Justin Sullivan | Getty Images A customer inspects the new Apple iPhone 8 at an Apple Store on September 22, 2017 in San Francisco, California. Apple told CNBC it will be releasing a fix for a disruptive sound in the earpieces of some iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus smartphones …

A museum spokeswoman, asked to describe any threats or security issues, including whether the police had been notified, declined to discuss specifics. But the spokeswoman, Sarah Eaton, added, “The tone in both the petition comments and the social media postings, calls and emails was markedly different from what we’ve seen …

Joshua Roberts | Reuters Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross speaks at 2017 SelectUSA Investment Summit in Oxon Hill, Maryland, U.S., June 19, 2017. The United States will see its gross domestic product rise by 1 percent if the government can get tax reform “right,” according to the commerce secretary. Getting …

India’s economic growth hit a three-year low during the April-June period, enveloping Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a barrage of criticism for poor execution of major reforms such as the recent national sales tax and demonetization. But a new World Economic Forum study indicates his government has made progress in …

Shares of Bermuda-based insurer XL fell more than 2 percent Tuesday, off nearly 6 percent for the month. “I believe it’s falling off of higher loss estimates from the hurricane,” said FBR Capital Markets analyst Randy Binner, who has a neutral rating on XL. Shares of Puerto Rico-based Triple-S Management, …

Two words: body language. Ms. de Cadenet said she learned how to read body language as a means of survival as a 15-year-old when she was in a juvenile detention center. ”You can sense whether someone is retreating from you: They look away, they cross their arms, they’ll shift their …

Lucas Jackson | Reuters Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks during a news conference to announce charges against 10 people, including four college basketball coaches and financial advisers, with bribery and fraud in connection with college recruiting in New York, …

Following the referendum, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to shut down a pipeline that transports about 500,000 barrels of oil per day from Iraqi Kurdistan to Ceyhan, Turkey. That daily volume is just shy of the total supply reductions that a group of oil exporters led by Russia made …

Prices for already beleaguered Puerto Rican debt fell to record lows on Tuesday as investors realized that the devastation from Hurricane Maria made it likely they would receive even less principal than previously thought. Puerto Rico’s 8 percent general obligation bond due in 2035, a benchmark for the island’s debt, …

Soon after, Mr. Gogos painted Gorgo, a gigantic sea creature awakened by a volcanic eruption in a 1961 film, for another Famous Monsters cover. “It was a lizard,” he explained in “Famous Monster Movie Art.” “It was a prehistoric animal. I mean, what colors were they? Nobody knows, so I …