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Hightower firm Highland Private Wealth Management has expanded its business in Washington with the acquisition of an advisor team with approximately $470 million in assets under management.

Defense lawyers say FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried can't adequately prepare for trial in six weeks while in jail without proper access to computers, necessary medications to help him concentrate, and a better diet than bread, water and peanut butter

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A North Korean commercial flight has taken off from Beijing in a sign that Pyongyang is its opening its borders again after almost three years of severe COVID-19 restrictions

Investors in their golden years have increasingly been targeted by precious metal and collectible coin providers — a trend that state regulators, lawyers and financial advisors say needs to stop.

Lauryn Hill will soon embark on a world tour. It will be a 25thanniversary tour for her debut solo album, 1998’s ‘Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.’

College sports realignment will bring big challenges to fans who travel to see their teams on the road

Travelers taking off and landing at Dulles International Airport outside the nation’s capital will soon see an array of 200,000 solar panels that comprise the largest renewable energy project ever built at a U.S. airport

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo will meet with Chinese officials and American business leaders in Beijing and Shanghai next week amid efforts to stabilize relations that have sunk to historic lows

The generic drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals agreed Monday to pay $225 million to settle price-fixing charges related to sales of a widely used cholesterol-lowering drug

U.S. regulators have approved the first RSV vaccine for pregnant women to protect their newborns

House conservatives in a group known as the Freedom Caucus have unveiled a list of demands they want included in a stopgap spending measure to keep the federal government running after the end of September

Defense lawyers say FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried can't adequately prepare for trial in six weeks while in jail without proper access to computers, necessary medications to help him concentrate, and a better diet than bread, water and peanut butter

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By Andrea Shalal and David Ljunggren

Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The new legislation goes beyond the goal of price control stated in its name. The Inflation Reduction Act works in tandem with other new legislative proposals such as the American Rescue Plan and the CHIPS and Science Act to pivot the US towards active government intervention in industry, through direct investments, tax credits, subsidies and some import tariffs.

NEW YORK — FTX Trading Ltd. founder Sam Bankman-Fried can’t adequately prepare for trial in six weeks while in jail without proper access to computers, necessary medications to help him concentrate and a better diet than bread, water and peanut butter, his lawyers told a magistrate judge Aug. 22.

ICC event on the horizon and leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal has once again fallen out of favour with the Indian team selectors. Chahal was a big name missing from the Asia Cup squad announced on Monday but India skipper Rohit Sharma has left the door slightly ajar for the 33-year-old for the subsequent ODI World Cup at home in October-November. The wily operator, who was once India's go to bowler in the middle overs, finds himself in familiar territory as another World Cup beckons. Chahal was controversially excluded from the 2021 T20 World Cup before returning for the 2022 edition in Australia, where he did not get a game as finger spinners were preferred in the playing eleven. Kuldeep Yadav, one half of the celebrated 'Kul-Cha' duo has left the other half behind in the pecking order.

OTTAWA (Reuters) — Canada will challenge what Ottawa described as «unfair, unjust and illegal» U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber products, the trade ministry said on Tuesday.

By Gram Slattery