MAY 3, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Kolkata Knight Riders 185 for 3 (Gill 65, Lynn 46, Shami 1-15) beat Kings XI Punjab 183 for 6 (Curran 55, Pooran 48, Warrier 2-31) by seven wickets
MOHALI - The most pleasing thing about this game were the cameos - the half-century on either side, one score in the high 40s apiece, and - for...
MAY 3, 2019
Donald McGahn walks by a window in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 16, 2018. - Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The notes, scribbled rapidly on a legal pad, captured the fear inside the White House when President Trump raged over the Russia investigation and decreed he was firing the FBI director...
MAY 2, 2019
High home prices along with strong demand have today's youngest homebuyers moving to smaller cities — and that could mean a boom for local economies and home values in those markets.
For example, Madison, Wis., is a new mecca for millennials, according to a recent study from the National Association of Realtors, which ranked the top millennial housing...
MAY 2, 2019
Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, sought to have Attorney General William P. Barr release more details from his report than Mr. Barr originally did. - Andrew Harnik/AP
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Attorney General William P. Barr summarized the special counsel’s conclusions in a March letter, prompting President Trump to crow that he had been exonerated,...
MAY 1, 2019
Traders work under monitors displaying 3M Co. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S.
As stocks enjoy their best start to a year in three decades, Wall Street firms are flagging the risk of another, surprise move even higher.
And they have a playbook for clients if and when that...
MAY 1, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer depart after speaking to reporters and meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on April 30, 2019. - Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) upped the ante in the feud between House Democrats and President Trump...
MAY 1, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Chennai Super Kings 179 for 4 (Raina 59, Dhoni 44*) beat Delhi Capitals 99 (Iyer 44, Tahir 4-12, Jadeja 3-9) by 80 runs
CHENNAI - Rarely do fans celebrate the fall of their own team's batsmen like they do at the MA Chidambaram Stadium here. That is if the next to come in is MS Dhoni.
A...
APRIL 30, 2019
BEATTIE, KANSAS - Shuffling across his frozen fields, farmer Jim Taphorn hunched his shoulders against the wind and squinted at the auctioneer standing next to his tractors. After a fifth harvest with low grain prices, made worse last fall by the U.S.-China trade war, the 68-year-old and his family were calling it quits. Farming also was taking...
APRIL 30, 2019
TOKYO — Three decades after he ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne, Emperor Akihito on Tuesday became Japan’s first monarch in more than two centuries to abdicate, passing the symbolic role to his eldest son in a brief, unadorned ceremony at the Imperial Palace.
Akihito, 85, the son of the wartime emperor Hirohito, relinquished the throne to Crown Prince Naruhito,...
APRIL 30, 2019
General Electric said Tuesday that it generated more profit and lost less cash than expected in the first quarter, suggesting an improving outlook under its new leader that sent its shares up 5 percent.
New CEO Larry Culp cautioned, however, that the results stemmed largely from the timing of payments to suppliers and from customers, and did not...
