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What’s Up? (June 12-18)Largest Rate Increase Since 1994In its most striking move yet to rein in inflation, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate three-quarters of a percentage point Wednesday, the central...

Along a bare torso and down a thigh, the sun glints through ocean waters and bathes coral and fish in aqueous light. On a lower leg, vivid frogs tense, as if preparing...

Such imagery has since become stock-in-trade. When Brian Kemp ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, one tongue-in-cheek ad showed him in a room full of firearms, leveling a shotgun near a...

Early on in the pandemic, he started writing a book looking at crises from 1945 to the present day to try to explain the momentous changes in our society and economy. Ahead...

PARIS — Plumes of steam towered above two reactors recently at the Chinon nuclear power plant in the heart of France’s verdant Loire Valley. But the skies above a third reactor there...

A huge fire broke out Saturday at the headquarters of a petrochemical facility in southeast Shanghai and at least one person died. The fire started around at 4 a.m. at an ethylene...

A tumultuous week on Wall Street, which began with stocks plunging into a bear market for the second time during the pandemic, ended with a small gain on Friday. That was little...

Vince McMahon, a longtime executive for World Wrestling Entertainment who led professional wrestling from a sideshow curiosity into a mainstream phenomenon, has stepped down as chairman and chief executive while the company’s...

Germany’s economy minister, Robert Habeck, has made an urgent appeal to Germans and German companies to conserve natural gas following two days of tighter restrictions by Gazprom, the Russian energy giant, on...

After at least 13 infant deaths in rockers manufactured by Fisher-Price, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warned customers about the risks of inclined products for children in the first months of...