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There seems to be a bizarre disconnect between the surging U.S. stock market and the sad state of American politics. Winston Churchill supposedly quipped, “Americans always do the right thing, after they have tried…

Brian Armstrong has become the new face of crypto. CoinbaseGlobal, the cryptocurrency exchange he co-founded in 2012, is one of the last big digital-asset companies standing after a string of high-profile collapses and government…

Updated Jan. 10, 2024 5:56 pm ETThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted Wednesday to allow mainstream investors to buy and sell bitcoin as easily as stocks and mutual funds, a decision hailed by the industry as a game…

MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press When Republican Jim Pillen becomes Nebraska’s governor next month, one of his first acts will likely be to name his predecessor and biggest supporter to fill an open…

A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is highlighting just how many Americans have been infected with COVID-19, and how significantly the number has increased since the arrival of the highly infectious omicron…

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated.Ryan Knutson: Chasie Robinson lives in Cincinnati. She works as a nurse, and she and her husband used to own a home…

Jerome H. Powell was nominated to serve a second term as Federal Reserve Chair. Graeme…

WASHINGTON—Democrats are weighing a variety of possible tax increases, including boosting the corporate tax rate and the top marginal income-tax rate on individuals, to raise revenue as President Biden finalizes his…

Behold the paradox of this pandemic moment: Large corporations are political villains, derided on the left and right. Yet the main, and perhaps only, reason the Covid-19 scourge is easing is vaccines developed by Big Pharma. Few are more…

“If we are going to be a society that insists we have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, then we can’t refuse to give people the bootstraps they need to pull themselves up,” Amy Jo Hutchison of West Virginia said at a…