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Jia Lynn Yang, who recently became editor of the National desk, discusses her new job and what she values in journalism and storytelling. Times Insider explains who we are and [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang John J. Rigas, who built Adelphia Communications into the country's sixth-largest cable company and whose 2007 jailing for stealing millions of dollars from the firm made [...]

Millions across the U.S. have lost work. What toll has that taken on people's lives in places like Owensboro, Ky., and Eau Claire, Wis.? The National desk teamed up with [...]

Lee stood out as a Chinese immigrant, giving speeches, writing articles and helping to lead a 10,000-strong march through the streets of New York City when she was just a [...]

Byline: Laura Wides-Muñoz By Jia Lynn Yang Norton. 324 pp. $26.95- - - Separated: Inside an American Tragedy By Jacob Soboroff Custom House. 388 pp. $29.99 - - - The [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang The landmark 1965 immigration law prioritized family ties, but originally as a way to keep America white. It was early evening when Michael Feighan arrived at [...]

The landmark 1965 immigration law prioritized family ties, but originally as a way to keep America white. It was early evening when Michael Feighan arrived at the White House on [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang This isn't the first time we've been treated as a threat. The coronavirus pandemic has unleashed a torrent of anti-Asian racism in America that shows no [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang Jack Welch, the hard-charging former head of General Electric who transformed his company and corporate America with his ruthless attention to the bottom line, died March [...]

Byline: Carol Morello and Jia Lynn Yang WASHINGTON - The State Department's independent watchdog released an 83-page report Wednesday to lawmakers concluding that Hillary Clinton's email practices did not comply [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang and Julie Vitkovskaya Bowe Bergdahl's lawyers on Wednesday released a transcript of an interview between Bergdahl and an Army investigating officer that stretched over two days. [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang WASHINGTON - The country's most powerful business lobbying groups already knew they had a problem with the GOP when Tea Party lawmakers nearly forced the country [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang It's no secret that one of Pfizer's motivations in its $100 billion bid for AstraZeneca is to save big on U.S. taxes. By purchasing a foreign [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang The new book by economist Thomas Piketty, 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' is a runaway hit, perched at the top of Amazon.com's bestsellers chart and temporarily [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang Mention Starbucks in the U.K., and many people think of lattes, macchiatos - and tax dodging. The coffee giant has faced boycotts, protests and general animosity [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang Quiz: Which of these two stories about Jamie Dimon's pay is true? 1) The JPMorgan Chase chief executive received a 37 percent pay cut last year, [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang Nina Olson, the national taxpayer advocate, likes to keep track of the unlikeliest places people can get their taxes done. For example, someone sent her a [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The largest contingent yet of search planes and ships hunting for a missing Malaysian airliner ended work Monday without success. Ten ships [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Search crews looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 prepared to set out again Monday morning after efforts Sunday resulted in new debris [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Aircraft scouring the Indian Ocean for signs of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight spotted a number of objects floating in the water [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Aircraft scouring the Indian Ocean for signs of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight spotted objects floating in the water Saturday, but determining [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Aircraft scouring the Indian Ocean for signs of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight spotted a number of objects floating in the water [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Observers on five aircraft Friday spotted multiple objects floating in a new section of the southern Indian Ocean where the massive search [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 shifted to another section of the southern Indian Ocean on Friday after new analysis [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang and Ashley Halsey III KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 shifted to another section of the southern Indian Ocean on [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang and Ashley Halsey III KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Thai satellite has spotted at least 300 floating objects in the southern Indian Ocean, where authorities say [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang and Ashley Halsey III KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - New satellite images taken in recent days show more than 100 objects floating in the Indian Ocean that [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang and and William Wan William Wan KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - New satellite images taken in recent days show more than 100 objects - some as long [...]

Byline: William Wan, Jia Lynn Yang and Ashley Halsey III BEIJING - Days of anxious waiting and simmering anger exploded into full-blown outrage Tuesday as relatives of Chinese passengers on [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang, William Wan and Ashley Halsey III KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia _Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed Monday that the plane that has been missing for 16 days [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang and William Wan KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Monday that the missing Malaysia Airlines plane went down in the southern Indian [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Jia Lynn Yang KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - France announced Sunday that it had new satellite data showing possible debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, the [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Jia Lynn Yang KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - China released a new image of a 'suspected floating object' in the Indian Ocean on Saturday as Australians spotted [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Jia Lynn Yang KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - China released a new image of a 'suspected floating object' in the Indian Ocean on Saturday, in the vicinity [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg and Jia-Lynn Yang Google has begun routinely encrypting Web searches conducted in China, posing a bold new challenge to that nation's powerful system for censoring the Internet [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg and Jia Lynn Yang Googling the words 'Dalai Lama' or 'Tiananmen Square' from China long has produced the computer equivalent of a blank stare, as that nation's [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang Say goodbye to the traditional supermarket. Safeway announced Thursday that it is being acquired by the private equity firm Cerberus Management in a deal worth about [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang The College Board announced Wednesday that along with revamping the SAT college admission test, it's teaming up with the nonprofit Khan Academy to offer test prep [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang WASHINGTON - There's at least one clear loser in President Barack Obama's latest budget blueprint: U.S. multinational corporations. The 2015 budget request Obama sent to Congress [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang IBM began laying off employees across the country Thursday as part of a massive restructuring that could cost as many as 13,000 jobs. Workers were fired [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders is almost always a treat to read, even if you don't own Berkshire Hathaway shares. It's eminently readable and he [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang WASHINGTON - Forget hiring a top hedge fund to manage your stock portfolio. Your better bet might be an employee at the Securities and Exchange Commission, [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang AOL attracted plenty of bad publicity when it tried to change the timing of its 401(k) matches to an annual lump sum. But who else is [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang Don't panic. But there could be a global coffee shortage. Usually, during this time of year, the delicate Arabica coffee plants in the mountains of Brazil, [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang Facebook announced Wednesday that it is buying the mobile instant-messaging company WhatsApp for about $19 billion in a move that would expand the social network's global [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang and Steven Mufson WASHINGTON - Warren Buffett is looking into getting rid of his $1.1 billion stake in Graham Holdings, formerly the parent of The Washington [...]

Byline: Christian Davenport and Jia Lynn Yang WASHINGTON - The company that performs much of the federal government's security background checks received $16 million in incentive awards, even as it [...]

Byline: Christian Davenport and Jia Lynn Yang WASHINGTON - The company that performs much of the federal government's security background checks received $16 million in incentive awards, even as it [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong told employees in an email Saturday evening that he was reversing the company's 401(k) policy and apologized for his controversial comments [...]

Byline: Jia Lynn Yang It should have been a glorious week for AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong. His company's quarterly earnings, announced Thursday, were the best in a decade. 'Olympian,' [...]