Business

Central bankers are paying more attention to the strength of the job market as inflation cools. But it’s a tough time to gauge its resilience.

By Jeanna Smialek

In the carrot-versus-stick debate, fees and fines have dominated the conversation. But some destinations’ new policies aim to reward tourists who behave responsibly.

By Elaine Glusac

China’s electric vehicle companies are making inroads in Thailand, a key industry hub, as Europe and the United States wield tariffs to keep them out.

By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Claire Fu

After dominating sales in Thailand for decades, Mazda, Nissan and other Japanese companies are losing their grip on a market long viewed as a regional hub.

By Daisuke Wakabayashi, River Akira Davis and Claire Fu

The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing.

By Clay Risen

The presidential candidates have offered few ideas for reducing the debt burden as red ink continues to mount.

By Alan Rappeport

Rachel Reeves, the chancellor of the Exchequer, cut some infrastructure funding and pensions benefits, adding that more “difficult decisions” would come later this year.

By Eshe Nelson

Tesla says self-driving taxis will power its growth, but the company hasn’t said when such a service would be ready or how much it would increase profits.

By Jack Ewing and Peter Eavis

While not a perfect alternative to colonoscopies, experts hope the test could lead to more people getting screened for colorectal cancers.

By Gina Kolata

Officials at Japan’s central bank are considering when to raise interest rates, as their counterparts in the United States plan to cut them, which could rattle markets around the world.

By Joe Rennison

When Donald J. Trump tries to win over a crowd that is not inherently his own, the results can be awkward.

By Shawn McCreesh

The actor announced his return to Marvel’s superhero movie franchise five years after ending his long run as Iron Man.

By Johnny Diaz

It was much more accurate than primary care doctors using cognitive tests and CT scans. The findings could speed the quest for an affordable and accessible way to diagnose patients with memory problems.

By Pam Belluck

The superhero sequel was on pace to collect about $200 million at North American theaters over the weekend, a record opening for an R-rated movie.

By Brooks Barnes

An Oxford study estimates that despite cost-cutting efforts, Paris is spending more than $1 billion above the Games’ historical median cost.

By Vivienne Walt and Sarah Kessler

One of the wildest, most scam-ridden corners of the cryptocurrency industry — memecoins, which are rooted in internet memes — has roared back.

By David Yaffe-Bellany

Vivian Jenna Wilson’s remarks, in an exclusive interview with NBC News, were a response to Mr. Musk’s comments about her transgender identity.

By Aimee Ortiz

The company is trying to make the league accept its match of Amazon’s bid to broadcast games starting with the 2025-26 season.

By Tania Ganguli

With the Falcon 9 rocket set to fly again, and testing of the Starliner capsule progressing, the agency is seeking to turn the page on a brief, troubled chapter in orbit.

By Kenneth Chang

Federal authorities filed charges against Andrew Left, founder of Citron Research, who they said made at least $16 million from a multiyear scheme to manipulate market prices.

By Matthew Goldstein

Tesla’s drop in profit in the second quarter.

By Santul Nerkar

Asian officials will press Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken about the former president and about Kamala Harris as he visits the region.

By Edward Wong

The vice president has been critical of past trade deals. But her record suggests she could push for trade measures that address environmental issues.

By Ana Swanson

Financial regulators and consumer advocates frown upon using credit cards to pay off installment loans because of the risk that consumers will dig themselves further into debt.

By Ann Carrns

The Personal Consumption Expenditures Index climbed 2.5 percent, still more than the Fed’s 2 percent target, as price increases take time to come down.

By Jeanna Smialek

A debate over whether the F.T.C. chair should stay reflects broader anxiety over how Kamala Harris would regulate business.

By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni

Market sectors sometimes move when the political winds shift, but trading is hazardous for your financial health, our columnist says.

By Jeff Sommer

Participation in the labor force has surged among women in their prime working years. But for those with children under 5, the gains may have peaked.

By Sydney Ember

The SAG-AFTRA union wants higher pay for the use of voices and images and protection from losing jobs to artificial intelligence.

By Brooks Barnes and Kellen Browning

Fans and brands have embraced the league, but rules have kept its growing financial success from fully trickling down to the players.

By Tania Ganguli

The solar sector shows how China conducts industrial policy: It chooses industries to dominate, floods them with loans and lets companies fight it out.

By Keith Bradsher

In recent weeks, Chinese tech companies have unveiled technologies that rival American systems — and they are already in the hands of consumers and software developers.

By Meaghan Tobin and Cade Metz

“There was never a directive to provide less to our customers,” the chief executive said. Still, he said the company would review practices across all its stores.

By Sarah Hurtes

Over seven decades, the Australian-born magnate assembled an array of news outlets, book publishers, and film and television properties into a global behemoth.

By J. Edward Moreno

The airline said it was scrapping its trademark, 50-year tradition of offering open seating, where passengers choose seats once they have boarded the plane.

By Jenny Gross and Danielle Kaye

Trends already underway make for a sunny outlook over the next few years. The question is who will get to take credit.

By Jeanna Smialek

Gross domestic product rose at a 2.8 percent annual rate in the second quarter, new evidence of the economy’s resilience despite high interest rates.

By Ben Casselman

The battle between the media mogul and three of his children over control of his empire has big ramifications for politics, media and more.

By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch, Ephrat Livni and Danielle Kaye

Shifting views on the economy have led to a “rotation” in the stock market. Small stocks and companies geared toward the economic cycle are rising. Big Tech is lagging.

By Joe Rennison

The move adds more than 500 to the unionized video game staff at Microsoft, which has pledged to remain neutral on organizing efforts.

By John Yoon

Defying sanctions, Russia has obtained nearly $4 billion in restricted chips since the war began in Ukraine. Many were shipped through a cluster of shell companies in Hong Kong.

By Aaron Krolik and Paul Mozur

Paris aims to be the most sustainable Olympic Games in history, but it was London over a decade ago that proved host cities didn’t have to end up with empty stadiums in disrepair after the Games were over.

By Ken Belson

The central bank lowered a key rate in its latest effort to steady China’s economy, as Asian stock markets followed Wall Street down.

By Keith Bradsher

A new study paints a complex picture of the outbreak, suggesting that the virus could be spreading in multiple ways and that it is not always mild in cows.

By Emily Anthes

The litigation stems from a March 10 interview in which George Stephanopoulos, the network’s star anchor, referred to a civil case brought against Mr. Trump by E. Jean Carroll.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch, has moved to change the family’s irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses as a conservative force. Several of his children are fighting back.

By Jim Rutenberg and Jonathan Mahler

The league rejected a bid by Warner Bros. Discovery to match Amazon’s offer.

By Tania Ganguli, Kevin Draper and Nicole Sperling

Guided by a keen sense of timing, she covered wars, sports, riots, politics and more for The A.P. in the ’70s, when few women worked as news photographers.

By Trip Gabriel

Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

By Robert D. McFadden

The index fell 2.3 percent after disappointing earnings reports from Alphabet and Tesla. The Nasdaq composite fell 3.6 percent.

By Danielle Kaye

The vice president has sought to raise her profile among executives, to whom she has been something of an enigma.

By Sydney Ember, Rob Copeland and Maureen Farrell

President Biden has not given his vice president an expansive economic portfolio. But she has engaged on issues of small-business lending, help for parents and more.

By Jim Tankersley, Jeanna Smialek and Ana Swanson

Users on X, Truth Social, Rumble and Gab have benefited from a series of major events to spread baseless falsehoods as their followers and engagement skyrocket.

By Steven Lee Myers, Stuart A. Thompson and Tiffany Hsu

Organizers avoided disruption by agreeing to give performers on temporary contracts a greater cut of broadcast royalties.

By Aurelien Breeden

A visit by the foreign minister of Ukraine to Guangzhou this week signals Kyiv’s desire to involve Beijing in peace talks that China has thus far largely snubbed.

By Alexandra Stevenson and Constant Méheut

Sluggish car sales and a tough price war with rivals are weighing on Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company.

By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni

After Blake Benthall was arrested for running Silk Road 2.0, the infamous illegal drug bazaar, things didn’t go the way you might expect.

By Ryan Mac and Kashmir Hill

Community banks are big commercial real-estate lenders. But they say their loans are to sturdy local businesses, not those facing vacant office space.

By Matthew Goldstein and Emily Flitter

It’s hard to avoid hassle — or fraud — when you’re required to pay with paper and ink. Here’s why checks persist and why some people don’t mind.

By Ron Lieber

French businesses had hoped the Games would bring an economic boom, but metal fences and police checkpoints have turned some areas of Paris into dead zones.

By Liz Alderman

The explosion on Tuesday in the city of Tequila, near Guadalajara, killed six workers and left two others wounded, the authorities said.

By Miriam Castillo and Mike Ives

A federal judge in Pennsylvania denied a request to delay the rule, siding with the agency and diverging from another court’s decision this month.

By Danielle Kaye

A second new doll, a Black Barbie with Down syndrome, is part of the toymaker’s effort to be more inclusive.

By Alex Vadukul

The company led by Elon Musk is selling fewer electric cars, and its big bets on driverless taxis and artificial intelligence could take many years to pay off.

By Neal E. Boudette

The flight disruptions brought on by the global I.T. failure were deemed within the control of the airlines, meaning airlines have to reimburse passengers for meals, transportation and hotels. Did your carrier live up to the requirement?

By Christine Chung

Unlike other prominent unions, the auto workers are taking their time to ensure that the vice president is aligned with them on key policy questions.

By Noam Scheiber

He brought to his writing a sharp sense of humor, honed in stand-up comedy clubs, and never pulled punches even though he was an unabashed Democrat.

By Sam Roberts

Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, made the announcement after the airline suspended travel for unaccompanied minors.

By Christine Hauser

Pete Buttigieg said on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Transportation had opened an investigation into Delta’s ongoing response to Friday’s global tech outage.

By Yan Zhuang

Fear of being seen as circumventing an open nomination process is one reason that some backers have not yet publicly endorsed the vice president.

By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni

General Motors said the self-driving division’s cars will run in Dallas, Houston and Phoenix after an accident last year. Human drivers will supervise the cars.

By Neal E. Boudette

Much of President Biden’s agenda polls well, but voters roundly dislike his handling of the economy. That’s a campaign challenge for his vice president, as she mounts a presidential bid.

By Jim Tankersley

Temporary toll passes, now free for those who rent cars at the Orlando airport in Florida, allow drivers to avoid charges for toll payment devices. Could this be a model for other destinations?

By Elaine Glusac

A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past.

By Steve Lohr

Wiz’s chief executive said the company walked away from a “humbling offer” and would pursue an initial public offering instead.

By Nico Grant

Kim Beom-su, the billionaire behind Kakao, was taken into custody on allegations of stock manipulation during a bidding war over a K-pop agency.

By Yan Zhuang, Jin Yu Young and John Yoon

The company, a longtime broadcaster of N.B.A. games, is trying to keep the lucrative broadcast rights as the league negotiates a new contract.

By Tania Ganguli

President Biden, who has been sidelined with Covid, is set to address the nation this week.

By Stuart A. Thompson

Progressive publications said President Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 election was heroic. Conservative commentators suggested that if he is unable to campaign, he should step down from the presidency, too.

By Santul Nerkar

The East Solano Plan, a proposal for a walkable urban community in a rural corner of the San Francisco Bay Area, stoked tension, fear and mistrust among some neighbors.

By Conor Dougherty

A judge also threw out a separate lawsuit against the network brought by a specialist in Russian disinformation.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

Mr. Walker, who oversaw $7 billion in grants, plans to leave at the end of 2025 after what will have been 12 years.

By Robin Pogrebin

Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder of SoftBank, is trying to rally automakers around the world to join forces on autonomous-driving technologies.

By River Akira Davis

Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and others have endorsed Donald J. Trump. But President Biden’s withdrawal has re-energized Democrats across the tech industry and may blunt that momentum.

By Erin Griffith

Many Democrats endorsed the vice president as their party’s standard-bearer, but some donors questioned whether more competition for the role was needed.

By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch, Ephrat Livni and Vanessa Friedman

Elon Musk’s Cybertruck is inspiring a lot of strong feelings.

By Joseph Bernstein

The film was a global phenomenon and seemed to herald a new era of embracing stories by, about and for women.

By Nicole Sperling

Comfort was at times questionable and the food so-so, but for everyone on board, the trip was an experience unto itself.

By Evan Rail

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg singled out the airline on Sunday for ongoing disruptions and “unacceptable” customer service as it continued to cancel flights.

By Christine Chung and Yan Zhuang

Donald Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize Board over its 2022 statement reaffirming its decision to award a prize for coverage of the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

By Rebecca Robbins