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Shutterstock Rebecca James was hired as an executive at Prospa when she was just seven weeks pregnant. Taking into consideration her personal experience and core values, she chose to tell the founders during the hiring p...

The Trump administration navigated its widening trade war Tuesday, preparing to meet the top European Union executive to defuse a fight over auto tariffs and offering $12 billion in aid to American farmers hurt by retali...

Vipin Gupta, who was chief information officer at Key Community Bank, will oversee strategy for information technology at Toyota Financial Services.

The first daughter's role in the White House has hampered the company's growth prospects

This new company is striving to make itself the "GoDaddy" of blockchain domains.

MoviePass, the cash-strapped movie-subscription plan, is eyeing a 1-for-250 reverse stock split, it said Tuesday. The move is aimed at keeping its shares from being delisted. Shares of Helios & Matheson Analytics, the Mo...

Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has released a one-page letter from President Donald Trump in which the U.S. leader urges a speedy renegotiation of the North American Free Trade …

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The NHS is preparing to stockpile drugs and blood products in case of a "no deal" Brexit. On Tuesday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he was working with industry leaders to "accelerat...

Brussels, Athens and Piraeus are among cities London insurance brokers could consider for European Union subsidiaries, with time running out to plan for a hard Brexit, a trade body said on Wednesday.

Erika Wasser and her staffers arrived for a big appointment -- hair and makeup for a bridal party of 11 -- to realize someone had goofed and the salon space …

Reuters/Jim Urquhart Oil prices rose more than 0.5% on Wednesday. US crude inventories fell more-than-expected last week. Watch oil trade in real time here. Oil prices jumped Wednesday as data showed a larger-than-expect...

The Latest on President Donald Trump's trade policy (all times local): 10:55 a.m. Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) says the world faces "a choice between cooperation and confrontation" in …

The U.S. oil benchmark rallies after a larger-than-expected drop in crude inventories.

1 in 4 millennial car buyers don't feel comfortable negotiating and would prefer to have their parents help make the deal. But millennials have a secret weapon that forms a strong foundation for effective negotiating str...

Employees of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency are holding a demonstration in the Gaza Strip in protest of sweeping pay cuts and dismissals. Hundreds of employees of the agency, known …

Botulism is a rare but potentially fatal form of food poisoning that can cause paralysis and is sometimes linked to contaminated food.

Kena Betancur/Getty Images Americans love to play the lottery. People living on the East Coast tend to spend more on lottery tickets, on average. Those living in Massachusetts spend the most on lottery tickets, on averag...

At least a dozen companies and government agencies have been targeted and thousands more are exposed to data breaches by hackers exploiting old security flaws in management software, two cyber security firms said in a st...

A chemical company says it will build its global headquarters in South Carolina. State and company officials said Wednesday that Ingevity will build a headquarters in North Charleston to accommodate …

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer's publisher says a book signing at a Massachusetts warehouse store has been canceled "due to the political climate." Regnery Publishing said in a …

New research shows the Trump Administration's expected clean car rollback will cost the U.S. $457 billion and cause 13,000 deaths by 2050, while increasing emissions 11% and gas use 20% by 2035.

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