As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders ...

A 2020 Student Borrower Protection Center study, for example, found that the default rate in the U.S. was nearly twice as high in majority-Black ZIP codes – 17.7% – than in majority-white ones ...

NEW YORK (AP) — With a meeting by the Federal Reserve out of the way, U.S. stocks are drifting Thursday as Wall Street waits for reports on profit at one of its most influential stocks and on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks climbed Thursday to trim the majority of their losses for the week. The S&P 500 rose 45.81 points, or 0.9%, to 5,064.20 a day after swinging sharply when the Federal ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets wobbled in early Thursday trading after U.S. stocks swung to a mixed finish with the Federal Reserve delaying cuts to interest rates. U.S. futures surged and oil ...

Asian shares were mostly higher Friday ahead of a report on the U.S. jobs market, while several major markets including Tokyo and Shanghai were closed for holidays ...