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Courts have given companies some leeway to make (perhaps overly optimistic) sweeping statements, a practice lawyers call “puffing.”

Wataru Yoshida had had enough. He wasn’t going back to school.He disliked his teachers, chafed against the rules and was bored by his classes. So in the middle of 2020, as Japan’s...

Before the era of swashbuckling corporate raiders rained riches and fear on Wall Street, there was Thomas H. Lee.A private equity titan earlier than practically anyone else, Mr. Lee, through his firm,...

The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization for the first over-the-counter, at-home combination flu and Covid test on Friday, just two days after the company that makes the test announced...

Stocks slumped Friday on their way to their worst week of the year, as investors balked at fresh government data that added to a flurry of signals showing a resurgence in inflation.The...

Within months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, there was near panic in Europe over energy supplies. Mainstay flows of natural gas through pipelines from Russia were dwindling to a relative...

Thomas H. Lee, a private-equity investor famed for orchestrating the takeover of Snapple in the 1990s, has died, a family spokesman said on Thursday.The billionaire Mr. Lee, 78, founded his namesake Boston...

Jason Weinstein and Ryan Poscablo, lawyers for Ozy Media and Mr. Watson, said that they were “extremely disappointed” by the government’s actions and had been engaging with them “since December, and as...

Federal prosecutors on Thursday added new details to a charge filed in December about Sam Bankman-Fried’s campaign donations, accusing him and two uncharged former executives of FTX, the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, of...

BENGALURU, India — Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said on Thursday that the United States would redouble its efforts to marshal global support to help Ukraine and warned that China would face...