Photo Danielle Macdonald and Siddharth Dhananjay in “Patti Cake$.” Credit Jeong Park/Fox Searchlight, via Associated Press For Patricia Dombrowski, a young New Jersey woman whose many aliases include Killa P and White Trish (and who is played by Danielle Macdonald), hip-hop is not just a musical genre or a cultural …

Every CEO who left President Donald Trump’s strategy and manufacturing councils may have done so for strictly moral reasons. But it also made good business sense, perhaps as much because of concern about their consumer as concern about their workforce. The U.S., enjoying record low unemployment and tight labor markets, …

PRINCETON, N.J. — A third of the way through “Macbeth,” right after the antihero murders the king of Scotland, two noblemen look up into the sky and behold a celestial horror. “By the clock, ’tis day,” says the Thane of Ross, “And yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp.” The …

Donat Sorokin | TASS | Getty Images A girl poses for a photograph on a stone sphere monument that unidentified persons have painted with the white Bitcoin cryptocurrency symbol in Oktyabrskaya Square, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Bitcoin climbed above $4,500 to a record high Thursday, giving it a market valuation larger than …

The Hershey Company is getting a boost from snack-craving millennials, whose demand for indulgent chocolates is set to propel the U.S. chocolate category over the next several years, despite their reputation for healthy meals, Bernstein said in a note. The research firm upgraded Hershey shares to outperform from market perform …

What nagged at him was the guilty prospect of letting down his co-star, Treat Williams, who was already a movie star when Mr. Guirgis was in college. A veteran Mamet actor, Mr. Williams now lives year-round not far from the playhouse, on 16 rolling acres with a little orchard and …

Mary Catherine Wellons | CNBC Steve Schwarzman, co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Blackstone Group LP. Blackstone co-founder Steve Schwarzman and other CEOs on the now-defunct White House policy forum were perplexed by President Donald Trump’s efforts to take responsibility for disbanding the group, sources told The New York …

Photo Ariana Grande headlined the “One Love Manchester” show in June. On Sept. 9, the Manchester Arena will reopen with a benefit concert featuring Noel Gallagher and others. Credit Danny Lawson/One Love Manchester, via Reuters The Manchester Arena, where a suicide bomber killed 22 people and injured more than 100 …

Mario Anzuoni | Reuters SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the unveiling event of the Dragon V2 in Hawthorne, California, May 29, 2014 After a roughly 36-hour journey, a SpaceX Dragon capsule docked at the International Space Station this week, delivering over three tons of supplies. Over the past year, an …

The 52-week high in EEM is also 25 percent below its all-time high of 55.83 touched in October 2007. In contrast, the S&P 500 trades about 1 percent from its all-time high. The 8 percent drop in the U.S. dollar index on the slower-than-expected pace of Federal Reserve tightening is …