High rates usually pull down asset prices and hurt the housing market. Those channels are muted now, possibly making policy slower to work.

In the battleground state of Georgia, some Black entrepreneurs are frustrated over the impact of higher interest rates, a source of economic anxiety.

In the battleground state of Georgia, some Black entrepreneurs are frustrated over the impact of higher interest rates, a source of economic anxiety.

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial fined the former president $9,000 on Tuesday for violating a gag order—and he warned Trump that any further violations might result in jail time. Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for his role in a 2016 scheme to cover up an alleged […]

As the museum’s new building nears completion, shadowed by controversy, artists respond with new commissions.

It’s a challenging time for the theater industry, but as the Tonys deadline approached each new show had reason to pause for a moment and celebrate.

More than a decade after painful austerity, Greece, Portugal and Spain have been growing faster than traditional powerhouses like Germany.

Modern cars are internet-connected and have hundreds of sensors. Lawmakers and regulators have concerns about what’s happening with all that data.

Todd Blanche upended his career to represent Donald J. Trump and has been the former president’s favorite. But Mr. Trump has made him a focus of his episodic wrath.

The White House wants federal agencies to keep climate change in mind as they decide whether to approve major projects.

The Columbia University building, which opened in 1907, has been occupied several times by student activists.

The plaintiffs say they faced sexual and other physical abuse at juvenile detention centers and on Rikers Island.

Pro-Palestinian protesters have occupied the administration building at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, for the past week and forced a campus closure until May 10.

We explain why more Latino voters find Trump appealing.

A Times photojournalist embarked on a nuclear-powered attack sub to see how the Pentagon is training for a potential war below the frozen sea.

U.S. lawmakers have long worried that the Chinese government could use the app to spread propaganda.

Plus, a deadly day for law enforcement.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new tax on fossil fuel companies based in the world’s richest countries could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help the most vulnerable nations cope with the escalating climate crisis, according to a report. The Climate Damages Tax report, […]

Below are five video game recommendations from the journalist, comic-book writer, and video game narrative designer Evan Narcisse, with commentary in his own words. Read more about Narcisse and his worldview in Jamal Michel’s Mother Jones profile, “One Man’s Mission to Make Video Games a Little Less White.”  Rez United Game Artists (2002) In this […]

They might not know his name, but millions of video gamers have encountered narrative designer Evan ­Narcisse’s handiwork in Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, which showcases more Black and Brown characters in its first few minutes than most popular games do in their entirety. The action-packed 2020 release opens on a Harlem street scene where our […]

On one of the last days it would be legal to get an abortion until 15 weeks of pregnancy in Florida, a clinic in Fort Pierce was completely booked.

What explains the almost total absence of working-class people from elected positions in state government?

“Their disdain for this house,” the designer said, “was a green light to give it a whole new life.”

Florida is set to ban abortions after six weeks. Experts explain how that can often be before a woman knows she is pregnant.

Rachel Khong’s new novel follows three generations of Chinese Americans as they all fight for self-determination in their own way.

They don’t have much in common besides being Democrats who don’t want Bob Menendez in the Senate