Listen to article (2 minutes) MANCHESTER, N.H.—Fresh off a record-setting victory in Iowa, Donald Trump shifted attention to his next target in the GOP nomination hunt: a New Hampshire primary that Nikki Haley hopes will stall the front-runner’s momentum. Haley was edged out for second place in Iowa by...
Air France-KLM and shipping company CMA CGM plan to withdraw from a cargo-cooperation agreement, citing a tight regulatory environment in key markets, and are in talks for new terms. The Franco-Dutch carrier group said Tuesday that the parties intend to withdraw from their existing agreements—which beca...
Updated Jan. 16, 2024 12:36 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) WEST DES MOINES, Iowa—Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses Monday night with the largest margin in the history of the first Republican presidential nominating contest, cementing an early victory in his defiant bid to return to the White House...
Updated Jan. 15, 2024 11:03 pm ET In the end, there was only one lane to victory in Iowa, and Donald Trump had it all to himself. The candidates challenging the former president had hoped to find enough dissatisfaction with him to build their own voter coalitions. Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina...
Some graduates are struggling to find work months after completing their business degree as the market for white-collar jobs gets tougher to crack. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt Source link
The Supreme Court has been trying to restore the proper constitutional balance of power, and its next opportunity comes Wednesday when it hears two cases challenging its own landmark Chevron doctrine (Loper Bright Enterprises, Inc., v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Dept. of Commerce). In 1984 in Chev...
OpenAI outlined limits on using its tools in politics during the run-up to elections in 2024, amid mounting concern that artificial-intelligence systems could mass-produce misinformation and sway voters in high-profile races. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Dall-E are some of the most powerful AI chatbot and image...
Updated Jan. 15, 2024 12:57 pm ET Fresh attacks targeted American ships in the Middle East, days after the U.S. led a round of strikes meant to diminish the capability of Houthi rebels to hit ships transiting the Red Sea. A Houthi missile struck the Gibraltar Eagle, a U.S. bulk carrier, off the coast o...
Updated Jan. 15, 2024 10:53 am ET A second powerful volcanic eruption sent lava surging through an Icelandic town, engulfing houses and leaving them in flames. Lava flows from the eruption, which started at around 8 a.m. local time on Sunday, breached the barriers protecting the town of Grindavík, the I...
The more the U.S. government worries about China’s ambitions in the chip industry, the more equipment for making chips that China seems to buy. When ASML, the Dutch company that makes the world’s most advanced lithography machines for manufacturing microchips, reports fourth-quarter results next week, o...
Stock benchmarks in two of Asia’s largest economies climbed to historic highs, while U.S. equity and bond markets were shut for Martin Luther King Day. Bank earnings and economic data later this week could give clues about the Federal Reserve’s next steps. The stock and bond markets will reopen Tuesday....
Germany’s economy contracted in 2023, hindered by high inflation that squeezed consumer spending, with the country’s creaking industrial model also suffering from weak global demand. Price adjusted gross domestic product declined 0.3% compared with the previous year, according to preliminary data publis...
Thomson Reuters said it has bought a majority stake in the Pagero Group, taking it closer toward full control of the latter. Apart from the key shareholders, including Summa Equity, Pagero’s chief executive Bengt Nilsson, several members of the management team and employees, have sold their stock to the...
Updated Jan. 15, 2024 12:03 am ET Taiwan’s election of the presidential candidate China most distrusts puts at risk a fragile detente between Washington and Beijing, threatening another flare-up between the world’s biggest economic and military powers. Voters on Saturday gave the Democratic Progressive...
Jan. 14, 2024 10:34 pm ET The NFL playoff game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins made history—and not just because it was so cold that one head coach’s mustache formed icicles. The Wild Card game, which aired on the streaming service Peacock, was the most streamed U.S. event ever, drawin...
WASHINGTON—Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on a new stopgap spending bill that would extend government funding into March, as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) sticks to his plan to defy the most brass-knuckled budget hawks in his party in a bid to avoid a government shutdown. The gov...
More than 160 million people were under winter weather warnings or advisories Sunday as a hazardous mix of Arctic cold and wind, along with snow and sleet, pummeled much of the country. A cold front spilling out of Canada is responsible for dangerously cold temperatures from the Pacific Northwest all t...
Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis defended her decision to hire Nathan Wade as a special prosecutor, saying in a speech Sunday morning that the lead lawyer in her office’s racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and others is well qualified to serve in the role. One of th...
Updated Jan. 14, 2024 2:26 pm ET TEL AVIV—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to continue the war in Gaza despite mounting international pressure to wrap up the conflict, now stretching into its 100th day, and persistent demands at home for him to give priority to the return of hostages st...
Jan. 14, 2024 12:27 pm ET Business Insider owner Axel Springer said it stands by the publication after reviewing the reporting process behind stories that alleged plagiarism by Neri Oxman, the designer and former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who is married to hedge fund billionaire Bi...
Listen to article (2 minutes) WEST DES MOINES, Iowa—Nikki Haley has been waxing sentimental in recent days on the campaign trail about the fun she has had and the people she has met in the past year in this state that hosts the first 2024 Republican presidential caucuses Monday. Left unsaid is how eager...
Bernardo Arévalo is set to take office Sunday as president of Guatemala with pledges to tackle the corruption and poverty that have fueled a wave of migration to the U.S., but an open confrontation with the country’s judiciary risks putting his plans in jeopardy. The 65-year-old center-left sociologist...
For nearly 40 years, The Wall Street Journal’s Economic Forecasting Survey has helped readers better understand the direction of the U.S. economy by publishing consensus forecasts from a panel of academic, business and financial economists. On this page, you’ll find general information about the survey,...
Updated Jan. 14, 2024 12:01 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) After 100 days, Israel’s war with Hamas is turning into a protracted conflict with no clear end, threatening to spread across the Middle East, disrupt global trade and bog down the U.S. One of the biggest geopolitical events this century, t...
Updated Jan. 14, 2024 12:01 am ET As Ukraine girds for the third year of full-scale war against Russia’s invasion, its leaders find themselves battling on a new front: keeping allies’ attention. Since Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, prompting an overwhelming response in the Gaza Strip and be...
Updated Jan. 14, 2024 12:01 am ET TAIPEI—For eight years, China has raged against Taiwan’s ruling party, accusing it of pursuing a separatist agenda that must be confronted with economic muscle and shows of military might. On Saturday, Taiwanese voters handed the Democratic Progressive Party another rin...
Listen to article (2 minutes) WEST DES MOINES, Iowa—Ron DeSantis says he will never back down. The next three days will test that confidence. Needing a strong performance in Monday’s Iowa caucuses, the first nominating contest of the 2024 Republican presidential primary race, the Florida governor has ma...
The press is full of fear and trembling after Taiwan’s people on Saturday elected as president the candidate most disliked by Beijing. How about first celebrating the island nation’s demonstration of a robust Chinese democracy? Taiwanese voters elected Vice President Lai Ching-te with 40% of the vote af...
Updated Jan. 13, 2024 4:18 pm ET WASHINGTON—John Kerry is stepping down as the president’s special envoy for climate by this spring, according to a person familiar with the decision. The change comes weeks after Kerry, 80, played a key role during a recent climate conference in Dubai, helping to forge...
Updated Jan. 13, 2024 2:20 pm ET WEST DES MOINES, Iowa—For those who speculate about what Vivek Ramaswamy really wants out of his long-shot Republican presidential bid—perhaps a podcast or a television contract—the wealthy biotech entrepreneur has one answer. “I expect to be the president,” he said in a...
Updated Jan. 13, 2024 12:21 pm ET Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma has taken on one of Congress’s most thankless and politically risky jobs: leading negotiations to overhaul the country’s immigration laws. Democrats and Republicans agree that a fix is overdue—the last major changes were passed...
By Stephen Kalin and Saleh al-Batati Updated Jan. 13, 2024 10:27 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) In disrupting international shipping and drawing U.S. military strikes, Yemen’s Houthi forces are trying to complete a two-decade-long transformation from a ragtag tribal insurgency into their country’s...
New York There she is, in an early ’40s photograph that fills an entire wall—a young woman facing into an Egyptian wind, her eyes narrowed, her dark hair blowing behind her. And there she is again, filling another wall, but this time lying on the ground in a desert near Alexandria, head turned away and...
A new WSJ podcast series examines why Donald Trump is front-runner in that race and why his appeal to conservatives endures. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt Source link
When people ask me what I do for a living, and I tell them I run a circus, I’m usually met with an eye-roll and some quip like, “Yeah, so do I…” And then there’s an amusing moment when I insist, “No, I’m the actual CEO of the Big Apple Circus.” There’s no denying that ...
LATE LAST YEAR, old trench coats began trending on X (formerly known as Twitter). In a thread that drew 14 million views, fashion editor Savannah Bradley argued that women’s trenches and overcoats looked better in the 1980s and ’90s, when, she said, designs enjoyed more “breathing room” and came in supe...
Jan. 12, 2024 10:06 pm ET TAIPEI—Taiwanese voters headed to the polls on Saturday to choose a new president in an unpredictable three-way race being closely watched in Washington, Beijing and other capitals around the world. President Tsai Ing-wen, a frequent target of Beijing’s ire, is due to step down...
At the beginning of the week, Nick Saban was the football coach of Alabama and Kalen DeBoer was getting his Washington team ready to play for the national championship on Monday night. By Friday afternoon, Saban was a retiree planning a life of golf at his new home in Florida, and DeBoer had a new ...
Jan. 12, 2024 6:03 pm ET|WSJ Pro The Federal Reserve was facing criticism from Donald Trump for its interest-rate increases in 2018, but officials didn’t discuss the president’s verbal attacks as they moved forward with their fourth rate hike of the year in December, transcripts released Friday show. So...
Yigal Carmon is one of the few Israelis who can claim to have predicted this war. His Aug. 31 article “Signs of Possible War in September-October” cited provocations by Hezbollah, escalating violence in the West Bank and threats from Hamas as evidence of regional coordination for something big. “Israel...
It isn’t true that “The Contempt of Hunter Biden” (by William McGurn, Main Street, Jan. 9) could render congressional investigations toothless. As the nonprosecution of Lois Lerner and the prosecutions of Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro for contempt demonstrate, Republican congressional investigations ar...
The U.S. and its partners are exploring ways to use some of the $300 billion in frozen Russian central bank reserves to back loans to Ukraine, one of a series of ideas that Western officials are considering as they struggle to agree on a method to seize Russian funds without spooking international inves...
BlackRock has agreed to buy private-equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners for roughly $12.5 billion in cash and stock, a significant push into private-market investments for the world’s largest asset manager. New York-based GIP owns and operates energy, transportation, and water and waste companies...
Tesla plans to halt production at its Berlin factory for two weeks due to the conflict in the Red Sea continuing to disrupt transport ships, raising the specter of a new supply-chain crisis for European manufacturers dependent on parts from China and other Asian countries. Tesla said in a statement Frid...
Updated Jan. 11, 2024 10:20 am ET Chesapeake Energy and Southwestern Energy agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction valued at $7.4 billion that would create the largest natural-gas producer in the U.S. The deal is in large part a bet that booming liquefied-natural-gas exports from the shores of Texa...
Updated Jan. 11, 2024 7:25 pm ET The new bitcoin ETFs had a roaring debut in their first day of trading, but Vanguard refused to join the party. The asset-management giant said Thursday it won’t offer the new spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds on its brokerage platform, highlighting concerns about the d...