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Washington — President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke Wednesday with Cherelle Griner, the wife of WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner, who remains behind bars in Russia, the White House said.  Griner has been imprisoned in Russia since February, and her trial began last week. The Biden administration has …

Americans with stock portfolios or retirement investment plans would likely prefer to forget the last six months. The S&P 500, Wall Street’s broad benchmark for many stock funds, lost 20% through the end of June after starting the year at an all-time high. It’s the worst start to a year …

A measure of inflation closely tracked by the Federal Reserve rose 6.3% in May from a year earlier,  unchanged from its level in April. Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department provided the latest evidence that painfully high inflation is placing financial pressure American households and inflicting particular harm on low-income …