October 4, 2011

Despite all the hoopla surrounding the Apple announcement, more people buy smartphones running Google’s Android operating system than buy Apple phones.

Fannie Mae, the mortgage finance giant, learned as early as 2003 of extensive foreclosure abuses, but did little to correct the practices, according to a new report.

Adam Rapp’s new play is a tediously outlandish dark comedy about the beastliness of the rich in our tarnished gilded age.

American efforts to wield “smart power” amid natural disasters and political upheaval would be hurt as lawmakers propose slashing funding for the State Department.

On the same day that a federal judge upheld most provisions of a strict immigration-enforcement law in Alabama, frightened Hispanics began moving out of Albertville in the northern part of the state.

A hopeful report on European banks prompted a late rally after the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index officially traded in bear-market territory much of the day.

“We are the epicenter of this global crisis,” Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, said on Tuesday at the European Parliament.

“American Horror Story” on FX, from a pair of “Glee” writers and producers, brings a love of excess to the lives of a family moving into a haunted house.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic, under leadership of the music director Gustavo Dudamel, is setting up a training program based on El Sistema, the Venezuelan-based movement that weds music teaching and social work.

Ending a late flurry of indecision, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey announced on Tuesday that he had decided not to seek the presidency.

Although the new phone is virtually indistinguishable from its predecessor on the outside, the company says the iPhone 4S is packed with better technical innards, including a more advanced camera.

Calvin Tomkins will be honored by the Whitney Museum of American Art for his artist profiles in The New Yorker.