King Harald of Norway has died at eighty-nine. As a boy he fled an invasion, and an American president took his family in. As a young man he told his father what he would surrender rather than give up the woman he loved.

The Nepal-Tibet toll climbs past five hundred and seventy-nine, with ninety Americans unaccounted for and two new lakes hanging above the valley.

Japan spends ninety-six billion dollars propping up the yen, and the result is worth hearing. The Fed chairman says nothing at Jackson Hole and the bond market answers anyway. Money waiting for Kroger pharmacy customers who act before December. And a mailbox test that changed the odds for three hundred seventy-six thousand people.

A New Hampshire man whose house was on fire made a decision at five in the morning. A line drawn through Arizona tribal land in 1853 comes b ...