In Israel, Building a Lacrosse League From Scratch

By AIMEE BERG from NYT Business Day Eight years ago, lacrosse was a sport largely unknown in Israel. Now, thanks to an American-born entrepreneur, the country is about to host a world championship. Read More

Thanks for the Opportunity. Can I Quit Now?

By ROB WALKER from NYT Business Day A new job isn’t really working out. Here’s how to move on to the next thing without feeling guilty. And without rushing. Read More

Trade War and Canadian Pride Mix in Retaliatory Tariffs Against U.S.

By IAN AUSTEN from NYT Business Day This year’s Canada Day celebration coincides with tariffs imposed on American products. “We really are in a very difficult time,” one expert in Ottawa said. Read More

Luxury’s Chess Masters Prepare for a New Game

By ELIZABETH PATON and VANESSA FRIEDMAN from NYT Business Day A series of strategic shifts in the boardrooms and back rooms of the world’s biggest luxury groups — LVMH, Kering and Richemont — has been underway in recent months. Read More

Can Elon Musk and Tesla Reinvent the Way Cars Are Made?

By NEAL E. BOUDETTE from NYT Business Day Scrambling to turn out its first mass-market electric car, the automaker set up multiple assembly lines and is changing production processes on the fly. Read More

At Toys ‘R’ Us, ‘There Is Nothing Left’: The Day It Closed for Good

By MICHAEL CORKERY from NYT Business Day At a New Jersey store, the shelves were mostly bare, save for a scattering of stuffed animals and tween jewelry. But many longtime employees stayed, out of pride or necessity. Read More

Richard and Holly Branson: A Father-Daughter Conversation

By DAVID GELLES from NYT Business Day The flamboyant billionaire, who built a global empire out of a mail-order record business, looks to his daughter for guidance as Virgin tries to keep up with the times. Read More

For Local Newspapers, Angry Readers Are a Given. But Killings Send Shivers.

By TIM ARANGO and JOHN HERRMAN from NYT Business Day Many journalists, especially at the local level, have stories of being confronted or harassed by a resident upset by something that was published. Violence is rare. Read More

U.K. Fears for Its Beer and Crumpets. Blame a Carbon Dioxide Shortage.

By AMIE TSANG from NYT Business Day Lower supplies of the gas mean that beer loses its fizz and some meat can’t be packaged. That could affect the supply of some staples of British summers. Read More

Newspaper Shooting Shows Widening Use of Facial Recognition by Authorities

By CADE METZ and NATASHA SINGER from NYT Business Day The use of facial recognition to identify the suspect in the shooting at a community newspaper chain in Maryland revealed how pervasive the technology has become in law enforcement. Read More

A Gated Community for a Home on Wheels

By STEVE FRIESS from NYT Business Day Sales of motor coaches are rising, including at the highest end, where prices can top $2 million. Owners find comfort in exclusive enclaves. Read More

‘We Are Putting Out a Damn Paper’: Capital Gazette Journalists Kept Working After Fatal Shooting

By MATTHEW HAAG and SABRINA TAVERNISE from NYT Business Day Five staff members from the newsroom of the community newspaper chain in Maryland’s capital were killed in a shooting on Thursday, but their colleagues continued to cover the news. Read More

China Taps the Brakes on Its Global Push for Influence

By KEITH BRADSHER from NYT Business Day Chinese companies are steering less money into its Belt and Road Initiative, as top officials ask whether borrowers will be able to repay loans. Read More

G.M. Says New Wave of Trump Tariffs Could Force U.S. Job Cuts

By TIFFANY HSU from NYT Business Day In a filing with the Commerce Department, the automaker said the trade barriers “could lead to a smaller G.M.” Read More

A French Fry Gets Soggy in 5 Minutes. This Company Wants to Keep It Crispy for 60.

By RACHEL ABRAMS from NYT Business Day Lamb Weston fires potatoes into metal blades at 75 miles per hour to make your fries. But when your delivery driver is slowed down by traffic, how will they hold up? Read More

Bank ‘Stress Tests’ Results Clear Way for Wall Street to Reward Investors

By EMILY FLITTER and JIM TANKERSLEY from NYT Business Day The Federal Reserve gave clean bills of health to top banks, but told Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to freeze shareholder payouts at last year’s levels. Read More

California Will Be Fourth State to Sue Navient Over Student Loans

By STACY COWLEY from NYT Business Day The lawsuit will accuse Navient of failing to guide borrowers to their best repayment option. Navient is also facing a major federal lawsuit. Read More

Chobani, the Greek Yogurt Maker, Reclaims Control of Its Finances

By DAVID GELLES from NYT Business Day In 2014, Chobani took $750 million from a private equity firm. Now Hamdi Ulukaya, the company’s founder, is taking back nearly full control of his company. Read More

Confused About Blockchains? Here’s What You Need to Know.

By NATHANIEL POPPER from NYT Business Day Even asking the people who work with blockchains to define the technology, you are likely to get a stuttering response. Read More

If Fund Managers Back Bitcoin

By OMID MALEKAN from NYT Business Day If institutional money managers decide to commit a fraction of their capital to a portfolio of cryptocurrencies, they might double the size of the sector. Read More

Demystifying the Blockchain

By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN from NYT Business Day Slowly and unsteadily, the mysterious blockchain is emerging from the shadows and making its way into a still murky future. Don’t count it out. Read More

The People Leading the Blockchain Revolution

By NATHANIEL POPPER from NYT Business Day A look at some of the people who have helped shape the cryptocurrency landscape. Read More

A Guide to Travels in the Blockchain World

By NATHANIEL POPPER and GUILBERT GATES from NYT Business Day When the original blockchain arrived in 2009, it was a ledger for Bitcoins. Now the databases have spread to many companies and governments. Read More

Labor Unions Will Be Smaller After Supreme Court Decision, but Maybe Not Weaker

By NOAM SCHEIBER from NYT Business Day The ruling could cost public-sector unions more than a million members. But the ones who stay could make labor more powerful. Read More

G.E. to Spin Off Health Care Division as Part of Major Reshaping

By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED from NYT Business Day The move comes amid efforts by the company’s new chief executive, John Flannery, to focus on its aviation, power and renewable energy activities. Read More

Trump Threatens Harley-Davidson as Company Shifts Production Overseas

By ALAN RAPPEPORT from NYT Business Day President Trump took aim at one of his favorite American manufacturers, Harley-Davidson, a day after the company said it would shift some production overseas to avoid retaliatory tariffs. Read More

Hedge Funds Look to Profit From Personal-Injury Suits

By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG from NYT Business Day Hedge funds and private equity firms are pouring money into so-called mass-tort loans, even as federal prosecutors investigate aspects of the business. Read More

Harley-Davidson to Move Some Production From U.S. Because of E.U. Tariffs

By AMIE TSANG from NYT Business Day The plan, outlined in a company filing, highlights the financial costs to companies of a widening trade dispute. Read More

What’s the Yield Curve? ‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street’s Attention

By MATT PHILLIPS from NYT Business Day The bond market’s yield curve is perilously close to predicting a recession — something it has done with surprising accuracy — and it’s become a big topic on Wall Street. Read More

Buses, Delivery Vans and Garbage Trucks Are the Electric Vehicles Next Door

By ERIC A. TAUB from NYT Business Day Low-speed torque and whisper-quiet operation make electric vehicles an attractive alternative for commercial uses, and the incognito answer to Teslas and Bolts. Read More

Once Cut, Corporate Income Taxes Are Hard to Restore

By ROBERT J. SHILLER from NYT Business Day Corporate income taxes have declined sharply for decades. Sharp increases have occurred mainly during major wars. Read More

Amazon, the Brand Buster

By JULIE CRESWELL from NYT Business Day Amazon has introduced dozens of private label goods in the past year, and is using the power of its global marketplace to steer shoppers to its own products. Read More

Meat Wrapped in Meat. Doughnut Sandwiches. Want Some of Fast Food’s Big Ideas?

By TIFFANY HSU from NYT Business Day With Chipotle trying its hand at new products, we offer a sampling of some of the more outrageous attempts at menu innovation by restaurant chains. Read More

What Trump Should Learn From the ‘Banana War’

By JAMES B. STEWART from NYT Business Day The White House is eyeing tariffs on luxury imports such as perfume, handbags and wine. It might be drawing the wrong lesson from past trade fights. Read More

OPEC, After Bolstering Prices, Considers Ramping Up Oil Production

By STANLEY REED from NYT Business Day The shift effectively ends a deal that had more than doubled prices and raised revenues for oil producers, but that drew the ire of President Trump. Read More

Biggest Banks Pass Fed’s Stress Tests

By MATT PHILLIPS and JIM TANKERSLEY from NYT Business Day The first round of the Fed’s annual stress tests found banks are prepared to withstand a downturn, which could presage big shareholder payouts next week. Read More

Corey Lewandowski Mocks Child With Down Syndrome Separated From Her Mother: ‘Womp Womp’

By MATTHEW HAAG from NYT Business Day Mr. Lewandowski’s comment on Fox News was widely criticized. Megyn Kelly, the former Fox host, called him a coward. Read More

As Greece Ends a Decade of Bailouts, Problems Linger for Europe

By LIZ ALDERMAN from NYT Business Day European officials are eager to paint Greece as a comeback story. But troubles in nearby Italy show that the euro’s issues have not been laid to rest. Read More

As C.E.O.s Condemn Splitting Up Migrant Families, Goldman Chief Defends Trump

By KATE KELLY from NYT Business Day Lloyd Blankfein said it’s easy to criticize the administration for separating immigrant families, but such issues are rarely matters of “right against wrong.” Read More

Disability Applications Plunge as the Economy Strengthens

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ from NYT Business Day Fewer people are seeking and receiving Social Security disability benefits, reversing a long trend that had worried lawmakers about fraud and abuse. Read More

Stock Markets Fall as U.S.-China Trade Dispute Escalates

By PRASHANT S. RAO and MATT PHILLIPS from NYT Business Day Investors are worried that worsening ties between the U.S. and China, the world’s two biggest economies, will affect global growth. Read More

Tariffs on $50 Billion in Goods? China Can Take the Hit

By KEITH BRADSHER from NYT Business Day The trade measures President Trump is imposing will do little to hurt China’s growth, though they could add to Beijing’s problems down the road. Read More

DealBook Briefing: C.E.O.s Think Kim Played Trump at Their Meeting

By Unknown Author from NYT Business Day Here’s what top business executives at the Yale C.E.O. Summit thought about last week’s Trump-Kim meeting and the AT&T court ruling. Read More

Audi Chief Executive Rupert Stadler Arrested Over Diesel Scandal

By JACK EWING from NYT Business Day Mr. Stadler, a member of Volkswagen’s management board, had been placed under formal investigation days earlier. Read More

Investors Fret About a Trade War, but They Aren’t Fleeing the Stock Market

By PETER EAVIS from NYT Business Day Wall Street is betting that the trade frictions won’t derail the United States’ strong economy. But will investors shrug off an escalation? Read More

Goodbye, Denver Post. Hello, Blockchain.

By JACLYN PEISER from NYT Business Day A group of journalists leaves a shrinking daily to start a new outlet, The Colorado Sun, in partnership with a blockchain company. Read More

Ford Aims to Revive a Detroit Train Station, and Itself

By NEAL E. BOUDETTE from NYT Business Day By renovating a symbol of the city’s decline, the company hopes to create a magnet for the talent needed to prevail in the next automotive era. Read More

China’s Official News Media Sharply Criticize Trump

By PAUL MOZUR from NYT Business Day The newspaper that serves as the Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece, and other state-controlled outlets, had harsh words for the president’s tariff move. Read More

Feeling Good About the Economy? You’re Probably a Republican

By BEN CASSELMAN and JIM TANKERSLEY from NYT Business Day A survey shows a sharp partisan split in consumer confidence. But a third of Democrats say President Trump deserves some credit for economic gains. Read More

Just the Fear of a Trade War Is Straining the Global Economy

By PETER S. GOODMAN, IAN AUSTEN and ELISABETH MALKIN from NYT Business Day As President Trump intensifies trade hostilities, the potential for conflict has begun to disrupt business, sowing worries about global economic growth. Read More