Welcome to The Campaign Moment. (Did a friend forward this to you? If so, sign up here.) It’s now definitely, assuredly — if not yet officially — general election time (that will happen later summer at the party conventions). Both President Biden and former president Donald Trump secured enough delegates Tuesday to win their parties’ […]Read More
Welcome to The Campaign Moment. (Did a friend forward this to you? If so, sign up here.) It’s now definitely, assuredly — if not yet officially — general election time (that will happen later summer at the party conventions). Both President Biden and former president Donald Trump secured enough delegates Tuesday to win their parties’ […]Read More
The Body Shop is shutting down its U.S. operations after filing for bankruptcy. The U.K.-based chain filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in New York last week, according to a court filing. The filing means the company’s U.S. operation will sell off certain assets to pay back its creditors. Earlier this month, the beauty store confirmed […]Read More
More than a year out from the most brutal round of tech layoffs since the dot-com bubble burst, workers are reckoning with the loss of what some saw as airtight job security in an industry that’s still downsizing. The tech industry recorded about 34,000 layoffs in January, the most in a single month since January […]Read More
President Biden and Donald Trump on Tuesday both secured their parties’ nominations for the presidency, formalizing a general-election rematch that many voters dread but that had appeared virtually inevitable for months. Biden won a critical mass of delegates to the Democratic National Convention with a victory in Georgia, hours before Trump clinched the Republican delegates […]Read More
BEIJING — In the United States, Donald Trump and Joe Biden have launched presidential campaigns focused on how different they and their leadership styles are. But China sees very little contrast between the two of them. Nearly every Chinese foreign policy expert agrees that neither is a great option for Beijing. Whether these experts, when […]Read More
President Biden heads to Milwaukee on Wednesday to highlight an economic strategy aimed at revitalizing communities that for decades have been cut off from the nation’s growing prosperity. Biden is scheduled to speak at a Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee in a largely Black and Latino neighborhood where 17,000 homes and 1,000 businesses […]Read More
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has selected a running mate and plans to announce that person in the next two weeks, according to someone familiar with the process. Kennedy, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of a former U.S. attorney general, left the Democratic Party last year in protest of […]Read More
The House on Tuesday was speeding toward a vote Wednesday on a bill that could lead to the forced sale or nationwide ban of TikTok, reigniting the battle over a massively popular video app that has come to epitomize Washington anxieties over the growing power of social media and China’s influence. The legislation is widely […]Read More
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has selected a running mate and plans to announce that person in the next two weeks, according to someone familiar with the process. Kennedy, the nephew of former president John F. Kennedyand son of a former U.S. attorney general, left the Democratic Party last year in protest over […]Read More