Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images A Russian national flag flies above the headquarters of Bank Rossii, Russia’s central bank, in Moscow. “The Board notes that inflation is close to the target, inflation expectations keep declining, and economic activity is recovering,” the central bank said in a statement. Analysts …

“I can certainly foresee that job description being useful,” said the director Mark Wing-Davey, who as chair of the graduate acting program at N.Y.U.’s Tisch School of the Arts introduced a class this spring called Sex on Stage. Meant to give actors “confidence about boundaries and techniques” when a production …

Beck Diefenbach | Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage during the presentation of new Google hardware in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2016. The European Union will levy a record-high fine against Google in the coming weeks, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the …

This year is resembling 1999, the thick of the “dot-com bubble” in which hot technology stocks soared before tumbling in the early 2000s, according to Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at Commonwealth Financial. McMillan wrote in a new report that the two years, both within periods of economic growth, have …

With its title stuttering and dissolving amid heavy strokes of blue and black, “Gobbledygook” (2015) covers a lot of ground: painting, talking, thinking. In white on red, “Drool” (2016) messily enumerates synonyms for nonsense, while its title summons the liquidity of both paint and aged mouths. The white-on-black “Amazing!” (2015) …

Photo Stephen Colbert took a look at one of President Trump’s most recent tweets. Credit CBS Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you think of it? What else are you interested in? Let …

BERTRAND GUAY | AFP | Getty Images A car equiped with an intelligent parking solution system, the Cyber Valet Services developed by Cisco and Valeo, is pictured at the Viva Technology event, on June 15, 2017 in Paris. Carmakers and technology firms should both be held accountable in the event …

By a substantial margin, Americans believe President Donald Trump pressured former FBI Director James Comey to end an investigation into whether Russia interfered in the presidential election. The CNBC All-America Economic Survey of 800 adults across the country finds that 43 percent think the president pressured Comey, 26 percent believe …

View Pictures | UIG | Getty Images Buckingham Palace Road,United Kingdom, Architect London, Google London Google could be slapped with a fine of more than 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) as the EU begins the first stage of a three-pronged probe into the search group’s practices, the Financial Times reported. …

Some of the jurors look tired, and less than happy to still be in the Montgomery County Courthouse. They lie back in their chairs, and when they do, the guessing starts. “They must be for conviction.” Or not. Photo Bill Cosby, arriving at the Montgomery County Courthouse where a jury …