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As if sticker shock in grocery stores hasn’t been enough, inflation has hit another consumer favorite: Girl Scout cookies.When Girl Scouts in New York start their annual cookie sales this week, customers...

Meta’s stock price soared on Friday, adding hundreds of billions of dollars to the market value of the social media giant that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.The company said on Thursday, after...

The United States delivered a much-bigger-than-expected batch of jobs last month, adding further evidence that the economy still has plenty of steam.Employers added 353,000 jobs in January, the Labor Department reported on...

“I feel like I’m in a fairy tale,” Sean Wang said to the sold-out crowd gathered at the Ray Theater in Park City, Utah, last month for his Sundance Film Festival debut.Mr....

President Biden, whose approval rating has suffered amid high inflation, is beginning to pressure large grocery chains to slash food prices for American consumers, accusing the stores of reaping excess profits and...

A Delaware judge’s decision to void the pay package that helped make Elon Musk the world’s richest person leaves Tesla’s board with some difficult decisions to make.Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick of...

Lawmakers on Wednesday denounced the chief executives of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord, accusing them of creating “a crisis in America” by willfully ignoring the harmful content against children on their...

Federal Reserve officials held interest rates at their highest level in more than two decades at their first meeting of 2024 and hinted that their next move will be to lower borrowing...

Updated Jan. 31, 2024, 9:29 a.m. ETJan. 31, 2024, 9:29 a.m. ET David McCabeDavid McCabe covers tech policy in Washington, D.C.Five of the most prominent chief executives in tech will face questions on...

China’s top intelligence agency issued an ominous warning last month about an emerging threat to the country’s national security: Chinese people who criticize the economy.In a series of posts on its official...