Florida is experiencing its largest dengue outbreak in decades, with over 250 locally acquired cases reported this year.

The US Treasury Secretary risks boxing himself in with his prognostications on gasoline prices, the housing market and the economy.

The longer you have to prepare for a disaster, the likelier you are to walk away from it mostly intact. Tornadoes can spin up in minutes, barely giving you time to hustle to a cellar or bathtub. Hurri...

New research using a strand of hair from Thomas Jefferson has effectively settled a longstanding, acrimonious debate: He almost certainly fathered children with Sally Hemings, a young Black woman he enslaved.

More than 9 million Americans are at least one year behind on their payments.

Global agriculture prices notched their biggest quarterly jump since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, as tensions in the key Black Sea region and extreme weather threaten more inflationary worries f...

With the congressional midterm elections nigh and the midpoint of Donald Trump’s second presidency not far behind, it’s time to ask: How does Trump’s foreign policy measure up so far? And where is it ...

The Trump administration asserted this week that South Korea will fund an LNG pipeline, but Seoul is disputing the status of negotiations.

The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the central bank’s renovation of its Washington headquarters, a $2.4 billion project that became a flashpoint betwee...

Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...

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The US merchandise-trade deficit unexpectedly widened in August, reflecting a jump in the value of imports of industrial supplies such as petroleum products.

Has the stock market bubble quietly burst already? Even though the S&P 500 Index has mostly treaded water for the past four months, Wall Street analysts have continued to boost their earnings esti...

I don’t know who will win the US-Iran war. But if you ask me who’s prevailing in the battle over the Strait of Hormuz, it’s clear US President Donald Trump has the advantage. As much as Tehran says th...

US mortgage rates climbed for a sixth straight week to an almost three-year high, thwarting would-be homebuyers.

Beneath the surface of a low unemployment rate in the US, the ranks of people facing prolonged periods of joblessness are increasing.

The Trump administration’s new fuel-economy standards hew to Homer Simpson’s approach to tough tasks or failure: “Never try.” They are simultaneously a gift for US automakers and an act of sabotage to...

Employer-sponsored health insurance is rapidly deteriorating. In 2027, premiums are expected to see their largest single-year increase in two decades, jumping 11% and closing in on a nearly five-fold increase this century. The amount workers pay for their portion today would have covered the entire premium in 2000.

Music fans and journalists who spent the last few months looking for the song of the summer faced a plot twist fit for Hollywood: The winner was a single released last October. Billboard announced last week that Ella Langley’s Choosin’ Texas had secured the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 chart for the 23rd week, breaking the record held by Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You.

The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.

The most bothersome aspect of the warning that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity is that there are few details about how a rogue computer model could actually accomplish it.

A recent New York Times investigation found that sports betting company DraftKings Inc. built a machine-learning model that scored customers by how much they would lose for each free bet or bonus they received. The data analyst assigned to test the model began to worry that many of the customers ranked highest were prone to addiction. By financial logic, the analyst said, “the best investment would be a problem gambler.”

How you take your caffeinated beverage is not really a proper question in the corporate world.

The world is in a strange liminal space, between a decaying, American-led order and some new geopolitical structure that has yet to cohere. Witness the strategic dilemmas Saudi Arabia faces in a viole...

Is it acceptable to bring an iced coffee to a job interview?

Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

Less than a week after listing his Marlborough, Massachusetts, home for $1.28 million, Alton Bradshaw had already cut the price twice.

In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker