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2021 could be a year of healing for both people and the economy. As the calendar turns over a new year, we'll look back at how the economy fared in 2020 and at what lies ahead.

It is easy to talk about great ideas as if they were light-bulb moments — sudden epiphanies where everything comes together for you. But Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, says the great ideas of the past have taken a lot more hanging out than you'd expect.

Children's author Roald Dahl would have turned 100 this week. To celebrate, the OED added 6 words and expressions from Dahl's writing. For example: golden ticket, Oompa Loompa and Scrumdiddlyumptious.

The coronavirus pandemic is making it more difficult to address the opioid epidemic, which the U.S. has been struggling with for years.

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The spaceflight company Blue Origin, founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, has successfully completed its first flight into space with passengers aboard, including the Amazon founder himself.

The Amazon rainforest is the most biodiverse ecosystem on the planet. Scientists there say the best way to experience it may be with your ears.

Brazil is now a world power when it comes to food production. And a leading symbol of that might is Katia Abreu, a senator, landowner and head of the country's most powerful Big Agro association. But environmentalists say limits need to be placed on the farming industry in order to protect the forests of the Amazon.

Office Depot has agreed to buy OfficeMax in an all-stock deal for nearly $1.2 billion. The merged company will still face tough competition from Staples and Amazon.com.