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Former President Donald Trump’s trade adviser says the U.S. needs to completely decouple from China to make it pay for COVID-19.

The U.S. trade deficit hit a fresh record of $80.9 billion in September, driven by a surge in imported goods that far outpaced exports, government data showed on Thursday.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Monday announced a $2 billion commitment to fight climate change at the 2021 U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP26.

A California judge ruled late Monday that four drug companies can't be held liable for fueling widespread opioid addiction in the state.

Brian Hsu, 20, was charged with interference with a flight crew and assault within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the U.S. stemming from the alleged Oct. 27 assault aboard American Airlines Flight 976, according to the Justice Department.

As the nation heads into the Christmas season, fears are mounting that massive inflation and ongoing supply chain issues will make this holiday one of the most expensive in memory.

A Safeway location in San Francisco cut hours over “off the charts” shoplifting that has plagued the city for months.

Harley-Davidson Inc. shares rallied sharply Monday after the U.S. and European Union settled a dispute over steel and aluminum tariffs.

Andrea Erickson said she is torn over the role police should play in this city ahead of the first municipal election since the murder by a Minneapolis police officer of George Floyd.

Jes Staley stepped down as chief executive of Barclays PLC under pressure from regulators about how he characterized his relationship with the convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Some former members of Afghanistan’s U.S.-trained intelligence service and elite military units—now abandoned by their American patrons and hunted by the Taliban—have enlisted in the only force currently challenging the country’s new rulers: Islamic State.

The Biden administration is using every tool at its disposal to “unstick the ports” ahead of Christmas and is also aiming to partner with American industry to “incentivize” domestic production of semiconductor chips amid the global supply chain crisis, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said Sunday.

President Biden and European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen announced a new agreement on Sunday that includes lifting steel and aluminum tariffs as part of what Biden called “a new era of transatlantic cooperation.”

President Biden is convening world leaders at the Group of 20 summit on Sunday to talk about ways to relieve the supply chain bottlenecks hampering the global economy as it recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.

President Biden and other world leaders at the G20 Summit in Rome endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations.

The fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin on a movie set has put a microscope on an often-unseen corner of the film industry where critics say the pursuit of profit can lead to unsafe working conditions.

Multiple climate groups are protesting at banks around the world to demand they end financing the fossil fuels industry.

Biden’s recent decision to nominate Cornell University professor Saule Omarova to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) tells us this.

Federal Trade Commission staffers have begun looking into disclosures that Facebook Inc.’s internal company research had identified ill effects from its products, according to people familiar with the matter.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that the Biden administration will continue pressuring OPEC members to boost oil production as gas prices reach their highest level in a decade.