June 7, 2012

The firm’s decision to name fewer partners comes as dozens of partners have announced plans to leave in a steady exodus over the last year.

Leaks about drones and cyberattacks, two weapons that by many accounts have devastated Al Qaeda and set back Iran’s nuclear effort, have angered lawmakers in both parties.

Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr. proposed that raising the federal minimum wage might encourage Americans to spend more, which would help stimulate the economy.

The euro zone’s fourth-largest economy is too big to fail and possibly too big to steamroll, changing the balance of power in bargaining over a deal to rescue Spain’s ailing banks.

Researchers put together most of a fetus’s genome using a mother’s blood and father’s saliva, heralding an era when parents might know much more about a child long before its birth.