The Wall Street Journal.added this to OpinionGeorge W. Bush We Blamed George W. BushThe Wall Street Journal. - James FreemanGiven the volume of commentary describing Donald Trump as a uniquely polarizing figure—and the amount of time Democrats spend attempting to end his presidency—one might think he is among the most partisan
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsU.S. Congress Meetings Give U.S. and India a Chance to Get Past Irritants in TiesThe Wall Street Journal. - Bill Spindle, Courtney McBrideNEW DELHI—After more than a decade of growing ties, the U.S. and India have suddenly hit a rough patch, a challenge for Washington’s efforts to cultivate the world’s largest democracy as a critical counterweight
The Wall Street Journal.added this to MarketsInvesting Meat Producers Hit on Flooding ConcernsThe Wall Street Journal. - Corrie DriebuschMeat producers’ pain worsened Monday, as their shares were hurt by fears about how persistent flooding in the U.S. is affecting crops they rely on for feed. Millions of farm acres in the U.S. are set go
The Wall Street Journal.added this to BusinessAviation FAA Seeks to Enable Return of Supersonic Passenger AircraftThe Wall Street Journal. - Andy PasztorLE BOURGET, France—U.S. aviation regulators unveiled plans to ease noise restrictions for testing proposed supersonic commercial planes in American skies, part of a broader initiative to promote development
The Wall Street Journal.added this to MarketsInvesting Blank-Check Boom Hits SnagThe Wall Street Journal. - Alexander OsipovichThe Securities and Exchange Commission is cooling off the race to bring more blank-check companies to U.S. investors, after a string of controversial episodes involving such firms. In a blank-check listing,
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsU.S. Politics Supreme Court Backs Virginia Ban on Uranium MiningThe Wall Street Journal. - Brent Kendall, Jess BravinWASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a Virginia law that prohibits uranium mining within the commonwealth’s borders, in a splintered ruling that affirmed the powers of the states to regulate on
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsQuébec Quebec Bans Visible Religious Symbols on Public-Sector EmployeesThe Wall Street Journal. - Kim MackraelOTTAWA—The French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec is the first jurisdiction in North America to prohibit teachers, police officers and certain other public-sector employees from wearing visible religious
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsU.S. Steel U.S. Steel Suffers New Fire Knocking Out Pollution Controls in Plant Near PittsburghThe Wall Street Journal. - Kris MaherPITTSBURGH—The biggest coke plant in the U.S. was operating Monday with limited pollution controls after the second fire in nearly six months broke out at the facility, prompting a warning by county health
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsHarvard Harvard Rescinds Shooting Survivor's Admission Over Racist TextsThe Wall Street Journal. - Douglas BelkinA student who survived the 2018 mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla., and went on to become an outspoken advocate for gun rights said Harvard University rescinded his admission earlier this month after
The Wall Street Journal.added this to MarketsInvesting Loan Market Splits Between 'Haves and Have-Nots'The Wall Street Journal. - Sam GoldfarbSome lower-rated businesses are being forced to pay up to complete new debt offerings even as others attract robust demand for their bonds and loans, a sign the debt market is bifurcating at a time of
The Wall Street Journal.added this to BusinessBoeing Boeing's New Long-Haul Jet Faces DelayThe Wall Street Journal. - Robert Wall, Andrew TangelLE BOURGET, France—General Electric Co. is having to redesign an engine part for Boeing Co.’s new 777X long-haul jetliner, meaning a delay for its first test flight and potentially for the first delivery
The Wall Street Journal.added this to MarketsInvesting Growth Fears Override Supply Squeeze for Beaten-Down CopperThe Wall Street Journal. - Joe Wallace, Kirk MaltaisA work stoppage at a huge Chilean mine has failed to boost copper prices, indicating that investors are wary of betting on growth-sensitive commodities ahead of the G-20 summit in Japan in late June. workers
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsWorld News Black Cube: The Bumbling Spies of the 'Private Mossad'The Wall Street Journal. - Bradley Hope, Jacquie McNishDarryl Levitt was eager to meet the British businessman who had emailed him about a potentially lucrative consulting contract. But shortly after he sat down in a restaurant at Toronto’s Hazleton Hotel,
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsUSWNT Clap, Clap, Clap! Sly Rebellion From the USWNTThe Wall Street Journal. - Jason GayThe sports world is not typically clever. I’m sorry, sports world, but it’s true. I know some of you think this sports column is clever, like, once out of 20 times. Maybe never. (I see you, Mom.) Don’t
The Wall Street Journal.added this to WorldEgypt Egypt's Ousted Islamist President Morsi Has DiedThe Wall Street Journal. - Jared MalsinCAIRO—Egypt’s former President Mohammed Morsi, an Islamist leader freely elected in the aftermath of the country’s 2011 uprising, died on Monday after spending the past six years as a prisoner following
The Wall Street Journal.added this to PoliticsU.S. Politics Supreme Court Upholds Both Federal and State Prosecution for Same ActThe Wall Street Journal. - Jess BravinWASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday resoundingly reaffirmed its view of double jeopardy, ruling that federal and state governments each can prosecute a defendant for the same conduct despite the Constitution’s
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top News Why GDPR Has Been a Boon for Google and FacebookThe Wall Street Journal. - Nick Kostov, Sam SchechnerEurope’s new privacy law appears to be helping tech giants—for now. The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, which went into effect across the European Union last year, has pushed marketers to
The Wall Street Journal.added this to BusinessBusiness San Francisco Fed Wants to Reward Banks for Climate-Change LoansThe Wall Street Journal. - Laura KusistoThe Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco wants banks to get extra credit for making loans that help communities adapt to climate change and prepare for future natural disasters. A paper released on Monday
The Wall Street Journal.added this to MarketsKPMG KPMG Agrees to Pay $50 Million Penalty Tied to Misconduct AllegationsThe Wall Street Journal. - Micah Maidenberg, Dave MichaelsKPMG LLP agreed to pay $50 million to settle allegations that former employees got an unlawful sneak peek at regulators’ plans to inspect its work and auditors at the firm cheated on internal training
The Wall Street Journal.added this to MarketsSotheby's Sotheby's Deal is Art for Art's SakeThe Wall Street Journal. - Stephen WilmotSotheby’s can relax. Patrick Drahi is buying art for art’s sake. Companies don’t normally see the Franco-Israeli cable billionaire as their dream buyer. The man behind the Altice empire is best known the
The Wall Street Journal.added this to MarketsInvesting Real-Estate Stocks Rise To New HighsThe Wall Street Journal. - Corrie DriebuschReal-estate stocks are on a tear in 2019, beneficiaries of the surprising fall in interest rates as well as bets on the future of e-commerce. On Monday, a quarter of the 32 companies in the S&P 500’s sector
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsCarole King Vanessa Carlton Is the New Carole King. Here's the First Time They MetThe Wall Street Journal. - Leah Mandel“I don’t know a lot of people who would be like, ‘I hate Carole King,’” Vanessa Carlton says, of the woman she’s about to portray on stage. “Those people don’t exist, do they?” Carlton, 38, is about to
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsSustainable Fashion Does 'Sustainable Fashion' Really Mean Anything?The Wall Street Journal. - Jacob Gallagher“Sustainability” was the buzziest buzzword in the air during last week’s edition of Pitti Uomo, the world’s largest men’s fashion trade show, in Florence, Italy. As I navigated countless rows of designers’
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsAnderson Cooper Gloria Vanderbilt, Heiress and Jeans Queen, Dies at 95The Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street JournalNEW YORK—Gloria Vanderbilt, the intrepid heiress, artist and romantic who began her extraordinary life as the “poor little rich girl” of the Great Depression, survived family tragedy and multiple marriages
The Wall Street Journal.added this to MarketsPfizer Growth Is Worth Paying Up for at PfizerThe Wall Street Journal. - Charley GrantA fact of life for health-care companies, as well as patients: Good health care costs money. Pfizer is paying more than $10 billion in cash to acquire Array BioPharma, a biotech focused on developing treatments.
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsJim Jarmusch How Summer's Biggest Zombie Movie Got Its CastThe Wall Street Journal. - Lane FlorsheimDirector Jim Jarmusch’s horror comedy The Dead Don’t Die portrays the small town of Centerville, USA as its residents deal with a zombie attack—a result of the government’s “polar fracking” throwing the
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsHomebuying 'Who Cares?' Rich Unknowns Try Celebrity Tricks to Hide House HuntingThe Wall Street Journal. - Candace TaylorReal-estate agent Antonio del Rosario spent $400 one afternoon shepherding a Tony-winning actress through four New York City apartments. The money wasn’t for taxis or lunch. He paid doormen to turn a eye.
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsGuatemala Guatemala Presidential Election Heads to RunoffThe Wall Street Journal. - Juan MontesGuatemala’s presidential election is headed for an August runoff between an ex-first lady and a former prisons director, after Sunday’s first round of voting in an impoverished country at the center of
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Top NewsEmployment The Small-School Strivers Landing Big JobsThe Wall Street Journal. - Sue ShellenbargerIf the college-admissions scandal is any guide, attending an elite college is a ticket to a high-paying job. So what about students at lesser-known colleges, with names few people even recognize? Many
The Wall Street Journal.added this to LifeSotheby's Art Collector Patrick Drahi to Take Sotheby's Private in $2.7 Billion DealThe Wall Street Journal. - Kelly Crow, Nick Kostov, Anupreeta DasFrench billionaire Patrick Drahi is buying Sotheby’s for $2.7 billion, ending the storied auction house’s 31-year run as a public company as it seeks to expand its digital business targeting art collectors
