Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Discovery Communications logo is shown on the exhibit floor during the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) Cable Show in Washington. Discovery Communications and Scripps Network Interactive are in talks to combine, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing sources. The two …

Alex Wong | Getty Images Former Utah Governor and former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman participates in a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations January 29, 2015 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump will nominate Jon Huntsman, an envoy to China under former Democratic President Barack Obama, as …

In Ms. Marvel, published by Marvel Comics, the heroine confronts a campaign to bring back “the real Jersey City,” which starts by making her Muslim family unwelcome. In Green Arrow, from DC Comics, the liberal hero is at odds with a fearmongering West Coast mayor whose philosophy is summarized as: …

Photo From left, Danusia Trevino, Enver Chakartash, Gareth Hobbs, Erin Mullin and Jim Fletcher in “A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique),” at the Bard SummerScape festival. Credit Maria Baranova ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The Polish avant-garde director and playwright Tadeusz Kantor was drawn to the forbidden, to trampling …

Jens Kalaene | dpa | AP Images The technology of the Ethereum platform is represented on a computer screen at the Ethereum DEV offices in Berlin, Germany, 14 April 2015. Ethereum is an open source platform that hosts applications and data on a decentralized network. The co-founder and former CEO …

Emerging markets have been on a tear this year, and one trader believes there’s still more room to run. While the emerging-market ETF (EEM) is already up almost 24 percent in 2017, Todd Gordon of TradingAnalysis.com says Tuesday’s drop in the dollar will further boost emerging market equities. “The dollar …

Photo Lisa Fischer, performing at a BRIC JazzFest Marathon last October. This year’s installment will feature Vijay Iyer and the Sun Ra Arkestra, among others. Credit Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times BRIC is best known for its Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, a summer concert series in Prospect Park. But …

Power producers have struggled to figure out a winning model since the late 1990s, when many states broke up large utilities to allow competition in segments like generating power and selling electricity to end users. To some degree, that’s simply due to the challenge of operating businesses that invest in …

They are among the thousands of Phish fans who will descend upon New York for the band’s so-called Baker’s Dozen, a 13-show residency at Madison Square Garden that starts Friday and ends Aug. 6. They will go with the wide-eyed hope that the band performs a silly stunt, covers an …

If you think the S&P 500 is set to rise even higher from current, near-record levels, you’re in luck. Bullish options contracts that will increase in value should the market rise a few percentage points over the course of the next month have rarely cost less. “They’re basically giving away …