In the midst of the longest economic expansion the United States has ever seen, the separation between rich and poor from 2017 and 2018 reached its highest level since the Census Bureau started tracking it in 1967.
Uber has faced increased scrutiny of its safety practices in recent months. Many riders have alleged sexual harassment and other types of misconduct, sparking lawmaker scrutiny.
British travel firm Thomas Cook declared bankruptcy Monday, stranding hundreds of thousands of travelers and prompting the British government to initiate what it is calling the largest peacetime repatriation in the nation’s history.
Should the recovery take weeks or months, the impact could be far-reaching. Higher fuel prices can not only motivate consumers to cut spending elsewhere but also ultimately reach into virtually every corner of the economy.
In a series of heated exchanges at a presidential debate Thursday night, 10 Democratic contenders laid bare the party’s deep divisions on major issues.
A legal tug of war has unfolded over a 2015 rule that gave the Environmental Protection Agency much broader authority over the nation’s waterways. Critics say the Obama rule gave the federal government far too much power; supporters counter that it prevents the loss of vast swaths of wetlands.
China extended an olive twig, rather than a branch, to the United States in their trade war Wednesday, announcing it would exempt 16 American-made products from tariffs as a sign of goodwill ahead of talks scheduled for next month.
A team of Federal Trade Commission investigators has begun interviewing small businesses that sell products on Amazon.com to determine whether the e-commerce giant is using its market power to hurt competition.
Apple’s pricing was perhaps the most significant news of the day because it was a stark reminder of how the company is evolving from a high-end hardware-maker into a mass market digital services provider.
About the size of a tailgate-party beer cooler, the robots can cross streets, climb curbs, travel at night and operate in both rain and snow. The service from a San Francisco-base startup launched Monday.
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, whose poll numbers have lingered in the single digits this summer after a fast start earlier in the year, is set to run his first television ad of the campaign.
It is unclear whether some or all of the attorneys general also plan to open or announce additional probes into other tech giants, including Amazon and Facebook, which have faced similar U.S. antitrust scrutiny.
Drugmaker Purdue Pharma is negotiating a multibillion-dollar settlement with lawyers for local and state governments that would resolve about 2,000 lawsuits against the company.
The landmark decision is the first to hold a drugmaker culpable for the fallout of years of liberal opioid dispensing that began in the late 1990s, sparking a nationwide epidemic of overdose deaths and addiction.
Colts backup quarterback Jacoby Brisset is expected to take over as the starter of a team that some had pegged as a contender for the Super Bowl. “We’ll make this city proud,” said General Manager Chris Ballard.
The White House has, in recent days, sought to exude confidence about the economy’s strength while at the same time hunting for ways to bolster business and consumer confidence.
An agreement would ease investor pressure over massive litigation exposure the German drug and chemical giant took on with its $63 billion purchase of the weedkiller’s maker, Monsanto Co.
It wasn’t the first time Biles had criticized Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics and its former president, Steve Penny, for its inaction against Larry Nassar. But rarely has she been as emotional in public as she was Wednesday,
The treatment costs $375,000 or $475,000, depending on whether it is used for advanced lymphoma or pediatric leukemia. Hospital stays can add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost of care.
U.S. stocks on Tuesday rebounded from their worst day of the year after Chinese efforts to stabilize the yuan reassured nervous investors that a global currency war had not been declared.
