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(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin sank for a fourth straight trading session on concerns about potential selling by governments, creditors of a failed exchange and beleaguered crypto miners.  The digital asset fell...

Hurricane Beryl was moving toward Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula Friday morning as a Category 2 storm, after spending the last week tearing through the eastern Caribbean, where it left islands flattened....

Popeyes tried out a number of different names for its boneless wings — including “bites” — over worries that people may struggle to understand what they were. Jeff Klein, president...

As the war in Ukraine trudges on, the Pentagon no longer has to worry too much about Russia’s ability to compete militarily with the United States. Moscow’s new pact with...

Leaders from Germany’s three-way ruling coalition on Friday presented a draft budget for 2025 that contains increased payments to families and more investment in kindergartens, along with more money for...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will sit Friday for his first televised interview since his disastrous debate performance last week, one that could be crucial in determining whether he can salvage...

Between abandoned coal mines and an engine plant scheduled for closure, a gleaming new factory hovers like a phoenix over Billy-Berclau, a small industrial town in northern France. Inside, 700...

YouTube star Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson recently donated $200,000 toward a universal basic income program in the Ugandan village of Karamoja. A top soccer player who grew up desperately poor has...

(Bloomberg) — China’s central bank took the next step toward selling government bonds to cool a record-breaking rally, saying it now has “hundreds of billions” of yuan of the securities...

Sweltering summer temperatures are increasingly common, especially in cities where closely packed buildings and paved surfaces trap heat. When temperatures climb above 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) it can be a...