ChinaFotoPress | Getty Images An investor smiles during his observing stock market at an stock exchange in Fuyang, Anhui province of China. In a long awaited decision, MSCI said Tuesday it plans to add mainland Chinese shares to its benchmark Emerging Markets Index. The index giant said it will add …

In 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Japan’s east coast suffered a meltdown after a tsunami knocked out generators, causing its cooling system to fail. During the incident, pools storing spent fuel rods also overheated. The incident caused massive radioactive contamination that forced entire cities and towns to be …

Getty Images A FedEx delivery driver unloads packages from his truck in Lower Manhattan, June 2, 2017 in New York City. FedEx reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat analysts’ expectations on Tuesday. Here’s how the company did compared to what Wall Street expected: EPS: $4.25 vs. $3.88 expected, according …

Photo Prodigy, the rapper from Queens who helped define the sound of New York hip-hop as one-half of Mobb Deep, has died at 42. Credit Chad Batka for The New York Times Prodigy, the hard-nosed Queens rapper who kiln-fired New York hip-hop into a thing of unhurried attitude and stoic …

Carlos Barria | Reuters President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping chat as they walk along the front patio of the Mar-a-Lago estate after a bilateral meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 7, 2017. President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that China “tried” to help the United States curb …

Photo Chris Harrison, the host of “Bachelor in Paradise.” The show will return after an investigation of cast members’ behavior found no wrongdoing. Credit Richard Shotwell/Invision, via Associated Press In a surprising twist, the latest season of ABC’s “Bachelor in Paradise” is to resume taping after an investigation into an …

Stephen Lam | Reuters Tim Cook, CEO, holds an iPad Pro after his keynote address to Apple’s annual world wide developer conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, U.S. June 5, 2017. A report from the Outline reveals the very extent to which Apple’s Global Security team goes to keep information …

Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky speaks to the press with Senator John McCain of Arizona after a meeting between President Barack Obama and the Democratic Caucus regarding the health care reform plan at the US Capitol in Washington on December 6, 2009. …

Getty Images Gary Cohn (2nd L), White House chief economic advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, and Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner (2nd R) depart the White House June 7, 2017 in Washington, DC. Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, does not expect the White House …

The racial awkwardness on the show is so obvious that Dean — of “I’m ready to go black and I’m never going to go back” fame — was presented as an astute scholar. “The only people that I’ve seen Lee pick fights with have been not the people that he’s …