An unknown buyer has paid over $90 million for an unfinished penthouse apartment, setting a new mark for the priciest home in New York City.

If Republicans get to talk about President Obama's ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Roland Martin said on CNN Thursday, then Democrats get to talk about how Mitt Romney's Mormon church used to be racist, so there. Could there be a perfectly calibrated rul ebook regulating the precise tit-for-tat between presidential campaigns? The Atlantic Wire has tried to create one.

Today in sports: Some rare memorabilia, the NHL readies for its next labor fight, and Wenlock is watching you!

Dealbook's Evelyn M. Rusli reports that the music-sharing company Spotify is raising money as part of a deal that values it at $4 billion, and fresh off this morning's enormous $1.5 billion valuation for Pinterest, we can't help but fear this is more evide nce of a social media bubble.

The United States Postal Service would very much like Congress to help it save some money, but since that's not happening, it said on Thursday it would just go ahead and start closing stuff, starting with 140 mail processing centers in the next year.

Joe Ricketts, owner of the Chicago Cubs, Ameritrade, etc., is the very wealthy man who wants to spend $10 million on ads portraying President Obama as a leftist radical influenced by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But as families tend to be, the Ricketts (and t heir money) are not always on the same page. Here's a look at Joe Ricketts and his politically powerful kids.

Today in books: Edward Klein's "exposé" on Barack Obama gets an unfavorable review; 50 Shades hits the bodegas, Colbert's Sendak quote, and more.

Top 3! Home visits! Judges' Choice! Boy, we have almost reached the rickety end of this thing, haven't we? But we're not there yet. We're close, but we've no cigars. While we wait for the glorious, glitter-stained end, let's talk a little about what happen ed last night.

This week, several media outlets rediscovered an old New York Times chart that tells you how popular your birthday is, ranking each day of the year from 1 to 366. While it's fun to learn the most common birthdays in the U.S., it's much more fun to think ab out the most popular conception dates!

Sir Harold Evans, onetime editor of the Times of London, has been given a chance to vent about his former boss, Rupert Murdoch, at the Leveson Inquiry and he is pulling no punches, all but blaming the Australian magnate for the death of U.K. journalism.