The Kushners' trouble at home

The New Jersey development, which raised conflict of interest concerns, has suffered a slew of problems: the exit of its anchor tenant, the loss of millions in tax breaks and a curdling relationship with the mayor of its host city. The mayor’s shift and the exit by tenant WeWork, which is also expected to sell its stake in the project, add up to a sharp reversal of fortunes that led the family company to do what it has done before: seek Chinese investors.

Spirit Airlines flight cancellations triggered a passenger brawl. Videos posted to social media showed passengers screaming at each other, pushing and shoving, and clashing with law-enforcement officers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The company's stock subsequently tumbled the most in nine months.

President Trump has approved arming Kurdish forces in Syria in the fight to capture territory from Islamic State–a decision made over the strong objections of Turkey. The U.S. will provide training to the Kurdish forces and give them the equipment “on a very limited basis” specifically for retaking Raqqa, Defense Department spokesman Eric Pahon said in an interview.

Obamacare premiums rise as insurers fret over the law's future. In Maryland, Virginia and Connecticut–the first states to make filings public–premiums for Affordable Care Act plans will rise more than 20 percent on average. The increases can be blamed in part on uncertainty among insurers about the strength of the law’s requirement that people carry insurance.

White men run one of America's most diverse companies. TJ Maxx's parent company looks like a beacon of diversity. More than three-quarters of employees are women, people of color make up more than half the workforce, and the retail company is considered a top employer for gay people and for people with disabilities. Yet all of the top executives at TJX Cos. are white men.

A Citigroup trader sent a five-word message and was fired for it. "he’s a seller/fking a," David Madaras told a rival trader who had just disclosed the identity of a client. That chatroom message "validated an external trader’s disclosure of a client name" and constituted gross misconduct, and firing Madaras was the only appropriate sanction, a Citigroup executive disclosed during the first day of Madaras's employment lawsuit Tuesday.

It’s a time-honored tradition to give recent graduates a present that honors time. It offers an opportunity to reflect on a past devoted to long hours of loving study and a future overwhelmed by decades of student-loan debt. Here are some choice Class of 2017 timepieces for the cap-and-gown set, however old they may be.