The Dow slips even as the artificial-intelligence boom lifts indexes.

Treasury officials prepare to change how the U.S. processes agencies’ payments if Congress doesn’t raise the limit in time.

Any retaliation could set back a fragile U.S.-China rapprochement, as commerce advisers prepare to talk.

Republicans want the federal government’s discretionary spending to be cut, while the White House is open to a freeze.

President Biden has offered to freeze discretionary spending, including for defense. Republicans want to spend more for the military, and cut more elsewhere.

In a unanimous decision, the justices sided with a 94-year-old woman who got nothing when the state sold her condominium to recoup unpaid taxes.

The changes are the latest under the news organization’s new editor in chief, Emma Tucker.

Shrink and a sales shift to lower-margin consumables pressured profits at Dollar Tree.

Target is the latest company to adjust plans for marketing supportive of the L.G.B.T.Q. community after it faced backlash from some customers.

Negotiators reconvened on Thursday after working through the night to strike a deal, as hard-right Republicans and some Democrats expressed concerns about the shape of an emerging compromise.