The Biden administration unveiled rules Tuesday for its “Chips for America” program to build up semiconductor research and manufacturing in the United States, beginning a new rush toward federal funding in the...
Read moreSocial policy through semiconductors When the bipartisan CHIPS Act passed last year to provide $52 billion to promote chip-building in America, trade experts hailed it as the most significant investment in industrial...
Read moreWASHINGTON — Two House Democrats plan on Tuesday to introduce a bill to tighten federal regulation of trains carrying hazardous materials, the first legislative proposal to emerge in Congress since the derailment of...
Read moreThe document also described how Paul D. Ryan, a former Republican speaker of the House and current member of the Fox Corporation board of directors, said in his deposition that he had...
Read moreTD Bank, one of Canada’s biggest lenders, said Monday it had agreed to pay $1.2 billion to settle claims arising from a giant Ponzi scheme involving Stanford Financial, a scandal that erupted...
Read moreA pandemic hypothesis raises the economic stakesThe U.S. Energy Department’s conclusion that an accidental lab leak in China probably caused the coronavirus pandemic, disclosed over the weekend, could have wide-ranging consequences at...
Read moreHundreds of newspapers across the country will stop running the “Dilbert” comic strip after its creator said on a YouTube livestream that Black people were “a hate group” and that white people...
Read moreWhen Microsoft added a chatbot to its Bing search engine this month, people noticed it was offering up all sorts of bogus information about the Gap, Mexican nightlife and the singer Billie...
Read moreDuring the height of the pandemic, hungry and housebound customers clamored for Home Run Inn Pizza’s frozen thin-crust pies. The company did everything to oblige.It kept its machines chugging during lunch breaks...
Read moreSara Fernandes was 26 when she got her first credit card.“It felt like free money,” Ms. Fernandes said. “Like suddenly I could buy stuff and not worry about paying for it. That’s...
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