Melinda French Gates is expanding her efforts to improve women's health worldwide, pledging $215 million for contraceptive access and maternal care, as well as initiatives for middle-age women

The Supreme Court has upheld a broad reading of the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission to recoup ill-gotten gains from people who engage in securities fraud

US filings for jobless aid, a proxy for layoffs, rose to a still-healthy 225,000 last week

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has held talks with Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez

A massive coastal development project linked to Jared Kushner is facing resistance in Albania

Some of the leading artificial intelligence companies are moving toward initial public offerings this year at eye-popping valuations

Indonesia's former head of the National Nutrition Agency has been arrested on corruption charges related to a multibillion-dollar free-meals program

The Canadian government has endorsed a plan to move the last remaining captive whales from a shuttered theme park and zoo in Ontario to aquariums in the U.S. and Spain

Canada's culture minister says the government has directed its television and communications regulator to back down from a recent decision to triple financial contributions required from U.S. streaming services such as Netflix for Canadian content