Joseph Eid | AFP | Getty Images Displaced Syrians who fled with their families IS-controlled areas gather at Aleppo’s bus station of Ramussa on July 4, 2017. The United States is prepared to discuss with Russia joint efforts to stabilize war-torn Syria, including no-fly zones, U.S. Secretary of State Rex …

Joe Raedle | Getty Images SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from pad 39A on May 1, 2017 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX has launched a communication satellite on the third try. The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off Wednesday evening from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. It successfully hoisted an Intelsat satellite …

From its inception, the Cornelia Street Café has claimed a liberated identity, equally linked to the worlds of folk music, literature, Off Off Broadway and jazz. The club opened on the Fourth of July weekend in 1977, in what had been a broken-down storefront. Three artists — an Italian-Canadian visual …

In light of the tug-of-war in the crude oil space, where prices have traded between the low $40s and low $50s since March, Jim Cramer used the charts to try to foresee the commodity’s future. “Despite all of the crude bulls out there, and boy, we’ve got way too many …

It takes a while to realize that Mary is not who she seems to be, or rather is far more complicated than she first appears. “You’ve got me,” she tells Hannah, comforting her after they hear the news about their mother. “You’ve got Mary.” But it would be a mistake …

Energy stocks tumbled Wednesday as oil sank after an eight-session win streak, leading Rich Ross to warn investors that there’s only one level at which they should be buying into the sector at this point. The group was the worst-performing one in the first half of 2017, and the Evercore …

Menahem Kahana | AFP | Getty Images Palestinian labourers work at a construction site in a new housing project in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, on January 22, 2017. The Jerusalem municipality said Wednesday it plans to approve 800 new homes in Jewish-populated areas of east …

Kim Hong-Ji | Reuters A man walks past a TV broadcasting still photographs released by North Korea’s state-run television KRT of North Korea’s Hwasong-14 missile, a new intercontinental ballistic missile, which they said was successfully tested, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, July 4, 2017. Hedge funds bought …

Photo A scene from “To the End of the Land,” which is part of the Lincoln Center Festival this month and is backed by the Israeli government. Credit Gerard Allon More than 60 artists, including a Pulitzer Prize winner and other prominent writers, actors, directors and playwrights, have signed an …

Tech stocks are crushing the market this year, but there are signs the sector’s out-performance may be coming to an end, according to financial newsletter The Bear Traps Report. The Nasdaq 100 index is up 15 percent year-to-date through Monday versus the S&P 500’s 8.5 percent return. Larry McDonald, the …