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The market crash of 1929 triggered the Great Depression, which would shape American life for the following decade.

Gas prices are going up after the Valero refinery in Benicia caught on fire Monday.

Warner Bros. Discovery execs preach patience to the company’s investors.

More than 50 brands, including Bugaboo, Framebridge, and Eileen Fisher, are using Mother’s Day to push the government for federal paid leave.

Drug companies in the U.S. face few restraints on what to charge for their products. A bipartisan bill would penalize those companies that sell their drugs at higher prices than the average of the prices in other wealthy nations.

The most popular condiment in Ancient Rome was garum. Pliny the Elder reported that garum was made from salted, fermented fish intestines. Producing this delectable apparently stank so much that production facilities were relegated to the outskirts of towns and cities.

At that time, traders in his circle bragged about securing shipments of high-performing Nvidia GPUs that were subject to US export restrictions. Many were smuggled through overseas channels to Shenzhen.

When Congress voted to normalize trade relations with China at the beginning of this century, U.S. manufacturers braced for a stream of cheap goods to begin flowing into U.S. ports. Instead, they got a flood.

The Trump administration's tariffs are fueling concerns about a potential recession, with several major banks increasing their forecasts. What is recession and who declares one?

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Donald Trump makes no secret of his loathing for regulations that limit water and energy use by home appliances.