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Regulators on Tuesday watered down an effort to layer new oversight on banks to protect against losses, which led to a fierce outcry from big banks and their lobbyists. The new standards, known as “Basel III endgame,” had been debated for years. They would have raised the amount of capital …

James Earl Jones, who was 93 when he died Monday, will be remembered by baseball purists for the stirring, soul-reaching words he delivered in the 1989 film “Field of Dreams.” Cast as a fictitious writer named Terence Mann, Jones is nominally speaking to Kevin Costner’s Ray Kinsella. But what he’s …

As Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled her economic plans in recent weeks, former President Donald J. Trump has accused her of being a Marxist, a communist and a socialist. When they meet on Tuesday night for their only scheduled presidential debate, Ms. Harris will have the opportunity to rebut those …

Healthy Black women with low risk factors were far more likely to get C-sections than white women with similar medical histories, a large new study found.

Paul Marshall, a multimillionaire founder and investor in upstart conservative media outlets, has bought the right-wing British magazine in a deal worth about $131 million.

A semi-scientific theory about how many Americans will tune in to watch Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on Tuesday night.

Federal regulators are trying to block Kroger’s merger with Albertsons. In a Portland suburb, residents already know what deteriorating access to fresh food looks like.

The former president has proposed using tariffs to fund child care, boost manufacturing, quell immigration and encourage use of the dollar. Economists are skeptical.

I was dubious whether the same space where I work, shop and dodge advertisements could hold such power, but I dedicated myself to the practice anyway. At the end of the program, the other remote attendees and I experienced a kind of spiritual transmission en masse and over Wi-Fi. The …

The cases had established the European Union as the world’s leading tech watchdog, but have since raised questions about its protracted appeals process.