Creative destruction “is the essential fact about capitalism,” wrote the great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. New technologies and processes continuously revolutionize the economic structure from within, “destroy the old continuously, and emerge incessantly a new one.” Change happens faster and more creatively in times of economic crisis. Accelerate …

A woman has told how she was brutally called ‘a zombie’ after she suffered angry burns to her face when she first fell into a campfire. Elementary school teacher Halie Tennant, 29, said she felt she had “lost her identity” and reminded her how she asked her husband to “love” …

Which country produces the first workable vaccine will get “soft power” on the global stage. In the race to be first, China is giving an experimental vaccine to its military. Russian President Putin recently announced that a vaccine was ready for widespread use. And President Trump says he is ‘optimistic’ …

Pakistan has issued sweeping financial sanctions against Afghanistan’s Taliban, just as the rebel group is in the midst of a US peace process in the neighboring country. The orders, which were made public on Friday, identified dozens of individuals, including Taliban chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and several members …

As the wind blew and the warm twilight faded into the dark Friday night at the Point Reyes National Seashore, two Marin County firefighters were trapped at the top of a mountain, while the eastern front of the Woodward fire to ran to her. The two field observers had cut …