September 18, 2012

Crowdfunding is a popular and lucrative source of money for entrepreneurs, but it is not always easy to turn a good idea into a profitable product.

The protests that began a year ago changed little, and were not much more than a fad that left a lasting chant: We are the 99 percent.

Ambassador Michael B. Oren, who happens to have been born and bred in New Jersey, is representing a prime minister who has infuriated the White House.

After paying nearly $120 million for it at auction, the new owner of Edvard Munch’s “Scream” is lending it to the Museum of Modern Art.

A surgeon is working on a different method of organ regeneration, so far only in animals — using another part of the body to nourish the replacement as it grows and is ready for transplanting.

The White House says that those young illegal immigrants who will be eligible for delayed deportation will not be covered under the new health care law.

Researchers are developing less threatening machines that can mingle safely with humans. One, called Baxter, will be on sale in October.

President Obama on Monday filed a broad new trade case against China at the World Trade Organization. He announced the action in the industrial battleground of Ohio.

Facing criticism for saying 47 percent of voters believe they are “victims,” Mitt Romney sought to steer the conversation toward a debate about government’s role in people’s lives.

Union delegates endorsed a proposed contract, allowing 350,000 children to return to classes on Wednesday.

The writer Salman Rushdie discusses why a memoir of his years in hiding is titled “Joseph Anton,” what a toll that period took on his personal life and how to determine if you are being followed while driving.

A Harvard historian of early Christianity said the papyrus, written in Coptic in the fourth century, contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife ...’ ”