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The PlayStation Network, which users of the Sony PlayStation platform rely on to play games, download content, and access apps, started working again Saturday night after a 24-hour outage that left...

AI chatbots are fun, sometimes even useful, and, until recently, endowed with the uncanny ability to mesmerize investors and fuel the U.S. stock market. However, the excellent performance of a new,...

The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday that it had temporarily stopped accepting packages from China and Hong Kong, hours after an order by President Donald Trump took effect that ended duty-free...

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed executive orders imposing sweeping tariffs on the country’s three largest trading partners, a move that risks unleashing a damaging trade war. Trade wars...

Almost all automakers are going to feel a pinch from the new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on Saturday on goods imported from Canada, Mexico, and China. Auto manufacturers ship tens of...

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Tariffs in the United States date back to 1789, when Alexander Hamilton saw them as a solution to two crises facing the newborn republic: a desperate need to raise revenue and a...

After a deadly fire swept through a ski lodge in Turkey last Tuesday, killing at least 79 people, multiple surviving guests and hotel workers said they did not hear fire alarms and, in their desperate...

A Canadian man says his wife and 8-year-old son died because of food poisoning at an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic, according to the civil suit filed at the Superior Court of Justice...

For decades, airlines, regulators, lawmakers and others have tried to make flying safer, creating layers of protection intended to prevent tragedies. But that apparatus failed Wednesday, when a...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to impose stiff tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China on Saturday, a move aimed at pressuring America’s largest trading partners into accepting more...

President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda has revealed a crucial but little-recognized truth. Deportation is not unilateral. It requires an agreement between two countries — one that’s...

Growth slowed but remained resilient at the end of 2024, leaving the U.S. economy on solid footing heading into a new year — and a new presidential administration — that is full of uncertainty. ...

SAN FRANCISCO — After Apple unveiled artificial intelligence features for iPhones last year, the company’s stock soared in anticipation that the new abilities would provide a jolt to a stale...

PRAYAGRAJ, India — The predawn stampede at the massive Hindu festival in northern India created havoc. But order was restored swiftly in the next few hours. On Wednesday morning, ambulances cut...

SEATTLE — Investors worried about how much money big technology companies are spending on artificial intelligence did not get much relief from Microsoft when it reported its latest financial results...

Before Wednesday’s crash, there had been several close calls involving U.S. commercial airlines, a 2023 New York Times investigation found. Such near catastrophes were happening, on average,...

In his first week in office, President Donald Trump tried to browbeat governments across the world into ending the flow of drugs into America, accepting planes full of deported migrants, halting wars,...

LONDON — New Zealand relaxed its visa requirements for remote workers Monday, as the country looked to spur economic growth by courting “digital nomads,” the skilled professionals who can work...

The video is grainy but ominous: Three hooded figures, clambering over one another to tug at a heavy access door of the Drents Museum — an art and history museum in Assen, Netherlands — and then...

The family arrived at the ornately carved temple in western India bearing a special sweet of dried milk and clarified butter. It was a desperate offering for their son’s safety: He had just crossed...