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A member of the Sackler family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma says the billionaires will not agree to a settlement unless it includes liability protections for the heirs against waves of lawsuits over the opioid crisis.

Last summer, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser played a high-profile role in the protests sweeping America over police killings of Black suspects. She renamed a street Black Lives Matter Plaza and joined thousands of demonstrators there, many shouting what had become the movement’s slogan: “Defund the police!”

Facebook has said it will continue to ban pro-Taliban content under "U.S. law" in light of fallout from the U.S. Military's withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years.

President Biden's comments on the rapid fall of Afghanistan will be his first on the escalating situation.

Major airlines are avoiding Afghanistan's airspace in the wake of the Taliban gaining control of the country two weeks before the U.S. was set to complete its troops withdrawal.

The European Central Bank is likely to announce long-awaited plans to reduce its pandemic-related asset purchases in the next quarter, according to a Reuters poll of economists, most of whom expected the programme to be wrapped up by the end of March.

New Zealand's central bank is expected this week to become the first in Asia-Pacific to raise interest rates since the pandemic began, amid concerns crisis-era stimulus is overheating the economy.

Robinhood dodged a major blow to its business model following a vote by the House Financial Services Committee that resulted in the quiet shelving of an initial legislative effort to ban a practice known as "payment for order flow," FOX Business has learned.  

Walmart, Tesla, and the Federal Reserve will set the tone for investors in the coming week as the S&P and Dow Jones sit at record highs.

Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle are reportedly burying their rumored feud and even taking steps to work with one another.

Stunning advances by Taliban insurgents this summer amid an ongoing U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan threaten to unwind a fragile security structure built through years of military toil in a matter of weeks, raising renewed questions about the conflict’s cost in dollars and American lives.

Wendy’s plans to open 700 delivery-only kitchens by 2025 to meet the growing demand from people who want their fast food brought to them.

President Biden asserted that inflation is easing, even as the Labor Department Wednesday reported prices rose in July versus the prior month, and versus July 2020.

Earth’s climate is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations calls a “code red for humanity.”

Ben & Jerry's franchisees operating 30 stores across the country are asking the ice cream maker to "re-examine and withdraw" its decision to stop selling products in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly reacts to Rep. Cori Bush spending thousands of dollars on private security while pushing to defund the police.

Exxon Mobil Corp. is considering a pledge to reduce its net carbon emissions to zero by 2050, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would amount to a significant strategic shift by the oil company.

Nearly three dozen of the nation’s most influential business groups — representing retailers, chip makers, farmers and others — are calling on the Biden administration to restart negotiations with China and cut tariffs on imports, saying they are a drag on the U.S. economy.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon addressed a recent clash with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., over his bank’s overdraft fees and noted that it will "make a bunch of changes," if it is appropriate.

No one knows for sure what the state of the American economy will be one year from now, but the existing evidence all points in one direction: disaster.