Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel acknowledged Wednesday that he helped finance Hulk Hogan's legal fight against Gawker Media, in what amounts to an extraordinary campaign to take down a media organization.
Twitter Inc. on Wednesday confirmed it is curtailing an advertisement effort that encouraged people to purchase products from merchants without leaving the social-media service.
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesia has unveiled harsher penalties for sex offenders, allowing judges to opt for the death penalty and chemical castration in cases involving children.
NEW DELHI—Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took on critics who accuse him of failing to pursue “big bang" liberalization measures to revamp his country's economy, saying he has set a path for accelerated growth that India's states now ...
KABUL—The Taliban named religious leader Maulavi Haibatullah to take charge of an insurgency confronting disunity as it fights multiple enemies in its drive to expand across Afghanistan.
Mount Sinai Beth Israel will close its hospital and replace it with a much smaller facility, significantly reducing the number of hospital beds in lower Manhattan.
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A former coal industry CEO who was murdered earlier this week in southern West Virginia was an accidental victim of a drug-related robbery gone bad, according to police who said a 20-year-old man confessed to the crime Wednesday.
RIVERSIDE, Calif.—Hillary Clinton is seeking to close out a surprisingly contentious presidential primary with a victory here that would send her into the general election with momentum and mute Democratic rival Bernie Sanders's argument ...
WASHINGTON—Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and her lax record-keeping while secretary of state violated the department's policies, an independent watchdog said Wednesday, a rebuke that keeps the issue alive as she campaigns ...
The 1,000 or so Japanese-Americans who survived atomic bombs in Japan 71 years ago view President Barack Obama's Friday visit to Hiroshima uniquely: They suffered attacks by their own nation.
A truce between Greece's creditors averts an immediate panic over Greek bankruptcy this summer, yet as officials and onlookers digested the deal, it became apparent that less was agreed than meets the eye.
Hong Kong's stock exchange wants to create a benchmark index for the yuan to try to spur offshore trading of the Chinese currency, which has suffered setbacks as China slowly liberalizes the flow of money in and out of the mainland.
A peer-to-peer lender with Chinese characteristics: What could go wrong? When the company's stock has more than tripled in a few months, it is easy to find some causes for worry.
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Energy shares rose across Asia on Thursday as oil prices breached a key threshold, though lingering concerns about a U.S. interest-rate increase capped gains in stocks.
The Justice Department said it is joining a lawsuit against Prime Healthcare Services and its chief executive that alleges Prime hospitals improperly admitted patients for care and submitted false claims to Medicare.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. was selected as the new named sponsor of the Science Talent Search, making the biotechnology company the third corporate benefactor of the iconic 75-year-old high-school science competition once widely known ...
Wells Fargo & Co. is rolling out a new mortgage for borrowers making minimal down payments, an offering that could allow the bank to step back significantly from a controversial Federal Housing Administration program. ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Donald Trump's criticism of the nation's first Latina governor threatens to further damage his image in the Hispanic community as he turns toward a general election where those voters will be pivotal.
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Federal regulators are investigating the accounting practices of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the e-commerce giant whose blockbuster U.S. stock-market debut helped win a wide following for Chinese tech firms.
A joint venture of Madison Capital and Vornado Realty Trust is moving ahead on the construction of a six-story mixed-use building in SoHo after buying a parking lot and obtaining financing for the project, according to a Madison executive.
The polish that suddenly made Chinese steel, and in turn global iron ore, look shiny earlier this year is wearing off. Don't expect it to come back, except in self-defeating spurts.
Protesters confronted police in riot gear and on horseback outside a Donald Trump rally in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, but by late afternoon the event hadn't erupted in the chaotic violence seen at a Trump appearance the night before in ...
Obama Reasserts Hope for TPP Passage This YearU.S. President Barack Obama catching a performance by Vietnamese rapper Suboi at a town-hall meeting with members of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative in Ho Chi Minh City on ...
Here's a question all responsible teenagers should ask themselves when applying to college: Is this school some place where my parents would want to hang out?
A fund controlled by LendingClub Corp. that invests in the company's online consumer loans suffered one of its worst monthly performances for April and disclosed it was buying riskier loans than originally intended, according to letters ...
It will be hard to get a room this year at Gurney's Montauk Resort during the peak summer season, even at the going rate of $1,800 a night.But the owners who restored the luster to the former Gurney's Inn, George Filopoulos and Lloyd ...
HARTFORD—Gov. Dannel Malloy wants to overhaul Connecticut's criminal-justice system, but it is unclear whether his fellow Democrats will give him the votes he needs to make it a reality.
A high-ranking New York Police Department official disciplined as part of a long-running federal corruption investigation has filed for retirement, becoming the latest officer to seek to leave the force before his fate in the probe is ...
Even as Pentagon officials strive to wean themselves off using Russian booster engines to launch U.S. military satellites, they are studying a possible shift to European-built rockets.
The return of $50 oil promises to sting motorists and other energy consumers across Asia, leaving them stuck with higher energy bills following the rollback of costly fuel subsidies.
SALINAS, Calif.—If elected president, Hillary Clinton would send infrastructure legislation to Congress within her first 100 days, the Democratic front-runner said Wednesday.
Costco Wholesale Corp. said its sales stagnated in its third quarter, and the bulk seller also gave investors a glimpse into how much a wage increase for its store workers could affect its bottom line.
Alphabet Inc.'s Google has begun work with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV on self-driving technology for testing in Pacifica minivans, and will open an engineering and development center in a Detroit suburb, Google's autonomous vehicle chief ...
SÃO PAULO—Brazil's finance ministry named two experienced insiders as heads of state-controlled lenders Banco do Brasil SA and Caixa Econômica Federal, as the new government of acting President Michel Temer continues to put its own people ...
Protesters hold up a Mexican flag in a confrontation with police before a rally for Donald Trump in Anaheim, Calif.
Eleven states, led by Texas, are suing the Obama administration over a new policy saying public schools must let transgender students use the bathroom of their choice—calling the directive “a massive social experiment" running roughshod ...
STOCKHOLM—A Swedish court has ruled that a request by prosecutors to detain WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on suspicion of rape should remain in force, rejecting a recent petition by his defense team that the case against him be dropped.
Joel Ray is director of research for Davenport & Co. LLC. A Business & Tech article on Wednesday about Monsanto Co. rejecting a takeover offer from Bayer AG incorrectly identified the company as Davenport Capital Management LLC. ...
Salesforce.com Inc. is pinning its international expansion plans on Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud-computing services, a deal that will be worth $400 million over four years to Amazon, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The largest U.S. department-store chains this month posted disappointing sales, setting off fresh fears about the health of brick-and-mortar retailers.
U.S. officials have moved to address a key concern of Wall Street banks about the Obama administration's signature Pacific trade agreement, removing a small impediment to congressional passage of the pact, which has encountered stiff ...
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