Brendan McDermid | Reuters Specialist trader Michael Pistillo Jr. wears a dow 23,000 hat, after the dow briefly traded above 23,000, at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, October 17, 2017. “Markets (are) pricing very little potential for a shock seems at …

In “The State of Affairs,” Perel delves into cheating, asking the usual questions (Why did it happen? How can we recover?) and some that might occur only to her (What if an affair is good for a marriage?). She doesn’t dispense advice as much as scratch at orthodoxies, and pose …

David Becker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Randall Stephenson, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T. AT&T reported quarterly earnings and revenue that came in just shy of analysts’ expectations on Tuesday. Here’s how the company did compared to what Wall Street expected: EPS: 74 cents vs. 75 cents expected, …

Though fans admire Ms. Didion’s ability to write coolly about matters of the heart, Mr. Dunne said that he could not separate his emotions from the filmmaking. “It was always going to be a love letter,” he said. “She’s my Aunt Joan.” Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold | …

Jeff Kowalsky | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors Co., speaks during an event at the company’s Orion Assembly Plant in Orion Township, Michigan. General Motors will begin testing driverless cars in a matter of “quarters not years,” CEO Mary Barra said Tuesday. GM’s …

Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., conducts a news conference in the Capitol after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on October 24, 2017. President Donald Trump was attending the Senate GOP policy lunch on Tuesday afternoon following a fresh war of …

Carlos Becerra | Bloomberg | Getty Images Employees of Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) wave flags during a swearing in ceremony for the new board of directors of Venezuela’s state oil company in Caracas, Venezuela, on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. The price of Venezuelan bonds rose across the board Tuesday …

Photo Samira Wiley and Ryan Hansen in “Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television.” Credit YouTube Red There’s a mascot quality to the actor Ryan Hansen — an air of the earnest overachiever — that’s clung to him for a decade now, since his defining role as Dick Casablancas in “Veronica …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics Inc. For the past few months, Jyoti Bansal, founder and former CEO of AppDynamics — which Cisco bought for $3.7 billion earlier this year — has been busy working on a new start-up, as CNBC reported last …

Police are investigating how 65 pounds of marijuana ended up being shipped to a Florida couple that ordered four storage units from Amazon. The couple suspected that something was wrong when they found out that their package—shipped via UPS and meant to contain four empty bins—weighed 93.5 pounds. “They were …