U.S. Dept. of Defense Pentagon Sending 2,100 Active Duty, National Guard Troops to BorderThe Wall Street Journal. - Gordon LuboldThe Pentagon is sending more than 2,100 additional troops to the southwest border to augment the military force already there, officials said Wednesday. The additional deployments will bring to nearly
Joe Biden Biden Goes Half Way to BernieCareThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardJoe Biden’s new health-care plan is supposed to show his moderation, not that this is a virtue to progressives. Hence the back and forth this week between Mr. Biden and Bernie Sanders about single payer.
Planned Parenthood A Coup at Planned ParenthoodThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardProgressives are hurtling to the left so fast that even liberals in good standing are casualties of the tornado. Witness the coup this week at Planned Parenthood, which is a tacit reminder that the group
Freedom of Religion Pompeo Gets ReligionThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardThe State Department is holding its second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom this week, and on Thursday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will announce a new International Religious Freedom Alliance.
U.S. Politics House Holds Ross, Barr in Contempt Over Citizenship QuestionThe Wall Street Journal. - Natalie Andrews, Sadie GurmanWASHINGTON—The House voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt over their refusal to produce documents concerning the addition of a citizenship
U.S. House of Representatives House Passes Motion Blocking Bid to Impeach TrumpThe Wall Street Journal. - Natalie AndrewsWASHINGTON—The House voted Wednesday to block an effort to impeach President Trump, but the tally made clear that many Democrats are eager to pursue removing him from office despite party leaders’ calls
Bernie Sanders Sanders Defends Medicare for All, Drawing Contrast With BidenThe Wall Street Journal. - Eliza CollinsWASHINGTON—Sen. Bernie Sanders forcefully defended Medicare for All from escalating attacks on his signature health-care proposal. Speaking Wednesday at George Washington University, the 2020 presidential
Turkey U.S. Ejects Turkey From F-35 Fighter ProgramThe Wall Street Journal. - Gordon Lubold, Doug CameronWASHINGTON—The Trump administration formally ejected Turkey from the American-led F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program over Ankara’s decision to purchase a Russian air-defense system, prompting a protest
Gold Forget the Gold Standard and Make the Dollar Stable AgainThe Wall Street Journal. - John H. CochraneSome of President Trump’s potential nominees to the Federal Reserve Board have expressed sympathy for a return to the gold standard. Conventional monetary-policy experts deride the idea—and not wholly
Robert D. Kaplan Why We Need Someone Like IkeThe Wall Street Journal. - Robert D. KaplanMarkets soar even as everyone panics about geopolitics. The same interconnectivity that has wrought fabulous wealth also allows political crises to migrate from one corner of the globe to another. As defeats
Politics AOC Is the Gift That Keeps GivingThe Wall Street Journal. - Karl RoveRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t think much of the agencies that keep America safe. New Yorker editor David Remnick recently asked about her call to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
EBay EBay Lifts Profit Outlook Amid Tepid RevenuesThe Wall Street Journal. - Sebastian HerreraEBay Inc. raised its profit outlook and notched better-than-expected quarterly results, but continued to show sluggish revenue growth. The online marketplace said on Wednesday its second-quarter revenue
Palestinian Authority Trump Can't Make Peace by Wishing the Palestinians AwayThe Wall Street Journal. - Raghida DerghamThe Kingdom of Bahrain hosted what U.S. organizers called a Peace to Prosperity Economic Workshop. The June conference, which aimed to propose a plan for stability to the Middle East through economic was
University of Alabama Who'll Take a Pay Cut for Free College?The Wall Street Journal. - Joseph EpsteinDemocratic candidates for president, in their impressive expansiveness, are promising free college. Some limit their proposals to community colleges, others to state-run schools, and a few, going for want
Elizabeth Warren Sen. Warren's Good Work for Dow ChemicalThe Wall Street Journal. - Darren McKinneyI don’t support Elizabeth Warren or her policies, but earlier this week the Washington Post ran a piece suggesting she’s a corporate shill in socialist’s clothing. As a longtime communications director
National Museum of American History 'The Chinese Lady' Review: A Glimpse of a Far LandThe Wall Street Journal. - Maura Elizabeth CunninghamIn late 1834, Afong Moy would sit daily in the parlor of a lower Manhattan home. Dressed in an elegant silk tunic and trousers, her hair tightly pulled up into a bun and her bound feet shod in tiny slippers,
New York Public Library New York City Gears Up for Weekend Heat WaveThe Wall Street Journal. - Katie Honan, Alexa St. JohnNew York City is expected to get its first heat wave of the summer in the coming days. Temperatures likely will hit triple-digits this weekend, raising fears of another blackout like last week’s outage.
Pemex Mexico Spurns Private Oil-Drilling PartnersThe Wall Street Journal. - Robbie WhelanMEXICO CITY—Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador effectively rolled back key parts of a 2014 constitutional overhaul that ended a state oil-industry monopoly and let private firms find and pump
Saudi Arabia House Passes Resolutions Blocking Arms Sale to Gulf AlliesThe Wall Street Journal. - Andrew Duehren, Dion NissenbaumWASHINGTON—The House of Representatives approved three resolutions Wednesday aimed at blocking lucrative arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, joining the Senate in disapproval of the
San Francisco, CA San Francisco Delays 'IPO Tax' MeasureThe Wall Street Journal. - Jim CarltonSAN FRANCISCO—Facing a backlash from the business community, city officials here have tabled until next year a proposed ballot measure to raise a tax on stock compensation to address concerns over wealth
Netflix Netflix's Black MirrorThe Wall Street Journal. - Laura FormanNetflix investors don’t need 13 reasons to be nervous. One is more than enough. The video-streaming company reported disappointing subscriber growth for the second quarter Wednesday afternoon. Netflix
Bob Weinstein Weinstein Proposed $45 Million Settlement May Not Include Two AccusersThe Wall Street Journal. - Corinne Ramey, Jonathan RandlesAfter lawyers in May reached a tentative $44 million deal to settle all sexual-misconduct lawsuits pending against ex-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, two alleged victims said they wanted out, appearing
Brian Eno 'Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks---Extended Edition' by Brian Eno Review: An Evocative Lunar ScoreThe Wall Street Journal. - Mark RichardsonThe night sky is filled with music. The ancient Greeks drew connections between the movement of heavenly bodies and the mathematical properties of sound, and the cosmos had surely been inspiring the creation
Technology Netflix Reports First Drop in U.S. Users in Nearly a DecadeThe Wall Street Journal. - Joe Flint, Patrick ThomasFor the first time in nearly a decade, the number of people subscribing to Netflix Inc. in the U.S. declined, an underwhelming performance for the streaming giant that comes as a slew of rivals are about
IBM IBM Revenue Lags as Cloud Pivot Remains a ChallengeThe Wall Street Journal. - Asa FitchInternational Business Machines Corp. said revenue fell for its fourth straight quarter as it struggles to retool its business for the modern computing age, although Big Blue’s profit grew more than Wall
Microsoft Russia, Iran, North Korea Launch Hundreds of Cyberattacks on U.S. Political Groups, Microsoft SaysThe Wall Street Journal. - Dustin VolzSuspected nation-state hackers from Russia, Iran and elsewhere have launched nearly 800 cyberattacks against political organizations over the past year that have been detected by Microsoft Corp., with
Kevin Spacey Massachusetts Prosecutors Drop Case Against Kevin SpaceyThe Wall Street Journal. - Jon KampState prosecutors in Massachusetts dropped a case against actor Kevin Spacey in which he was accused of groping a young man at a Nantucket bar three years ago. The case was damaged recently by revelations
New York University Foreign Buying of U.S. Homes Suffers Record DropThe Wall Street Journal. - Laura KusistoForeign purchases of U.S. homes have dropped by half over the last two years, a fresh blow to the top end of the market in New York City, Miami and cities in California. Foreigners bought less than $78
U.S. Politics Facebook Pressed on Protections for Cryptocurrency UsersThe Wall Street Journal. - Dave Michaels, Paul VignaWASHINGTON—House lawmakers asked Facebook Inc. how it would protect users of its cryptocurrency, underscoring the political hurdles the company needs to clear before it can issue the digital cash. Some
Investing Uranium Regains Some Glow as Trump Sidesteps Trade FightThe Wall Street Journal. - Rhiannon HoyleUranium prices jumped to a four-month high after President Trump held back from imposing limits on U.S. imports of the nuclear fuel, saying he didn’t regard it a national security risk. The global uranium
U.S. Dept. of Defense Pentagon Sending 2,100 Active Duty, National Guard Troops to BorderThe Wall Street Journal. - Gordon LuboldThe Pentagon is sending more than 2,100 additional troops to the southwest border to augment the military force already there, officials said Wednesday. The additional deployments will bring to nearly
Joe Biden Biden Goes Half Way to BernieCareThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardJoe Biden’s new health-care plan is supposed to show his moderation, not that this is a virtue to progressives. Hence the back and forth this week between Mr. Biden and Bernie Sanders about single payer.
Planned Parenthood A Coup at Planned ParenthoodThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardProgressives are hurtling to the left so fast that even liberals in good standing are casualties of the tornado. Witness the coup this week at Planned Parenthood, which is a tacit reminder that the group
Freedom of Religion Pompeo Gets ReligionThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardThe State Department is holding its second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom this week, and on Thursday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will announce a new International Religious Freedom Alliance.
U.S. Politics House Holds Ross, Barr in Contempt Over Citizenship QuestionThe Wall Street Journal. - Natalie Andrews, Sadie GurmanWASHINGTON—The House voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt over their refusal to produce documents concerning the addition of a citizenship
U.S. House of Representatives House Passes Motion Blocking Bid to Impeach TrumpThe Wall Street Journal. - Natalie AndrewsWASHINGTON—The House voted Wednesday to block an effort to impeach President Trump, but the tally made clear that many Democrats are eager to pursue removing him from office despite party leaders’ calls
Bernie Sanders Sanders Defends Medicare for All, Drawing Contrast With BidenThe Wall Street Journal. - Eliza CollinsWASHINGTON—Sen. Bernie Sanders forcefully defended Medicare for All from escalating attacks on his signature health-care proposal. Speaking Wednesday at George Washington University, the 2020 presidential
Turkey U.S. Ejects Turkey From F-35 Fighter ProgramThe Wall Street Journal. - Gordon Lubold, Doug CameronWASHINGTON—The Trump administration formally ejected Turkey from the American-led F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program over Ankara’s decision to purchase a Russian air-defense system, prompting a protest
Gold Forget the Gold Standard and Make the Dollar Stable AgainThe Wall Street Journal. - John H. CochraneSome of President Trump’s potential nominees to the Federal Reserve Board have expressed sympathy for a return to the gold standard. Conventional monetary-policy experts deride the idea—and not wholly
Robert D. Kaplan Why We Need Someone Like IkeThe Wall Street Journal. - Robert D. KaplanMarkets soar even as everyone panics about geopolitics. The same interconnectivity that has wrought fabulous wealth also allows political crises to migrate from one corner of the globe to another. As defeats
Politics AOC Is the Gift That Keeps GivingThe Wall Street Journal. - Karl RoveRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t think much of the agencies that keep America safe. New Yorker editor David Remnick recently asked about her call to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
EBay EBay Lifts Profit Outlook Amid Tepid RevenuesThe Wall Street Journal. - Sebastian HerreraEBay Inc. raised its profit outlook and notched better-than-expected quarterly results, but continued to show sluggish revenue growth. The online marketplace said on Wednesday its second-quarter revenue
Palestinian Authority Trump Can't Make Peace by Wishing the Palestinians AwayThe Wall Street Journal. - Raghida DerghamThe Kingdom of Bahrain hosted what U.S. organizers called a Peace to Prosperity Economic Workshop. The June conference, which aimed to propose a plan for stability to the Middle East through economic was
University of Alabama Who'll Take a Pay Cut for Free College?The Wall Street Journal. - Joseph EpsteinDemocratic candidates for president, in their impressive expansiveness, are promising free college. Some limit their proposals to community colleges, others to state-run schools, and a few, going for want
Elizabeth Warren Sen. Warren's Good Work for Dow ChemicalThe Wall Street Journal. - Darren McKinneyI don’t support Elizabeth Warren or her policies, but earlier this week the Washington Post ran a piece suggesting she’s a corporate shill in socialist’s clothing. As a longtime communications director
National Museum of American History 'The Chinese Lady' Review: A Glimpse of a Far LandThe Wall Street Journal. - Maura Elizabeth CunninghamIn late 1834, Afong Moy would sit daily in the parlor of a lower Manhattan home. Dressed in an elegant silk tunic and trousers, her hair tightly pulled up into a bun and her bound feet shod in tiny slippers,
New York Public Library New York City Gears Up for Weekend Heat WaveThe Wall Street Journal. - Katie Honan, Alexa St. JohnNew York City is expected to get its first heat wave of the summer in the coming days. Temperatures likely will hit triple-digits this weekend, raising fears of another blackout like last week’s outage.
Pemex Mexico Spurns Private Oil-Drilling PartnersThe Wall Street Journal. - Robbie WhelanMEXICO CITY—Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador effectively rolled back key parts of a 2014 constitutional overhaul that ended a state oil-industry monopoly and let private firms find and pump
Saudi Arabia House Passes Resolutions Blocking Arms Sale to Gulf AlliesThe Wall Street Journal. - Andrew Duehren, Dion NissenbaumWASHINGTON—The House of Representatives approved three resolutions Wednesday aimed at blocking lucrative arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, joining the Senate in disapproval of the
San Francisco, CA San Francisco Delays 'IPO Tax' MeasureThe Wall Street Journal. - Jim CarltonSAN FRANCISCO—Facing a backlash from the business community, city officials here have tabled until next year a proposed ballot measure to raise a tax on stock compensation to address concerns over wealth
Netflix Netflix's Black MirrorThe Wall Street Journal. - Laura FormanNetflix investors don’t need 13 reasons to be nervous. One is more than enough. The video-streaming company reported disappointing subscriber growth for the second quarter Wednesday afternoon. Netflix
Bob Weinstein Weinstein Proposed $45 Million Settlement May Not Include Two AccusersThe Wall Street Journal. - Corinne Ramey, Jonathan RandlesAfter lawyers in May reached a tentative $44 million deal to settle all sexual-misconduct lawsuits pending against ex-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, two alleged victims said they wanted out, appearing
Brian Eno 'Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks---Extended Edition' by Brian Eno Review: An Evocative Lunar ScoreThe Wall Street Journal. - Mark RichardsonThe night sky is filled with music. The ancient Greeks drew connections between the movement of heavenly bodies and the mathematical properties of sound, and the cosmos had surely been inspiring the creation
Technology Netflix Reports First Drop in U.S. Users in Nearly a DecadeThe Wall Street Journal. - Joe Flint, Patrick ThomasFor the first time in nearly a decade, the number of people subscribing to Netflix Inc. in the U.S. declined, an underwhelming performance for the streaming giant that comes as a slew of rivals are about
IBM IBM Revenue Lags as Cloud Pivot Remains a ChallengeThe Wall Street Journal. - Asa FitchInternational Business Machines Corp. said revenue fell for its fourth straight quarter as it struggles to retool its business for the modern computing age, although Big Blue’s profit grew more than Wall
Microsoft Russia, Iran, North Korea Launch Hundreds of Cyberattacks on U.S. Political Groups, Microsoft SaysThe Wall Street Journal. - Dustin VolzSuspected nation-state hackers from Russia, Iran and elsewhere have launched nearly 800 cyberattacks against political organizations over the past year that have been detected by Microsoft Corp., with
Kevin Spacey Massachusetts Prosecutors Drop Case Against Kevin SpaceyThe Wall Street Journal. - Jon KampState prosecutors in Massachusetts dropped a case against actor Kevin Spacey in which he was accused of groping a young man at a Nantucket bar three years ago. The case was damaged recently by revelations
New York University Foreign Buying of U.S. Homes Suffers Record DropThe Wall Street Journal. - Laura KusistoForeign purchases of U.S. homes have dropped by half over the last two years, a fresh blow to the top end of the market in New York City, Miami and cities in California. Foreigners bought less than $78
U.S. Politics Facebook Pressed on Protections for Cryptocurrency UsersThe Wall Street Journal. - Dave Michaels, Paul VignaWASHINGTON—House lawmakers asked Facebook Inc. how it would protect users of its cryptocurrency, underscoring the political hurdles the company needs to clear before it can issue the digital cash. Some
Investing Uranium Regains Some Glow as Trump Sidesteps Trade FightThe Wall Street Journal. - Rhiannon HoyleUranium prices jumped to a four-month high after President Trump held back from imposing limits on U.S. imports of the nuclear fuel, saying he didn’t regard it a national security risk. The global uranium
