SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Ajna Jusic, the first baby to be registered as born of rape during the Bosnian war in the 1990s, describes to a packed Sarajevo theatre the discrimination and bullying she endured as a child with an unknown father and a mother branded a “whore” in a deeply …

David Farr, CEO, Emerson Electric Scott Mlyn | CNBC D.E. Shaw, the $50 billion hedge fund that in recent years has engaged in shareholder activism along with its many other disciplines, will make public Tuesday something the market has already known for weeks: It has a more than 1% position …

HAPPY LIKE THISBy Ashley Wurzbacher209 pp. University of Iowa. Paper, $17. ImageCredit If there’s one truth that “Happy Like This” punches at, it’s that we’re all lab rats and life is a cage. The first story is about young women living in a college dorm for students with factitious disorders …

FELONPoemsBy Reginald Dwayne Betts In “Felon,” his searing third collection of poems, Reginald Dwayne Betts leads his readers through the underworlds of incarceration and its aftermath, “& if prison is where Black / men go to become / Lazarus,” it is in the aftermath that the attempt to come back …

Pigs in their pen at a farm on the outskirts of Chengdu in China’s south west Sichuan province, on August 2, 2005. Peter Parks | AFP | Getty Images Pork prices in China jumped 69.3% in September from a year ago as the country continued to battle a shortage of …

One hundred dollars looks a lot different depending on where you are in the United States: In Mississippi, for example, it’s worth $117, while in New York, it’s worth about $86. That’s according to the Tax Foundation, which used data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) to show …

Timothy A. Clary | Getty Images Here are the most important things to know about Tuesday before you hit the door. 1. Bank earnings on deck We’ll get quarterly earnings from the four largest U.S. banks with Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo all reporting before the …

Companies head into the third-quarter earnings reporting period with trouble behind, more hazards ahead and a muddied road map to guide the journey. As the season kicks into gear this week, S&P 500 firms are expected to report a 4.6% earnings decline over the same period a year ago, according …

Jordan Katzman, co-founder of SmileDirectClub Inc., left, and Alex Fenkell, co-founder of SmileDirectClub Inc., watch traders during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of SmileDirectClub plummeted more than 13% …

A trader works in S&P 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in Chicago, Illinois. Jim Young | Bloomberg | Getty Images A rare phenomenon with a great track record is taking place in the market and it shows that U.S. stocks offer much more …