errboe, the new chief executive of the Danish offshore wind developer Orsted, sounded as if he had inherited a mess as he explained a 25 percent paring of...
D.C. Lawmakers Take Aim at DeepSeek
Just in: The Justice Department agreed to temporarily restrict workers from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team from gaining access to information in the Treasury Department payment system.The news comes as...
Documentarian Alex Gibney Teams Up With a Google Billionaire
At a time when the documentary film business is atrophying, one of the world’s leading documentarians, Alex Gibney, has taken on a powerful partner: Wendy Schmidt, a billionaire philanthropist...
Bank of England Cuts Interest Rates as British Economy Weakens
The Bank of England cut interest rates on Thursday for the third time in about six months, amid signs of weak economic growth in Britain and an unexpected slowdown...
Friday’s Jobs Report Will Be Confusing. Here’s How to Make Sense of It.
The Labor Department’s latest monthly report on hiring and unemployment will include revisions for previous months that should give a more accurate picture of the U.S. job market —...