The signs inside Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport told the story on Wednesday morning: “Real ID, Enhanced, Passport” with an arrow pointing to the right, and “All Others” with an arrow pointing to the left. After years of warnings and postponements, “all others” are no longer enough to make it past airport security checkpoints. Travelers…
The National Institutes of Health will no longer allow American scientists to direct its funding to research partners overseas, casting doubt on the future of studies on subjects including malaria and childhood cancer. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new director of the N.I.H., announced the policy on Thursday, the same day Dr. Matthew J. Memoli, the…
Spend enough time in San Francisco, peering into the cyberpunk future, and you may find that weird things start seeming normal. Fleets of self-driving cars? Yawn. A start-up trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth? Sure, why not. Summoning a godlike artificial intelligence that could wipe out humanity? Ho-hum. You may even find yourself, as I…
When Congress raised the threshold for imported goods to enter the United States tax-free to $800 from $200 nearly a decade ago, it threw open the door to the American consumer market. Chinese companies rushed in. First on platforms like eBay and Amazon, and then on apps like Shein and Temu, exporters funneled the products…
Andre Agassi makes his pickleball debut as he competes with Anna Leigh Waters in a Minto U.S. Open Pickleball Championships mixed pro doubles match against Tristan Dussault and Stevie Petrpouleas at East Naples Community Park in Naples, Fla., on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. Agassi and Waters won 2-1. As Andre Agassi’s partner, Anna Leigh Waters…
By Reuters Published May 2, 2025 As the United States ends its tariff exemption for small parcels on Friday, several retailers have already halted shipments to American customers. Others are seeking temporary workarounds, hoping the new tariff rate may eventually be revised. U.S. ends tariff break: Shein, Space NK and others react to 145% hikes….
The Justice Department on Thursday accused three of the nation’s largest health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks over several years to insurance brokers that steered people into private Medicare plans. Federal prosecutors also accused two of the insurers of colluding with brokers to discriminate against people with disabilities, by…
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published April 29, 2025 Major apparel-producing nations—Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia—are increasingly turning to American cotton purchases as a bargaining tool in negotiations to avoid U.S. tariffs on clothing imports. While each country operates under different economic conditions, they share a common strategy that may face hurdles, including limited U.S. production…
By AFP Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published April 26, 2025 French companies exposed to the U.S. market are taking action to manage rising tariffs, using price hikes, production shifts, and cost-cutting measures to protect their margins. Bernard Arnault and Donald Trump in 2017. – Photo de Nicholas Kamm / AFP Price hikes to absorb…
Federal health officials plan to cut funding to the Women’s Health Initiative, effectively shuttering one of the largest and longest studies of women’s health ever carried out. Its findings changed medical practice and helped shape clinical guidelines, preventing hundreds of thousands of cases of cardiovascular disease and breast cancer. The study, which began in the…
