Oli Scarff | Getty Images News | Getty Images Shoppers queue to pay for their shopping in the Tesco Extra superstore on April 20, 2009 in New Malden, Surrey, England. Overall growth in gross domestic product was unrevised from an earlier estimate at 0.3 percent on a quarterly basis and …

Now here comes a show about New York’s sex trade that can neither soft-pedal the brutal realities nor exploit the exploitation. “If you allude to this in ways that clean it up, you’re not dealing with the fact that not only was labor marginalized and misused, but that the product …

Arie Kievit | AFP | Getty Images Police stand during the evacuation the Maassilo concert venue after a concert by Californian band Allah-Las was canceled in relation to a terror attack threat, according to police and the venue, on August 23, 2017, in Rotterdam. Dutch police on Thursday questioned a …

Photo Federal agents, acting on a court order, retrieving Elián González from his relatives’ Miami home in 2000. Credit Alan Diaz/Associated Press A new documentary revisits the contentious custody battle over Elián González. And the British travelogue “Asian Provocateur” makes its American premiere. What’s on TV ELIÁN 10 p.m. on …

Carl Court | Getty Images A Banksy artwork opposite the French embassy in London, criticising the use of teargas in the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais. “The very best guys do something different in the gallery as what they do on the streets. And in my 15 years, all I’ve …

Chris McGrath | Getty Images New recruits listen to speeches during the welcome ceremony for new employees of All Nippon Airways Holdings (ANA) at ANA hanger on April 1, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. In the July update of its World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund forecast global economic growth …

On this week’s podcast, the actor Nico Tortorella reads “Learning to Embrace Sexuality’s Gray Areas,” in which a chance encounter reveals the ways that love resists categorization. Photo Credit Brian Rea The author, Adam Lundquist, was a finalist in the Modern Love college essay contest. Stay tuned after the reading …

Getty Images John Stumpf, chairman and CEO of the Wells Fargo & Company, testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee September 20, 2016 in Washington, DC. Volkswagen acted in much the same manner during their emission scandal, says Green. The company was caught cheating on American air …

Photo From left, Brett Gelman, Nia Long, Keith L. Williams and Conrad Roberts in “Lemon.” Credit Magnolia Pictures Reviewing “Lemon” feels like taking a sucker’s bet, treating the film with a reverence it never even asks for. Janicza Bravo’s feature debut, written with her husband and its star, Brett Gelman, …

There are 10 stocks that hedge funds and mutual funds are crowding into on the hopes of beating the S&P 500, according to UBS. The investment bank alerted clients to the “top 10 crowded trades” Wednesday. To be sure, it’s not necessarily a good thing making this list of crowded …