Новости за 15.12.2018

How can we make presidential campaigns shorter, why baby boomers are aging alone, and your preferred beer reveals your personality traits.

A Justice Department official asked a federal judge to withhold payments to McKinsey for its work advising a bankrupt Colorado coal miner, adding to criticism of how the firm discloses potential conflicts of interest.

Ukraine declared the founding of a national Orthodox church independent of Russia, stripping the Kremlin of an instrument it has used for centuries in efforts to dominate its neighbor.

Deloitte LLP’s board has nominated the head of its audit practice as the next U.S. chief executive at the Big Four accounting firm, apparently closing off the last chance that current chief Cathy Engelbert might get a second term.

The concert films from Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway residency and Taylor Swift’s stadium tour across the U.S.—two of the hottest tickets of 2018—are headed for Netflix.

The new TV adaptation of ‘Vanity Fair’ updates Thackeray’s 19th-century novel with pop music and Olivia Cooke as the social-climbing Becky Sharp.

Russian lawyers are racking up billable hours and profits helping companies hit by sanctions navigate treacherous legal terrain—and preparing others in case they are targeted next. It’s a niche big international firms can’t touch.

Facebook said unshared pictures of up to 6.8 million users may have been exposed by a software issue that granted app developers access to the photos, the latest in a series of privacy snafus at the social-media company.

Ben LeNail has the neurodegenerative disease ALD, but a daily exercise regimen and Pilates help him stay healthy and active.

Scientists around the world are editing the genes of livestock to create meatier pigs, cashmere goats with longer hair and cold-weather cows that can thrive in the tropics. But amid some successes, disturbing outcomes are surfacing.

A top executive at Wynn Resorts who had been accused of enabling alleged sexual misconduct by former Chief Executive Steve Wynn is leaving the company.

Mitch Daniels, America’s most innovative university president, tells how he’s kept tuition from rising and how acquiring Kaplan University will expand educational access.

In an interview on Fox Business Network's WSJ at Large, Diane Swonk, Chief Economist at Grant Thornton, spoke with Gerry Baker about how the climate of uncertainty affects the economy and what Washington can do about it.

PG&E falsified natural gas pipeline-safety records over a five-year period ending in 2017, California regulators said, dealing another blow to the state’s largest utility.

The Trump FCC may save the day for millennials.

Lessons from the U.S. rise to be the world’s largest oil producer.

Fresh economic figures from Europe and China added to concerns that weakening growth at the end of 2018 will carry over into a sharper slowdown next year, weighing on the solid but cooling U.S. expansion.

When British politicians launched Brexit negotiations after the country’s 2016 referendum, they were confident they could win a special deal by finding allies among the 27 remaining members of the bloc. That strategy misfired.

Antiestablishment parties, popular across Europe for attacking the EU’s immigration and fiscal rules, are now pushing back against a long-held EU economic orthodoxy that favors markets and competition over state intervention.

Blockchain technology promises to transform finance the way the internet transformed communication.

The company that was once America’s biggest and most admired, the maker of power turbines, the seller of insurance, the broadcaster of “Seinfeld,” has become a shadow of its former self. This is the story of how generations of managers, who thought they could fix any company in any industry, finally ran into a problem they couldn’t solve.

Trump makes a good choice for chief of staff, if the President lets him do his job.

Chinese hackers are breaching Navy contractors to steal everything from ship-maintenance data to missile plans, triggering a top-to-bottom review of cyber vulnerabilities.

Scientists around the world are editing the genes of livestock to create meatier pigs, cashmere goats with longer hair and cold-weather cows that can thrive in the tropics. But amid some successes, disturbing outcomes are surfacing.

The D.C. suburb spent the decade since the financial crisis making itself into a haven for private industry.