BERLIN — For the first time in more than three decades, Germany has posted a monthly trade deficit, the most recent sign that Europe’s largest economy is facing stress because of interrupted supply chains and record energy prices linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Exports have been the economic engine in Germany for years, but […]
Three people were killed and at least three others were critically hurt in a shooting in Copenhagen on Sunday that sent terrified shoppers fleeing for safety in Denmark’s largest shopping center, the authorities said. Soren Thomassen, an inspector with the Copenhagen police, said early on Monday local time that the dead included a man in […]
The dominance on the court of “originalism,” the doctrine that interprets the constitution and its amendments as they would have been understood at the time they were written, also bodes well for the principles of Lochner. As David Bernstein, a law professor at George Mason University, contends in his 2012 book, “Rehabilitating Lochner,” proponents of […]
Tesla said Saturday that vehicle deliveries from April through June fell 18 percent from the first quarter of the year, a rare slowdown for the company caused by production problems in China. Tesla sells more electric cars than any other company and, until recently, was expanding rapidly in China, Europe and the United States as […]
HAILEY, Idaho — Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, flies in a Gulfstream G650. So do Jeff Bezos and Dan Schulman, PayPal’s chief executive. The jets, roughly 470 of which are in operation, retail for about $75 million each. Most days, those planes are spread out, ferrying captains of industry to meetings […]
In the United States, you can get a tax deduction for your abortion if your overall health care expenses are high enough. That didn’t change with the Supreme Court’s ruling last week. If you work for a nongovernmental employer that provides health insurance that covers abortion, the federal government helps there, too. That hasn’t changed. […]
For two years, the film industry lived in genuine fear about the future of moviegoing, with no one able to say for sure whether cinemas would recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Sitting in the dark in a theater to watch moving images — a 117-year-old American pastime that was already in long, slow decline — […]
The first step is pouring gasoline into the beehive. Then it’s time to wait. The job is finished when the hive is burned the next day. Since last week, this cycle has been on repeat near a port in eastern Australia, part of a government effort to protect the country’s multimillion dollar honey industry. Millions […]
The group, known as OPEC Plus, is at what could be an important crossroads. It has largely completed — at least on paper — its program to reverse the deep cuts in oil output that were put in place in the pandemic, bringing the total production target to about 44 million barrels a day, roughly […]
LOS ANGELES — David Alvarado barreled south along the highway, staring through the windshield of his semi truck toward the towering cranes along the coastline. He had made the same 30-minute trek to the Port of Los Angeles twice that day; if things went well, he would make it twice more. Averaging four pickups and […]
