The rate of new hospital admissions for vaping-related illnesses has dropped in the past several weeks, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggesting that the outbreak is on the decline.... read more

Congress has struck a tentative bipartisan agreement that would authorize 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all federal workers, in a potentially historic deal negotiated with the White House.... read more

The Trump administration is considering putting some of Amazon.com Inc.'s overseas operations on a list of global marketplaces known for counterfeit goods, according to people familiar with the matter.... read more

The Tesla and SpaceX chief has spent around $100 million on homes, including a cluster of six in a leafy Los Angeles neighborhood.... read more

Investigators with Immigration and Customs Enforcement have opened about four times the number of workplace investigations in the year ended Sept. 30 compared with the final year of the Obama administration.... read more

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Consumer preferences and tariffs have led companies to expand their American furniture production. They are finding a dearth of skilled workers to support the renaissance.... read more

Anita Elberse's Harvard Business School course on the business of stardom teaches Grammy winners and MVPs about the business world and helps connect M.B.A. students with the entertainment and sports worlds.... read more

Patricio Galvez saw his daughter join Islamic State in Syria. After her death, he brought home her children, only to face obstacles thrown up by his country; "They are losing their faith in me."... read more

Tracking new routes and flights is one of the last old-school tricks to lower ticket prices that still works. Expect plenty of deals to Hawaii in 2020.... read more

The U.K. has more surveillance cameras per capita than any other country in the West. But it is private companies' cameras, not the government's, that are starting to worry activists and regulators.... read more

German prosecutors now believe the murder of a Chechen rebel in Berlin this summer was likely linked to the Kremlin, according to an official familiar with the investigation, putting pressure on Berlin to punish Moscow.... read more

Sprint has for years failed to accurately measure how many of the low-income Americans it serves through the federal Lifeline program actually use their phones, according to regulatory documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.... read more

PG&E failed to adequately inspect and maintain its transmission lines for years before a faulty line started the deadliest fire in California history, a state investigation has found.... read more

Urban growth and a surge in crop irrigation are taxing water supplies and fueling interstate legal fights, such as one in which Georgia and Florida battle over how much should be drawn from a river basin they share. Soybean fields or oyster beds?... read more

Former Credit Suisse banker Andrew Pearse's life was a whirlwind of international travel and deal-making-and then he and two former colleagues pleaded guilty to charges arising from an alleged conspiracy to defraud investors in Mozambique debt deals.... read more

The Iraqi Parliament accepted Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi's resignation, opening a new phase of jockeying to find a replacement as antigovernment protests continued to grip the country.... read more

Washington and its European allies are at odds over how to prosecute and detain about 2,000 foreign fighters being held in Syria, eight months after U.S.-backed forces took back the last sliver of Islamic State's self-described caliphate.... read more

The president, who as a candidate labeled the alliance obsolete, has upended past gatherings with his complaints that members must spend more on defense. ... read more

The president, who as a candidate labeled the alliance obsolete, has upended past gatherings with his complaints that members must spend more on defense. But his White House has struck a more conciliatory tone ahead of the meeting to mark NATO's 70th anniversary.... read more