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Natalia Piper was busy running her general contracting business in Los Angeles when a random message popped up on WhatsApp in June.“Someone has ordered me to post a negative review on your...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — The Hilton hotel was still in flames. Carcasses of government buildings gaped, their innards exposed. The few motorcycles and cars that dared to break a curfew had to navigate a...

MUNICH — German carmakers are using their home-field advantage at Europe’s largest auto show this week to present new models designed to rival their Chinese competitors and attract American...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he found out about Israel’s airstrike in Qatar from the US military, rather than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he often describes as...

SAN FRANCISCO — As inflation has risen, some businesses have flourished by selling more for less. But with its newest iPhone, Apple is taking the opposite approach and offering less for more.On...

Oil prices rose strongly Monday even though a group of eight oil-producing countries announced Sunday that they would be increasing supplies.The countries, led by Saudi Arabia, said in a news release...

Since the beginning of the industrial age, the global economy has required more and more fossil fuels — coal, oil and gas — to power growth.It is increasingly clear, however, that China’s...

Powerful new evidence suggests that following the Mediterranean diet while also cutting calories and increasing physical activity reduces the risk of Type 2 diabetes.A large randomized trial in Spain...

Eugenia Cheng always wanted to be a mathematician. But not in the way some might think.Once a tenured professor at the University of Sheffield in England, Cheng resigned in 2016 and has since taught...

Owen Monroe was born blue. The arteries in his heart that transport blood to the lungs and the rest of the body were fused together, leaving only a single, faulty pipeline. Within a few hours, he was...

Frequent-flyer programs are becoming one of the most prized assets in aviation.Loyalty programs are now indispensable to some airlines, generating healthy profits in good times and blunting losses in...

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi, let down by his once “true friend” President Donald Trump over choking tariffs on India, clasped hands this past week with the leaders of Russia and China, he...

Tesla’s board Friday proposed a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire as long as he meets a series of very ambitious corporate goals.Musk, already the world’s...

ROME — Food delivery riders spend their workdays dodging all kinds of hazards. They race through traffic, forever on deadline to deliver poke bowls and pizzas for only a few euros per ride. But this...

ChatGPT is smart, humanlike and available 24/7. That has attracted 700 million users, some of whom are leaning on it for emotional support.But the artificially intelligent chatbot is not a therapist...

Google Search is considered to be the technology industry’s greatest business. It allows Alphabet, Google’s parent company, to generate more profit than any other U.S. company, including Apple,...

Google must hand over its search results and some data to rival companies but does not need to break itself up by selling its Chrome web browser, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.The decision, by...

When much of the country is still sweltering in summer heat, it’s time to think about holiday travel.Airfares are notoriously volatile and never less so than during the holidays, which are among the...

When Adam Raine died in April at age 16, some of his friends did not initially believe it.Adam loved basketball, Japanese anime, video games, and dogs — going so far as to borrow a dog for a day...

Madeeha Bawar Ali sobbed quietly on the rooftop of her neighbor, as men gathered around to look out over the devastation brought by floods that their city in Pakistan had not seen in nearly 40...