A powerful storm kills dozens in northeastern U.S. The remnants of Hurricane Ida killed at least 43 people in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut and left more than 150,000 homes without power. States of emergency were still in effect as of midday yesterday, as officials sought to get a handle on the damage. […]

This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The Supreme Court late Wednesday night took a break from its summer recess to allow the most restrictive abortion law in the nation to take effect in Texas, raising alarm among people who support abortion […]

More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “Justices’ Slience Lets Texas Halt Most Abortions” (front page, Sept. 2): The Supreme Court’s refusal to block the Texas law effectively banning abortions and deputizing private citizens to enforce the ban is an unprecedented intrusion into the constitutional rights of women. It is, as one justice noted, […]

FILE PHOTO: A view of the UniCredit headquarters in Milan, Italy March 2, 2020. REUTERS/Yara Nardi/File PhotoMILAN (Reuters) – UniCredit CEO told the Italian bank’s staff that the due diligence process on rival lender Banca Monte dei Paschi was proceeding as agreed with Italy’s economy ministry, according to a memo seen by Reuters. Chief Executive […]

I never met my father. When Sirhan Sirhan murdered him in the kitchen hallway of the Ambassador Hotel in front of scores of witnesses, my mother was three months pregnant with me. Of my 10 older brothers and sisters, Kathleen, the eldest, was 16 and Douglas, the youngest, was little more than 1. I would […]

(Reuters) – Checkr said on Wednesday it raised $250 million in capital in a late-stage funding round led by private equity investment firm Durable Capital, valuing the human resource technology company at $4.6 billion. New investors Fidelity Management & Research Co and Franklin Templeton participated in the series E round, which also saw investments from […]

By Adam Tooze Mr. Tooze is an economic historian and the author of the forthcoming “Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy,” from which this essay is adapted. Almost two years since the novel coronavirus began to circulate through the human population, what lessons have we learned? And what do those lessons portend for future […]

Travel restrictions are disrupting international trade and holding back recovery from the trillions of dollars the pandemic has added to world debt. To stem the damage and open up the world safely, we need a global vaccine certification system — an undertaking that will require the political leadership that only the Group of 20 can […]

Our order was ready. I headed to the counter and retrieved the fried seafood platter for two, a pornographic avalanche of crispy calamari, shrimp, scallops. There were whole belly clams. There were oysters and codfish, and a mountain of onion rings. There were French fries and homemade coleslaw, and ketchup. There was tartar sauce. This […]

Everybody’s going carbon neutral these days, from the big boys — Amazon, Microsoft, Unilever, Starbucks, JetBlue — to your favorite outdoor brand, even ski resorts. Probably your neighborhood coffee roaster, too. What’s not to like? Becoming carbon neutral means cutting greenhouse gas emissions as much as you can, then offsetting what you can’t avoid with […]