Early on in the pandemic, a lot of New Yorkers got major deals on apartments. Now the landlords are striking back. Even though rats are popping out of toilets, hedgehogs are escaping through holes in walls and my own ceiling rains sewage on me (really!), the rent is still going up by percentages your paycheck can only dream about. ...

  As Taliban insurgents fended off US-led forces in their battle for Afghanistan in the late 2000s, local warlords decided that the nation’s mobile phone network was becoming an unacceptable risk. So they shut it down. Sometimes the outages in Afghanistan were only during the night or sporadically enforced. Quite often, though, the Taliban simply blew up cellphone masts so ...

  Bloomberg Americans are finally getting out of the house as pandemic restrictions melt away like the winter snow. But Lowe’s Cos and Home Depot Inc are betting they can keep consumers interested in home-improvement projects via online and in-person workshops on bathroom upgrades and lawn care. Both retailers want to hold onto the customers that they gained during the ...