Economy

A Massachusetts city is giving low-income families $750 a month, no strings attached. The guaranteed basic income program will focus on residents who are in danger of losing their homes....

College legacies might continue to see opportunities in some ways — but they’ll have to get into their parent’s alma mater largely on their own merits. Over the past year,...

Hunter Biden, the son of United States President Joe Biden, has failed in a bid to have tax charges against him dismissed. US District Judge Marc Scarsi on Monday denied...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has demanded “full accountability” over the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in Gaza. Frankcom was one of four international aid workers that Palestinian...

Samir Puri is an associate fellow at Chatham House, a visiting lecturer at King’s College London and the author of “Russia’s Road to War with Ukraine.” While Russian President Vladimir...

Former United States President Donal Trump has posted a $175m bond in his civil fraud case in New York, avoiding asset seizures which could have dealt a serious blow to...

Russia’s economy was supposed to implode and collapse after the West slapped it with sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. But it didn’t. Russia’s ongoing economic resilience has vexed Western...

Bangkok, Thailand – Sheltering from the sun on a street corner, Kridsada Ahjed rues the day he got involved with the loan sharks who now gobble up most of his...

Bond-market expectations of a June rate cut took a hit on Monday as new factory data pushed odds below 50%, according to Bloomberg data. The ISM manufacturing index came in...

Harvard might be losing some of its appeal among Generation Z. The Boston Ivy League school announced that it accepted 1,937 students this year out of 54,008 applicants — a...