Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images A customer prepares to fuel her vehicle at a Road Ranger gas station in Princeton, Ill. New York, California and three other states are suing the Trump administration, saying it must put in place higher penalties for automakers that violate federal fuel economy …

Jewel Samad | AFP | Getty Images China’s Ambassador to the United Nations Liu Jieyi presides over a Security Council meeting on North Korea at the UN headquarters in New York on July 5, 2017. Chinese U.N. Ambassador Liu Jieyi called on North Korea to “take seriously the expectations and …

A Wall Street chart analyst said there could be an ‘exhaustive upside move’ in the U.S. stock market soon. Rich Ross, Evercore ISI’s head of technical analysis, said in a note on Monday that a confluence of factors joining together will cause a breakout for the market sometime “into late …

Getty Images Nikki Haley, United States ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council at United Nations headquarters, July 5, 2017 in New York City. The United States requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council after North Korea tested an intercontinental …

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jason Trennert, chief investment strategist at Strategas Research Partners. Top Wall Street strategist Jason Trennert said that the equity market may be just the “vigilante” needed to discipline President Donald Trump and policymakers in Washington toward legislative reform. Trennert is the founder and …

Unsubstantiated internet rumors of his sexual misconduct with female comics gained steam last month when the comic Tig Notaro told The Daily Beast that he should “handle” the rumors. “I Love You, Daddy” tackles similar rumormongering; however, like the auteur in the film, Louis C.K. at first dodged when asked …

Getty Images Ron Wyden (D-OR), left, and Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), speak during the Senate Finance Committee hearing on Congress and U.S. Tariff Policy on April 16, 2015 in Washington. The Senate Finance Committee is seeking additional information from Equifax about the nature of the data breach it reported last …

Alvin Baez | Reuters Waves crash against the seawall as Hurricane Irma slammed across islands in the northern Caribbean on Wednesday, in Fajardo, Puerto Rico September 6, 2017. The fact that the tourism infrastructure wasn’t heavily damaged is good news for the island, which already has about $70 billion in …

Photo Patty Jenkins, who directed “Wonder Woman,” will also helm the sequel, scheduled for release in 2019. Credit Amy Lombard for The New York Times It’s a real wonder that Patty Jenkins was not immediately signed up to direct a sequel to “Wonder Woman,” after the film smashed box office …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during the Worldwide Developers Conference in California, U.S., on June 5, 2017. Apple may be releasing a potentially $1,000 iPhone Tuesday, but CEO Tim Cook maintains not all of the company’s products are for the rich. “If …