Across the country, families are quietly shrinking their holiday wish lists, trading big-ticket presents for smaller gestures and, in some cases, skipping gifts altogether. Household budgets were ...

President Trump’s trade policy, inflation and climbing stock prices shaped business and the economy this year.

"We've been tracking children's growth from birth all the way through to adulthood, and the fastest period of growth is clearly the first couple of years during infancy," Sean Cumming, a professor in ...