Communications-services fell as traders retreated from risky sectors due to fears about the Iran war.

U.K. antitrust regulators said they would allow publishers to opt out of feeding their content to power artificial-intelligence features in Google's online searches.

Veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley was fired by CBS News a day after taking aim at Editor in Chief Bari Weiss's leadership. David Ellison, chief executive of CBS parent Paramount Skydance, spoke to Weiss, who he hired to run the news unit, ahead of her final meeting with Pelley.

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