Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks during his address to the nation from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, on August 21, 2017. A daily morning look at the financial stories you need to know to start the day. STOCKS/ECONOMY -Stock futures are higher …

Photo Conan O’Brien suggested that if reverse psychology worked well on the president, someone should tell him not to resign. Credit TBS Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you think of it? What …

Tony Margiocchi | Barcroft Image | Getty A Mondeo having itd engine torn out from the front of the vehicle, on November 14, 2016 in Daventry, England. Ford is offering car buyers in Britain a 2,000-pound ($2,570) incentive to trade in older vehicles for newer, less polluting models. The offer …

Photo Kesha’s “Rainbow” notched the second-biggest week for a female artist this year after Katy Perry’s “Witness.” Credit Steve Marcus/Reuters After more than four complicated years of public struggle with the music industry, Kesha may have shed her mischievous wild-child persona and electro-pop sound, but she still found her way …

Photo Bill Cosby arriving for his sexual assault trial in Pennsylvania in June. Credit Tom Mihalek/Reuters Bill Cosby has appointed the lawyer who helped Michael Jackson win acquittal in his 2005 child molesting trial to defend him in the retrial of his criminal sexual assault case in Pennsylvania in November, …

Zhang Peng | LightRocket | Getty Images Wanda Plaza in Tongzhou, China. Dalian Wanda Group said on Tuesday it had scrapped plans to buy Nine Elms Square in London, the latest setback for the Chinese conglomerate as Beijing tightens controls on overseas investment. St. Modwen Properties, owner of the London …

Photo From left, Ronny Merhavi, Noa Koler and Dafi Alferon in “The Wedding Plan.” Credit Roadside Attractions A dumped Israeli bride decides to go through with the wedding in the belief that a groom will show up. And a Senegalese domestic worker is thrown into despair by the life she …

Touches of beauty — spiffy hats, cascades of bougainvillea, rococo arrangements of fruit — create oases of light and pleasure. What renders these images so poignant is their sense of impermanence. Beneath a drawing of her sister smiling in a pink hat, she writes: “What will happen to her? What …

The record was said to have sold nearly 100,000 copies, but Mr. Burgess, who wrote both songs, was unable to capitalize on its success. His later releases for Sun went nowhere, and after leaving the label in 1959 he scratched out a living playing bass with the country singer Conway …

Photo Elena K. Holy, a founder of FringeNYC, in 2013. “Our fantasy festival is a street closure, with all the venues on one block, and the opportunity to drink a beer with our playwrights,” she said. Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times After taking a year off, the …