Online home services platform Handy is pushing legislation in eight states that would permanently define its gig economy workers as independent contractors, thus freeing the company from paying employment taxes and obeying many labor laws.
Shares of Zillow have soared this year. But other housing-related stocks have dipped, and even Zillow's top economist is worried the real estate market may cool off.
A sharp decline in the number of international student visas has many of America's colleges and universities on edge -- and some say the Trump administration's tough stance on immigration might be partly to blame.
With elections this spring, Venezuelan presidential candidate Henri Falcon is proposing to replace the country's spiraling currency, the bolivar, with the US dollar to end hyperinflation.
The British government has a range of tools it can use to strike back at Moscow after the Kremlin was linked with the attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal.
Now that President Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports are official, America's trading partners are threatening to take their grievances to Geneva.
