May 14, 2011

Consumers have been constrained by the housing crisis, a weak job market and high energy prices, but economists now are cautiously forecasting a turnaround in spending.

The social networking site tried to hide the fact that it was behind a campaign to coax reporters and technology experts to write critical stories about Google’s Social Circle.

Tampa Bay, minus the billing, and payroll, of the Yankees and Red Sox, has managed to take over the lead in the American League East.

Companies continue to press for higher premiums, saying they need protection against any sudden uptick in demand once people have more money to spend on their health.

After 40 years of catering to younger consumers, advertisers are broadening their focus to older people for demographic and economic reasons.

A fight among the descendants of the United Farm Workers’ founder Cesar Chavez seems certain to accelerate the decline of a once-powerful movement.

The soldiers, interviewed at a rebel prison, spoke bitterly of their lot but also chose their words carefully.

Kevin Youkilis hit a key home run off Joba Chamberlain to lift the Red Sox over the Yankees for the third time in four games this season.

No documented proof exists, but there are suspicions that the Cubs-Red Sox series may have been fixed, largely because the conditions were ripe for a bribe, as they were in 1919.

How $250,000 a year become the dividing line between the haves and have-nots.

A series of court decisions that briefly opened the N.F.L. for business, then abruptly closed it, have plunged undrafted free agents into the most acute limbo of an uncertain off-season.

Ferrari’s chairman is broadening its lineup with a hatchback but wants to retain the exclusivity of a luxury brand.