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By Sadie Gurman, Jan Wolfe and Alex Leary Updated Aug. 31, 2022 1:50 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)WASHINGTON—The Justice Department said “efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation” of documents at former…

When the Commerce Department reported last month that U.S. economic output contracted for two consecutive quarters during the first half of the year, it raised fears the U.S. might be in recession, defined in a popular rule of thumb as…