Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, is facing relentless attacks from the president, a lively campaign to replace him and divisions in his own ranks over when to cut interest rates.

People are starting their holiday shopping earlier this year, using summer sales from retailers like Amazon and Walmart to save time and money.

The stakes are high, with the United States and India counting on one another as indispensable partners in their competition with China.

In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House and seven talented astronauts got wrangled into an orbital chapter of the cola wars.

The move speaks to slowing spending by consumers and Apple’s continuing struggles in China, its second-largest market.

Rigorous new research appears to show that monthly checks intended to help disadvantaged children did little for their well-being, adding a new element to a dispute over expanded government aid.