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St. Jude Rock ‘n’ Roll Nashville Marathon

Northwestern Mutual Honors Moms of Childhood Cancer Patients this Mother’s Day

For everyday Americans with good credit, historically low interest rates on mortgages and credit cards can be a lifesaver. Riskier borrowers will have to look elsewhere for relief.

The Federal Reserve painted a dour picture of current conditions and pledged Wednesday to continue its historically aggressive policy.

Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg reinforces his recession forecast following the Federal Reserve's September meeting.

A New York City cowboy boot store may sell classic styles, but it's been improving its sales by using technology and analytics on the Bindo POS iPad app.

There may be no free lunch in the financial services industry, but there is now free trading of stocks, exchange-traded funds and options as custodians eliminate commissions for retail and financial advisor clients.

The registered investment advisor industry has attracted the attention of private equity investors, thanks to good growth, high profit margins, consistent cash flow and low capital needs.

Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz told "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer he expects a "good holiday season" if the retail environement returns to normal.

As a doctors’ and nurses’ strike paralyses Zimbabwe’s health system, one woman has delivered 100 babies in her flat

•Photographs by Cynthia R Matonhodze

Six expectant mothers groan through their labour pains in the lounge of a tiny two-roomed apartment in Mbare, Zimbabwe’s oldest township.

Sweating and visibly in pain, a heavily pregnant woman peeps through the window to catch a breath while others lie on the floor.

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Quiet commemorations held to mark 75 years since end of war on continent

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Seventy-five years ago crowds massed in the streets of Europe, singing and dancing as their leaders announced the end of six years of bloody war. On Friday, the streets were empty, and leaders stood alone in silence at places of commemoration, as a continent marked the heroics of the war generation in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.

President Trump dangerously suggested injecting disinfectants could help patients sick with the coronavirus, then said he was being "sarcastic." But his remarks led to a spike in calls to helplines about taking disinfectants. We look at "What We Know About the Most Touted Drugs Tested for COVID-19" with Tanya Lewis, associate editor for health and medicine at Scientific American.

Its sting is excruciating to people, but it is a bigger threat to honeybees vital for agriculture

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A.Z. Foreman (to quote his blog profile) “is a translator and poet who has been obsessed with languages and literature since childhood”; you should check out his translation blog, with lots of poems accompanied by his translations (and sometimes audio files of him reading the original) in languages from Arabic to Yiddish. But right now […]

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