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From Wall Street Journal. Japan is home to vast nuclear plants made dormant after the Fukushima meltdown. The area around the power plant remains a ghost town almost 14 years after the reactor shut down, showing the dangers of nuclear power gone awry. But power companies are clamoring to restart dormant reactors across Japan, as…
From Wall Street Journal. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle the Department of Education and reverse Biden-era policies on transgender students and racial disparities. Trump has also signaled support for religions in schools, including prayer in the classroom. But why do Trump and other Republicans want to abolish the Department of Education and what…
From Wall Street Journal. India is building a new base for nuclear-armed submarines in the Bay of Bengal called INS Varsha in a bid to curb China’s naval footprint growing in India’s backyard. The Bay of Bengal is a critical shipping lane and some China experts believe the waterway could play a key role in…
From Wall Street Journal. President-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail to lower inflation. About half of Trump voters said higher prices were the largest factor in their decision, according to AP VoteCast. But the Federal Reserve is independent and uses interest rates to encourage or discourage borrowing money, which leads to more or…
From Wall Street Journal. President-elect Donald Trump has a long list of policy objectives that he wants to implement quickly including border policy for immigration, closing the Department of Education, implementing tariffs and more. For most of Trump’s objectives for his second term, there are limitations including checks and balances within the process or limitations…
From Wall Street Journal. American Airlines created the first major airline loyalty program in 1981 as a way to compete for customers post-deregulation. But today these programs are the industry norm, having transformed into billions of dollar businesses with legs outside the aviation industry. The AAdvantage loyalty program has even become a business in its…
From Wall Street Journal. TGI Fridays, widely considered the first singles bar in the U.S., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November, citing a problematic capital structure and fallout from the pandemic. The fast-casual restaurant chain has closed over 200 locations across the U.S. since 2019 and have even been kicked out of its headquarters…
From Wall Street Journal. Ukraine fired long-range U.S. missiles inside Russia for the first time despite Moscow’s threats of retaliation. The attack hit an ammunition storage facility near the Russian city of Karachev and is the first such assault to use long-range, NATO-made arms. WSJ’s Alistair MacDonald explains why the Kremlin sees this as a…
From Wall Street Journal. The Nairobi National Museum in Kenya is home to million-year-old fossils, an unparalleled collection of insects, tens of thousands of bones and a fossilized skeleton crucial to our understanding of humanity. Despite its significance, the museum’s roughly 10 millions specimens are at risk as years of limited resources, mismanagement and corruption…
From Wall Street Journal. Red Lobster exited bankruptcy in September after decades of declining sales and a disastrous all-you-can-eat shrimp promotion. Now, they’ve hired 35-year-old Damola Adamolekun as its new CEO to see the brand through bankruptcy and out the other side. Adamolekun revitalized P.F. Chang’s during Covid and hopes to do the same for…
From Wall Street Journal. The next test flight for SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket is scheduled for Nov. 18. CEO Elon Musk wants Starship to revolutionize spaceflight and on Oct. 13, SpaceX made history in aerospace engineering when Starship’s booster was caught by two mechanical arms as it descended to the launch pad. From China and…
From Wall Street Journal. American Airlines created the first major airline loyalty program in 1981 as a way to compete for customers post-deregulation. But today these programs are the industry norm, having transformed into billions of dollar businesses with legs outside the aviation industry. The AAdvantage loyalty program has even become a business in its…
From Wall Street Journal. Commuter trains are renowned for potentially being cramped and crowded, but they don’t have to be that way. Tiny adjustments to a commuter train’s design – from the width of the doors to the position of the handholds – can have huge impacts on the speed that passengers can get on…
From Wall Street Journal. Meta AI, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot now have eerily human voices. WSJ’s Joanna Stern strapped the AI bots to a tripod and took them to a cabin in the woods to test their skills as helpers—and as friends. Chapters: 0:00 Human-sounding AI 1:10 The voice setup 2:02 Testing…
From Wall Street Journal. Captchas, the online tests designed to tell if you’re robot or human, have been getting harder. What began as a simple text to prove you’re not a robot has rapidly evolved into a battle between humans and AI as more and more data has made these systems better at solving tasks.…
From Wall Street Journal. Nonalcoholic beer is one of the fastest growing segments of the beer industry, and Athletic Brewing is on top. So far in 2024, Athletic has outsold its nonalcoholic beer competitors including Heineken, Budweiser, Guinness and Corona in the U.S. Since its founding, Athletic has invested over $100 million into manufacturing and…
From Wall Street Journal. Ukraine is facing an increasingly bleak road ahead after two-and-a-half years of war with Russia. Today, Russia controls about 18% of Ukrainian territory as Kyiv’s troops are outnumbered and outgunned with little prospect of significant relief. To help shore up its manpower, Moscow is looking to North Korea for aid as…
From Wall Street Journal. Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris and won re-election thanks to his core voter base: working-class voters. But since 2020, he has been able to grow that group with young men, Black and Hispanic voters. WSJ explores what the data says about these voters. Chapters: 0:00 Donald Trump wins election 0:25 Working-class…
From Wall Street Journal. Watch live coverage of President Biden’s remarks from the Rose Garden, where he is expected to discuss the 2024 election. #Biden #Election #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. WSJ’s Heard on the Street columnist David Wainer explains why a Trump victory will create winners and losers in healthcare. #Trump #Healthcare #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. WSJ’s Heard on the Street columnist JinJoo Lee explains why oil prices fell the morning after the election even as major oil companies rallied. #Trump #Oil #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. Financial stocks are soaring after Trump’s victory, but many companies tied to mortgages and home buying are down. WSJ’s Heard on the Street writer Telis Demos explains why. #Trump #Mortgage #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. Treasurys are selling off, as a second Trump presidency is set to increase deficits. WSJ’s Heard on the Street editor Aaron Back explains why it looks like investors aren’t that worried about a federal debt crisis. #Trump #Markets #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, defeating a resurgent Democratic nominee in Vice President Kamala Harris. This marks the first time in the modern era a former president has made such a comeback. WSJ’s Molly Ball and Vivian Salama examine the moments that mattered most during his campaign.…
From Wall Street Journal. Donald Trump won Georgia, flipping a state he lost in 2020, and making Pennsylvania a must-win for Kamala Harris’s campaign. WSJ’s Damian Paletta explains what this win means for the two candidates’ paths to victory. #Trump #Harris #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. Donald Trump won North Carolina, a battleground state he has carried in the last two presidential elections. WSJ’s Damian Paletta explains what this win means for both campaigns. #Trump #Harris #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. Donald Trump appears to be overperforming in rural areas. However, big Democratic pockets of key swing states are still counting votes. WSJ’s Damian Paletta explains. #Trump #Harris #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. Preliminary results from an AP survey hint at where the country’s biggest divisions might lie. This year, voters appear to be more divided by education than ever before. WSJ’s Aaron Zitner explains. #Trump #Harris #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. As voters wait for results from key states, data from individual counties are providing early signs on where the race might be going. WSJ’s Annie Linskey on how one county in Virginia could be a warning sign for Harris. #Harris #Election #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. Polls have closed in multiple states, including the swing state of Georgia. Preliminary results from an AP survey show that women and young adults made up larger shares of the voter poll than in 2020. WSJ’s Aaron Zitner explains. #Election #Polls #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest jurisdiction, is cracking down on security after protests in 2020. It is one of the most fiercely contested battlegrounds and may be one of the last to be called in the 2024 presidential election between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Violent threats in…
From Wall Street Journal. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump both capped off a whirlwind tour of battleground states before Election Day. Harris has tried repeatedly to signal that she will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency and that she will work with Republicans to solve problems facing Americans like…
From Wall Street Journal. Watch live coverage of Kamala Harris’s remarks following her defeat by Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. #KamalaHarris #Election #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. Elon Musk has become one of former president Donald Trump’s most powerful allies in the final weeks of the presidential election against Vice President Kamala Harris. Big tech overwhelmingly leans blue, but a small faction of influential leaders, including Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks, have begun throwing their weight, and…
From Wall Street Journal. Affordable housing is in short supply in the U.S. as home prices and rents have grown faster than income levels. Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump have both promised they’ll improve it in different ways. But what do home builders, economists and researchers have to say about making…
From Wall Street Journal. Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed borrowing much of President Biden’s tax proposals as she favors a tax increase on America’s billionaires. This would work by taxing America’s ultra wealthy like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg on their unrealized capital gains. Wealthy investors and Republican nominee Donald Trump have…
From Wall Street Journal. While polls show former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in a dead heat in the final stretch of the 2024 election, the GOP nominee is dominating the Democratic candidate in the betting markets. Once banned by federal regulators, Americans can now legally gamble on elections in prediction markets.…
From Wall Street Journal. Polls show Democrats winning the Latino vote by a smaller margin than in previous elections. Undecided Latino voters could play a major role in key swing states, if Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump can get them to vote at all. WSJ explains why Latino voters are so…
From Wall Street Journal. Commuter trains are renowned for potentially being cramped and crowded, but they don’t have to be that way. Tiny adjustments to a commuter train’s design – from the width of the doors to the position of the handholds – can have huge impacts on the speed that passengers can get on…
From Wall Street Journal. General Motors’ has invested nearly $2 billion into its historic 1956 technical center built by modernist architect Eero Saarinen. Inside the latest addition to its design headquarters, over 1,000 workers sculpt clay Cadillacs and Buicks and use VR to imagine car interiors. WSJ toured the design headquarters to see how GM…
From Wall Street Journal. A new Wall Street Journal poll shows former President Donald Trump ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris, as his approval rating of his time as president hits an all-time high. Trump has expanded his lead on key issues like the economy, immigration and crime ahead of the election. WSJ explains the…
From Wall Street Journal. Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are both on a media blitz – but it’s different from previous candidates. Harris has made appearances on Alex Cooper’s ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast and Charlemagne tha God’s ‘The Breakfast Club.’ Trump has made appearances on Theo Von’s ‘This Past Weekend’ and…
From Wall Street Journal. While others rush AI to market, Apple is taking its time. WSJ’s Joanna Stern talks with the company’s head of software Craig Federighi about the future of Siri, privacy, funny notification summaries and Apple’s slower approach. Chapters: 0:00 Apple taking its time with AI 0:57 Apple Intelligence and private cloud compute…
From Wall Street Journal. To counter China, the U.S. is racing to upgrade a handful of remote airstrips in the Pacific Ocean. WSJ’s Niharika Mandhana traveled to Tinian Island, where the U.S. is working to clear overgrowth to unearth the runways of a vast World War II-era airfield. WSJ explores how this construction is part…
From Wall Street Journal. Kamala Harris promises to restore Roe v. Wade. Donald Trump promises returning jobs to the U.S. Those promises can’t be a reality without congressional support. Key issues in the 2024 presidential election like the economy, abortion and immigration are likely to be on Congress’s agenda in 2025. So what states could…
From Wall Street Journal. Tariffs are at the center of former President Donald Trump’s economic plan. He wants to put across-the-board 60% tariffs on everything from China and 10%-20% on everything else from the rest of the world. It’s an extreme trade policy that he wants to use to generate revenue to cut taxes. But…
From Wall Street Journal. Israel’s military has some of the most advanced air defense systems in the world, which includes the Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Arrow systems. In the aftermath of Iran launching roughly 180 ballistic missiles at Israel at the beginning of October, the U.S. says its stepping in to help bolster Israel’s…
From Wall Street Journal. In Ukraine and the Red Sea, low-tech drones are changing the way wars are fought. The U.S. and other countries are investing in a new and inexpensive way to retaliate: lasers. Compared with traditional weapons, lasers present some key challenges: they have a shorter range, limited power and can be harder…
From Wall Street Journal. “Darwin” is one of Ukraine’s deadliest drone pilots in its war against Russia. But the 20-year-old must contend with his own personal evolution after hundreds of successful missions in a modern survival of the fittest. Chapters: 0:00 A race to adapt 1:38 “Darwin” 2:48 Artillery strikes 4:01 Personal evolution 6:37 In…
From Wall Street Journal. A new Wall Street Journal poll shows voters in battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin see former President Donald Trump as better equipped to handle top issues like the economy and border security and immigration. But he remains virtually tied with Vice President Kamala Harris in the race for the…
From Wall Street Journal. Vietnam is rapidly creating artificial land in the disputed South China Sea, breaking its own record for land reclamation in the shadows of Chinese aggression. Hanoi is quietly conducting dredging operations to expand and build military infrastructure on-top of atolls in the Spratly group of islands, where China has also created…
From Wall Street Journal. The U.S. and China are in a high-tech race to achieve and commercialize an elusive clean energy source: nuclear fusion. Fusion has the potential to create nearly limitless energy with no carbon emissions and very limited radioactivity. If China wins, it would have a leg up in a growing competition over…
From Wall Street Journal. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are betting on stricter border stances to win the 2024 presidential election. In a major shift from 2020, the Democratic Party have adopted a stricter stance on the border as voters have soured on immigration levels. But how do Harris and Trump differ on border policies?…
From Wall Street Journal. Fears of a broader conflict between Israel and its Middle East neighbors like Iran and Lebanon are complicating flights in one of the most densely traversed regions of the world. Some airlines deem Taliban-controlled Afghanistan a safer route than Iran or Israel now. WSJ explains how commercial airlines adjust to the…
From Wall Street Journal. Project 2025–a once obscure conservative policy book—has emerged as a defining element of the 2024 presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The former president has gone to great lengths to distance himself from the far-right policy playbook, while it has become a political lightning rod for the Democrats. WSJ…
From Wall Street Journal. WSJ’s Damian Paletta breaks down the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate between Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance, and how the candidates’ performances could affect the general election. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
From Wall Street Journal. With global fertility rates in freefall, some Silicon Valley execs like Elon Musk are aiming to halt the decline – by having as many babies as possible. The pronatalism movement, mostly populated by religious conservatives and immigration opponents, is built on the belief that lower fertility rates will lead to economic…
From Wall Street Journal. Watch live coverage as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio face off in their first vice-presidential debate in New York. #Walz #Vance #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. An Israeli strike killed Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah and left a void at the top of the world’s most heavily armed nonstate militia. WSJ’s Stephen Kalin explains what this means for Hezbollah, the group’s next leader and for the wider region. Chapters: 0:00 Nasrallah dead 0:50 Potential successors 2:25 The greater…
From Wall Street Journal. Hezbollah confirmed that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut. The death of the cleric, who had led Hezbollah for three decades, is a significant blow to the group and Iran. Chapters: 0:00 Israel says it killed Hassan Nasrallah 1:00 How we got here 3:27 2006…