Photo Matthew Warchus, the artistic director of the Old Vic theater in London. “We are celebrating it partly as a treasured historic icon,” he said, “but mostly as an adventurous, youthful, hub of creativity.” Credit Phillip Chin/Getty Images for Cbs Films LONDON — An adaptation of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas …

Samuel Corum | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Neo Nazis, Alt-Right, and White Supremacists encircle and chant at counter protestors at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., USA on August 11, 2017. White nationalists like …

Heinz-Peter Bader | Reuters Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih arrives for a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, Austria, November 30, 2016. Saudi Arabia’s minister of energy said population growth and rising living standards across most of the developing world would see energy …

Bitcoin doesn’t show textbook signs of a bubble yet, but there are other reasons not to buy it, says investing expert William J. Bernstein. The digital currency has “no intrinsic value,” Bernstein said in a phone interview with CNBC.com last week. It’s “awfully suspicious on that criteria alone.” The “fact …

“It makes a very eerie sound,” Mr. Chan said. “And grown-up fingers really have a hard time getting into those spaces. So your pitch is not spot on. You get as close as you can, but I think that’s part of the point.” A Spooky Ondes Martenot Photo Cynthia Millar …

Matthew Busch | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chevrolet Tahoe sports utility vehicles (SUV) wait for final inspection before being driven off the production line at the General Motors Co. (GM) assembly plant in Arlington, Texas General Motors will continue to reduce production of passenger cars in order to retool its …

Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Once they release the bill, Republicans will still have to overcome obstacles. Among those, some Republicans have already expressed concerns about the potential budget deficit generated by the plan. The party has struggled …

The number of electric vehicles grew to just more than 2 million in 2016, up nearly 60 percent from the previous year, according to the International Energy Agency. They now make up about 0.2 percent of all cars on the road — a “very small percentage,” in Nasser’s view. Nasser …

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Joshua Friedman, co-chairman and co-chief executive officer of Canyon Partners LLC, Canyon Partners Co-CEO Joshua Friedman said he’s finding value in mergers and acquisitions and is “very cautious” on entering the retail space. “We’ve deployed a fair amount of capital recently in …

“For many years from the ’50s to late ’80s, Cuba was a cultural center in Latin America,” said Iliana Cepero, professor of Latin American art and Cuban Culture at New York University and the New School. “This relationship has been so tense for so many decades. Cubans have been waiting …