Layoffs and a financial crisis have exposed tension at the long-running news program, with some calling for a major overhaul.

Venerable Format of ‘NewsHour’ Struggles With New Era of Media

Eddy Cue, a senior vice president for Apple, denied that the company colluded with publishers to fix e-book prices.

Apple Negotiator Defends Tactics in E-Book Trial

In 2008, a ruling by a surveillance court said to be against Yahoo discouraged technology firms from fighting data requests from the government.

Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind

Many people claim the company encourages its news operation and business side to work together.

Bloomberg Reporters’ Practices Become Crucial Issue for Company

There’s enough plot in Eric Rosen and Matt Sax’s “Venice,” the action-flooded new musical at the Public Theater, to fill a whole year in a Marvel comics series.

Of Shakespeare and Superheroes

As orders for military planes continue to drop, Airbus has placed a strong bet on commercial aircraft with the A350, a new wide-body jet.

Airbus Unveils Jet and Broadens Rivalry With Boeing

Iran’s interior minister said Saturday morning that preliminary results showed Hassan Rowhani, a cleric, with a strong lead, followed by the mayor of Tehran, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf.

Moderate in Iranian Election Leads in Initial Returns

The notion of the “Big Five” American symphony orchestras seems to have lost its relevance in an ever more international music world.

The Big Five Orchestras No Longer Add Up

Without the dysfunctional Louds in “An American Family” and the riveting real-life drama of their household, televised by PBS in 1973, there may never have been the reality TV landscape.

The Mother of All ‘Housewives’

While Manhattanites fight traffic to escape the city in summer, a rare breed of part-timer is breezing in from the other direction.

A Summer Home in New York: Some Like It Hot

The government said it would invest $40 million in the next year and $60 million more over the next five years to find ways to share lightly used airwaves.

U.S. Pushes Agencies to Free Up Spectrum

Two journalists from West Islip High School on Long Island set out to examine school security measures, but they were prosecuted for trespassing and their article was quashed.

Seeking Exposé, Students End Up in Handcuffs

Perhaps more extraordinary than the skill of many of the world’s top golfers is their ability to remember shots from weeks or even years before.

In Golf, Moments Good and Bad Are Well Remembered

Environmental worries complicate an energy company’s plan to mine an Indian tribe’s large deposit of coal and ship it to Asia.

Coal Industry Pins
Hopes on Exports as
U.S. Market Shrinks

The chief executive of Health Management Associates is planning to depart, and speculation about a possible sale has sent the company’s stock higher.

Talk of Takeover Grows at Health Management Hospital Group

Battles over two wills signed by Huguette Clark, the heiress to a copper fortune who died in 2011 at 104, offer lessons even for people who don’t have $300 million estates.

How to Avoid an Estate Battle After You Die

Heading north from Baton Rouge, the author goes in search of the world that inspired arguably the state’s most beloved artist.

Looking for Clementine Hunter’s Louisiana

Toyota’s new fourth-generation RAV4 is a sensible and pleasant choice for someone shopping for a compact crossover, but even with all the upgrades, it still doesn’t stand out from the crowd.

Modern Maturity for the Original Cute Ute

Women who take advantage of flexible work schedules may be viewed as not committed to work, but men may be penalized even more.

The Unspoken Stigma of Workplace Flexibility

Robots have long been on auto assembly lines, but Ford is now using them in place of human drivers on test tracks.

Rough Road Ahead, but a Robot Driver Takes It in Stride

The agent Luke Janklow may be the last man having fun in the industry. You may have read about some of it in the tabloids.

Luke Janklow: Not Exactly Bookish

When Davide Martello hauled a grand piano into Taksim Square in Istanbul and started playing, protesters and the police alike shared hours of calm.

Music in Istanbul Is Intermission for a Protest

In the face of opposition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and environmentalists, the Environmental Protection Agency has changed its mind about cooperating in the building of a complex for LG Electonics atop the New Jersey Palisades.

E.P.A. Backs Out of Role in Palisades LG Headquarters

The documentarian Laura Poitras says her role in the leaking of American surveillance programs was “not something I was seeking out.”

Player in Leaks Case, Out From Behind Camera

At E3, a video game trade show where novelty is prized, Microsoft drew resentment for its plans to monitor gamers’ use of resold games.

Unwelcome Innovation Earns Gamers’ Jeers

Elroy Schwartz was an American comedy and television writer.

June 14, 2013

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Venerable Format of ‘NewsHour’ Struggles With New Era of Media

Apple Negotiator Defends Tactics in E-Book Trial

Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind

Bloomberg Reporters’ Practices Become Crucial Issue for Company

Of Shakespeare and Superheroes

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