Senator John McCain will return to Senate for health-care vote, his office says

Sen. John McCain’s office said Monday evening that the senator would return to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. That follows the news last week that the longtime politician had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. “Senator McCain looks forward to returning to the...

Dollar recovers from 13-month low on strong PMI readings, Asia stocks subdued

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar crept up from a 13-month low on Tuesday after stronger-than-expected readings on U.S. factory and services activity ahead of the start of a Federal Reserve meeting later in the day, but Asian stocks were subdued. The dollar and...

Economy Needs Workers, but Drug Tests Take a Toll

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ July 24, 2017 YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Just a few miles from where President Trump will address his blue-collar base here Tuesday night, exactly the kind of middle-class factory jobs he has vowed to bring back from overseas are...

Google’s parent company invested in a hot cancer-testing start-up and built it a dedicated lab

Verily, the life sciences arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has invested in Freenome, an ambitious start-up that’s building technology to detect early-stage cancer, and built a dedicated lab for the start-up. Verily invested in Freenome as part of...