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The U.S. stock market is remaining relatively calm on Wednesday, even as the price of oil continues to swing.

The International Energy Agency said Wednesday that member countries will release 400 million barrels of oil to alleviate price pressures from the war in Iran.

Microsoft is throwing its weight behind Anthropic in asking a federal court to block the Trump administration's designation of the artificial intelligence company as a supply chain risk.

Inflation remained stubbornly elevated last month as gas prices rose, but it's a snapshot of consumer prices before a U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran sent energy costs soaring.

Israel believes Iran's new supreme leader, Ayatollah Motjaba Khamenei, was wounded during the start of the war.

U.S. tap water is generally safe and high quality. But that doesn't mean every glass tastes the same, or that every building's plumbing delivers identical water to the faucet.

Unidentified projectiles struck three cargo ships in or near the Strait of Hormuz early Wednesday amid the U.S.-Israel war against Iran, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations reported.

Consumer prices grew at an annual pace of 2.4% in February, meaning inflation is holding steady.

President Trump plans to visit Ohio and Kentucky on Wednesday to argue that his policies can steady an economy facing shock waves from the war on Iran and to try to defeat one of the few congressional Republicans who has dared to defy him.

The January collapse of a pipe as wide as a car dumped so much sewage into the Potomac River that officials tracked a spike of gut-wrenching bacteria drifting slowly past Washington for weeks, prompting an emergency declaration and federal assistance ...