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Crypto traders blame bitcoin’s Tuesday tumble partly on glitches at exchanges and a $44 million sale order
A wild day on crypto exchanges is being blamed on a raft of glitches and reports of a big sale…
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Taliban Unveil New Afghan Government
KABUL—Four days before the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks that triggered the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban…
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Opinion | Biden Needs a Win on Infrastructure
August was a month of disasters for Joe Biden. September will be a month of decisions—big ones—about his domestic policy…
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Chinese Authorities Drop Case Against Former Alibaba Manager Accused of Sexual Assault
TAIPEI—Chinese authorities said the actions of a manager with e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. accused of sexually assaulting a co-worker didn’t…
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Californian man, 79, sentenced to 4 years for charging small businesses and charities hugely inflated prices for printer toner
It was the worst kind of paper jam. A 79-year-old toner salesman was sentenced to four years in prison for…
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Student-loan borrowers have had $37 million in wages unfairly garnished, despite COVID-related pause on collections
Borrowers were still having their wages seized over defaulted student debt, months after the government instructed the student-loan industry to…
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Opinion | Reclaiming Our Independence From Big Tech
Google can swing an election. Facebook knows more about you than your spouse does. Amazon ’s Alexa can record your…
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Opinion | Identity Politics Goes Global
Preoccupied by the pandemic, climate change and the intensifying rivalry between the U.S. and China, policy makers and pundits aren’t…
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Opinion | Is Moderna the Tortoise in the Vaccine Race?
President Trump’s Operation Warp speed was often likened to the Manhattan Project, but this time the Americans and the Germans…
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Opinion | Notable & Quotable: Tearing Down Princeton
Free speech, but only to supply students ‘with the tools with which they can tear down this place.’ Source
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Two Young Afghan Sisters’ Journey Across Afghanistan to Escape the Taliban
Taliban fighters armed with AK-47s fired warning shots over the heaving crowd at the entrance to Kabul airport. Fourteen-year-old Maryam…
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Disney’s ‘Shang-Chi’ Flies to a Record Labor Day at the Box Office
Walt Disney Co. ’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” broke records for the highest-grossing film for the…
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Taliban Claim to Have Conquered Last Pocket of Resistance in Afghanistan
The Taliban claimed Monday to have overcome the last pocket of resistance in Afghanistan, releasing images they said showed the…
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Opinion | BlackRock’s China Blunder
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has begun a major initiative in China. On Aug. 30 it launched a set…
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Directors of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily Publisher Quit, Citing National-Security Crackdown
HONG KONG—The four remaining directors of a publishing company that recently closed the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper founded by jailed…
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Instacart Goes Deeper Into Digital Advertising as Grocery Delivery Slows
Instacart Inc. wants to do more than just deliver your yogurt and snacks—it wants to advertise them, too. The nine-year-old…
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Chinese Tech Giant JD.com Founder Richard Liu to Step Back From Daily Business
Chinese e-commerce group JD.com Inc. named its first president Monday, paving the way for founder and Chief Executive Richard Liu…
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Is the U.S. stock market open on Labor Day?
It is unofficially summer’s last hurrah for Wall Street investors. U.S. financial markets will be closed for Labor Day on…
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Deliveries of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner likely delayed until late October
Deliveries of Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner will likely remain halted until at least late October as the plane maker has been unable…
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Inside Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan: Warnings, Doubts but Little Change
In June, as security worsened in Afghanistan, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan began to raise questions about the rapid pace…
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