The United States Olympic Committee has made changes to satisfy the International Olympic Committee, bolstering a chance to host the 2024 Summer Games.

U.S. Leaders for Olympics Mending Ties With I.O.C.

Spirit Airlines prides itself for offering the lowest fares, then charging passengers for everything else.

The Frills Are Few. The Fees Are Not.

The revamped Malibu, along with new pickup trucks this summer, is part of an effort by General Motors to emerge from years of retrenching after its financial collapse.

To Compete, G.M. Alters a Sedan

Suspicions that Bloomberg was monitoring bank executives never amounted to much until an official at Goldman Sachs called his counterpart at JPMorgan.

Hunch About Bloomberg Brought Rivals Together

The Japanese government has made stemming deflation a priority, but its efforts so far have not affected everyday items, like a can of soda.

One Obstacle Won’t Budge in Japan’s Fight With Deflation

While Dwyane Wade hobbled and Chris Bosh drifted in Game 5, LeBron James “just went back to my Cleveland days” to lead the Heat to victory and a 3-2 series lead over Indiana.

James’s Solo Act Undergoes a Revival

Yiddish experts say the preferred spelling of the winning word in the widely televised Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night has historically been kneydl, not knaidel.

Some Say the Spelling of a Winning Word Just Wasn’t Kosher

The killing of John Valluzzo at his sprawling Connecticut home last week did not follow the more familiar story line that evokes Amadou Diallo or other police killings.

A Police Killing That Seemed to Go Against Type

The Yankees had lost five in a row, but the return of Mark Teixiera and Kevin Youkilis, as well as a vintage performance from C. C. Sabathia, led the team to a victory over the Red Sox.

Sabathia Highlights a Night of Returns

The surpluses that many states are expecting this year are not as robust as they appear because of costs put off during the recession, like funding for Medicaid and pension systems.

Surpluses Help, but Fiscal Woes for States Go On

Seven months after Hurricane Sandy, Tone Johansen and her ailing husband, Sunny Balzano, need thousands of dollars more for repairs of their bar in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Fighting for Sunny’s

Drugs may have prevented people with H.I.V. from dying of AIDS, but even as they reach the once-unthinkable age of 50, their lives continue to be ravaged by the virus.

‘People Think It’s Over’

Out of an urban planner’s idea that low-rise complexes would reduce crime in low-income housing, the Marcus Garvey Village was created in Brownsville, Brooklyn. It went on to prove the opposite.

A Housing Solution Gone Awry

Making the United States Open extravaganza fit into pocket-size Merion Golf Club outside Philadelphia has been hard work for the U.S.G.A.

U.S. Open Will Test the Limits at Merion

While the American medical system is famous for expensive drugs and heroic care at the end of life, a more significant factor in the nation’s annual health care bill may be the high price tag of ordinary services.

The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill

Stock prices and earnings have risen sharply for banks. But there is less to the headline number than some investors may think.

Quantity Over Quality in Bank Profits

One of the 1 percent puts herself in the middle of those on the other end of the ladder.

She’s Getting Her Boots Dirty

The biggest threat from Beijing is the aggressive spread of state capitalism.

China’s Economic Empire

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, with the coalition Mayors Against Illegal Guns, is taking his campaign for stricter gun laws to the nation’s state legislatures.

For Bloomberg, Gun 
Control Fight Shifts
to State Capitals

The United States hopes the dialogue can help set norms and end what it says is a daily barrage of computer break-ins and theft of corporate and government secrets by Chinese hackers.

U.S. and China Agree to Hold Regular Talks on Hacking

The Russian multimillionaire Dmitry Itskov wants us all to live forever, our minds inside avatars. And he is spending a bundle to try to make his colossal dream happen.

This Man Is Not a Cyborg. Yet.

In 16 years, Thomas Donohue has transformed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce into a lobbying powerhouse — and into a much more political animal.

Pugnacious Builder of the Business Lobby

Quotation of the day for Saturday, June 1, 2013.

Quotation of the Day for Saturday, June 1, 2013

Corrections appearing in print on June 1, 2013.

Corrections: June 1, 2013

The blocks north of 96th Street on the East Side are intriguingly animated by contrasts and surprises.

Crossing 96th Street’s Great Divide

James Francis Kelleher was a Canadian politician and retired senator.

June 1, 2013

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U.S. Leaders for Olympics Mending Ties With I.O.C.

The Frills Are Few. The Fees Are Not.

To Compete, G.M. Alters a Sedan

Hunch About Bloomberg Brought Rivals Together

One Obstacle Won’t Budge in Japan’s Fight With Deflation

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Modern Vampires Of The City

Love Is Everything

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