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WILMINGTON, Del. — On Monday, a judge in Delaware Superior Court is expected to swear in the jury in a defamation trial that has little precedent in American law. Fox News, one...

What’s Up? (April 9-15)Inflation Falls, With CaveatsThere was good news and bad news in last week’s inflation report. First, the good: The Consumer Price Index climbed 5 percent in March from a...

More than a dozen years ago, a medical device hit the market with a tantalizing promise: It could freeze away stubborn pockets of fat quickly, painlessly and without surgery.The device, called CoolSculpting,...

By 1940, they were settled in Brooklyn. Regina found work at Lily Daché, the milliner with the movie star clientele who was known for her turbans. Isadore began working out of the...

What is owed to the creators of the original material? In January, a group of artists sued London-based Stability AI, a maker of image-generating software, arguing that it infringed on their copyrights...

When you host one of the world’s last over-the-air radio shows in Yiddish, fans occasionally get in touch. But you hear more often from critics. They write to Avraham Zaks, the 37-year-old...

Here’s a personal finance pop quiz with an extremely high pass rate.In what industry do so many customers not know the price until after they apply for the privilege of making the...

SAN FRANCISCO — After the stabbing death last week of Bob Lee, an entrepreneur and creator of Cash App, in a San Francisco neighborhood popular among technology workers, prominent tech executives including...

WASHINGTON — Nearly every living economist who led the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a Republican administration — including the three chairs under President Donald J. Trump — signed a...

The federal rule that requires funeral homes to list their prices didn’t envision the internet. Now, regulators are weighing an update that would require the homes to reveal their prices online.“People are...