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Taiwan tends to grab headlines for political reasons but investors have reason to pay attention, too—it is the best performing stock market in Asia so far this year.The Taiex index has gained...

Two Black Hawk helicopters crashed near a U.S. Army base in Kentucky in an incident that likely left fatalities, the state's Governor Andy Beshear said....

China's largest oil producer has just had its best ever year.The company made a profit equivalent to around $22 billion in 2022, around two-thirds higher than it earned the year before. That was in part due to the rise in the average oil price despite...

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New census figures show suburbs and smaller metro areas claimed the most growth in the U.S. from mid-2021 to mid-2022....

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The cops who raced toward danger knew the lessons of Uvalde....

Justice Gorsuch gets new respect on the separation of powers....

He lectures Prime Minister Netanyahu on judicial reform while staying silent on Iran's nuclear program....

Members of the school's Federalist Society met Justice Kavanaugh. Students are horrified....

Instead of implementing the law as intended, his administration subverts it for ideological ends....

The entertainment company began this week to carry out the first wave of its plan to cut 7,000 jobs....

Even with a talk show, magazine and other big projects in her orbit, Drew Barrymore says the one thing people still ask her about "nearly every day" is Charlie's Angels 3....

Biden and Trump ignore a mother's wisdom: 'Think before you speak—dummy!' Everyone else suffers....

Besides being moral, it's in our strategic and economic interest to help stop Putin....

President Tsai Ing-wen is in New York on her first visit to the U.S. in more than three years....

We are stuck in an earlier era of healthcare protocols and health-related habits. A major reset is needed. Life spans may improve thereby....

Energize the batter, rattle the pitcher and pump up the crowd....

The resolution, which faces an expected White House veto, seeks to revoke a rule that expanded the definition of waterways subject to federal pollution regulations....

Maybe the next shoe won't drop.It has been three weeks since trouble at Silicon Valley Bank ignited worries about the banking sector, leading in short order to the collapse of Silicon Valley, and then Signature Bank, and trouble at First Republic and ...

Tapping industry-specific data in areas such as financial management or marketing provides an edge in a crowded AI market, analysts say....

In exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, digital media from the past six decades—including artificial intelligence, augmented reality and nonfungible tokens...

Is everyone in Washington getting a bigger budget?...

In the 1990s, even Beijing abandoned its rejection of the 'one country, two governments' formulation....

I'm a doctor, and New Jersey still has an outdated vaccine mandate in place for medical personnel....

Some cybercriminals are moving away from ransomware towards less complex attacks, which many organizations may not be prepared to deal with....

The company is also reducing its office-space footprint to focus its spending on the best growth opportunities in the videogame industry....

U.S. stock indexes climbed higher Wednesday, with broad-based gains across the board.The S&P 500 rose 1.4 % as of 4p.m. ET, according to FactSet. All 11 of its sectors were in the green.The Dow Jones Industrial Average added about 324 points, or 1%.The Na...

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Annie Heyworth and Tim Healy didn't want to move from Gloucestershire to be on the water, so they dug up a 6-foot-deep pond while building their roughly 2,400-square-foot timber house....

Massachusetts securities regulators confirmed they are examining sales of annuities offered by Colorado Bankers Life Insurance....

GOP lawmakers want to start negotiations with the White House on a shorter list of proposals....

The new service will cost $24.99 a month and comes weeks after MSG Networks made a similar move....

The suit by U.S. regulators against Binance Holdings Ltd. focuses in large part on the work of the cryptocurrency exchange's former chief compliance officer, alleging he willfully aided and abetted the firm in evading U.S. laws....

The pontiff, 86, had complained of breathing difficulties over the past few days and on Wednesday afternoon was admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital for tests, the Vatican said....

Oil-and-gas executives' outlook for the sector has dimmed alongside Wall Street's shrinking expectations for crude prices.The industry's pessimism this quarter reached its highest level since the onset of the pandemic crushed global energy dem...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is looking to sell Signet, the real-time payment network operated by the now-collapsed Signature Bank, an agency spokesman said.Signature's remaining depositors are all crypto clients and the FDIC has notified them ...

In 'The Big Door Prize,' the new series from a 'Schitt's Creek' writer, the actor plays an everyman in an odd situation. Here, he talks about cauliflower nachos, sleeping like 'garbage' and pushing his dog in a pram....

The U.S. accounting standard-setter's proposal, if approved, would require publicly traded businesses to break down areas such as inventory expenses and disclose employee compensation in the footnotes to their financial statements....

From Howard Schultz to Robert Iger, a string of CEOs have returned to their posts....

Last week's selloff in the bank's shares and bonds has drawn attention from regulators—and sparked debate about whether credit-default swaps fed the market stress....

Advice on sidestepping the decor gaffes that design pros see most often in rooms meant to fire up appetites—from unpalatable wall colors to stingy rugs...

Strong labor markets have helped keep consumers upbeat about the economy. But some Americans seem to feel their luck is running out.37% of consumers say they plan to spend less on gambling and lottery games over the next six months, according to the Confe...

FIFA has removed Indonesia as host of the Under-20 soccer World Cup less than two months before the tournament is set to begin....

A possible combination could position the two to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink service....

Researchers found that children living with indoor dogs were less likely to experience egg, milk and nut allergies, and children with cats were less likely to have egg, wheat and soybean allergies....