In a Malaysian Pop-Up City, Echoes of China’s Housing Crash
Forest City was an audacious $100 billion project by a top Chinese developer. Today, the project is a fraction of what had been planned and the developer is broke.
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Forest City was an audacious $100 billion project by a top Chinese developer. Today, the project is a fraction of what had been planned and the developer is broke.
Scientists in Japan are mining DNA to try to make the country’s famous Koshihikari rice resistant to heat, after a broiling summer ravaged the crop.
During JD Vance’s brief career as a venture capitalist, few startups attracted his support more than AppHarvest, a now bankrupt plan to build greenhouses across Appalachia.
As Kamala Harris toiled as a junior prosecutor in Alameda County, Calif., she developed important connections among San Francisco’s financial and social elite.
Israel has decimated Hamas’s military wing, along with much of Gaza. But the group’s small-scale, hit-and-run approach poses a threat in the enclave’s north.
The Connelly Theater has suspended operations after its church landlord began more carefully scrutinizing show scripts and its general manager resigned.
Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis bonded with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. over Catholicism and ending abortion. She introduced him to her sumptuous world when he visited her Bavarian palace.
The International Monetary Fund said protectionism and new trade wars could weigh on growth.
The Federal Aviation Administration did away with a rule that had required an off switch for the sign even though smoking on U.S. flights ended years ago.
Employees have complained to the board about hiring and management practices at the parent company of Truth Social, which serves as the main online megaphone for former President Donald Trump.
JPMorgan’s chief executive has told associates of his support for the vice president, and his dislike of Donald Trump. But fearful of blowback, he won’t say it publicly.
Prosecutors said Michael Jeffries and two others coerced dozens of men into sex acts during Mr. Jeffries’s tenure at the clothing company.