Business Update

DoorDash said on Tuesday that it had agreed to buy Deliveroo, a British food delivery service, in a roughly $3.9 billion deal, part of its effort to expand overseas. The deal would give DoorDash, the dominant food delivery app in the United States, a larger footprint in Europe and a presence in the Middle East,…

People who question whether the Earth is round — a fact understood by the ancient Greeks and taught to American children in elementary school — might have been political pariahs a decade ago. Now, they’re running local Republican parties in Georgia and Minnesota and seeking public office in Alabama. A prominent far-right activist who has…