June 22, 2012

President Dilma Rousseff is accelerating stimulus projects aimed at blunting the slowdown, a demonstration of the extraordinary sway the government has over the economy.

It is unclear what would happen to the money for a host of programs if the Affordable Care Act is overturned.

Morgan Stanley, the former risk-taking brokerage that is now a bank, faces financial and psychological challenges.

Investor confidence in the markets has waned after problems on the day Facebook shares began trading.

At their convention, the Afscme delegates elevated the union’s secretary-treasurer, Lee Saunders.

As ratings across its weekday morning, nightly and Sunday morning franchises decline, the network appears vulnerable.

Mitt Romney struck a more conciliatory tone toward illegal immigrants than he has in the past, but backed only limited steps to address the concerns of many Hispanic voters.

“As You Like It,” this time set in the American South with bluegrass music, opens the 50th anniversary season of the Public’s free Shakespeare in the Park.

A magazine article by a former Obama administration official has blown up into an instant debate about a new conundrum of female success.

An intrepid reporter for The New York Times and his editor braved a Louisiana bayou to determine the reality of the TNT reality series “The Great Escape.” They barely escaped the alligators.

Recruited as an athletic base-stealer and drafted at 17, Mike Trout currently ranks among the American League’s best hitters.

In 1872, a New Yorker headed west to Nebraska to hunt buffalo with the Pawnee Indians. What happened to the man and the tribe? A journey back to the Plains uncovers answers, and more.