Months of war and a blockade have battered Iran .Its navy is at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Its air force is destroyed.

Spirit Airlines, the pioneering discount airline that shook up the budget travel business, is shutting down its operations.

It began in the woods. A kernel of an idea to create CNN came to Ted Turner as he was taking a walk through nature, as former chief operating officer Steve Korn remembers it. Cable and satellite ...