After criticizing A.I. companies for liberal bias, programmers started envisioning right-wing alternatives, making chatbots a new front in the culture wars.

Conservatives Aim to Build a Chatbot of Their Own

Federal Reserve officials raised interest rates by a quarter-point while they noted that bank turmoil could help slow the economy.

The Fed, Still Inflation-Focused, Raised Rates Amid Bank Uncertainty

The justices differed about whether the toy, shaped like a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, violated the distiller’s trademark rights or was protected by the First Amendment.

A Chew Toy for Dogs Provokes a Spirited Supreme Court Argument

The market hadn’t fully rebounded from the pandemic. Some worry that another slowdown could add to fears of a recession.

Bank Crisis Could Cast Pall Over Commercial Real Estate Market

Proposals for more scrutiny of the financial sector are meeting resistance from industry and Congress.

Powell and Yellen Suggest Need to Review Regulations After Bank Failures

There had been widespread uncertainty about whether the Federal Reserve would continue raising rates after turmoil in the banking industry.

Stocks Drop After Fed Raises Rates Despite Banking Turmoil

Businesses are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to add in-house production and broadcast facilities to their offices.

Designing Their Own Studios to Meet Demand for Content

The agency charged Justin Sun with violations of securities law in a scheme involving the actress Lindsay Lohan and other celebrities.

Crypto Entrepreneur and Celebrity Promoters Face S.E.C. Charges

Berlin and Brussels are scrambling for a solution after Germany calls for allowing cars to run on synthetic fuels. The move could endanger the E.U.’s climate goals.

Germany Pushes for Exception in Law Banning Combustion Engines

This month, the company announced a new 60-minute “daily screen time limit” for users under 18. But for most young users, staying on the app takes just a few taps.

TikTok Claims It’s Limiting Teen Screen Time. Teens Say It Isn’t.

Relativity Space, a private company with ambitions for sending people to Mars, made it off the launchpad, but the vehicle experienced problems during the second stage of its flight.

The First 3-D Printed Rocket Fails Shortly After Launch

Wyoming’s Constitution guarantees a right to make individual health care decisions. The new ban attempts to circumvent that right by declaring that abortion is not health care.

Wyoming Judge Temporarily Blocks the State’s New Abortion Ban

Lawyers for the company, which faces a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit, are pushing for a judge to rule in their favor before a trial.

Fox Argues Top Executives Weren’t Involved in Voter Fraud Broadcasts

A Senate homeland security committee examined growing health care shortages amid reports of rationing within hospitals.

Rising Rate of Drug Shortages Is Framed as a National Security Threat

By raising interest rates a quarter-point, the Federal Reserve signaled that it was continuing to fight inflation, but it was holding off an aggressive move that might spook investors.

Seven takeaways from a big day for the Fed.

After a series of high-profile episodes at major airports, the Federal Aviation Administration has taken steps in recent months to address airport safety.

F.A.A. Issues Safety Alert After Runway Near Misses

The Biden administration has proposed changes to how it would pay private Medicare Advantage plans, setting off a lobbying frenzy.

Biden Plan to Cut Billions in Medicare Fraud Ignites Lobbying Frenzy

Savers will benefit and borrowers can expect to pay more on credit cards, student loans and other forms of debt.

What Fed Rate Increases Mean for Mortgages, Credit Cards and More

Some analysts say that the banking industry tumult has slowed the economy as banks pull back on lending.

How the Banking Crisis Has Had the Same Effect as a Fed Rate Increase

The Los Angeles lender, which has come under scrutiny amid worries about midsize banks, said withdrawals had “stabilized.” It also expressed confidence in its ability to raise cash.

PacWest Bank Taps Credit Lines After 20% Drop in Deposits

UBS is weighing whether and how to end a deal that would have preserved most of its rival’s investment bank, as part of its takeover of the ailing Swiss lender.

Credit Suisse’s Investment Bank Is Slowly Disappearing

The honor, like a Nobel Prize for mathematics, was given this year to Luis Caffarelli for his work on partial differential equations.

Abel Prize Goes to Mathematician Who Studied Equations That Describe Nature

Cities in the U.S. and elsewhere have made strides, but challenges remain.

Why Are Public Restrooms Still So Rare?

The president is counting on the central bank to strike the right balance on jobs and inflation — and to prevent a spiraling financial crisis.

Why the Fed’s Decision Matters for Biden

Prices in Britain reversed a recent downward trend, rising 10.4 percent over the year through February.

U.K. Inflation Swings Upward, in a U-Turn

The homegrown shot is a crucial tool that China has been lacking — a vaccine based on a technology considered among the most effective the world has to offer.

China Approves an mRNA Covid Vaccine, Its First

While some executives said money wasn’t being pulled from their small and midsize banks, the “too big to fail” giants attracted business customers.

Regional Banks and Regulators Try to Soothe Depositors’ Fears

On the second day of the Chinese leader’s state visit in Moscow, Xi Jinping and Vladimir V. Putin declared an enduring economic partnership, in an effort to insulate their countries from punitive Western measures.

Xi and Putin Bind China and Russia’s Economies Further, Despite War in Ukraine

The tensions over the Chinese-owned social media app will come to a head on Thursday, when the company’s chief executive testifies on Capitol Hill.

Pulling the Plug on TikTok Will Be Harder Than It Looks

Older climate activists gathered in cities around the country for a day of action targeting banks that finance fossil fuel projects.

A ‘Rocking Chair Rebellion’: Seniors Call On Banks to Dump Big Oil

At the start of a pretrial hearing for the $1.6 billion defamation trial, the judge said he was still weighing whether to issue a summary judgment.

Fox and Dominion Urge Judge to Rule on Case

As the Federal Reserve reviews the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, and Congress prepares for hearings, bank oversight is getting a closer look.

A Big Question for the Fed: What Went Wrong With Bank Oversight?

TV and movie writers want more money, but Hollywood companies say the demands ignore economic realities. The deadline to sort out those differences is approaching.