(Reuters) – Sporting goods retailer Academy Sports and Outdoors Inc ASO.O sold shares in its initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday at $13 apiece, below its target range, to raise $203 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. FILE PHOTO: Trading information for KKR & Co is displayed on a screen on the […]

Listen and subscribe to ‘Sway’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Alexander Vindman — war hero, European affairs expert, lieutenant colonel in the Army — had lofty dreams of serving the United States. But a call he heard between President Trump and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, gave him pause. Little more than a year […]

Little more than 12 hours after the conclusion of the most chaotic, counterproductive and outright offensive American presidential debate in my lifetime, the Commission on Presidential Debates promised unspecified format changes in the two remaining faceoffs between Donald Trump and Joe Biden so that the events would be more orderly, which is to say watchable […]

This is an article from World Review: The State of Democracy, a special section that examines global policy and affairs through the perspectives of thought leaders and commentators, and is published in conjunction with the annual Athens Democracy Forum. It has been a devastating summer for most young people around the world. Because of the […]

To the Editor: “20 Theater Figures on How to ‘Revolutionize’ Their World” (Arts & Leisure, Sept. 13): Twenty theater figures have 20 — no, more than 20 — ideas on how to revolutionize the theater! But we only need to do one simple thing: subsidize the theater. Throughout the history of Western culture, every period […]

A steep increase in the daily rate of positive coronavirus tests in a handful of New York communities is cause for alarm — and action. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and other New York officials need to work together, and quickly. The mission is clear: to deploy the full power of local and […]

Trump’s tax returns, coronavirus, Chinese economy: Here’s what you need to know. By Natasha Frost Good morning. We’re covering the second part of The Times’s investigation into President Trump’s federal tax returns, the growing numbers of virus conspiracy theorists in Europe and the stirring signs of China’s economic rebound. In Europe, coronavirus conspiracy theories abound […]

In the years before he became president, Donald Trump lived lavishly while paying little in federal income taxes. The Times reported on Sunday that Mr. Trump paid no taxes in 10 of the 15 years immediately preceding his run for the White House. In each of the following two years, 2016 and 2017, he paid […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – EdtechX Holdings, an investment platform focusing on the future of education and work, is launching its second listed blank-check company and is looking to buy a business in the sector worth up to $2 billion. Run by a Franco-British duo of financiers, EdtechX Holdings Acquisition Corp II is seeking to raise gross […]

When I founded Michael Angelo’s Wonderland Beauty Parlor in the meatpacking district 15 years ago, I never imagined I would one day have to downsize and relocate to survive rising rents, only to have to then shut down for months. Nor could I conceive of having to choose between paying the rent on my apartment, […]