If the Democratic nominee is elected in November and his party ends up with majority control of both chambers of Congress, Goldman sees a 4 percent upward revision by 2024 to its baseline earnings forecast, which assumes no change in policy, Reuters reported. The market analysts, led by David Kostin, Goldman Sachs’ chief U.S. equity strategist, see a “a modestly positive net impact” if Democrats sweep the November elections, pushing S&P 500 earnings higher, according to Business Insider....

A Harry Potter Fan, at Home and at Work NEWSWEEK General Editor Malcolm Jones and his 11-year-old daughter, Susannah, share a fascination with the Harry Potter series of books. For Christmas last year, he decorated a small bookcase with handpainted pictures from the Potter stories. The recipient was a grateful but severe critic. “She noticed right away that Dumbledore’s glasses weren’t half moons and that the Golden Snitch did not have wings,” Jones says....

Charged with the five Detroit-area murders–the magistrate entered a plea of “not guilty” until Armstrong gets a lawyer–the suspect was held without bail while the Navy and the FBI try to sort out the grisly details. It could take a while. Armstrong joined the Navy in 1992 and sailed on the Nimitz until 1999, when he left the service. According to the Navy, his record contained no hint of psychological or disciplinary problems....

They’re pretty cool. Seeing the Cavaliers point guard as a gray-bearded senior citizen, who still has “it” on the court and wears young bucks out, immediately conjures up images of the old heads who show up to test their mettle at pickup games all over the country. Obviously, Irving’s skills are on point and, for the length of the spots, which ring anywhere from a minute and a half to extended versions that last as long as seven minutes, his acting chops aren’t too bad either....

““The Steward of Christendom’’ is the fifth in a cycle of plays about the ““lost [or] hidden’’ people in Barry’s own family. The part of Thomas Dunne is one of those roles that come along once in a career. Dunne was Barry’s great-grandfather, the last head of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, the bastion of British rule in Ireland. As an Irish Catholic fighting for the British Empire in the years when the Irish Free State was being born in blood, Dunne was not on the honor roll of the Barry family....

Now Gaddis has published A Frolic of His Own (586 pages. Poseidon. 825), an extended satire on America’s increasingly litigious ways. Surely no theme could be more timely? Surely, too, we’ve grown accustomed to unusual narrative strategies. A novel written almost entirely in dialogue with no quotation marks–that’s not too daunting these days. As for Gaddis’s gloomy vision of American life, the greed, plagiarism and self-absorption that he describes would not look out of place on an episode of “Roseanne” or “The Simpsons....

MY FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS 1"The Portable Chekhov" edited by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. I can easily carry it anywhere for literary solace. 2"Austerlitz" by W. G. Sebald. The final novel of a fractured and supernal mind in search of its own history. 3"Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O’Connor. This line electrified me: “Go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog.” It made me want to write....

The moment capped a week full of missteps by Coca-Cola. The company was trying to quell a widening–and widely exaggerated– health scare in Europe over the safety of its soft drinks. It started two weeks ago when several dozen Belgian school children became nauseated after drinking Coke from glass bottles that had been filled at a plant in Antwerp. Two days later another group of Belgians complained of digestive problems after drinking from cans dispensed by vending machines in Dunkerque, France....

The tracks on “A Lo Cubano” (“In the Cuban Way”) are certainly hip-hop, but they’re no mere knockoffs of American styles. The band draws on both the rich palette of Cuban rhythms and on the more recent European traditions found in trip-hop. Orishas has four distinct voices, singing and rapping in Spanish. They’re backed by horns, percussion, Cuban stringed instruments such as the cuatro, as well as machine beats and scratching....

The decathlon has always been an Olympic glamour event. The winner is hailed as the ““world’s greatest athlete.’’ America’s past champions were worthy of that description. Track and field was simply something they did, along with hitting a baseball and tossing a football. They didn’t train for the decathlon; they took it on. Those who met the ultimate challenge and triumphed – Jim Thorpe, Bob Mathias, Rafer Johnson, Bill Toomey, Bruce Jenner – became legends....

The UN announced the milestone on Wednesday, marking the fastest movement of refugees during this century, according to the Associated Press. The exodus of more than 2 percent of the Ukrainian population occurred less than one week after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said that over 2,000 civilians had been killed in the attack. “In just seven days we have witnessed the exodus of one million refugees from Ukraine to neighbouring countries,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said on Twitter....

When he took power in a coup last October, Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared that reviving the economy was his top priority. Pakistan is broke–and one reason why is that the country has great trouble collecting taxes. In a country of 140 million people, only 1.4 million (1 percent) pay income taxes. Business and retail tax revenues are equally meager. Tax evasion has given risen to a huge underground economy that economists say is bigger than the legal economy....

Traditionally women have been far more likely to be invited onto the 75-footers that contest the Cup to pose for swimsuit issues than to actually crew. Boat captains viewed women as either too inexperienced for the technical tasks or too weak physically, compared with the strongmen who power the winches that maneuver the sails. But millionaire businessman Bill Koch, who in 1992 skippered the last America’s Cup champion to scant attention, thought that by co-opting one of the ’90s hot-button issues – gender – he could get Americans to take notice....

That was Gary Patterson last week, the coach who is never happy, never satisfied, never ever done, reminding his TCU team that this thing, this carnival ride no one expected and can’t turn away from, could derail at any minute. A mistake here, a missed tackle there; a loss of concentration or a lack of vision and the next thing you know, some guy is running on the field to nail a short, game-winning field goal that feels like a kick in the gut....

At a March 31 press briefing, State Department spokesperson Ned Price claimed that without “the nuclear shackles of the JCPOA” in place, “rather than Iran’s proxies be subdued, we have actually seen them emboldened.” Arguing that “the effort to subdue Iran’s proxies has not worked under the strategy that we inherited,” he referred to a return to the JCPOA as “a strategy that does work, that is effective.” Earlier this year, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn....

In delivering his stern yet calm address, the Qaeda leader appears against a neutral background. He speaks to the “People of America,” delivering his take on the Holocaust, the Spanish Inquisition, Vietnam, the evils of warmongering corporations, U.S. politics and global warming. (The footage appears with English subtitles.) “In Egypt alone, there are millions of Christians whom we have not incinerated and shall not incinerate,” he says, defending Islam’s historical record on human rights....

For decades, an Islamic rebellion has simmered fitfully on Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines. In 1996 the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), a secular guerrilla movement, laid down its arms after the government in Manila agreed to a semi-autonomous Muslim region in central Mindanao. But the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a more militant group with about 13,000 armed members, says it wants an independent Islamic state, and has clashed frequently with government troops in recent months....

The scheme of her book is simplicity itself. inventory the landscape from roughly 2,000 feet up, then drop down and describe the people who hang around tiny airports with exotic names such as Possum Kingdom, Neversweat, Idle Hour and Hoodoo. The book is just as much a tour. of eccentric humanity as it is a geographic travelogue. There is the drunk-turned evangelist in Paris, Texas, with a chapel in a hangar, and the man in Gallup, N....