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PITSEA, England—The great names of English soccer ring with the echoes of Britain’s industrial past—Liverpool’s docks, the railway works that gave birth to Manchester United, the foundries…

Drivers can now have less junk in their trunk, and more in their frunk.People have long prized having storage space in the back of their cars, whether for stashing tools or tailgating. As…

Enervise Inc. recently found someone to fill a $75,000-a-year job. The new hire said he would move to Cincinnati and report to orientation at 8 a.m. on his first Monday. The day before, he…

Overall, about a third of the S&P 500 and nearly half of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are expected to provide their quarterly updates during the week starting Monday, according to…

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Business has boomed for Chick-fil-A franchisee Travis Collins during the pandemic, thanks to surging appetite for chicken sandwiches from his drive-through window.Now…

Stuart Williams, a voice actor, took his seat behind a microphone at a sound studio in Manhattan one cold day early this month. On a screen in front of him played a steamy love scene from…

Mr. Williamson used to order the Chicken Chalupas or Doritos Locos Tacos from Taco Bell. He said he now says goodbye to his co-workers after clocking out after 11 p.m., goes home, plays…

Pollution and other man-made ills weigh heavily on Mexico’s axolotl, a rare salamander popular among Aztecs back in the day.Its population in the wild has fallen by something like 99% in the…

SEOUL—Wearing a dark suit and red tie, Yoon Suk-yeol, the main opposition party’s candidate for South Korean president, stared into the camera with a stern look in his eyes. He prepared to…

TOKYO—It is the dominant American maker of smartphones, a household name to billions and for many makers of high-tech parts their most important customer ever.Just don’t ask who it is.…