Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans to discuss healthcare at the White House in Washington, July 19, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump will sign legislation that imposes sanctions on Russia, the White House said on Friday, after Moscow ordered the United …

The Fussell book that detonates most forcefully, in my mind, at any rate, has always been “Class: A Guide Through the American Status System” (1983). There are few books like it in this country’s literature. Photo Paul Fussell in 1980. Credit Louis Liotta/New York Post Archives, NYP Holdings Inc., via …

Photo James Van Der Beek, who will be starring in the new Viceland show “What Would Diplo Do?” Credit Emily Berl for The New York Times It turns out that James Van Der Beek is funny. Defined for years by his title role as the earnest Everyboy in the teen …

Photo A scene from “Daughters of Destiny: The Story of Shanti Bhavan.” Credit Netflix “Daughters of Destiny” follows five girls from India’s lowest caste who are hoping to change their fates. And “Mad Max: Fury Road” might just be even better than watching Charlize Theron in “Atomic Blonde.” What’s Streaming …

The CBOE Volatility Index (.VIX), widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, fell Wednesday to its lowest on record. At 2:01 p.m., the VIX dropped below 9, hitting a low of 8.84, below the low of 8.89 from Dec 27, 1993. The VIX then quickly popped back …

Carlos Tischler | Getty Images Minister of Economy of Federal Government Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal attends the inauguration of the second stage of the Center for Advanced Engineering on July 11, 2014 in Queretaro, Mexico. Mexico is also currently investing heavily in its infrastructure, including building a new airport in Mexico …

Ms. Taylor (the cerebral one, and the showrunner) and Ms. Browne (the one who pushes the joke toward the dark and dirty) met at the improv theater Second City in downtown Toronto in the mid-90s. They became good friends, living on different floors of the same apartment building. Both worked …

Andrew Burton | Getty Images Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett Packard, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Meg Whitman dismissed speculations on Friday morning Asia time that she may join Uber as a replacement for its former chief, Travis Kalanick. Whitman, who is currently CEO of Hewlett …

Dasril Roszandi / NurPhoto / Getty Images Jakarta, July 20, 2017: 1 ton of crystal methamphetamine at the Metropolitan Jakarta regional office. Indonesian national police shot dead a Taiwan drug smuggler and arrested three Taiwanese at a hotel in Anyer, Banten province, after they received information from the Taiwanese government …

U.S. equities have had a banner year, but a Wall Street legend says something just doesn’t feel right. Byron Wien, vice chairman at Blackstone and a 50-year veteran of Wall Street, pointed out Wednesday there has been a “strong congruence” between the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet expansion and the S&P …