At 78, Norma Kamali isn’t ready to retire. But the celebrated New York designer is starting to think about how the company she built from scratch and has run for more than 50 years will carry on when she eventually steps back. Typically, this kind of succession planning entails preparing the right leadership to take … Read more

Trump glowers and gestures in court, then leaves to campaign as sex abuse defamation trial opens NEW YORK — Donald Trump shook his head in disgust Tuesday as the judge in his New York defamation trial told would-be jurors that an earlier jury had already decided the former president sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll … Read more

Home sale scams ramp up amid a housing market short on inventory Last month, a real estate agent in Patty Zuzek’s office got a call about selling a plot of land. The caller, who had heard about the real estate agency through a Facebook post wanted to sell the vacant lot $75,000 below the market … Read more

Baidu’s live streaming plans suffer as it calls off $3.6 billion Joyy deal Baidu’s bid to expand its live streaming business in China and diversify its revenue has suffered a blow with the collapse of a planned $3.6 billion acquisition. The Chinese tech giant announced Monday that one of its affiliate companies had terminated a … Read more

Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary to become first Australian-born QueenThe fairy tale rise of an Australian sales executive to the upper ranks of European royalty is set to be completed later this month when Crown Princess Mary Elizabeth of Denmark becomes the country’s Queen Consort. The final stretch of Mary’s path from Tasmania to the Danish … Read more