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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said there’s a chance to negotiate a broad trade agreement with India that addresses tariff imbalances as well as thorny issues for Washington like the South Asian nation’s purchase of Russian weapons and involvement in a BRICS push to dethrone the dollar.

Intuitive Machines revealed its Athena moon lander mission has ended after tipping over on its side. The Houston-based company has now suffered two landing mishaps in two years.

A slide in Tesla Inc. on Friday is capping off a round trip of epic proportions in the company’s shares. Expectations that the electric-vehicle maker would benefit from CEO Elon Musk’s close relationship with President Donald Trump made its stock one of the top gainers following the Nov. 5 election. That bet, however, has been no match for growing anxiety about Tesla’s core business of selling cars.

The U.S. Small Business Administration will shutter its Seattle regional office due to the city's immigrant protections and plans to cut off benefits to noncitizen business owners, marking the latest move in the Trump administration's dramatic anti-immigration campaign.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s frenzied tariff barrage has been marked by reversals and faulty rollouts, baffling U.S. trading partners and businesses while raising questions about the aims of his signature policy. During his six weeks in office, Trump imposed sweeping Canada and Mexico tariffs, only to pull back with exemptions and deferrals. Confusion has surrounded new import taxes ...

In 2019, GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida spoke at an elegant event celebrating the work of the Ronald Reagan-founded International Republican Institute, saying he was “so proud” to support the group and hailing fellow hawks Nikki Haley and Sen. John McCain in the audience. But as secretary of state, Rubio did not spare the group from President Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign aid and dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Two active-duty U.S. soldiers stationed in Washington state and one former soldier in Oregon were arrested on Thursday, accused of passing classified information including weapons documents and hard drives to contacts in China as recently as December, according to federal court documents unsealed on Wednesday and Thursday.

Walgreens Boots Alliance is being acquired by a private-equity firm for about $10 billion, the retail pharmacy giant announced Thursday.

Humans are so creative, so persistent. Take thieves, frauds and scammers. As long as there are dollars in someone’s bank account, there are other people devising ways to siphon those dollars and claim them as their own. The Internal Revenue Service is on to them. In its list of “dirty dozen” tax scams for 2025, the agency tells taxpayers how to protect themselves from fraud. It also warns ...

Not all construction jobs involve a saw or a hammer. Some are project managers, engineers or architects who do much of their work in an office.

Jessica Perkins thought she was safe from being fired because she was no longer considered a probationary employee.

From 1975: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Bunker Hill Co. were conducting separate studies showing how much lead the company’s smelter was releasing into the air – and the results diverged wildly.