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President Donald Trump is complaining that President Xi Jinping enjoys a major advantage in the U.S.-China trade war in that he controls China's central bank while Trump must deal with a Federal Reserve that is "very destructive to us." Trump makes clear in an interview with CNBC his frustration with a system that provides political independence for America's central bank — something most economists see as vital to its credibility.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether residents of two Montana communities can continue their decade-long effort to get the Atlantic Richfield Co. to pay for a more thorough cleanup of arsenic left on properties after a century of copper smelting.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. restored power to more than 20,000 customers in Northern California after the company shut it off over the weekend to guard against wildfires amid a heat wave that fueled a blaze still burning in a rural area, officials said Monday.

Gambling regulators in New York have voted to allow sports betting at four upstate casinos.

Greece is on track to hold a national election July 7, three months before schedule, after the country's president accepted a request by left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to dissolve parliament.

Shares of Kraft Heinz are up sharply in the first day of trading since the company said that financial misstatements in revealed last month were not quantitatively material.

The Louisiana-based McIlhenny Co., which produces Tabasco sauce, has named the great-great-grandson of Tabasco creator Edmund McIlhenny as its new president and chief executive officer.

An unusually large swarm of local locusts, estimated in the millions, is plaguing farmers raising sheep and other livestock in Sardinia.

A study by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that seniors living in major metropolitan areas, especially in the Northeast, were more likely to continue working past age 65 versus those in other areas around the country.

Raytheon Co. and United Technologies Corp. are merging in a deal that creates one of the world's largest defense companies.

The Supreme Court is siding with an Alabama company over the U.S. Postal Service in a patent dispute.

U.S. employers hired the most people on record in April, while the number of open jobs was largely unchanged, evidence that the job market remains solid.

My guest today is Hicham Oudghiri, co-founder and CEO of Enigma.

Vietnam's government says it is taking more steps to prevent Chinese companies from using illegal "Made in Vietnam" labels to avoid high tariffs that have been imposed by the United States on Chinese goods.

Researchers tell us that most people would be better off waiting to claim Social Security benefits.

The Supreme Court has ruled against workers on oil drilling platforms off California who argued they should be paid for the off-work time they spend on the platform, including sleeping.

Ford's Interceptor Utility is an all-new model aimed at maintaining its dominance in the law enforcement market.

It's always nice when readers back up the editors.

Nissan's chief executive has criticized the Japanese automaker's French alliance partner, Renault, for trying to block changes to strengthen governance following the arrest of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn.

With its bare cells, the Tokyo Detention House looks much like a high-security prison, but those who get incarcerated here, including former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, have not been convicted of any crime.