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About a third of couples are willing to save money on cake and dessert, according to the wedding-planning site Zola.

Norway has the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, but it's facing a self-imposed dilemma. Should the fund's investments include companies that contribute to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war?

Bloomberg’s exclusive reporting found that staff members of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission were told to retract analysis of suspicious oil trades on March 23 after President Trump backed away from threats to strike Iranian power plants.

Character.AI collected millions of users, making it a very appealing acquisition. Google took a unique route to "acquiring" it, hiring away its founders and licensing its technology. Now Character.AI is filing for bankruptcy. Here's what to know.

The Atlantic writer Josh Tyrangiel says Musk and Bezos each want to colonize the moon, mine its resources and launch thousands more satellites. He says their only real competition is each other.

Social Security benefits are set to get a boost to offset rising consumer prices. And, streamer Hasan Piker says the GOP's "guilt-by-association politics" won't drag Democrats down in the midterms.

The latest tough inflation report reinforces the challenge for President Trump and GOP candidates ahead into the midterm elections.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, about the inflation data that was released on Wednesday.

Consumer prices continued to rise in September, up 3.7% from the same time last year. The increase is partly driven by high energy prices, a result of the U.S. war in Iran.

Last week, President Trump signed an emergency order temporarily allowing the use of so-called "red-dyed" diesel gasoline.