U.S. Politics Trump Gives Barr Authority to Declassify Information About Russia Probe's OriginsThe Wall Street Journal. - Michael C. Bender, Rebecca BallhausWASHINGTON—President Trump empowered the U.S. attorney general to declassify information about the origins of the investigation into Russia’s election meddling, escalating a probe that the president has
U.S. Politics Trump Administration Moves to Curb Immigrants' Use of Public ServicesThe Wall Street Journal. - Louise RadnofskyWASHINGTON—The White House is pushing ahead with rules to tighten access to public benefits for immigrants, weeks after top aides to President Trump complained of slow-walking by Department of Homeland
Donald Trump Trump Gets White House Witnesses to Attest to His 'Very Calm' DemeanorThe Wall Street Journal. - Michael C. BenderWASHINGTON—President Trump smiled as he entered the Roosevelt Room in the White House, armed with $16 billion in good news for farmers struggling amid his continuing trade conflict with China. By the he
Harvey Weinstein Weinstein Reaches $44 Million Deal in Sexual-Misconduct CaseThe Wall Street Journal. - Corinne Ramey, Jonathan RandlesHarvey Weinstein, women who accused him of sexual misconduct, his former film studio’s board members and the New York attorney general’s office have reached a tentative $44 million deal to resolve lawsuits
Opinion Trump's Trouble in the Farm BeltThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardThe Trump Administration said Thursday it will give $16 billion to farmers to offset their lost income due to the trade brawl with China. The subsidies may buy some political time to resume negotiations,
Opinion Stick a Fork in Senate PorkThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardCongress isn’t accomplishing much lately, but Senate Republicans deserve credit for one thing they aren’t doing: Restoring the practice of earmarks. The Senate Republican conference on Thursday adopted
Narendra Modi Narendra Modi's Massive MandateThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardAfter five weeks and nearly 600 million ballots cast, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decisively won a mandate for a second term. The question is whether he’ll use this victory to fulfill the reforms
Opinion 'Which Way to Pointe du Hoc?'The Wall Street Journal. - Peggy NoonanA friend trying to help me work through a problem once told me the story of life is competition: Everyone’s trying to beat everyone else, and I should give more weight to this fact. There’s some truth
Nancy Pelosi Pelosi's Impeachment DilemmaThe Wall Street Journal. - Kimberley A. StrasselIt wasn’t with a heavy heart that Virginia Democratic Rep. Don Beyer on Tuesday endorsed initiating formal impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. And it was with unvoiced alarm that his
Opinion My Family's American Life Almost Wasn'tThe Wall Street Journal. - David MoltonMy father’s family tried to come to America 80 years ago. They were among more than 900 passengers on the M.S. St. Louis, a German refugee ship that was turned away from North American ports. The lessons
India India Turns West but Away From Western ValuesThe Wall Street Journal. - Tunku VaradarajanAparadox is playing out in India. The country is abandoning Western values at a time when it is closer strategically to the West, and to the U.S. in particular, than it has ever been. By a thumping parliamentary
Opinion I'm Less Afraid of Snakes Than LaddersThe Wall Street Journal. - Allan RippI was walking along New York’s West 57th Street—which I’ve renamed Boulevard of Scaffolding—when I stopped to check on a silhouette looming to my right. I had just stepped under a construction ladder was
British Empire 'The Road to Charleston' Review: Divided LoyaltiesThe Wall Street Journal. - Alan Pell CrawfordThe story of Yorktown and of Lord Cornwallis’s surrender there in October 1781 is one that most of us know. The band played “Yankee Doodle,” and the Redcoats stacked arms. Thanks to George Washington,
Opinion What's Missing From the Trump Economic BoomThe Wall Street Journal. - Joseph C. SternbergIt’s a sign of our disordered political times that President Trump is not a shoo-in for re-election despite record-low unemployment and the best economic growth rate in a decade. The uncomfortable truth—for
Opinion A German Company Cashes In on Emoji ManipulationThe Wall Street Journal. - Edward BrawleyHere’s something you may like, even love, if it doesn’t make you angry or sad. A German company, the Emoji Co. GmbH, claims it owns the word “emoji.” Since 2013 the firm has filed hundreds of applications
Technology HP Reports Flat Revenue but Beats Wall Street TargetsThe Wall Street Journal. - Micah MaidenbergHP Inc. bolstered revenue in its latest quarter in part by selling more desktop computers, a gain that helped to offset a weaker performance in its printing business. Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP reported
Investing Broker Sales Practices to Face LimitsThe Wall Street Journal. - Dave MichaelsWASHINGTON—Stockbrokers will soon have to disclose more about conflicts of interest that can bias investment advice under a government plan favored by Wall Street. The Securities and Exchange Commission
Hewlett Packard Hewlett Packard No Longer Tips the ScalesThe Wall Street Journal. - Dan GallagherHaving executed one of the more effective crash diets in corporate history, Hewlett Packard Enterprise now seems in need of putting a little meat on the bone. Once the corporate tech half of the old H-P
Intuit Intuit Raises Outlook Amid TurboTax ScrutinyThe Wall Street Journal. - Maria ArmentalIntuit Inc. raised its profit and sales outlook for the year, citing strong results through April, despite mounting legislative and regulatory scrutiny over the business practices of its TurboTax tax-preparation
Investing Investors Slowly Wake Up to Fears of a New Cold WarThe Wall Street Journal. - James MackintoshInvestors are growing concerned that the U.S.-China trade conflict is rapidly shifting into a new cold war, with highflying technology companies on the front line. In just a month, markets have moved showing
Connecticut Public Health Insurance Legislation Announced in ConnecticutThe Wall Street Journal. - Joseph De AvilaConnecticut Gov. Ned Lamont and fellow Democratic lawmakers reached an agreement Thursday to create a public option that will allow individuals and small businesses to purchase health insurance through
Rockefeller University Investigation Finds Doctor Abused Many ChildrenThe Wall Street Journal. - Melanie Grayce WestLawyers for Rockefeller University in Manhattan said a prominent doctor sexually abused many pediatric patients during his decades of employment there, according to a report the university released Thursday.
Julian Assange WikiLeaks Founder Assange Charged With 17 New CountsThe Wall Street Journal. - Aruna Viswanatha, Dustin Volz, Sadie GurmanWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was indicted on additional charges unsealed Thursday accusing him of violating the Espionage Act by engaging in a wide-ranging effort to obtain classified information the
Technology Hewlett Packard Enterprise Boosts Outlook Despite Falling RevenueThe Wall Street Journal. - Patrick ThomasHewlett Packard Enterprise Co. raised its profit outlook for the year even though the business-technology provider posted weaker sales in its most recent quarter. The San Jose, Calif.-based company, born
Investing What Does the House Retirement Bill Mean for You?The Wall Street Journal. - Anne TergesenThe retirement bill the House of Representatives passed on Thursday includes an assortment of changes for participants in 401(k) plans and owners of individual retirement accounts. The Senate may be poised
Robert D. Kaplan Fed's Kaplan Says He Is 'Agnostic' About Whether Next Rate Move Is Up or DownThe Wall Street Journal. - Paul KiernanDALLAS—Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan said Thursday he is concerned about the potential for trade-related uncertainty to exert a drag on U.S. economic growth but said he is comfortable
Opinion 'Booksmart' Review: A Joy, Cover to CoverThe Wall Street Journal. - Joe Morgenstern‘Booksmart” beats all. Who could have imagined that a high-school comedy about a couple of high achievers would be the prodigy that it is? The genre is venerable and chock-full of classics, but this film,
Paul Manafort Banker Indicted for Allegedly Giving Loans to Paul Manafort for Help Getting Trump JobThe Wall Street Journal. - Nicole HongA Chicago bank executive was indicted Thursday for allegedly giving $16 million in loans to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in exchange for Mr. Manafort’s help in soliciting a high-level in
Investing It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Pogo StickThe Wall Street Journal. - Laura FormanTechnology startups keep getting more...creative. Sometimes it is hard to be sure what is real and what is a parody. Take Cangoroo, a Swedish startup that purports to be taking on electric scooters with—wait
Decorating on a Budget: Insider Secrets From 15 ProsThe Wall Street Journal. - Catherine RomanoWE DON’T GENERALLY think of interior decorators as particularly concerned with saving their clients money. You don’t go around bidding on $14,000 antique Hungarian chairs or gilding the undersides of benches
