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An index tracking emerging-market currencies climbed to a session high after weaker-than-expected US jobs data prompted traders to scale back bets on another Federal Reserve interest-rate hike this month. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 29,000 in September after downward revisions to the prior two mon

While most Americans may think the Iraq War is long over, it wasn’t until this week that the last US troops departed, ending a long and painful experience for both nations that began with the US invasion in 2003.

Complaining about the capital is a national pastime — for good reason

Legal cases rise as universities struggle with approach to technology

No one likes to pay more — people or corporations — but this is a time of national need

Ukraine’s president says he requested his US counterpart to impose sanctions on companies involved in developing ‘Rassvet’

Burnham has reopened the Brexit debate. That doesn’t mean the UK will be welcomed back on its own terms

As a tumultuous era of airline consolidation — kicked off by deregulation in 1978 — reaches its end game, Alaska Air Group Inc. is well positioned to pull off the industry’s last large acquisition on its way to becoming a nationwide carrier.

Rising long-term bond yields are a global phenomenon, rooted in growing concern about government finances. But the US has led the way in this collapse of fiscal responsibility. As such, it bears outsized responsibility for thinking about solutions.

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.