Новости за 30.04.2017

The cash-strapped, debt-laden island takes one step closer to bankruptcy.

The founder of Britain’s most influential magazine understood the power of commerce early on.

The system would remain complicated, unfair and inefficient. But the richest would pay much less.

Withdraw the Obama Title IX ‘guidance’ and tie federal funds to respect for the First Amendment.

Apple likely will report Tuesday that its cash hoard has topped a quarter of a trillion dollars—an unrivalled milestone that could ratchet up pressure on the tech giant to make splashier acquisitions or dole out more money to shareholders.

Payment-transfer network left banks largely responsible for their own cyberdefense; old passwords at Bangladesh’s central bank

A series of recent cyberattacks targeting banks raises questions about the security of Swift, the global messaging network that is the backbone of payment services for more than 11,000 institutions worldwide, including banks and corporations. Illustration: Adele Morgan/The Wall Street Journal

The Buffalo Bills kept general manger Doug Whaley around to make franchise-altering, long-term decisions in free agency and the draft, then let him go.

Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the first round of the French presidential election was greeted with relief rather than triumph in Brussels and other European capitals.

Houston has changed the NBA by finding a way to take more 3-pointers: take longer 3-pointers.

The chiefs of Tesla, Facebook and Microsoft, as well as food giant Mondelez’s Irene Rosenfeld, will be providing insights into their businesses and industries in the week ahead.

Private-equity firms and other investors are funding late-stage clinical trials, shouldering the risk for pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer in exchange for a share of the upside if a drug succeeds.

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain won’t agree to pay an exit bill for leaving the EU without also agreeing a new trade deal with the bloc, highlighting a hard-to-resolve division between the opposing camps ahead of talks on Brexit.

Veteran Journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose reporting uncovered the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, defended the press during their remarks at the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday. They addressed charges made by President Donald Trump that many reporters present "fake news." Mr. Trump did not attend the annual event this year. Photo: Getty

Comedian Hasan Minhaj of Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” riffed on President Donald Trump’s absence from the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner on Saturday. Trump is the first president in 30 years to miss the event. Photo: Getty

President Donald Trump skipped the annual black-tie White House Correspondents Association dinner in Washington, D.C., and instead marked his 100th day in office with a campaign-style rally in Pennsylvania, where he took swipes the media and offered a defense of his record. Photo: Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press

Target Corp. has signed a lease to open a 22,500 square-foot store at the 1.9 million-square-foot development stretching across several Manhattan blocks called Essex Crossing.

British boxer Anthony Joshua breathed life into the sport’s most storied division with a thrilling win over heavyweight legend Wladimir Klitschko, retaining his IBF title and adding the vacant WBA crown.

Over the past two decades, Guo Wenli has traveled throughout China. He is one of the country's estimated 281 million migrant workers—rural laborers who left the farm to work in factories and construction.

In 1957, when Al Golin was a young public-relations man in Chicago, a friend suggested he should make a pitch to the owner of a fledgling drive--in hamburger chain. His public-relations firm—now known as Golin, part of Interpublic Group—is still working for McDonald’s 60 years later.

A hotel conference room in the Baltic republic of Estonia recently became the front line in a rehearsal for cyberwarfare, in an exercise that tested the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s readiness to repel hackers.

Southeast Asian nations skirted the thorny issue of territorial disputes at a regional summit, coming at a time of increasing determination by China to assert its claims.

The comments by Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster appeared to undo President Trump’s remark earlier that South Korea should pay for the Thaad system.

Following India’s crackdown on cash, millions of residents who have never even used a credit card are leapfrogging into mobile payments, finding phone apps more accessible than plastic.