In the darkness the warehouse looks like any other, a metal-roofed hangar next to a clattering overpass, with homeless people sleeping nearby in the shadows. But inside, workers quietly unload black plastic crates filled with merchandise so valuable that mobs have looted delivery vehicles, shot up the windshields of trucks and hurled a rock into one driver’s...

A transgender Utah woman making her first foray into politics will face off against incumbent Republican Sen. Mike Lee in November after winning the Democratic nomination. Misty Snow would become the state’s first openly transgender elected official if she wins the general election. She defeated marriage therapist Jonathan Swinton in Tuesday’s...

Britain’s vote to leave the European Union continued to reverberate through financial markets, with the pound falling to its lowest level in 31 years, despite government attempts to relieve some of the confusion about the political and economic outlook. UK finance minister George Osborne said early Monday that the British economy was strong enough to cope...