Wall Street has spent months bidding up Walmart shares, but investors are bracing for a more measured tone when the retailer delivers its annual outlook alongside quarterly results. The key reason is…
U.S. manufacturing activity showed a noticeable pulse of life in January, with factory production posting its largest monthly gain in 11 months—a result that offers some optimism for a sector that has…
Tom Homan, the Trump administration’s “border czar,” forcefully dismissed Democratic lawmakers’ demands to overhaul U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even as backlash grows over aggressive enforcement tactics and Congress remains deadlocked over…
President Trump said the U.S. government will step in to coordinate the response to a major sewage leak into the Potomac River, describing the incident as an environmental emergency that demands federal…
The crypto firm Nexo says it is returning to the United States, three years after it exited the market following a high-profile clash with regulators that ended in a $45 million settlement.…
Physicist Nishant Sahdev argues that the speed of scientific discovery has become a strategic asset—and that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the “super-accelerator” that will decide which nations lead and which become…
A new Republican-backed bill in the U.S. House would rewrite key parts of the country’s main chemical safety law in ways that public-health and environmental advocates say would sharply reduce protections for…
More than three dozen Democratic senators have opened an inquiry into a major policy change at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that could reshape how the government justifies (and potentially weakens) air-pollution…
Donald Trump’s administration has revoked the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” the scientific determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare and that underpinned federal climate rules for more than a decade.…
The United States government abruptly pulled an updated Pentagon list of Chinese companies allegedly tied to China’s military shortly after it appeared online, in a move that surprised both markets and policy…
