Ron T. Ennis | The Fort Worth Star-Telegram | AP A shift supervisor checks levels in the Oncor Mountain Creek control room which handles their entire grid for Texas in southwest Dallas. Warren Buffett likes to buy companies without any competition, but he has found himself in the middle of …

The architect Robert A. M. Stern, a historian of his field who designed the 1995 Columbus Regional Hospital here, said recently that the city had “far and away” the most significant built environment for a town its size. “As Florence is to Italy, Columbus is to Indiana,” he added. A …

Goldman Sachs says stocks most owned by the smart money are crushing the market this year, leading to the strongest start for hedge funds since 2009. The bank’s hedge fund VIP list consists of the 50 stocks that “appear most often among the top 10 holdings of fundamentally driven hedge …

Photo Maurizio Cattelan’s “America” has been at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for about a year. Credit Kris McKay/Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation “America” is over. Or at least it will be on Sept. 15, when the exhibition of that name closes at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum after a one-year …

Andrew Kelly | Reuters Eric Schmidt, chairman of Alphabet Inc. and Larry Page, CEO and Co-founder of Alphabet enter Trump Tower ahead of a meeting of technology leaders with President-elect Donald Trump in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 14, 2016. The tensions between tech companies and Trump were cranked …

Priscilla Chan (R) and her husband Mark Zuckerberg announce the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to “cure, prevent or manage all disease” by the end of the century during a news conference at UCSF Mission Bay in San Francisco, California, U.S. September 21, 2016. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an online …

Gerard Julien | AFP | Getty Images Former JP Morgan trader Javier Martin-Artajo waves as he leaves the National Court in Madrid on November 15, 2013, after his extradition hearing. The top U.S. securities regulator on Friday dropped its civil lawsuit accusing two former JPMorgan Chase traders of trying to …

So far that debate has been almost entirely a reaction to Mr. Trump and his views on race, with little discussion about the Confederate monuments and sculptures as works of art or historical artifacts of any cultural value. On Wednesday evening, after President Trump defended white nationalists who wanted to …

Pascal Goyot | AFP | Getty Images People gather next to flowers, candles and other items set up on the Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona as they pay tribute to the victims of the Barcelona attack, a day after a van ploughed into the crowd, killing 13 persons and injuring …

No matter how much free time you have this weekend, we have TV recommendations for you. Come back every Friday for new suggestions from our TV critic on what to watch. This Weekend I Have … an Hour, and Gimme That Sweet, Sweet Trash A scene from “Release the Hounds.”Primal …