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The U.S. trade deficit in goods widened 2.5% to %86.7 billion in February, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Three out of every four students accepted at Penn through early admissions submitted test scores. At Georgetown, that number was 93%.

In court records of people arrested in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, 68% reported they had received mental health diagnoses, more than triple the rate in the general population.

Faster inflation later this year will be the result of a comparison with artificially low consumer prices a year earlier during the pandemic.

Inflation is set to surge just as the Federal Reserve thinks it will recede.

In the U.S. alone, sales of preowned private jets climbed nearly 10% in 2020 from 2019 levels, with 1,637 jets sold in the country, according to analysis from broker Colibri Aircraft.

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Some 60 of the world’s largest commercial and investment banks have in total put $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels from 2016 to 2020, the five years after the voluntary Paris Agreement was signed.

The Federal Reserve said temporary limits on dividend payments and share buybacks will end for most banks after June 30, following the completion of annual stress tests to determine their resilience to a hypothetical downturn.

Now that Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill has been signed into law, the wait is on for the launch of the huge package’s new aid program for restaurants.

U.S. stocks look set to fall at the open on Thursday following Wednesday’s tech selloff on Wall Street.

Forget playing to the hearts and minds of climate-change inactivists, says Greta Thunberg. This research may just hit ‘em where it counts.

The curtain is going up for New York’s Broadway scene, with vaccination sites dedicated to the theater community.

Darden Restaurants says hourly workers earn, on average, $17 per hour

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s three-year effort to legalize cannabis for adult recreational use appeared to have succeeded Thursday, amid reports of an agreement with lawmakers that could lead to a vote as soon as next week.

Lumentum Holdings Inc. appears to have lost its hard fought battle to buy laser technology company Coherent Inc. on Thursday, but investors are cheering like they won the war.

The supreme court of the European Union has been drawn into a German battle over whether Facebook’s broad collection of user data is in breach of competition rules, in a landmark challenge threatening the viability of the tech giant’s business model.

The U.K. and the European Union said on Wednesday they had begun talks to work toward a negotiated solution of their quarrel over the export of COVID-19 vaccines, in an attempt to avoid bans and countermeasures.