U.S. and China Hail Progress, but Does That Mean There’s a Trade Deal?
Deal or no deal? That’s what financial markets and businesses are waiting to learn. A weekend of productive trade talks in Geneva between the United States and China resulted in…
Asia Stocks Rise on Hope for Lower Tariffs After U.S.-China Talks
Stocks in Asia gained on Monday after weekend talks signaled that progress had been made in easing trade tensions between the United States and China. Benchmark indexes in Japan and…
Trump Plan Would Tie Some Drug Prices to What Peer Nations Pay
President Trump will sign an executive order on Monday aimed at lowering some drug prices in the United States by aligning them with what other wealthy countries pay, he said…
Rodrigo Duterte Is Expected to Again Become Mayor of Davao City
Six weeks ago, a van piled high with flowers pulled up at the International Criminal Court’s detention center in The Hague. The court also received deliveries of birthday cards. Lots…
Families of Sept. 11 Victims Urge Lutnick to Help Extradite Saudi National
The families of some of the victims killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks who worked for the bond trading company of Howard Lutnick, now the commerce secretary, are urging…
Why Patients Are Being Forced to Switch to a 2nd-Choice Obesity Drug
Tens of thousands of Americans will soon be forced by their heath insurance to switch from one popular obesity drug to another that produces less weight loss. It is the…
William H. Luers, Diplomat Who Backed Czech Dissident Leader, Dies at 95
Mr. Luers doubled the museum’s endowment, modernized its financial systems, enlarged its staff to 1,800 full-time employees, secured the $1 billion Walter Annenberg collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings…
California Bus Crash Leaves at Least 1 Dead and 32 Injured
A crash involving a tour bus and an S.U.V. in Los Angeles early on Sunday morning killed at least one person and left 32 other people injured, the authorities said.…
As Cease-Fire Seems to Hold, India and Pakistan Both Claim Victory
The fragile truce between India and Pakistan appeared to be largely holding on its first full day after some initial skirmishing, as both countries turned on Sunday to making the…
Why America’s ‘Beautiful Beef’ Is a Trade War Sore Point for Europe
Hendrik Dierendonck, a second-generation butcher who has become, as he describes it, “world famous in Belgium” for his curated local beef, thinks Europe’s way of raising cattle results in varied…