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Record home prices and higher mortgage rates in May made it the most expensive month since 2006 to buy a home, prompting more buyers to give up and pressuring sellers to cut asking prices.The National Association of Realtors’…

The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade has created a legally fraught landscape for organizations that advertise abortion services or provide information about getting them.The new mishmash of proposed and existing state-level…

Companies must take a multipronged approach to stay on the right side of a strict new U.S. law aimed at curbing forced labor in China, compliance experts said, with steps such as sourcing products from other countries and visiting Chinese…

Consumer groups from several European countries on Thursday plan to file formal complaints to regulators alleging that Google violates privacy rules and doesn’t inform users of how their data from across the company’s services is used to…

A venture of a New York investment firm and a U.S. residential developer has agreed to pay $1.75 billion for six Manhattan rental apartment buildings, according to people familiar with the matter, the highest price tag for a New York…

Anonymity on the internet has gotten a bad rap lately, and for good reason. The shield of anonymity has contributed to a toxic online ecosystem that is too often marred by cyberbullying, misinformation and other social ills. Removing…

Glencore PLC said it has revamped its ethics and compliance program, including boosting its annual compliance spending and hiring more full-time compliance staff, as the global mining…

Chattanooga, Tenn., one of the first places in the nation to install a citywide fiber-optic gigabit-speed internet cable, boomed during the pandemic thanks to an influx of remote workers and venture capital-backed startups, its mayor said.…

McDonald’s Corp. MCD 2.74% is poised to prevail in a proxy fight with activist Carl Icahn, who challenged the fast-food chain over…

A Microsoft Corp. MSFT -0.37% search engine has made it harder in North America to look up people who are politically sensitive for China, according to a cybersecurity and surveillance…