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Sep 30, 2020
Trump wanted to ban federal agency training on ‘critical race theory,' but agencies have scrambled and stumbled.
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Sep 30, 2020
The commercial success of remdesivir, despite its narrow benefit for hospitalized coronavirus patients, highlights the lack of potent tools for doctors six months into the pandemic.
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Sep 29, 2020
The emailed requests for information are being sent by a new enforcement arm of the government committee that monitors foreign investment for national-security risks. The same committee advised Trump to order ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. business.
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Sep 29, 2020
Even with pandemic restrictions, many seek a chance for recreation, socializing, and entertainment
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Sep 29, 2020
Employees' demands for flexible working will include spacious offices. Given the relative savings, slashing floor space is a false economy.
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Sep 29, 2020
The heat shield showed more erosion than expected on the Dragon capsule that returned from the International Space Station in August.
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Sep 29, 2020
How does a billionaire pay next to nothing in federal income taxes? The simple answer is by losing money. But a New York Times report on how President Donald Trump has consistently whittled down his tax liability, paying just $750 in 2016 and again in 2017, shows how complicated that approach can be in practice. Many of the tax breaks laid out in the Times' Sept. 27 story are not only legal but common, raising questions of the fairness of the tax system in general.
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Sep 29, 2020
The penalty is the largest ever imposed for "spoofing" and resolves inquiries by multiple federal agencies.
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Sep 29, 2020
The offer by Activision Blizzard is an acknowledgement that competitive gaming faces some serious financial challenges because the novel coronavirus has made in-person events near impossible to conduct.
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Sep 29, 2020
It's a new crime but it isn't new. It has a silly name but it's no joke. Spoofing, a way to manipulate financial markets for illegitimate profit, is blamed for undermining the integrity of trading and contributing to the scariest crash since the financial crisis. Spoofers trick other investors into buying or selling by entering their own buy or sell orders with no intention of filling them. That creates fake demand that pushes prices up or down. Long considered disreputable but rarely dangerous,
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Sep 29, 2020
The ride-hailing company's interest in its main European rival Free Now should come as a relief to the storied German giants.
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Sep 29, 2020
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who advises the city's public retirement funds, said Monday that 34 companies -- some of which had refused to release their government diversity reports as recently as last year -- would disclose their full EEO-1 data by March 2021.
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Sep 29, 2020
With the stock markets on a wild ride for much of 2020, the predictability and reliability of Social Security are more important to Americans than ever.
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Sep 29, 2020
It may seem harsh to take back profits from investors who were unaware of the scam. But the alternative is worse.
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Sep 29, 2020
Employees' demands for flexible working will include spacious offices. Given the relative savings, slashing floor space is a false economy.
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Sep 29, 2020
Purcellville community offers many unique amenities in the less commercial countryside of Loudoun County.
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Sep 29, 2020
Many USPS employees workers see recent cost-cutting changes that have slowed mail delivery as violating the spirit, if not the letter, of that law.
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Sep 29, 2020
TOWN SQUARE | If you have a tan-colored dog, opt for a tan sofa, and if you have a black dog, get a black sofa.
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Sep 29, 2020
ASK THE BUILDER | Some sand and motor oil could keep them looking like new.
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Sep 29, 2020
The answer is no. But we should make it much easier for anybody who voluntarily wants to isolate to do so.
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Sep 29, 2020
Malaysia's first transfer of power in six decades was hailed as a milestone for transparency, free speech and racial tolerance in the multiethnic Southeast Asian state. Two years later the young coalition collapsed amid an all-too-familiar mix of political intrigue and horse trading that stems in part from an entrenched system of affirmative-action policies that critics say fosters cronyism and identity-based politics. The political upheaval has brought back elements of the old regime into a sha
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Sep 29, 2020
Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh has broken out repeatedly since Armenians seized control of the territory and surrounding areas from Azerbaijan, in a war that started soon after the 1991 collapse of the former Soviet Union, killing more than 30,000 people and displacing another 1 million. Despite decades of mediation by the U.S., Russia and France, no peace accord was ever signed. The latest bout of fighting that started Sept. 27 differs from many previous skirmishes since the end of the war in 1
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Sep 29, 2020
Protection from public markets could help the wireless operator renovate its business model and weather the coming storm of 5G and price cuts.
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Sep 29, 2020
Britain's Channel 4 News says it has obtained a database prepared for the 2016 Trump campaign on 200 million Americans.
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Sep 29, 2020
The injunction issued is the fourth such ruling against the agency in 11 days.
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Sep 29, 2020
A little over a century ago, the most significant antitrust case of the era concerned the commodity that was reshaping society: oil. Perhaps it's a sign of our times that a potentially landmark battle with antitrust implications is shaping up over digital pickaxes. The court case involving Apple Inc. and Epic Games Inc., the maker of the popular video game Fortnite, is the result of the gamemaker's rebellion against rules and fees set by Apple in its role of gatekeeper for apps on its iPhones an
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Sep 28, 2020
Jimmy Carter voluntarily paid $6,000 in 1976 despite a zero tax bill, while other recent predecessors typically paid tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Sep 28, 2020
In most cases, it's impossible to pinpoint how someone caught SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. It is too small to see with the naked eye, so its infectious journey can't be tracked from one person to another. That leaves scientists and health authorities gleaning the most likely transmission pathways from the available evidence and what's known about how other respiratory pathogens spread. Close personal contact with infected people via mouth and nose secretions was thought to b
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Sep 28, 2020
The Trump administration is trying to prohibit personal communications in the TikTok case, a judge said, which is not allowed under the act Trump used.
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Sep 28, 2020
There are few updates worth noting and even the rosters have stayed stagnant due to the covid-19 delay in the 2019-20 season.
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Sep 28, 2020
What happens when back-to-school, Halloween and holiday sales all meet in the same month, with Prime Day right in the middle? We're about to find out.
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Sep 28, 2020
House and Senate Democrats criticized a Defense Department decision to repurpose $1 billion in coronavirus funds and spend it on defense capabilities.
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Sep 28, 2020
The combination of pandemic and fires is a guarantee of uncertainty for a timber industry that is scrambling to adapt.
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Sep 28, 2020
Being comfortable socializing is key to building your relationships.
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Sep 28, 2020
Last year, the median and mean wealth for Black families was less than 15 percent that of White families, according to the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances.
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Sep 28, 2020
REAL ESTATE MATTERS | Of course, if you lawyer, it will cost you money and there is a balance between how much you should pay and the risk of having something happen and then paying to fix it down the line.
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Sep 28, 2020
Hyliion's founder Thomas Healy is about to get very rich. So is the SPAC sponsor taking his truck parts company public.
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Sep 28, 2020
The Postal Service continues to rate favorably despite recent delivery backlogs and President Trump's attacks on voting by mail, according to the Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.
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Sep 28, 2020
AFFORDABLE HOME OF THE WEEK | The condos have open floor plans with wide plank white oak hardwood flooring, wood cabinets in the kitchen and bathrooms, a tile backsplash in the kitchen, quartz counters and LED lighting.
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Sep 28, 2020
Restaurants are scrambling for solutions — yet again — before they face what one chef called an "extinction event."
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Sep 28, 2020
Tens of millions of Americans have gotten the stimulus payments. But some people are still waiting for their relief, either for dependent children or because they earn too little to file a tax return.
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Sep 28, 2020
Amid the economic fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic, soccer adversaries have joined forces to raise money for their beloved tavern.
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Sep 27, 2020
Hawks in the Trump administration look to be taking advantage of the upcoming election to ramp up their list of targets.
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Sep 27, 2020
Beijing has set strict guidelines to protect the real-estate sector. Luckily many developers are in the clear.
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Sep 27, 2020
TikTok has received a second extension on the ban that would remove it from U.S. app stores as it scrambles to complete a deal with Oracle and Walmart.
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Sep 27, 2020
The country has a chance to repair its anti-investor image by accepting defeat in the long-running tax dispute.
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Sep 27, 2020
Poco después de que el Congreso aprobara entregarle mil millones de dólares, el Pentágono comenzó a asignar dinero relacionado con la pandemia a contratistas de defensa.
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Sep 27, 2020
With some employers offering work from home on a permanent basis, and others offering more space and privacy to the workers who do come in, office rents are projected to fall. And those lower prices could make New York and San Francisco affordable and livable again.
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Sep 27, 2020
The whirl of presidential action reflects Trump's determination to command the $19 trillion U.S. economy with the same hands-on vigor he brought to his Manhattan real estate firm.
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Sep 27, 2020
Saudi Arabia and Russia don't agree on how to approach faltering oil demand. We've already seen where such a standoff can lead.
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Sep 27, 2020
Has baseball been this soothing lighthouse, a guide toward a sliver of normal in the novel coronavirus pandemic? Or, in Washington, did it only lead to more stress?
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Sep 27, 2020
A Montana judge ruled Friday that William Perry Pendley, the effective director of the Bureau of Land Management, had failed to get Senate approval and had stayed beyond the limit allowed under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. As a result, his actions while at BLM for more than a year might be invalid, throwing into doubt a wide range of decisions.
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Sep 27, 2020
Rio Tinto's demolition of a 46,000-year-old Australian site has highlighted the need to better protect Aboriginal land rights.
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Sep 27, 2020
U.S. companies have been notified that they will now need a license to export certain technology to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., according to a copy of the Commerce Department letter reviewed by The Washington Post.
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Sep 26, 2020
There's reason to be optimistic that the luxury goods industry will rebound from Covid-19, but expect an M&A frenzy when it does.
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Sep 26, 2020
Hot technology startups have traditionally raised the cash they needed to break into the big time through initial public offerings. IPOs became synonymous with instant wealth for company founders and those lucky enough to buy those shiny new shares. Then music-streaming service Spotify Technology SA went a different route, going public through a method called direct listing. Why a direct listing? While Spotify didn't need new cash, its investors wanted to cash out. Workplace messaging platform S
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Sep 26, 2020
A UN treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons has no chance whatsoever of achieving its stated goal. We should support it all the more.
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Sep 25, 2020
You can scan any website for privacy — trackers, cookies, and even keyloggers — with the free Blacklight from The Markup.
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Sep 25, 2020
Hot technology startups have traditionally raised the cash they needed to break into the big time through initial public offerings. IPOs became synonymous with instant wealth for company founders and those lucky enough to buy those shiny new shares. Then music-streaming service Spotify Technology SA went a different route, going public through a method called direct listing. Why a direct listing? While Spotify didn't need new cash, its investors wanted to cash out. Workplace messaging platform S
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Sep 25, 2020
State officials hope an agreement will act as a firewall against challenges from President Trump on the legitimacy of vote-by-mail.
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Sep 25, 2020
Good writing can rescue you from routine.
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Sep 25, 2020
What happens to the competition if a player tests positive for covid-19? Riot says it hasn't yet decided.
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Sep 25, 2020
Apollo is facing off with former LBO Caesars Entertainment for U.K. bookie William Hill. The last time it got into such a situation, it ended badly.
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Sep 25, 2020
Governments facing a choice between supporting jobs or letting the economy take its course in the pandemic are frequently opting to back their workers, even if measures may only offer temporary relief. U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak's introduction of a new six-month scheme to subsidize wages of people in part-time work, even as an earlier program was being phased out, is just one example of a global phenomenon.
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Sep 25, 2020
Even as the trade war was crimping the flow of goods between the U.S. and China, the Chinese government was opening doors in another arena: Inviting in more foreign banks, insurance providers and other financial services companies. China has also been making it easier for foreigners to buy its stocks and bonds — something many fund managers are required to do now that major index compilers are including Chinese assets in their gauges -- to the growing dismay of some U.S. politicians. The take-up
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Sep 25, 2020
A new survey lays bare the intangible consequences of illness, lockdown and quarantine on the world's children.
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Sep 25, 2020
Shareholder proposals from small investors are credited with pushing big companies to improve their record over the past decade on social issues such as climate change, social justice and human rights.
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Sep 25, 2020
New legislation in India aims to fundamentally overhaul the way farm goods are produced and sold in the country of 1.3 billion people, almost half of whom depend on agriculture for their livelihood. A decades-old system of farmers selling mainly through state-run wholesale markets is being opened up in what Prime Minister Narendra Modi says marks a watershed moment that will help make India more self-reliant. Opposition parties and even one of Modi's allies say it will leave those working the la
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Sep 25, 2020
HOUSE OF THE WEEK | The Seilheimers prepare to leave their stately hilltop haven in Orange, Va.
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Sep 25, 2020
Departure of the American motorcycle icon reflects poorly on both company and Modi's economic program.
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Sep 25, 2020
Before the coronavirus outbreak, 2020 was to be a crucial year for automakers selling electric vehicles in China, with several industry titans opening factories and rolling out new models. The country already has more EVs than any other, thanks to government policies encouraging production and generous subsidies to help consumers buy them. But sales had been sputtering even before the pandemic due to a slowing economy. While electrification may be an irreversible trend, the shift is slow.
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Sep 25, 2020
Black parents feel it's very important that their children earn a college degree, Michelle Singletary writes. But a degree doesn't necessarily confer the same advantages it does for Whites.
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Sep 25, 2020
Governments facing a choice between supporting jobs or letting the economy take its course in the pandemic are frequently opting to back their workers, even if measures may only offer temporary relief. U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak's introduction of a new six-month scheme to subsidize wages of people in part-time work, even as an earlier program was being phased out, is just one example of a global phenomenon.
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Sep 25, 2020
The GM-Nikola fiasco should make investors take a harder look at where the value really lies.
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Sep 25, 2020
Bank executives are worried about continued remote working. After all, being away from the office is bound to affect how employees behave.
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Sep 25, 2020
The luxury company's debut debt will pay out a penalty if Chanel fails to hit its green targets. That's to be applauded.
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Sep 25, 2020
Citizens of Chile are scheduled to vote Oct. 25 on a referendum that may clear the way for a re-write of the country's constitution, a key demand stemming from a period of civil unrest in late 2019. Polls show support for a new constitution at about 70%, though the issue is provoking acrimonious debate. For those on the left, overhauling the charter drawn up during the 1973-1990 military dictatorship is the only way to hold together a nation riven by months of violent protests and secure improve
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Sep 25, 2020
Eight months after the coronavirus outbreak was declared a global health emergency, countries around the world have seen vastly different results from their efforts to fight the pandemic. The outcomes have been driven by factors both in and out of the control of individual nations, with some common threads emerging:
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Sep 25, 2020
As American growers harvested summer crops, the migration of seasonal farmworkers who were infected with the virus represented a growing health and humanitarian crisis.
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Sep 25, 2020
For businesses such as Lemonade, whose executives appeared in branded masks for their IPO, it's a chance to demonstrate their socially conscious identity
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Sep 24, 2020
Weeks of backroom talks have only led to an increasingly bitter feud.
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Sep 24, 2020
The plan calls for "buffer seating," sanitizer stations in common rooms and one-way hallway traffic patterns to avoid "bottlenecks"
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Sep 24, 2020
TOWN SQUARE | In the District, the median household income covers 13.5 percent of the median home price.
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Sep 24, 2020
Experts on authoritarianism have expressed alarm over the use of federal powers and agencies to monitor, attack and punish perceived political opponents.
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Sep 24, 2020
A record 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. But some companies pledged to hold off on job cuts, and are offering workers a financial cushion.
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Sep 24, 2020
Financial records show that a number of publicly traded firms paid dividends and bought back stock after receiving taxpayer-backed SBA loans.
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Sep 24, 2020
Discovery Inc. is quietly nailing guilty-pleasure reality-TV programming on its TLC and HGTV channels. Netflix and HBO should take notice.
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