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After the Labor Department descended on a sanitation firm operating at a Nebraska meatpacking plant, the company was fined for violating child labor laws. One of the minor workers has seen her life unravel.

Homicides were down in the US in 2022 and continue to fall in the biggest cities. The cause of the spike is still being determined.

Securities exchanges sometimes halt trading or very occasionally cancel transactions when technology glitches or “fat finger” errors cause one-off mistakes. But it’s rare for one to cancel whole sessions after the fact, or to take days to allow trading to resume freely. Yet that’s what happened with one of finance’s oldest institutions, the London Metal Exchange, or LME. Russia’s invasion of Ukra…

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The move adds delays to a multiyear plan to bring 25,000 employees to its new offices in Northern Virginia as it cuts jobs elsewhere in the country.

The 2015 accord limiting Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief was designed to slow Iran’s nuclear program to the extent that, if it were to ditch the agreement, it would have needed a year to produce enough fissile material to fuel a nuclear weapon. That so-called breakout time had been estimated at a few months before the deal went into effect. Following the US withdrawal in 2…

At least three large pharmacies have plans to distribute Mifeprex, the two-part abortion drug. Antiabortion activists aren’t happy.

A four-decade effort to make the party more moderate has come to an end, a casualty of changing priorities on both the left and right.

Trading in equity options can be life in the fast lane compared with trading stocks themselves, offering investors big and small a quick road to riches paved with risk. As a form of derivatives, options have traditionally been the domain of Wall Street pros. But retail investors plunged in during the pandemic, and positions began getting opened and closed at a frantic pace. More than 40% of the S…

Private owners such as shippers and lessors account for about two-thirds of the cars operating on North American tracks, and maintenance obligations typically fall to them.

While technology has transformed many areas of finance, one corner that’s remained relatively untouched, at least until recently, is the opaque world of syndicated loans. That’s because most of these deals involve hundreds of pages of bespoke agreements that can be hard to automate. But as the value of the global loan market doubled to more than $20 trillion in the past three years, and complianc…

The tax agency has spent nearly $1 billion in new funding to improve service, and tax pros say the investment is already paying off.