Mark Carney Becomes Canada’s Prime Minister at Crucial Moment
Mark Carney, who has never held elected office but has a long résumé in economic policymaking and investing, was sworn in Friday morning as Canada’s 24th prime minister. He will…
Senators Grill Dr. Oz on Medicaid Cuts and Medicare Changes
In a hearing on Friday, senators pressed Dr. Mehmet Oz, the TV celebrity nominated to head Medicare and Medicaid, on Republican-led proposals that would significantly affect the health care coverage…
Carl Lundstrom, Who Financed the Pirate Bay, Dies in Plane Crash
Carl Lundstrom, the heir to a Swedish crisp bread fortune who financed the Pirate Bay, a notorious file-sharing service that was popular in the mid-2000s, was killed on Monday in…
Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming
Senator Chuck Schumer’s sudden decision on Thursday to support a Republican-written bill to avert a government shutdown so enraged his fellow Democrats that some were already talking about primary challenges…
Science Amid Chaos: What Worked During the Pandemic? What Failed?
Until 2020, few Americans needed to think about how viruses spread or how the human immune system works. The pandemic offered a painful crash course. Sometimes, it seemed that the…
Overlooked No More: Beulah Henry, Inventor With an Endless Imagination
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. From the time Beulah Henry was a…
An Elon Musk Friend, Antonio Gracias, Joins His Effort on Social Security
A private equity investor who is one of Elon Musk’s closest confidants has taken a new role in the Social Security Administration, a development that could be politically combustible given…
Dr. Sheldon Greenfield, Who Exposed Gaps in Health Care, Dies at 86
Dr. Sheldon Greenfield, whose pioneering research found that older patients with breast and pancreatic cancer got subpar treatment and that patients who grill their doctors during consultations receive better care,…
How Much Should Weight Loss Drugs Like Wegovy and Zepbound Cost?
It’s easy to make a medical case for blockbuster weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, which have been shown to prevent heart attacks and strokes and save lives. But…
Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready.
Here are some things I believe about artificial intelligence: I believe that over the past several years, A.I. systems have started surpassing humans in a number of domains — math,…