March 8, 2012

The composer Osvaldo Golijov is involved in a controversy over whether he borrowed too much from another work for his piece “Sidereus.”

How four women wielding crowbars rebuilt a derelict Mississippi town to fit their lives.

Firms are racing to cut the cost of sequencing the human genome, which will yield new approaches for treating cancers and other serious diseases, biologists say.

Despite years of urging and oversight by American advisers, President Hamid Karzai’s government has yet to prosecute a high-level corruption case in Afghanistan.

The cuts, which have left many low-income women with inconvenient or costly options for treatment, grew out of a plan to eliminate state support for Planned Parenthood.

Money is cheap for companies with good credit, and they are piling into the corporate bond market. But what is good for borrowers may not be so good for lenders.

To New Yorkers, the news that WNBC-TV would not renew the contract of Sue Simmons, a popular anchorwoman, felt like more than just another personnel change.

In “An Iliad” at the New York Theater Workshop, the violence of the Trojan War is evoked through the words of a single actor.

AMR, American Airlines’ parent, said it would freeze pension plans for everyone except its pilots.

Mitt Romney’s high-dollar donors, lavish fund-raising events and personal wealth fuel perceptions that he is favored more by his party’s elite than by its conservative base.

The heart of the president’s re-election campaign can be found in a Chicago office complex, where political strategists, data analysts and other workers search online to reconnect with supporters from four years ago.

“Game Change,” an engaging HBO docudrama about Gov. Sarah Palin’s 2008 run for the vice presidency, stars Julianne Moore as the Alaska governor with her eyes on the White House.