How Francis Wooed Donors
Efforts to fix the Vatican’s broken finances helped restore confidence among big givers. But the work isn’t finished.
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Harvard’s War With Trump Forces Question of How Endowments Should Be Spent
The Trump administration’s war on elite universities has forced them to consider whether it’s ever worth dipping into the trust.
Dollar Doubts Dominate Gathering of Global Economic Leaders
Participants at the I.M.F and World Bank meetings this week reckoned with the prospect that the U.S. safe haven could...
How Tariffs Could Make Americans’ Hobbies More Expensive
As tariffs threaten the cost of synth knobs, wine corks, specialty butters and trading card sleeves, the stuff that makes...
How Sarah Paiji Yoo, the Co-Founder of Blueland, Spends Her Sundays
Sarah Paiji Yoo, the co-founder of Blueland, spends her Sunday hunting for ice cream, avoiding single-use plastic and getting a...
Virginia Giuffre, Voice in Epstein Sex Trafficking Scandal, Dies at 41
She accused Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, of recruiting her to join their sex trafficking ring and sued...
Trump Budget to Take Ax to ‘Radical’ Safety Net Programs
A draft document outlines steep cuts or the elimination of funding for programs that provide child care, housing assistance, foreign...
F.D.A. Scientists Are Reinstated at Agency Food Safety Labs
After 20 percent of the agency’s work force was cut, federal health officials have decided to bring back some experts...
China Rejects Trump Claim of Tariff Talks With Xi
President Trump said that “we’re meeting with China” on tariffs, comments aimed at soothing jittery financial markets. But Chinese officials...
Uncertainty Over Trump’s Tariffs Paralyzes U.S. Businesses
The Times heard from hundreds of American companies, most of them small businesses, that face a reckoning because of President...