- Economic expansion for the full year now appears unlikely to be much greater than 2 percent — about the average for the current recovery.
- While hardly terrible, it is not the burst of growth that many expected after President Trump’s election.
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Trump, in Poland, Is Asked About Role of Russia in U.S. Vote
President Trump, in Poland before a Group of 20 summit meeting, suggested that he still was not convinced that Russia was solely responsible for interference in the 2016 election.
China Sees Opening Left by Trump in Europe, and Steps In
President Xi Jinping of China is ready to slip quietly into the widening gap between Mr. Trump and longtime European allies and to position Beijing as the biggest defender of multilateralism.
Oil Exports, Once Illegal, Now Fuel a Texas Port Boom
Crude from West Texas shale fields is increasingly making its way abroad as a pipeline system is expanded to take it to market through Corpus Christi, Tex.
Volvo Bets on Electric to Phase Out Gas Engines
It is the first mainstream automaker to sound the death knell of the traditional engine, saying that starting in 2019 all the models it introduces will be either hybrids or powered solely by batteries.
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A Washington hospital returned Representative Steve Scalise to the intensive care unit over concerns about infection.
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A Trusted Officer, Killed in Anger
Miosotis Familia, a 12-year veteran of the force, was “assassinated without warning, without provocation” in the Bronx, the New York police commissioner said.
Hobby Lobby Agrees to Hand Over Smuggled Artifacts
The seller of crafts supplies said it would return ancient tablets that had been smuggled from Iraq. It will also pay the government $3 million and improve the way it collects antiquities.
The Network Against the Leader of the Free World
President Trump, in a series of denunciations of CNN and a video depicting him wrestling it, is “trying to bully us,” said its president, Jeffrey Zucker.
Dean Baquet Answers Readers’ Questions on Editing
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