NEW YORK—A manhunt was underway Sunday for a gunman who critically wounded an off-duty New York Police Department officer who arranged on social media to meet at a Brooklyn street address to buy a car, authorities said. When the officer arrived with a relative in the borough’s East New York neighborhood, the gunman announced a…

Often when we want to solve a problem or make some kind of change in our lives, we’ll go out and buy something: We want to get organized, we’ll buy containers or folders or closet organizers. We want to lose weight, we’ll buy diet food or an exercise machine or a gym membership. We want…

LOS ANGELES—The Port of Los Angeles announced July 14 that last month was its busiest June on record and the port moved 27 percent more cargo than the previous June. The port processed 876,430 20-foot equivalent units last month, closing the 2021-22 fiscal year with 10,879,383 TEUs, the most in a year for any Western…

Money is basically a unit of measurement, but it covers a lot of ground. Strictly speaking, money measures the market value of goods, services, and investments. But for some, it can also function as a measure of our self-worth. It can reveal fears about not having enough, resentment for having less than you feel you…