American Transit, the largest insurer of the city’s for-hire vehicles, is insolvent. Its collapse could create a crisis that would take thousands of cars out of service.

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Energy businesses and farmers in western Pennsylvania are struggling because of prices, an issue that has not figured prominently in the campaigns of Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris.

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Residents rarely learn how data centers and their noise and energy and water use may affect their lives until it’s too late.

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Residents rarely learn how data centers and their noise and energy and water use may affect their lives until it’s too late.

The courts have become one of the most important battlegrounds in the fight over planet-warming emissions. Here are prominent cases to watch.

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The administration moved to block off a popular tariff-free path for Chinese apparel coming into the United States, and added stiff levies on electric vehicles, solar panels and other products.

Under pressure from Chinese competitors, Amazon, Walmart and other U.S. retailers have been exploring ways to avoid tariffs. Could a new Biden administration rule change that?

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Under pressure from Chinese competitors, Amazon, Walmart and other U.S. retailers have been exploring ways to avoid tariffs. Could a new Biden administration rule change that?

Authorities also imposed a six-month suspension on the local operations of the global firm, which was once a dominant auditor in China.

If Donald Trump wins a second term, America would be at risk of falling even further behind China.

They are facing legal pushback that may signal a new era of accountability for social media titans.

Erin Brockovich is sounding the alarm on forever chemicals.

Antitrust regulators are finally catching up to the methods used by modern corporations to exert their power.

Companies are using technology to collude on prices, and our laws need updating to stop it.

Why a mostly useless industry dominates corporate political spending.

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are setting up firms across the Pacific, only to find that any investment with Chinese ties is a hard sell.

The continent softens the edges of capitalism and achieves impressive well-being, but it overregulates and is struggling to keep up.

The Times found an active trade in Nvidia chips in China despite U.S. national security restrictions, as well as unreported incidents of how the technology had been used to further defense research.

The U.S. is trying to stop China from getting Nvidia microchips to advance its military. The private sector is fighting back.

The Communist Party rebuffed calls from economists to shift away from investment-led growth and toward consumer spending.

Top officials emerged from a high-stakes meeting about lifting the economy out of its malaise with few signs of a fundamental rethink.

President Biden’s landmark climate law could be repealed in a Trump administration. Economists said that would jeopardize $488 billion in American investments.

Chinese companies’ stock market listings once flooded Wall Street. These days, China’s initial public offerings are in a drought.