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An embrace of remote work spurred by the pandemic helped the employment rate for disabled people reach an all-time high last year.

The cyber-insurance market, battered by a rash of pandemic-era ransomware attacks, is making a comeback. Price hikes are moderating, new carriers and fresh sources of capital are emerging, and companies can better afford coverage.

Even holding a minute of silence for victims of the conflict in Ukraine proved too hard for the United Nations Security Council, where a meeting meant to push for peace a year after Russia invaded descended into objections about the order of speakers.

Federal Reserve officials said inflation is too high and may take time to cool, even as fresh price data came in hotter than expected and new research suggested they may need to raise interest rates as far as 6.5%.

An exceptionally cold winter storm buffeting California brought snow to coastal hills that rarely see it, shut major highways near Los Angeles and Santa Cruz and knocked out power to more than 110,000 homes and businesses.

Blackstone Inc. is considering raising a new open-ended European infrastructure fund, people with knowledge of the matter said, as investor demand for real assets continues unabated.

A bunch of scandals sapped up liquidity in crypto markets last year. But even as prices have recovered in 2023, the so-called “Alameda Gap” has persisted, with liquidity still nowhere near levels notched before FTX collapsed.

Meta Platforms Inc. introduced a research tool for building artificial intelligence-based chatbots and other products, seeking to create a buzz for its own technology in a field lately focused on internet rivals Google and Microsoft Corp.