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Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An escalation of conflicts in the Middle East in recent weeks has triggered a sharp increase in oil prices, raising uncertainty about where costs will head in...

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- U.S. hiring surged in September, blowing past economist expectations and rebuking concern about weakness in the labor market. The fresh report marks one of th...

Nitat Termmee/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the final weeks of the campaign, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have sought to best each other on the all-important issue of ...

McDonald's(NEW YORK) -- It's a monster mash at McDonald's, with the new limited-edition Happy Meal Boo Buckets making their return to the Golden Arches.On Oct. 15, the iconic plastic buckets, which ma...

The Michael Kors Store on Rodeo Drive on Feb. 23, 2017 in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Fg/bauer-griffin/GC Images via Getty Images, FILE)(NEW YORK) -- The Federal Trade Commission is asking a federal judge ...

Getty Images - STOCK/Anton Petrus(NEW YORK) -- Oil prices climbed more than 3% on Tuesday in the immediate aftermath of an Iranian missile attack on Israel.The spike in prices is expected to push up t...

Downed trees on a home in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Sept.r 29, 2024, in Rutherfordton, N.C. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- Hurricane Helene flooded properties and devastated buildin...

Michael Dobuski/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Back in the 1980s, Honda sold a city car in Japan called, appropriately, the Honda City. It would have been a normal hatchback, were it not for what came in the t...

Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Tens of thousands of U.S. dockworkers walked off the job early Tuesday morning, clogging dozens of ports along the East and Gulf coasts and potent...

Lauren Justice/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Tens of thousands of dockworkers are set to strike as soon as Oct. 1, potentially snarling dozens of ports along the East and Gulf coasts with ma...