PG&E Reaches $13.5 Billion Deal With Wildfire Victims
After months of tense negotiations, Pacific Gas & Electric and lawyers for victims of wildfires that killed dozens of people and destroyed tens of thousands...
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Uber Says 3,045 Sexual Assaults Were Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber said on Thursday that it had reports of 3,045 sexual assaults during its rides in the United States in 2018, with...
How Google’s Founders Slowly Stepped Away From Their Company
SAN FRANCISCO — About a month after Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016, Larry Page, the Google co-founder, was summoned along with other...
How Huawei Lost the Heart of the Chinese Public
On the first anniversary of her arrest in Canada, Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of the Chinese telecom giant Huawei, issued an open letter...
China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West
TUMXUK, China — In a dusty city in the Xinjiang region on China’s western frontier, the authorities are testing the rules of science. With a...
Trump’s Trade Deal Steals a Page From Democrats’ Playbook
WASHINGTON — House Democrats return to Washington on Monday facing a difficult choice: Should they hand President Trump a victory in the midst of a...
Jeffrey Epstein, Blackmail and a Lucrative ‘Hot List’
Soon after the sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein died in August, a mysterious man met with two prominent lawyers. Towering, barrel-chested and wild-bearded, he was a...
Black Friday 2019: The Holiday Shopping Season Begins
Shopping has become easier, and more fun Hoping to find Gucci in the bargain bin Five things to avoid on Black Friday In Europe, mixed...
Modern Black Friday Work Force: Postal Clerk, Influencer, Robot
A postal employee who processes one Amazon return after another. A part-time stockroom clerk who works spotty hours for minimum wage and no health benefits....
Father’s Nazi Past Overtakes German Business Guru
FRANKFURT — In his heyday, Roland Berger may have been the best-connected man in Germany. He advised chancellors and chief executives, founded one of Europe’s...