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Why should championship tennis get played amid such gusts and swirls?

Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer, had been imprisoned after challenging government policies that exploited farmers, discriminated against the disabled and brutally enforced China’s one-child policy.

The 14 percent decline in the trade deficit in July should give a lift to overall economic growth.

Terry Jones, the pastor from Gainesville, Fla., said he would cancel the event. He did so after Defense Secretary Robert Gates personally appealed to him in a phone call.

Rahm Emanuel is Chicago born and bred, but he has never been seen as one of the city’s towering figures. And that, friends say, is a reason being mayor has been among his biggest ambitions.

The United Steelworkers union plans to file a legal case that accuses China of violating World Trade Organization rules.

The creator of the TED conference and his novelist wife, who live in a grand 19th-century copy of an 18th-century French country house, happily shun Rhode Island society.

In her tenure as district attorney, Kathleen M. Rice, a candidate for New York attorney general, has been criticized over her tactics.

The French market for halal goods is nearly twice as big as the market for organic food.

Those who live off their savings and investments are hit hard by falling interest rates, as corporations borrow cheaply and sit on the cash.

Some people may dislike the former prime minister, but that is not stopping record sales of his book.

Wind remains a signature feature of Ashe Stadium, considered the hardest environment among the Grand Slam center courts.

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey is calling on the Justice Department to address misconduct.

Chicago has felt conflicting emotions since Mayor Richard M. Daley said he’d leave the office he has had since 1989.

Edgar Valdez Villarreal is the only United States citizen known to have moved so high in the cartels’ structure.

Jan Green, a painter, lives and works in an early 19th-century gristmill in upstate New York.

Allergan will pay $600 million for its marketing tactics while the F.D.A. decides on the drug’s use for migraines.

The reception that the Chevrolet Cruze receives from consumers could play a large role in wooing investors.

State security forces punched and pushed back workers who tried to storm the central branch of the Kabul Bank to claim their monthly wages on Wednesday.

Taking a page from the Democrats, Republicans are fielding candidates in all but seven Congressional districts.