David Welles, 87, was ensnared in a tech support scam that allowed fraudsters to take over his personal devices with remote access software. They made a wire transfer of $85,000 from his bank account.
The bar crawl and charity fund-raiser has been eliciting strong reactions in the city for more than 25 years. Readers shared theirs.
Arthur L. Carter in the offices of The New York Observer, in 1987, the year he founded it. “The vocabulary of contemporary journalism, saturated with gimlet-eyed social observation and a catty mistrust of convention, owes much to The Observer,” the media critic David Carr wrote.
The headquarters of the Euroclear depository in Brussels. Russia’s Central Bank said it had filed a lawsuit in Moscow against the depository.
Calvin McDonald, the chief executive of Lululemon Athletica, will leave at the end of January.
Bonnie Brennan joined Christie’s in 2012, after a 15-year stint at its rival auction house Sotheby’s, and became its chief executive in February.
The SpaceX launchpad in South Texas in June 2024. The company said in a letter to employees on Friday that it could go public in 2026.
Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea.
American alcohol products were removed from store shelves in much of Canada when U.S. tariffs against the country went into effect in March.
Elon Musk has grown increasingly confrontational toward Europe over the past year.
Oil tankers anchored at a refinery in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, in 2022. The country relies heavily on a so-called dark fleet to export its oil.
Changes in the tax law will have different effects on people who take the standard deduction versus high earners who itemize.
While Americans won’t begin to see tax savings until next year, some corporations, including Walmart, are already reporting reductions to their tax payments in 2025.
The divisions on the Federal Reserve have forced Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, to navigate the difficult task of trying to reach a consensus among his colleagues.
Harold Hamm, an Oklahoma oil tycoon, has played a central role in reshaping energy policy by allying himself with President Trump.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued that financial stability was best achieved through faster economic growth, which he said was constrained by unnecessary regulations.
Larry Ellison, who co-founded the software group Oracle, is worth around $273 billion.
Larry Ellison is one of the world’s richest men. But the details behind his financial commitment to Paramount’s takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery was a concern for the target company’s board.
An auto factory in Ningbo, China. The Chinese government has discouraged manufacturers of electric vehicles from engaging in ruthless competition.
President Trump and Xi Jinping, China’s leader, after their meeting in Busan, South Korea, in October. Mr. Trump’s latest moves extended the conciliatory posture he struck at this summit.