In Houston, a Terrifying Real-Life Lesson for Disaster-Prone Cities

By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JESS BIDGOOD September 5, 2017 LOS ANGELES — Cities across the country that live with the threat of disaster — from earthquakes in San Francisco to hurricanes in Miami — are anxiously watching the catastrophe...

Trump Chooses Sessions, Longtime Foe of DACA, to Announce Its Demise

The president has expressed conflicting emotions about those who were brought to the country as children, but Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressed no such qualms.

Asian shares to focus on Wall Street jitters as North Korea tensions continue to simmer

In Asia, futures suggested a slightly lower open for Japanese equities. Nikkei futures traded in Chicago were down 0.26 percent at 19,335 and Osaka futures were off 0.13 percent at 19,360. Those compared to the benchmark index’s previous close of 19,385.81....

Worried and Frustrated, ‘Dreamers’ Say They Won’t Give Up

By MIRIAM JORDAN September 5, 2017 LOS ANGELES — Safir Wazed, a graduate student born in Bangladesh and raised in California, struggled to focus on his studies. Evelin Salgado, born in Mexico and raised in Tennessee, was ending plans to buy a house and...

Blockchain technology is moving into the shipping industry — with Microsoft and Maersk on board

Accounting giant EY said Wednesday that it plans to launch the first blockchain platform for marine insurance, alongside Microsoft, A.P Moller-Maersk and others. The distributed ledger will be used to capture information about shipments, risk and liability, and to...

Real estate project in Dubai to be the ‘first major development where you can purchase in bitcoin’

A 250 million pound ($325 million) luxury development has been launched in Dubai — and the people behind it don’t mind if you pay in bitcoin. Announced Wednesday by British entrepreneurs Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman, Aston Plaza and Residences spans...