Gaston de Cardenas | AFP | Getty Images People purchasing plywood at Home Depot in Miami, Florida. U.S. retail sales unexpectedly fell in August as Hurricane Harvey likely depressed motor vehicle purchases, suggesting a moderation in consumer spending in the third quarter. The Commerce Department said on Friday retail sales …

Kim Kyung-Hoon | Reuters A logo of Bitcoin is seen on an advertisement of an electronic shop in Tokyo, Japan September 5, 2017. Bitcoin prices fell 8 percent on Friday, dipping below $3,000, as it continues quite a tumultuous week. The cryptocurrency traded at $2,970 and fell as low as …

Mr. Klepper got the chance to dive deeper into this fever swamp at the end of last year, when Comedy Central approached him about developing his own late-night show. The opportunity would not have arisen if not for the failure of “The Nightly Show,” a short-lived companion series to “The …

Photo Seth Meyers and other late-night hosts tried to wrap their heads around the recent thaw in President Trump’s relationship with congressional Democrats. Credit NBC Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you think …

In keeping with curatorial fashion, the show includes all mediums, but not too much painting, please. It fully embraces the medium only in the show’s final, painfully compressed Twisted section, where works by Philip Guston, Jim Nutt, Peter Saul, Lee Lozano, Leon Golub and Christina Ramberg — all dealing with …

Horacio Villalobos | Getty Images A couple look at Alfama, one of the city’s historic neighborhoods, from the Miradouro de Santa Luzia in Lisbon, Portugal. Portugal’s credit rating is set to return to the headlines Friday as Standard & Poor’s updates its opinion on the southern euro zone economy. This …

Ms. Tharp’s season begins at the Joyce Theater (Sept. 19-Oct. 8). In November comes a premiere at the Royal Ballet in London; and the next month Ms. Tharp travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for “Minimalism and Me,” the lecture-performance, focusing on her dances created from 1965 to …

Photo The twins Angela and Marianna Fontana play conjoined twins in “Indivisible.” Credit Cinema Made In Italy Shot with a dreamy fabulism that merges the gorgeous and the grotesque, “Indivisible,” the third feature from Edoardo De Angelis, draws on a rich vein of Italian cinematic history to deliver an adventurous …

Noel Celis | AFP | Getty Images Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gives a speech at the Malacanang Palace in Manila on June 1, 2017. Duterte has said that he is planning a $180 billion “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure campaign. Already, the controversial leader has agreed to 21 projects worth $16 …

Justin Solomon | CNBC Jes Staley, CEO of Barclays, is being investigated for his conduct in a whistle blowing incident in 2016. “That restructuring has been very difficult. At this point, we’ve halved the size of the organization and that’s largely been done in the period that Jes has been …