Baby formula price cut helps new parents

Anemona Hartocollis, a New York Times reporter who covers higher education, was at a holiday party when she overheard revelers talking about Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard University. The people Ms. Hartocollis writes about are not typically fodder for holiday party chatter. But the Harvard controversy, Ms. Hartocollis said in a recent interview, has…

Despite the delay in the ban, firms will still be forced to meet strict quotas for selling electric cars from January, ensuring that more than one in five cars sold are zero emission models. If not, they will face heavy fines and the target will go up each year until 2030.

The rocky path of inflation back to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target rate reflected in the latest Consumer Price Index figures means that it is likely too soon for the central bank to cut its policy rate in March, Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester said on Thursday. “I think March is probably too early in my estimation for…

The spread of COVID-19, which has risen to 27,425 cases in Kenya since March 13, inspired scammers to create new variations. Frederick, another victim who declined to give his real name, is a waiter who lost his job in the wake of the pandemic. He fell for a coronavirus volunteer recruitment version of the scam,…

Political concern about rising prices was voiced by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on his ongoing tour to the region on Monday. He tweeted that the attacks “have disrupted or diverted nearly 20% of global shipping. This increases the cost and time of moving food, fuel, medicine, and humanitarian assistance.”

Retailers — already hard-hit by rampant shoplifting — are facing another threat to their bottom line from scammers who are stuffing bricks, fake receipts and counterfeit goods in return packages. The fraudsters have targeted this retail underbelly to swipe billions of dollars by gaming the returns system, especially after the holiday season, according to a…