Getty Images Anthony Scaramucci answers reporters’ questions during the daily White House press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House July 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. Late on Wednesday, Politico reported findings from the former hedge fund star’s disclosure, noting that the 53 year-old had earned …

WASHINGTON — Question for the day posed by a timely exhibition: Would someone who lived in a so-called inner city picture it differently than an outsider would? “Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography,” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum here, an exhibition organized by E. Carmen …

Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ben van Beurden, chief executive officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc. Demand for oil will not shrink overnight despite governments preparing for a transition into electric cars, the CEO of Shell told CNBC on Thursday. “Even in the most aggressive scenario, where policies …

Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Adam Neumann, co-founder and chief executive officer of WeWork. Co-working space start-up WeWork has raised $500 million to set up shop in China, the company announced on Thursday. Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital led the investment. The investment …

Photo Claudia Michelsen and Wotan Wilke Möhring, far right, in “The Silence.” Credit Music Box Films Seeking a chill as temperatures rise? Stream some spine-tingling thrillers from the safety of your sofa. But first, hide your Ouija board. What’s Streaming THE SILENCE (2013) on Shudder. In 1986 an 11-year-old girl …

Kai Pfaffenbach | Reuter A woman with umbrella walks past a Deutsche Bank branch in Frankfurt, Germany, September 30, 2016. German lender Deutsche Bank reported a surprise surge in profits for the second quarter of 2017, beating market estimates and doubling its pre-tax profit figure from last year. Here are …

CNBC Natalia Vodianova (left) speaks to CNBC’s Tania Bryer over breakfast at Cafe Pushkin, Moscow, during the filming of “Trailblazers” Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova is now one of the world’s most recognizable faces, having been on the cover of Vogue magazine more than 70 times and starring in lucrative advertising …

“I know there are stereotypes: They eat cans and smell bad,” said William Kowalik, a representative of the American Goat Society. “That’s not true. They are very much like dogs. They are great pets. The goats know what kind of mood you are in. They can get a person to …

Yet the gap here isn’t just between the drab lives and the opalescent music. It also yawns between the thrill of this production when it sings and its perversely melodramatic flatness when it’s behaving like a traditional play. Photo Arinze Kene, center, in Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country.” …

As it showcases its wares, Rio Tinto invites a select few collectors, wealthy people, dealers and others to submit sealed bids for the stones in the batch. It is a selling process that has few peers in opaqueness. Besides Rio Tinto, no one knows how much bidders offer for the …