Identity Theft Case Backlog at IRS Leads to Delayed Tax Refunds
Rampant identity theft has overwhelmed the Internal Revenue Service, resulting in a backlog of 500,000 unresolved fraud cases, leaving taxpayers without refunds and credits that...
What Happens to Biden’s Student Loan Repayment Plan After Court Rulings?
President Biden’s new student loan repayment plan was hobbled on Monday after two federal judges in Kansas and Missouri issued separate rulings that temporarily blocked...
Women Are Paying for Birth Control When They Shouldn’t Have To
Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, chair of the Senate health committee, called on a government watchdog to investigate why insurance companies are still...
Behind the Unrest in Kenya, a Staggering and Painful National Debt
The immediate trigger for the raging protest that gripped Kenya’s capital city on Tuesday was a raft of tax increases — additional shillings that ordinary...
Why Many C.E.O.s Are Silent on the Biden-Trump Rematch
Quiet in the C-suite Three years ago, corporate leaders openly spoke out against Donald Trump over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack....
Off to Norway, With Three A.I. Travel Assistants
The assignment was clear: Test how well artificial intelligence could plan a trip to Norway, a place I’d never been. So I did none of...
Celebrating the Berkshires’ Housatonic River
For much of my childhood in the Berkshires region of western Massachusetts, I didn’t give a hoot about the Housatonic River. In contrast to the...
For American Brands Worried About China, Is India the Future?
Melissa & Doug had a situation. For decades, the American toy brand had leaned heavily on factories in China to make its products — wooden...
Volkswagen Will Invest Up to $5 Billion in Rivian
Volkswagen, the German automaker, said on Tuesday that it would invest up to $5 billion in Rivian, a maker of electric trucks that has struggled...
Volkswagen Will Invest Up to $5 Billion in Rivian
Volkswagen, the German automaker, said on Tuesday that it would invest up to $5 billion in Rivian, a maker of electric trucks that has struggled...
NFL Sunday Ticket Lawsuit: Why TV Deals Are So Valuable
A pillar of the N.F.L.’s meteoric rise over the past six decades has been its strategy of making nearly all games available mostly free to...
Boeing Is Said to Offer Stock in Deal for Spirit AeroSystems
In a bid to acquire a key supplier, Boeing has shifted how it plans to pay for the deal, according to two people familiar with...
Inside Nvidia’s $500 Billion Wipeout
Nvidia’s fall to earth It looks like another volatile day for Nvidia shareholders. And given the company’s enormous influence on the entire S&P 500, they...
Microsoft Teams Bundle Hit With E.U. Antitrust Charges
European Union regulators on Tuesday charged Microsoft with breaking antitrust rules by bundling its Teams video conferencing and collaboration software with a suite of other...