Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump waits to greet Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak at the White House in Washington, September 12, 2017. President Donald Trump on Tuesday played down the importance of tough new sanctions against North Korea approved by the U.N. Security Council, calling them “not a …

Jim Young | Bloomberg | Getty Images A worker places an assembled car seat on a conveyor belt at the Lear Corp. manufacturing facility in Hammond, Indiana. Job openings posted by U.S. employers reached an all-time high in July, suggesting that the steady hiring of the past year will endure. …

Mr. Ashbery struck a similarly studly pose for Gustavo Hoffman on the cover of “Three Poems” (Viking, 1972), leaning against a railing at the painter Robert Dash’s place in Sagaponack, N.Y., with barns in the background. Ashbery-as-dorm-poster culminated with the cover shot by the artist Darragh Park for the Penguin …

Scott Eells | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Apple Inc. founding partnership agreement signed by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne from 1976. So after spending a mere 12 days with Wozniak and Jobs, Wayne had his name taken off the contract and sold his shares back to his …

On the eve of the company’s visit to Brooklyn, I spoke with three dancers, from three distinct phases of the company’s 44-year history. All three spoke via Skype from Wuppertal, Germany. Photo Nazareth Panadero joined the company in 1979. Credit Claudia Kempf A Yearning for the Work Nazareth Panadero, 62, …

Jasper Juinen | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee drives a Tesla Motors Model S electric automobile, equipped with Autopilot hardware and software, hands-free on a highway in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The “operational limitations” of Tesla’s Autopilot system played ‘major role’ in 2016 crash, said the National Transportation Safety Board on …

“Dercon definitely doesn’t doesn’t know anything about theater,” said Jürgen Kuttner, a director and performer who has been involved with the Volksbühne for 20 years. Continue reading the main story The reaction grew more intense after Mr. Dercon suggested that he would refocus the theater as an interdisciplinary space hosting …

Getty Images DJ Koh, president of mobile communications business at Samsung, holds up the new Samsung Galaxy Note 8 smartphone during a launch event for the new product, August 23, 2017. Samsung is aiming to launch a foldable version of its Galaxy Note smartphone next year, Samsung mobile President Dong …

SAUL LOEB | AFP | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) pose prior to a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 8, 2017. Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands were among the top nations investing the most in the …

When directing, his concern was always for the rhythm of the language and the truth behind the words. He regarded himself as “a musical director of plays.” As he put it, “You learn the notes, you learn the steps, you learn the shapes, and then one has to make it …