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China’s Economy Hits Slowest Pace in a Decade Slowdowns in investment and retail sales are cooling one of the world’s most important growth engines. As the trade war with the U.S. intensifies, the downturn could get worse. Image A market in Beijing in October. Chinese shoppers are spending less and ...

Caring for Aging Parents While the Broker Hits the Fund With Commissions Image Tracey Dewart helped oversee her father’s brokerage account. A close look at one monthly statement led her to uncover a pattern of unauthorized trades and excessive commissions.CreditCreditSara Naomi Lewkowicz for The New York Times By Tara Siegel ...

Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of up to 175 miles an hour, continued to tear through the Caribbean on Thursday, heading for the Bahamas and the northern coast of Cuba, according to officials. The death toll from the storm was at least seven as of Thursday ...

Mark A. Boyer, executive director of the International Studies Association, would ordinarily spend this week pulling together the final details for his group’s annual convention, which usually draws about 6,500 social scientists and academics and kicks off in two weeks in Baltimore. But this is not an ordinary year. The ...

Mediator By JIM RUTENBERG CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump’s coronation as the Republican nominee for president on Tuesday night was a signal accomplishment not only for the candidate, but also for the man who commands the most important control room in American politics: the Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. Mr. ...

By NOAM SCHEIBER and BRIAN X. CHEN April 13, 2016 The roughly 36,000 Verizon workers who went on strike Wednesday as a contract dispute entered its ninth month have brought into sharp relief one of the most fundamental questions facing the United States: Can an economy in the throes of dizzying technological change be a ...

Vietnam’s economy expanded 6.68 percent, beating the government’s target and climbing to the highest level in five years, according to new data released by the General Statistics Office. “The economy has clearly recovered,” the office said in a report Saturday. Government leaders set a GDP growth target of 6.2 percent at the ...