The stock market is open with wind at its back on news that President Trump says he won’t be firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

U.S. markets are poised to open with big gains, a clear sign of relief after President Donald Trump said he would not attempt to fire the head of the Federal Reserve. Futures for the Dow Jones ...

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair ...

Let’s begin with the obvious: the Pope has better security than a Bond villain. But what’s perhaps less known—and infinitely ...

Wall Street is pointing higher a day after skepticism about the strength and safety of U.S. investments due to President ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed for the 2004 murder of 56-year-old James Myers A man facing the death penalty for committing two murders was executed by firing squad on Friday, the second such ...

Mahdi had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. “Faced with barbaric and inhumane choices, Mikal Mahdi has chosen the lesser of three evils,” Weiss said.

The Senate early Friday morning voted to confirm President Trump’s choice to be chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine. The 60-25 vote came after Democrats, led by Sen.

For its part, Christie’s is betting that a canonical Andy Warhol canvas with top-shelf provenance can spark interest: it will offer the pink-hued acrylic-and-silkscreen Big Electric Chair (1967 ...

Amid a drop in high-end art sales, Christie’s plans to auction Andy Warhol’s Big Electric Chair (1967–68) during its May evening sale in New York from the collection of Belgian patrons Roger Matthys ...

Measuring just over six feet wide, Big Electric Chair (1967–68) will come to the block at Christie’s, bearing an estimate of $30 million. “The more you look at the same exact thing ...