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Meta Posts 23% Growth as Ads Rebound, With Profit More Than Doubling
The internet company’s cost cuts also helped lift its financial performance in the most recent quarter.
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Chasing Big Mergers, Oil Executives Dismiss Peak Oil Concerns
Exxon Mobil and Chevron are spending tens of billions of dollars buying oil and gas assets, betting that the International Energy Agency’s predictions of declining oil demand are wrong.
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Biden Seeks to Tame Oil Prices if Mideast Conflict Sends Them Soaring
The president has previously drawn down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease price pressures, but that could be more difficult now
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The Challenges Facing Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers
They are set to start their defense on Thursday, with the FTX founder planning to testify in his criminal fraud trial. Hurdles include what Mr. Bankman-Fried’s former associates said on the stand.
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What the U.S. Has Argued in the Google Antitrust Trial
As the government wraps up its case in the landmark monopoly trial, it has built a picture of how Google became dominant in online search — and the harms that it says resulted.
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Bertie Bowman, revered aide who got start sweeping Capitol steps, dies at 92
The son of sharecroppers, Mr. Bowman ran away from home at age 13, swept the Capitol steps and then became the longest-serving African-American congressional staff member in history.
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New House speaker Mike Johnson faces herculean task of uniting Republicans
Johnson was the GOP’s fourth speaker nominee in three weeks, but the only one able to achieve a majority of votes on the House floor to clinch the speakership
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A historic gamble: Mike Johnson’s unpaved path to House speaker
The staunch conservative’s quick rise has no modern comparison, and he’s had little training for the difficult job.
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The GOP rebukes Gaetz and the ‘chaos caucus.’ Then it rewards them.
Republican institutionalists again affirmed an incentive structure that has hamstrung leaders.
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