Chicago city officials voted to change the way police misconduct is investigated in the city, creating a new complaints agency with expanded powers and a bigger budget.

The measures, adopted by a city-council vote, are billed by the city as crucial steps in rebuilding trust between the police and minority communities after the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a police officer in 2014.
wsj.com|By Shibani Mahtani

Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. may have become mainstays on the presidential campaign trail, but their political futures back home in New York City are looking bleak.

Eight out of 10 New York City voters said they don’t want Ivanka Trump or Donald Trump Jr. to run for mayor, a new Wall Street Journal-NBC 4 New York-Marist poll found.
wsj.com|By Mara Gay

Johnson & Johnson has warned diabetes patients and doctors that one of its insulin pumps is vulnerable to cyber hacking.

A hacker in close proximity to the OneTouch Ping insulin pump system could use sophisticated equipment to find the unencrypted radio signal used by the device and program the pump to supply insulin, J&J officials said.
wsj.com|By Jonathan D. Rockoff

Playing golf with business associates is a longstanding practice. Mingling business with fun, however, can be tricky.

The etiquette of gracefully mixing business and pleasure on the links.
wsj.com|By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

This year’s hot dividend stocks are feeling the autumn chill.

Utility shares are set for their longest losing streak since 2002 as investors shed holdings in income-producing sectors that look pricey after this year’s sharp runup.
wsj.com|By Ben Eisen

Always hungry for growth, Salesforce now seems poised to bite off more than it can chew.

The idea of buying Twitter has erased billions in Salesforce’s market cap. That may be only the start.
wsj.com|By Dan Gallagher

Visitor numbers to the iconic ruins of Petra, in the Jordanian desert, have dropped by half in the last five years. But fearless travelers don’t give up that easily.

Here’s the best way to see one of the world’s most astounding archaeological sites.
wsj.com|By Roger Toll

See our top ten fashion-week moments from Paris, Milan and New York.

A season of fashion risk-taking will add new looks to shopping lists and change some big brands’ fortunes.
wsj.com|By Christina Binkley

Syria’s military said it will decrease airstrikes on Aleppo’s rebel-held areas after an international outcry over its Russian-backed bombardment of civilians over the past few weeks.

The Syrian government continued to bomb Aleppo on Wednesday, according to the U.K.-based opposition monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
wsj.com|By Noam Raydan

Elena Ferrante has spoken about her desire to stay out of the limelight and let her books stand on their own. She has said that if she can’t maintain privacy, she won’t publish. Now, she has cancelled media interviews, including one with The Wall Street Journal, that had been scheduled to coincide with the release of her upcoming book, “Frantumaglia.”

Journalist and the New York Review of Books defend article on reclusive author's identity.
blogs.wsj.com|By Jennifer Maloney

"While the U.S.-led coalition is making progress in the fight against Islamic State, we cannot forget this terrorist organization is a symptom of the Syrian civil war," writes John McCain in In WSJ Opinion.

Sen. John McCain describes what the U.S. must do in Syria: Ground the regime’s air force, create safe zones for Syrian civilians, and arm the opposition.
wsj.com|By John McCain

Smoke coming from a Samsung device prompted Southwest Airlines to evacuate a flight Wednesday.

A customer on board Southwest Flight 994 from Louisville, Ky., to Baltimore noticed smoke coming from the device before the plane took off, Southwest said in a statement.
wsj.com|By Georgia Wells

The vice-presidential debate brought in about 35.6 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings. But the number suggests the matchup was the least-watched vice-presidential debate since 2000, when Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman brought in 29 million viewers.

The vice-presidential contest was thought to be less of a marquee political matchup.
wsj.com|By Steven Perlberg

On the China front in the global technology industry’s talent wars, foreign internet companies are losing, writes China Circuit columnist Li Yuan.

Airbnb struggles to find CEO for its China business; Uber’s fruitless search
wsj.com|By Li Yuan

What kind of home can you get in Little Italy? Three examples from Boston, New York and San Diego.

Properties for sale in three neighborhoods in Boston, New York and San Diego that retain some of their historic Italian identity
wsj.com|By Stephanie Capparell

For white male high-school graduates, earnings per person declined 8.9% between 1996 and 2014. For college graduates, per-person earnings rose 22.5% over the same period.

A new analysis by Sentier Research finds a stark split.
blogs.wsj.com|By Ben Leubsdorf

Small-scale drug labs are cropping up around the country, as budding home-brew traffickers discover how easy it is to manufacture pills using synthetic opioids to meet a skyrocketing demand.

Ingredients for the deadly synthetic narcotic fentanyl are so easy to obtain that mom-and-pop pill-making labs are cropping up around the country, Breaking Bad-style.
wsj.com|By Jon Kamp and Arian Campo-Flores

In grocery store cases stuffed with exotic grass-fed and organic meats, new “single-origin” cuts are taking the local food craze to new heights.

Farm-to-table champions now can order their cuts of beef or pork from a single animal and single farm, a throwback to getting your sirloin ground before your eyes at the butcher shop.
wsj.com|By Kelsey Gee and Heather Haddon

Throughout his career, Donald Trump and others close to him made campaign contributions to state officials, in particular from New York, when they had on their desks pending decisions or investigations regarding the Trump real-estate empire

The issue recently surfaced during a controversy over his 2013 campaign contribution to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was reviewing a fraud case against Trump University.
wsj.com|By Michael Rothfeld and Alexandra Berzon

Which hotel rewards program had the lowest payback among six large chains tested?

Wyndham scores an upset while Starwood and Marriott retool following their merger, Scott McCartney writes. Overall, hotels provide better value than airline miles.
wsj.com|By Scott McCartney