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The U.S. housing market is topsy-turvy, data published Tuesday show, with prices up for the third month in a row to April, but down from the same period last year....Read More

Britain’s largest nursing union conceded Tuesday that it had failed to win a mandate for another six months of strikes in England over pay after too few members cast ballots....Read More

Ford Motor confirmed Monday it will lay off salaried workers and engineers in the United States and Canada this week as part of the automaker’s restructuring plan to cut billions in costs....Read More

IBM announced on Monday it is purchasing business software company Apptio Inc. from its parent Vista Equity Partners for $4.6 billion....Read More

President Joe Biden will announce Monday the allocation of $40 billion in federal funds to distributed to states in an effort to expand high-speed Internet to every nook of the country by 2030....Read More

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with several business leaders on Friday, the final day of state visit....Read More

Southwest Airlines and the union representing its mechanics, instructors and maintenance controllers, say they have reached a tentative labor agreement....Read More

Starbucks Workers United says a weeklong unfair labor practice Strike With Pride begins Friday, with more than 3,000 workers at over 150 stores nationwide participating....Read More

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerburg was set to meet with the European Union’s top digital regulator Friday as U.S. social media platforms rush to prepare for new online legislation aimed at combating disinformation and trolling....Read More

On Thursday the U.S. Senate voted to ratify the U.S.-Chilean tax treaty after it had gone more than 10 years without a floor vote....Read More