US Business

Facing a huge damage award U.S. courts deem fraudulent, the oil company is trying to get the pollution verdict voided in Ecuador, the country it came from. Its nemesis, a plaintiffs’ lawyer now disbarred and under house arrest, is about to go on trial himself.

The “Fortnite” maker’s suit heads to court Monday, bringing the fight over the iPhone maker’s App Store before a U.S. judge.

Supply-chain snarls and labor shortages are crimping some businesses looking to ride a rebound in the U.S. economy.

A SpaceX capsule with four astronauts returning from the International Space Station splashed down early Sunday safely in the Gulf of Mexico, the first such nighttime return to earth for NASA since 1968.

A new class of entrepreneurs believes the moment has arrived to do something that has proved difficult in the best of circumstances: Start an airline.

A generation of centrists who served Democratic and Republican presidents for three decades are exiting the stage, as the administration charts a new course on spending, deficits and inflation.

Gross domestic product grew at a 6.4% annual rate in the first quarter as the government distributed trillions of dollars in Covid-19 stimulus and consumers stepped up spending.

Higher income, spending and saving are expected to help power a fast economic recovery in the U.S.

A White House goal to slash U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions hinges in part on farmers and agriculture companies changing the way they do business.

There’s regular-big, and then there’s pandemic-big. Over the past year, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Google have become more enormous than ever, and now account for nearly 25% of the S&P 500’s total value.