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Trex, a maker of weatherproof decking, will invest $450 million to boost capacity and give the company a firm footing in the South, bucking forecasts for a decline in home-improvement spending.

The weak yen is dividing Japan into the haves and the have-less, where consumers with dollars and euros live well and those who hold only the domestic currency make do.

Smaller European brands are embracing the U.S. as alternative growth markets such as China and Russia become increasingly fraught.

A new European Union law that aims to make chocolate more sustainable has left farmers racing to map their plots—and is poised to add to high prices.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash along with the country’s foreign minister, state TV said.

U.S. officials privately warned telecommunications companies that undersea cables that carry internet traffic across the Pacific Ocean could be vulnerable to tampering by Chinese repair ships.

Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz criticized Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza and threatened to quit the government if the prime minister doesn’t articulate a plan for ending the war and securing the enclave.

Ed Dwight, the first Black man to train to be an astronaut decades ago, made his first space flight aboard a Blue Origin rocket at the age of 90.

The graduating class of Morehouse College heard Biden call for an immediate cease-fire to address a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and appeal to Black voters after a season of unrest across U.S. campuses.

Manchester United are in desperate need of reinforcements and could go after six bargain buys this summer.

There is no cause to feel especially blue this Monday, with the warm and sunny weather seen over the weekend forecast to continue through this week also.

Coventry council will decide if a home on Daventry Road can be repurposed

But always there comes a point when the sands of time have almost drained from the glass, when there’s little chance left to share what really matters.

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The only poll that matters is on Election Day.

A conversation with Jason Furman about the limits of debt

Cruising the New England coast over the last five years with my wife Leslie, from Block Island to Southeast Harbor, in Maine, completely changed my feelings about yacht clubs.

The west African country is on the verge of becoming a regional oil major

The recent surge in bitcoin prices has the phones at crypto wallet recovery firms ringing off the hook, as retail investors locked out of their digital vaults make frantic calls to regain access to their accounts. Cryptocurrencies exist on a decentralized digital ledger known as blockchain and investors may opt...

I’ve never really understood how the commercial guys can find 600 traps out on the open ocean. We had enough trouble finding 10.

1. UK set for slower inflation than Eurozone and US  Financial Times
2. Economic turning point could change course of Rishi Sunak's premiership  Sky News
3. Inflation to return to two per cent target in boost for Bank of England  City A.M.
4. Inflation in the UK is about to tumble. But how far – and for how long?  The Guardian
5. Economists hopeful inflation will hit 2% target this week  The Times

New series relates the rise of Afghanistan’s answer to ‘American Idol’ following the fall of the Taliban

Our US art critic’s personal voyage through one of the world’s greatest — and largest — permanent collections