Notre Dame Cathedral Notre Dame Pledges Re-Energize France's Yellow-Vest ProtestersThe Wall Street Journal. - Joshua Robinson, Stacy MeichtryPARIS—The campaign to rebuild Notre Dame, in eliciting vast donations from France’s richest families, has become a target of the yellow-vest protest movement. Nearly $1 billion in reconstruction pledges
Cairo Egyptians Cast Ballots on Whether to Keep President Sisi in PowerThe Wall Street Journal. - Amira El-FekkiCAIRO—Egyptians began casting ballots Saturday on constitutional amendments that would keep President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in power until 2030, a critical test of popularity for a leader who has crushed
World News Large-Scale Attack Hits Afghan Capital After Relative LullThe Wall Street Journal. - Ehsanullah Amiri, Craig NelsonSuspected Islamic State militants attacked a government building in teeming central Kabul on Saturday, killing seven and triggering a gunbattle with government forces that sent terrified workers scurrying
College & University States Tempt College Graduates With Student-Loan PayoffsThe Wall Street Journal. - Michelle HackmanNearly 20 states are trying a new legislative tack to lure recent college graduates: paying off their student loans. The programs, many of which were adopted in the past four years, offer debt forgiveness
China Can't Afford Surgery? In China, Millions Chip In Half a Penny to Cover YouThe Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street JournalWhen a 5-year-old girl in Shanghai suffered brain damage late last year after falling off a bunk bed, millions of strangers all over China helped foot her surgical bills. The child’s family didn’t pay
Seven NYC Students Didn't Get Seats in Elite Schools, So They Asked State for HelpThe Wall Street Journal. - Leslie BrodySeven New York City students who didn’t get into specialized high schools are asking the state education commissioner to ensure they get spots, saying the city’s diversity push unfairly denied them seats
Circus For Its Next Act, Big Apple Circus Goes on the RoadThe Wall Street Journal. - Charles PassyThe Big Apple Circus is looking beyond its namesake home. The circus, a fixture in the city for 41 years, plans to launch an arena tour in the U.S. starting this summer, officials with the troupe said.
A Tragic Death, a Family Rift---and a Chance to Learn the Truth After 55 YearsThe Wall Street Journal. - Amy Dockser MarcusLarry Alssid’s heart pounded with doubt as he readied for a family dinner more than a half-century in the making. “What if we made a mistake coming?” he asked his cousin, Neal Marcus. Neal poured them
World News Brazilian Courts Seek to Hush Critics, Independent MediaThe Wall Street Journal. - Paulo Trevisani, Luciana MagalhãesBRASÍLIA—Brazilian judges are ratcheting up a campaign against what they deem to be misleading press coverage and offensive social-media posts, raising concerns among free-speech advocates. Following Supreme
Business Fed Officials Contemplate Thresholds for Rate CutsThe Wall Street Journal. - Nick TimiraosFederal Reserve officials are starting to talk about the conditions under which they would cut interest rates, including a scenario where inflation drifts lower even if the economic growth doesn’t falter.
Houston, TX It's April in Houston, Must Be Curling SeasonThe Wall Street Journal. - Jen MurphyMost competitions in the Winter Olympics appear to require superhuman athletic powers. Then there’s the oddball sport of curling, which ignites Olympic hope in viewers like Carl Schaeper. He remembered
UberEATS Uber's Greater Clarity on Costs Not ReassuringThe Wall Street Journal. - Lauren Silva LaughlinForget net profits—in some markets, Uber is starting in a hole, paying more to drivers to complete a trip than the customer pays for the ride. The ride-hailing company’s initial public offering document
Rudy Giuliani The Legal Strategy That Paid Off for President TrumpThe Wall Street Journal. - Rebecca BallhausWASHINGTON—When President Trump’s lawyers met with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team last April to negotiate the terms of a possible interview with the president, investigators expressed some annoyance.
John Lithgow John Lithgow on Playing Leaders, 'Warts and All'The Wall Street Journal. - Joanne KaufmanA head shot of Bill Clinton is taped to the door of John Lithgow’s dressing room at the John Golden Theatre, where Lucas Hnath’s new play “Hillary and Clinton” opened April 18. But the photo is a bit misdirection.
The Black Hole Image Is a Bias-Testing MasterpieceThe Wall Street Journal. - Sam WalkerIn the mid-1990s, Sheperd Doeleman, a doctoral student in astrophysics at MIT, became fixated on a radical idea. He thought it might be possible to take a picture of a black hole. In a literal sense, answer
Business Driving? The Kids Are So Over ItThe Wall Street Journal. - Adrienne RobertsIf teenagers are any guide, Americans’ love affair with the automobile may no longer be something car makers can bank on. The percentage of teens with a driver’s license has tumbled in the last few decades
U.S. Politics Mueller Report Sheds Light on Russia's Concerns Over U.S. SanctionsThe Wall Street Journal. - Mengqi SunRussian President Vladimir Putin urged a Russian banking executive with ties to one of the country’s largest commercial banks to establish a line of communication with the incoming Trump administration
Tesla Tesla to Cut Down on Board MembersThe Wall Street Journal. - Tim HigginsTesla Inc. said it would shrink the size of its board to seven from 11 directors as part of a series of moves designed to improve corporate governance, with three of Chief Executive Elon Musk’s longtime
William Barr Targeting Bill BarrThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardPivoting from their failed Russia-Trump collusion narrative, Democrats and the press corps have discovered a new political villain: William Barr. They claim the Attorney General is misleading the public,
Opinion Cowardice and Courage at MiddleburyThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardStudents at Middlebury College gave the school’s administrators a lesson this week in the difference between cowardice and courage when dealing with a controversial speaker. Recall how in March 2017 protesters
Chicago, IL Chicago Police Arrest 21 in Fraudulent Rental of 200 Luxury CarsThe Wall Street Journal. - Erin AilworthChicago police arrested 21 people in connection with the fraudulent rental of 200 Mercedes-Benz cars using stolen credit cards and a mobile app for a car-sharing service. Police were alerted to the fraud
New York Yankees Embarrassment of the YankeesThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardThe PC police have caught up with Kate Smith. This week the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Flyers each announced they will no longer play the late singer’s classic version of “God Bless America”
Opinion After 40 Years, C-Span's Founder Signs OffThe Wall Street Journal. - Kyle PetersonWashington ‘Lying is the word that I would use to describe this town,” says Brian Lamb, in his usual Midwestern deadpan. “I don’t know if it will ever stop. It’s gotten worse rather than getting better,
Opinion South Carolina's Unlikely Crusader for Good GovernmentThe Wall Street Journal. - Barton SwaimColumbia, S.C. Conservatives in South Carolina aren’t supposed to like Dick Harpootlian, the state’s two-time chairman of the Democratic Party (1998-2003, 2011-13). He is a reliably acerbic critic of Republican
Opinion Ivy Leaguers With Guns, Then and NowThe Wall Street Journal. - Glenn C. Altschuler, Isaac Kramnick‘Oh my God,” exclaimed Associated Press photographer Steven Starr on April 20, 1969—50 years ago Saturday—“look at those goddamned guns.” His photo appeared in newspapers around the world and won the Prize,
Technology WarnerMedia Quits OpenAP Coalition for TV Ad TargetingThe Wall Street Journal. - Nat IvesWarnerMedia LLC is withdrawing from a coalition of rival TV networks that it helped form to foster more precise commercial targeting. A lot has changed since the coalition, called OpenAP, was founded 2017
Opinion Gambling Will Take Over TV SportsThe Wall Street Journal. - Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.Folks in the cable TV business aren’t taking any chances. When the Supreme Court last year struck down a federal law banning sports betting, they knew it was good news for the beleaguered cable bundle,
U.S. Politics Mueller Report Dismisses Many Steele Dossier ClaimsThe Wall Street Journal. - Alan Cullison, Dustin VolzRobert Mueller’s report, while providing new details on Russian tampering in U.S. elections, has all but dismissed many key claims of the dossier compiled by private investigator Christopher Steele, fueling
Stocks The Score: The Business Week in 7 StocksThe Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street Journal Read about the stocks that defined the week in the Journal’s guide to the ups and downs of the business world.
Business ADM Grain-Trading Executive LeavesThe Wall Street Journal. - Jacob BungeArcher Daniels Midland Co.’s top grain-trading executive is departing as the agricultural giant restructures its operations and confronts a challenging farm economy. Wes Uhlmeyer, president of ADM’s grain
