James Stewart News
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When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out Oscars this weekend, the smart money is on Daniel Day-Lewis to take home the best-actor award for the title role in “Lincoln.” It would be his third Oscar.
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Michael Winner, who died today, was a successful movie director before he started writing about restaurants for the Sunday Times, where his self-professed ignorance about food never inhibited him from trenchant views.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Democrats will pursue their plan to curb the use of filibusters to block legislation if the party and Republican lawmakers don’t reach agreement on the matter this week.
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Whitehaven Coal Ltd. is returning as a takeover target, less than two years after a company-run auction failed and its biggest shareholder shelved a buyout.
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KPMG International appointed James Stewart, former chief executive officer of the U.K. Treasury’s long-term infrastructure planning body, as chairman of the firm’s global infrastructure practice.
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When the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Edward Steffelin last year, the agency issued a press release telling the world it had accused him of fraud. So how did the world first learn that the SEC had dropped its claims against him?
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A shapely classical goddess in marble benignly waves visitors into the new home of Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History .
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Mozilla Corp., the Mountain View, California-based developer of the Firefox Web browser, has taken a license to the patents of the Open Invention Network collaboration, according to a statement from the network.
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A Credit Suisse Group AG unit was sued by over securitized mortgage loans for which Assured Guaranty Ltd. guaranteed payments to investors and that the bond insurer says were riskier than promised.
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Spain’s bonds fell, with 10-year yields rising to a euro-era record, after Moody’s Investors Service cut the nation’s credit rating, citing its rising debt burden and weakening economy.
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