The first half of the year comes to a close Friday, and it certainly has been a strong period for stocks. Year-to-date gains through Thursday: the Dow was up 7.7 percent, the S&P 500 is up 8 percent and the standout Nasdaq has soared over 14 percent. Over the past …

Getty Images German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump arrive for a group photo at a G7 summit on May 26, 2017 in Taormina, Italy. The United States has signaled that it could discontinue multilateral cooperation on financial market regulation and tax havens ahead of a G-20 summit …

Photo Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s “Vortex Temproum,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2016. She will present another work, “A Love Supreme,” at New York Live Arts this fall. Credit Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the cerebral Belgian choreographer, will return to New York …

On Tuesday, Target took its biggest step toward challenging Amazon and Wal-Mart in grocery and digital, rolling out Target Restock, a next-day delivery service of household essentials and dry grocery items. The program is starting in Minnesota, the Star Tribune reported. Target’s service costs $4.99, a dollar less than Amazon’s …

Tobias Schwarz | AFP | Getty Images MPs from the Green party celebrate with confetti following a debate and vote on same-sex marriage in Bundestag, Germany´s lower house of Parliament in Berlin on June 30, 2017. Germany’s parliament voted by a wide margin on Friday to legalize same-sex marriage after …

Linus Hook | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shoppers walk past stores on Stroget in central Copenhagen, Denmark, on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. The European Union’s statistics office Eurostat estimated that consumer prices in the 19 countries sharing the euro rose 1.3 percent year-on-year in June, decelerating form 1.4 percent in …

Meyers Skewers the Health Care Bill Video by Late Night With Seth Meyers Near the start of “Late Night,” Seth Meyers reacted to Mr. Trump’s tweets with his own brand of bafflement. Introducing a new segment called “I Can’t,” Mr. Meyers spent a solid 10 seconds in silence. Then he …

Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Riener have chosen to make their whole process public, starting nearly from zero, giving dancers prompts for structured improvisations and building on those, day by day. A week into their turn, which culminates in a marathon session from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, the …

Photo Rooney Mara and Ryan Gosling in “Song to Song.” Credit Broad Green Pictures Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender and Ryan Gosling star in Terence Malick’s “Song to Song,” about a musician whose dreams of success lead her into the beds of two men. And Naomi Watts plays a therapist whose …

Seated nearby, Eilon Shomron-Atar, a psychoanalyst, was straining to filter out the distractions of some dozen pint-size listeners gurgling and spinning like jacks all around him. Continue reading the main story Bella, his 2-year-old, sat at his knee as Tehilah Eisenstadt, a childhood educator and activist, read to the group …