On Thursday, prosecutors and defense lawyers laid out their closing arguments in the fraud trial of the founder of Theranos, the failed blood testing start-up. In what was effectively their last shot at convincing jurors, each side framed their arguments around the question of whether Ms. Holmes, 37, had deliberately […]

By Ana Swanson and Jeanna Smialek Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, suggested on Wednesday that the economy could achieve the central bank’s full-employment goal by next year, a development that could presage raising interest rates from their rock-bottom levels. Mr. Powell emphasized that a broad range […]