In her first extended public comments since taking over General Motors, Mary Barra vowed to quicken its comeback with improved products, better brands and consistently profitable operations around the world.

Speeding Up G.M.’s Comeback

Whistle-blower suits claim Health Management Associates tried to inflate its Medicare and Medicaid payments by admitting more patients.

Hospital Chain Said to Scheme to Inflate Bills

Coca-Cola and other corporations are starting to see global warming as an economically disruptive force affecting commodity costs and supply chains.

Industry Awakens to Threat of Climate Change

Cash-strapped county jails are finding that the sale of e-cigarettes to inmates can provide a lucrative source of income.

In Rural Jails, E-Cigarettes Are a Calming Vapor

In John Patrick Shanley’s “Outside Mullingar,” an Irish father and son and their neighbors, consider questions of life, death, love and the family farm.

Weary, Brooding and Made for Each Other

Jessica Dickey’s “Row After Row” tells the story of three Civil War re-enactors in Gettysburg.

Not Living in the Past, but Going for Visits

In a series of contentious meetings, JPMorgan Chase’s board voted to give Jamie Dimon a new pay package after his pay was cut in half last year, to $11.5 million.

Fined Billions, JPMorgan Chase Will Give Dimon a Raise

Four deadly bombings left a grim realization that a cycle of terrorism and repression is hardening the wills of the military-backed government and a growing Islamist insurgency to fight to the death.

Prolonged Fight Feared in Egypt After Bombings

A slide in smartphone sales was partly offset by the company’s hold on vital handset components, which are often sold to Apple and other competitors.

Chip Profits Help Soften Other Losses at Samsung

Ariel Rechtshaid, a Grammy nominee who has collaborated with a dizzying variety of pop performers, talks about his evolution as a producer and listener.

In a Blizzard of Sounds, the Intuitive Maestro

With China’s rise and the Federal Reserve’s economic action both in retreat, investors have been heading for the exits in markets as far removed as Buenos Aires, Istanbul and Beijing, with effects spilling over into the rest of the world.

Economic Shifts in U.S. and China Batter Markets

Because of new customs restrictions, several major express delivery services have stopped delivering packages to individual clients.

In Russia, Couriers Halt Parcel Delivery

The bank’s chief executive will receive $20 million in compensation for 2013, a raise of 74 percent over the previous year, despite a series of bruising legal setbacks.

Big Raise for JPMorgan’s Dimon Despite a Rough Year

As co-ops become more applicant-friendly, condos enact more rules.

Co-ops Chill, Condos Don’t

Websites like Thug-Notes make points, and humor, by translating high literature and political speech into short-form raps

Homies in Verona, Gangstas in Elsinore

Gregory M. Owens is an extreme but vivid illustration of the economic factors roiling the legal profession.

A Lawyer and Partner, and Also Bankrupt

Michelle Nunn, the daughter of a former senator, is running for the Senate in a campaign that is testing whether the state’s shifting demographics can send a Democrat to Washington.

Old Democratic Name (Nunn) Stakes Bid on Shifting Georgia 

The Ghost is the sportier, entry-level Rolls-Royce sedan, and the Extended Wheelbase version adds 6.7 inches to its length, resulting in a huge back seat.

In the Ghost With the Most, Drivers May Haunt the Back Seat

Robert LaValva wants to use the site of the former Fulton Fish Market for more public food markets, while the Howard Hughes Corporation wants to build a 50-story hotel-residential complex.

Duel at the Old Fulton Fish Market

What does an American Chinatown look like today? Going from New York to Southern California, Austin to Las Vegas, reveals the answer: It all depends on where you are.

Chinatown Revisited

The Roll-Royce Wraith, derived from the Ghost sedan, offers an almost $400,000 driving experience that seems to avoid compromises.

The Ecstasy of Excess, the Agony of the Sticker

The demise of the discount chain after 94 years shows the shift in the way people shop for designer clothing.

Loehmann’s, Out of Step and Closing Down

Since Sammy Cohen Eckstein, 12, was hit by a van and killed in Brooklyn in October, his parents have become devoted to the cause for safer streets.

After a Son’s Death, Parents Channel Their Grief Into Activism

The deadline to submit final flood insurance claims is approaching. Some tips to avoid the minefields.

Flood Ebbs, Insurance Woes Don’t

The architect Richard Meier has just installed an exhibition in Jersey City with some 400 handmade models of projects he’s designed, while helping to redevelop a section of downtown Newark.

Architect Goes Home, to Recall and to Work

Shulamit Aloni was an Israeli politician. She founded the Ratz party, was leader of the Meretz party, Leader of the Opposition from 1988 to 1990, and served as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993. In 2000, she won the Israel Prize.

Shulamit Aloni, Israeli lawyer and politician, 11th Israeli Minister of Education (born 1928)

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Rafael Pineda Ponce was a Honduran professor and politician in the Liberal Party of Honduras and President of the National Congress of Honduras from 1998 to 2002.

January 24, 2014

Headlines from January 24, 2014

Speeding Up G.M.’s Comeback

Hospital Chain Said to Scheme to Inflate Bills

Industry Awakens to Threat of Climate Change

In Rural Jails, E-Cigarettes Are a Calming Vapor

Weary, Brooding and Made for Each Other

Billboard 200

Frozen

Beyonce

My Own Lane

The Marshall Mathers LP 2

Pure Heroine

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for January 24, 2014