December 21, 2015

Since the Syrian rebel leader Hassan Aboud joined ISIS, taking with him fighters and weapons, he has been behind a sprawling mix of battlefield action and crime.

Last month, a union began paying the first installments of $12.7 million in back pay to hundreds of black and Hispanic members in a partial settlement of a bias lawsuit decades old.

The hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II is working with the self-help star Deepak Chopra to rate how companies treat workers, society and the environment.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said the plan was part of a larger push toward helping nonviolent offenders assimilate back into society.

This musical about a Jewish milkman honors the spirit of the 1964 original and includes scenes of beleaguered townspeople that look familiar today.

Poeltl, a center for Utah, blossomed from the infertile basketball soil of Vienna into a possible lottery pick in next year’s draft, which would make him the first Austrian-born player in N.B.A. history.

China’s rapid construction of new buildings, and the short life of many of those structures, have long created problems with unregulated dumping of construction waste.

As in many emerging economies, companies in Indonesia gorged on cheap debt to fund expansion. Now they face higher interest rates on top of a plummeting rupiah and a commodity slump.

The state is debating how best to save water that arrives between drought years and help its farmers without sacrificing the needs of its cities or the environment.

Sequels generally don’t land major nominations, but the fact that “The Force Awakens” doesn’t break new ground may be a bigger issue for the Academy.

KaloBios Pharmaceuticals is a California biotechnology company that Mr. Shkreli gained control of in November.

The gun homicide rate has risen since the state repealed gun control measures in 2007, but experts caution that it does not mean the law change is the reason.