Friday’s Supreme Court decision ending President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs will exacerbate the nation’s financial crisis, analysis of the decision shows. “With today’s Supreme Court ruling affirming the illegality of President Trump’s emergency tariffs, the country will now be about $2 trillion deeper in the hole,” Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) President Maya MacGuinea...

30 years ago today, the world of Pokémon went public, emerging from the mind of game designer Satoshi Tajiri onto Nintendo Gameboy systems. In the six years it took to create the game and its first three “pocket monsters” (Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander), Tajiri’s Game Freak studio nearly went out of business, but the little creatures—some disarmingly cute, like, Pikachu—would take the world ...

A sound system blasts out a ­hideous recording of howling wolves as a terrified lamb tries to jump a steel barrier to escape a slaughterman who is about to slit its throat in an English abattoir. Bleating frantically, the animal slips repeatedly on the blood-covered floor before being hauled back for the deed to be done with a large, sharp knife. Two minutes later, even though the creature is stil...

Some of the most popular vacation spots for American tourists have been rocked by cartel violence following the weekend killing of a top cartel leader, stranding some travelers. Mexican special forces killed longtime Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes during an operation in the southwestern town of Tapalpa, Jalisco, the Mexican government said....