Nadia Zonis

GM and Chrysler are in the throes of negotiations to avoid bankruptcy. GM’s CEO announced on Monday that the company will cut 21,000 more jobs, close 40% of its dealerships, and disco...

Officials in the Obama administration have been negotiating with the leaders of Chrysler, Fiat and the United Auto Workers to find a way to salvage Chrysler. A deal has been tentative...

It’s Monday, and time for our weekly agenda segment—a look ahead at important events of the next five days. This week New York Times International Business Editor Marcus Mabry examine...

The NFL Draft took place this weekend. The focus was on the big spending Detroit Lions, who after going 0 and 16 last season, ponied up a guaranteed $41.7 million for Georgia quarterb...

The news is full of Detroit's woes. Chrysler is drawing up bankruptcy papers, GM is shuttering its plants for nine weeks, and just this morning Ford posted a $1.4 billion first quarte...

The day of reckoning is at hand for banks required to undergo government "stress tests." Today federal regulators will meet with the leaders of the nation's biggest banks to tell them...

"More regulation" is the magic phrase some claim is needed to prevent another economic meltdown. It looks like the credit card industry may be the leading front of that new regulation...

Particularly these days, its easy to feel that our economic destiny is shaped by huge, impersonal forces beyond our control. Nonsense, says Alan Beattie, World Trade Editor of the Fin...

Jailed Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi has been sentenced to eight years in prison for alleged espionage. President Obama has called for her release, and Iranian President M...

Today in New Orleans a trial gets underway that could ultimately determine what kind of damages thousands of victims of Hurricane Katrina can demand from the government. Five resident...

It’s called simply “Trivia," and its organizers say it's the largest trivia contest in the world. It gets underway at 6 PM tonight in Stevens Point Wisconsin, and runs for 54 hours st...

"Sugar" is the second feature film from husband and wife team Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden. (Their first was 2006's acclaimed Half Nelson, with Ryan Gosling.) It's the story of Miguel "S...

“Times are tough.” “We are beginning to see glimmers of hope.” Those were two of the statements President Obama made in his speech on the economy yesterday. It seems like a mixed mess...

Former Maine Senator George Mitchell was appointed by President Obama to serve as Special Envoy for Middle East Peace in January. Since then he’s visited Israel, the West Bank, Egypt,...

The Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia came to an extraordinary close yesterday with a sudden death victory by Angel Cabrera, the first Argentine in history to win the tournament....

The world breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when the captain of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama was rescued unharmed from Somali pirates who had held him hostage for five days. Bu...

In October 1975, two of the world's greatest fighters, Muhammed Ali and Joe Frazier, battled it out for the title of Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World. The fight was one of the...

It sounds really strange—a type of body fat that actually burns calories. But that’s exactly what so-called brown fat does. Babies and animals have it, but it’s long been thought that...

It’s not surprising that after the bright lights fade from the floor of the Final Four championship games some college basketball players dream of going pro. But if you don't go pro, ...

Everyone anticipated that the NCAA finals would bring an economic boost to Detroit. But the surprise victory of the Michigan State Spartans over UConn on Saturday has brought the trou...