U.S. Oil Is Skipping the Chance to Grab Market Share From the Gulf

U.S. oil production is expected to grow only modestly next year as companies hesitate to spend more in an uncertain market.Smaller U.S. oil producers are starting to drill more wells, but big companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron have said they are not changing their plans as a result of the war wi

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Keir Starmer Resigns as UK Prime Minister

His departure in the coming weeks clears a path for Andy Burnham, a popular Labour Party mayor, to become the country’s seventh prime minister in a decade.Prime Minister Keir Starmer outside 10 Downing Street in London where he announced his resignation on Monday.

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Cafe Tells Congressman He’s Not Welcome Because of His Stance on Israel

After Representative Dan Goldman visited a left-leaning coffee shop chain, the shop owner posted caustic remarks on Instagram that made it clear the congressman shouldn’t come back.Representative Dan Goldman is facing a strong primary challenge from Brad Lander, in part because of his previous ties

M Maya King

Clive Davis, Music Industry Titan Who Signed Whitney Houston, Dies at 94

He rose from a midlevel position at Columbia Records to become one of music’s most powerful executives, shepherding stars like Barry Manilow and Whitney Houston.One of the few executives in music to become a household name, Clive Davis maintained a visible role as a starmaker for more than five deca

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11 Essential Songs Shepherded by Clive Davis

The label boss, who died on Monday, had a passion for hits — especially ones he masterminded — during his formidable tenures at Columbia, Arista and J Records.After Clive Davis, right, assured Carlos Santana that “Smooth” would be the most important song on the album “Supernatural,” it spent three m

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Carlos Santana, Patti Smith and Other Celebs Pay Tribute to Clive Davis

Davis “treated me with the same respect and kindness as a 22-year-old nobody as he did after all my success,” Springsteen said after the music executive’s death on Monday.Clive Davis and Gladys Knight at a pre-Grammy Awards gala in 2024. “There will never be another Clive,” Knight said after Davis’s

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Trump on the Shabby Condition of the Reflecting Pool: Not My Fault

President Trump said the blooms of green algae and the peeling polyurethane had nothing to do with the rushed $16.4 million makeover he had ordered.Ongoing work on Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been troubled for decades by leaks and algae blooms that turn its water green.

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Congressional Democrats Warn Pulte Against Mass Firings

Current and former officials say the acting director of national intelligence is planning to announce major cuts to his office as early as Monday.The ascension of Bill Pulte to the position of acting director of national intelligence has caused a storm on Capitol Hill.

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Interior Department Moves to Relax Rules for Drilling on Public Lands

A pair of proposals from the Trump administration would lower costs and weaken requirements for fossil fuel companies that drill on federal property.One proposal would lower the cost of the bonds that fossil fuel companies must pay the Interior Department before they start drilling or mining on publ

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How Remote Work Has Helped a Generation of Working Parents

Post-pandemic, a new openness to accommodating family needs has made it possible for more mothers and fathers to balance work and parenting — particularly mothers of young children.Elizabeth Terhune, with her children in Santa Fe, N.M., worked from home when her youngest was born during the pandemic

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Doctors Thought It Was Asthma. A.I. Flagged a Serious Heart Problem.

Artificial intelligence programs can spot patterns in electrocardiograms that humans miss. Now, one program is going to be widely available — for free — to doctors.A clinical trial using an A.I. program found evidence of possible severe heart damage in the electrocardiogram of a 45-year-old patient.

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Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Architect of Cuba’s Surveillance State, Dies at 94

Considered the country’s most powerful leader after the Castro brothers, he was the first director of the Interior Ministry, keeping a close eye on dissent.Ramiro Valdés Menéndez in 2003. A veteran of the earliest days of the Cuban revolution, he was alternately in and out of favor during his long c

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Flight of the Conchords and the Perils of Reunions

Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are routinely asked about performing their musical satires again. They always said no, until this year. What changed?Clement said, “One of my favorite things to do was when someone heckled us, we talk about why that hurt our feelings.”

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Supreme Court Restores Conviction in 1979 Murder of Etan Patz

Pedro Hernandez was convicted in 2017 of kidnapping and murdering the 6-year-old boy, but an appeals court in July had said Mr. Hernandez was entitled to a new trial.Etan Patz was abducted in Manhattan in 1979. His case helped usher in an era of heightened caution among American parents.

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