In a 2019 review in The Times of Ms. Malcolm’s book “Nobody’s Looking at You,” Wyatt Mason referred to the habit of some New Journalists to insert themselves in their stories and noted: “Taking no particular issue with the work of her colleagues, I wish nonetheless to say that Malcolm, line to line, is a […]

Daily Business Briefing June 17, 2021Updated  June 17, 2021, 9:07 a.m. ET June 17, 2021, 9:07 a.m. ET Video Move over, Nyan Cat. Mattel is the latest creator to jump on the hottest craze in cryptocurrency as it puts its first digital art featuring its Hot Wheels vehicles up for sale. On Tuesday, the toymaker […]

HONG KONG — The Hong Kong police on Thursday arrested five executives at an embattled pro-democracy newspaper on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers to violate the Chinese territory’s sweeping national security law. The police said they had arrested five people of a media company on suspicion of “collusion with a foreign country or with […]

Daily Business Briefing June 16, 2021Updated  June 16, 2021, 9:45 a.m. ET June 16, 2021, 9:45 a.m. ET G.M.s updated version of its electric car, the Chevrolet Bolt, can travel farther on a full charge.Credit…General Motors, via Associated Press General Motors is accelerating its plans to produce electric vehicles, the latest sign that automakers are […]

The Girl Scouts are struggling to sell a heaping pile of extra cookies: 15 million boxes of them, to be exact. Troops with armfuls of cookies used to be a fixture outside grocery stores and on people’s doorsteps. But this year, those cookies are stuck in warehouses after Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. was confronted […]

And Black associates at the warehouse were almost 50 percent more likely to be fired — whether for productivity, misconduct or absenteeism — than their white peers, the records show. (Amazon said it could not confirm the data without knowing more specifics about its source.) Derrick Palmer, a Black worker at JFK8, began at the […]

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will tighten its rules for when law enforcement officials may seize information about members of Congress and their aides, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said on Monday amid a backlash to the disclosure of a 2018 subpoena that swept in data from the Apple accounts of Democratic lawmakers and staff. […]

Lordstown Motors, the electric vehicle start-up fighting for survival, announced on Monday the resignation of its chief executive, Steve Burns, and chief financial officer, Julio Rodriguez, after the results of a board investigation into an investor’s report questioning the company’s viability and statements about customer interest in its electric trucks. The resignations are effective immediately, […]

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for information in February 2018 about an account that belonged to Donald F. McGahn II, President Donald J. Trump’s White House counsel at the time, and barred the company from telling him about it, according to two people briefed on the matter. Apple told Mr. McGahn about the […]

Good morning and happy Sunday. Here’s what you need to know in business and tech news for the week ahead. — Charlotte Cowles What’s Up? (June 6-12) It’s Not Your Imagination Perhaps you’ve noticed that clothes, cars, groceries and even Chipotle burritos seem more expensive these days? It’s true — consumer prices grew by 5 […]