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The dated U.S. rail infrastructure is struggling to stay operational as climate change accelerates and intense heat waves, downpours and high winds become more frequent.

Even as the H5N1 virus evolves, gaps remain in the nation’s contingency plans for human testing, scientists say.

Donald Trump says he will not fire Jay Powell as chairman of the central bank if he is re-elected president, after threatening to do so. But whether the president even has the authority is open to question.

Consumer prices rose 2 percent in June from a year earlier, a bit higher than economists expected, with a big jump in hotel prices coinciding with a blockbuster series of concerts.

Consumer prices rose 2 percent in June from a year earlier, in line with the Bank of England’s target for the second month in a row.

The Labour Party’s economic agenda, like many other programs around the world, puts political leaders more firmly in charge of industrial policy.

The agreements, set to begin after next season, could potentially pay the league about $76 billion over 11 years.

The media titan’s attendance in Milwaukee was another extraordinary turn in his contorted relationship with Donald J. Trump.

He helped Martha Stewart, Leona Helmsley, Michael Milken and other white-collar criminals win lighter sentences, and prepared them for life in prison.

Mr. Watson, who denied lying to investors and lenders, faces up to 37 years in prison.