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Boko Haram’s abduction of more than 100 Nigerian schoolgirls last week is sending political shock waves through a key U.S. counterterrorism ally in Africa as President Muhammadu Buhari weighs whether to seek re-election.

The U.S. announced it will cut off $8.3 million in financial aid for Cambodia after “recent setbacks to democracy” in the country, including a round of Senate elections on Sunday in which the ruling party claimed victory in all 58 races.

And they aren’t even from Trump.

Why do talk-show hosts like Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert still suit up each night when most of us can just wear chinos to work?

In 2008, China put together a record medal haul when it hosted its first Olympics. The challenge is arguably much bigger for 2022 in Beijing, given that the country doesn’t have a winter-sports tradition to draw on.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told lawmakers he has become more optimistic about the U.S. economy this year and that the central bank remains on track to gradually lift short-term interest rates.

Florida school massacre survivor who was shot 3 times 'grateful' she's alive, Democrats face divide as primaries approach, and for the first time in 20 years, team USA women won more Olympic medals than men.

How small businesses are creating new ways to compete with larger companies for talent. Find out the strategies.

Aiming to spiff itself up, China’s capital is bricking in illicit businesses. Shopkeepers are coming up with elaborate workarounds.

For snorkeling and scuba, Lake Malawi in southern Africa is a literally fresh option—as placid as it is picturesque.

We asked interior designers and architects to single out the worst and best parts of their childhood homes’ décor. Among the scarring memories: ‘barf floral’ upholstery and torturously uncomfortable ‘TV chairs.’

A Russian “humanitarian pause” in a Damascus suburb failed to materialize, according to residents, as they said regime and Russian airstrikes continued and no civilians fled through an evacuation route devised under the plan.

After quarters upon quarters of declining sales, Macy’s may be turning a corner. For the first time in three years it reported positive sales growth.

The world’s media titans are locked in battle over Sky. Comcast, Disney and Fox all believe Europe’s pay-TV leader will give them heft to fight back against Netflix.

The bank gave nothing but good news on its investor day. But the bank’s shares did nothing. That is not surprising after a 31% rally over the past year, compared with the 20% rise for the KBW Nasdaq Bank Index.

The campaign leading up to Italy’s national elections on March 4 has featured populist promises of largess but neglected what economists have long said is the real Italian disease: The country has forgotten how to grow.

Akorn's checkered history should have given Fresenius pause before it agreed to buy the generic-drug company.

Demand for lithium is expected to soar in the next few years, which is why prices have doubled since 2016. But like other basic materials before it, the market has forgotten there is plenty of lithium in the world.

Fabien Baron and Ludivine Poiblanc’s knack for editing makes for easygoing elegance at their Greenwich Village townhouse.

A company called Blade wants to take that computer off your desk and stick it in the cloud.

The singer was a child when the family had a crisis of conscience that turned them into pacifists; as a teen, she found a way to give warmth to her voice

The Federal Reserve says the economy is “near or a little beyond full employment.” Preventing it from getting too tight without causing trouble will be tough.

A rights group said Tuesday that the “predictive policing” platform combines feeds from surveillance cameras with other personal data such as phone use, travel records and religious orientation and then analyzes the information to identify suspicious individuals.

Why do talk-show hosts like Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert still suit up each night when most of us can just wear chinos to work?

Why buy a PC when you can stream one over the internet to any connected device, like Netflix? WSJ's David Pierce tests out a powerhouse virtual PC from a French startup called Blade. Photo/Video: Emily Prapuolenis/The Wall Street Journal