Walmart Posts Slowest Sales Growth in Years as Americans Tighten Wallets

Walmart and other big U.S. retailers have warned that consumers were being cautious, even if household balance sheets seemed healthy.Comparable U.S. sales at Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, rose 2.6 percent in its most recent quarter, the weakest growth in more than six years.

K Kim Bhasin

Canada and U.S. Resume Talks Over Trump Tariffs as a New Deadline Looms

While President Trump has declared that the two countries effectively have a deal, they remain apart on several key issues.Dominic LeBlanc, the Canadian minister in charge of U.S. trade, arriving to meet with Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, on Thursday in Washington.

I Ian Austen and Ana Swanson

As Iran and U.S. Settle Into an Uneasy Standoff, Who Will Blink First?

For weeks, there has been no diplomatic progress, but also no full-scale fighting, as each side seems to believe it can hold out longer than the other.A butcher in Tehran in July. The United States appears to be betting that putting Iran in a tighter economic stranglehold will succeed where military

Y Yeganeh Torbati

How Trump Is Trying to Crush California’s Climate Policies

At least a half-dozen federal agencies have taken action against the state that has led the nation in environmental protections.An oil platform seen from Sands Beach next to Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve in Santa Barbara, Calif.

M Maxine Joselow

First U.S. Deportees to Arrive in Liberia Amid Growing Backlash

Critics in the small West African nation say their government has not said why it agreed to one of the largest U.S. deportation deals, who the deportees are, or how they will be handled.Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. The U.S. deportation deal with Liberia is one of the largest so-called third-cou

E Emmanuel Akinwotu

State Dept. Declares U.S. Citizen in China Wrongfully Detained

U Min Zin, a scholar who studied Myanmar, is one of two U.S. citizens the department has designated as wrongfully detained in China.The detained U.S. citizen U Min Zin disappeared in China’s Yunnan province after traveling there to attend an academic conference at the invitation of the Chinese gover

K Karoun Demirjian

Bare Grocery Shelves Are a New Wartime Hardship for Ukrainians

After years of pounding power plants and cities, Russia’s air war has taken aim at Ukraine’s supermarket warehouses.Firefighters at the site of a food warehouse hit by a Russian missile strike in the Kyiv region of Ukraine on Thursday.

K Kim Barker and Oleksandra Mykolyshyn

The App Bringing Disabled Daters Together

Many Dateability users said they were drawn to the app after negative experiences on mainstream platforms.Andres Rodriguez, 30, and Ellen Froliklong, 33, met on Dateability and have been seeing each other regularly since last December.

R Roni Caryn Rabin