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A tax incentive, with bipartisan roots, aims to foster development in poor areas. It has fueled building, but it hasn’t always aided local residents.

A rapidly strengthening yen and a sell-off in stocks in the United States pushed Japan’s markets to a second consecutive day of big losses on Friday.

A Biden aide hailed a complicated prisoner swap as an act of “vintage Joe Biden” diplomacy. As he greeted freed Americans, the president seemed intent on showing the world what that meant.

New York’s hundreds of hotels are subject to less regulatory scrutiny than many other businesses. The industry is resisting City Council efforts to change that.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said there was “overwhelming evidence” that Edmundo González had won, despite President Nicolás Maduro’s claim of victory.

Safi Rauf, a Muslim humanitarian, was held captive by the Taliban for 105 days. Secret calls on a smuggled phone with Sammi Cannold, a Jewish Broadway director, were his lifeline.

The author Peter Hessler posed a question with an elusive answer: How could Chinese society open up so profoundly while its politics stagnated or even regressed?

The author Peter Hessler posed a question with an elusive answer: How could Chinese society open up so profoundly while its politics stagnated or even regressed?

The exchange offered a measure of validation for President Biden soon after he abandoned his bid for re-election.

After Scruggs, 21, became the first Black American woman to win an individual Olympic fencing medal, she clinched gold for the U.S. team.

One officer was shot in the leg and the other in the groin after they responded to a report of an armed robbery at a mahjong parlor. Both are in stable condition.

The decision, five weeks after a jury awarded $4.7 billion in damages in an antitrust case, is a reprieve for the league.

Vice President Kamala Harris condemned former President Donald J. Trump’s remarks. But she also made it clear she would not engage in a debate with a white man critiquing her Black identity.

Demographers say that a growing number of Americans identify as more than one race, and that the number will continue expanding in the decades ahead.

After winning the all-around gymnastics title, she wore a sparkly necklace in the shape of a goat, for Greatest of All Time. But she is not done yet: She has three more chances to win medals in Paris.

A day after telling Black journalists that Vice President Kamala Harris had recently decided to become “a Black person,” Mr. Trump shared a photo of Ms. Harris in traditional Indian clothing.

The accused mastermind of the plot, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, appeared at a session as the agreement was disclosed. A sentencing hearing could begin next year.

Prosecutors said the inmate, Paul J. DeCologero, acted as a lookout in 2018 during the fatal beating of the notorious Boston underworld figure.

The release of prisoners was a move by President Biden to secure his legacy. On Thursday, he and his White House made clear that Vice President Kamala Harris had been a partner in the effort.

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