A CIA official who authorities said walked out of his office with 40 million in gold bars has reached a tentative plea agreement, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Friday (on.wsj.com)
Saudi Arabia Shuts Down Pipeline That Was a Crucial Hormuz Bypass (on.wsj.com)
Sept. 11 and its aftermath created a sense of shared burden among the 9/11-era presidents (on.wsj.com)
The extremes of both parties—Republicans’ MAGA wing represented by JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other, @greg_ip writes. (on.wsj.com)
Embattled Sen. Susan Collins Criticizes Trump’s Canada Insults (www.wsj.com)
CIA reports detailing Osama bin Laden’s plan to attack U.S. cities were included in the president’s daily briefing as early as 1998 (on.wsj.com)
GOP Sen. Susan Collins, who faces a tough re-election campaign, made some of her sharpest criticisms to date about Trump’s handling of the U.S.’s trade dispute with Canada (on.wsj.com)
Inflation Was 3.4% in August, With Gasoline Prices Still Elevated (www.wsj.com)
Anthropic Says Iran Used Its American AI Model to Target U.S. Navy Warships (www.wsj.com)
Iran used American-developed artificial-intelligence models to try to target U.S. Navy ships in the Middle East, an Anthropic report said (on.wsj.com)
Iran-Backed Houthis Take Effective Control of Bab al-Mandeb Chokepoint (www.wsj.com)
Exclusive Pentagon in Talks to Get Into AI Infrastructure Funding With a 5 Billion Loan (www.wsj.com)
Vice President JD Vance’s Thursday night convention speech had the crowd looking to the future. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
How a Restaurant at the Top of the World Trade Center Changed New York (www.wsj.com)
JD Vance delivered a future-looking speech on the second night of the GOP midterm convention that showcased his vision of America and will intensify speculation about his presidential aspirations (on.wsj.com)
Vice President JD Vance looked very much like a presidential candidate-in-waiting at the Republican convention this week (on.wsj.com)
Ken Paxton Continues to Be the Butt of Trump’s Jokes (on.wsj.com)
Trump Makes Audience Take a Voting Pledge: ‘Please Raise Your Right Hand’ (on.wsj.com)
GOP Convention Crowd Urges Vance to Run in 2028 (on.wsj.com)
Robert Kennedy Jr. Credits Trump with Declining Obesity, Longer Lives (www.wsj.com)
After years of inaction, Congress is suddenly waking up to the AI doomsday threat. But there’s little indication it will produce the first federal AI laws overseeing models. (on.wsj.com)
House Speaker Mike Johnson: Give Republicans More Time to Fix Things (www.wsj.com)
Ted Cruz, Potential 2028 Candidate, Points to ‘Hate’ in the Democratic Party (www.wsj.com)
California is cracking down on social-media features aimed at teens, while new laws impose safety rules on AI chatbots and other online platforms (on.wsj.com)
Cryptocurrency billionaire Fred Ehrsam has emerged as a surprise contender in President Trump’s push to revitalize Venezuela’s run-down oil industry (on.wsj.com)
Inside the Republican midterm convention that’s all about Trump. (on.wsj.com)
Trump’s promise of 5,000 checks faces hurdles, and Iran is building missiles again despite U.S. and Israeli strikes. Read more in today’s What’s News newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
Could Laser Fusion Tech Be Used to Shoot Down Missiles and Drones? (www.wsj.com)
Who Is Speaking at the GOP Midterm Convention. The RNC''s Thursday Schedule. (www.wsj.com)
President Trump offered a pricey promise in his convention speech Wednesday. Here’s what you need to know about his latest idea of direct payments to Americans. (on.wsj.com)
The controversy over Sen. John Fetterman’s surprise video appearance at the GOP midterm convention continues to fuel uncertainty about his political allegiances (on.wsj.com)
Drone Deal Kicks Off Consolidation in Ukraine’s 500-Company Industry (on.wsj.com)
A Tiny Shift in the Inflation Rate Could Decide the Fed’s Next Move (www.wsj.com)
Supreme Court Again Blocks Missouri From Using GOP-Friendly Voting Map (www.wsj.com)
Last month, the U.S. added an impressive 162,000 jobs and unemployment is low, but broad economic measures might be missing how much Americans’ costs have risen—and how many of them haven’t kept up (on.wsj.com)
Yemen’s Iran-Backed Houthis Sweep Toward Strategic Bab al-Mandeb (www.wsj.com)
Miami Crash Puts Focus on Houston Astros Owner’s Cargo-Jet Business (on.wsj.com)
There were scores of empty seats at the RNC convention for Trump’s keynote address, a symbol of the test Republicans face heading into the midterms. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
South Korea Nears Agreement on Billions in U.S. Investments, a Win for Trump (on.wsj.com)
Trump Administration Proposes Eliminating Race Questions From Census (on.wsj.com)
With Close Calls on U.S. Warships, Iran Shows New Appetite for Escalation (www.wsj.com)
They Lost Their Money to Scammers—and Now Battle the U.S. Government to Recover It (www.wsj.com)
The latest Canadian tariffs on 20 billion of U.S. exports went into effect Tuesday. A handful of U.S. states are likely to feel a big effect. (on.wsj.com)
Five Takeaways From Day One of the Republican Convention (on.wsj.com)
Trump capped off Day One of the Republican Party’s midterm convention promising to pay adults 5,000 if the GOP keeps control of Congress, a last-ditch bid to prevent an electoral shellacking in November (on.wsj.com)
President Trump on Wednesday night unleashed perhaps his biggest election-year promise to date. Read more in a special WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
Trump’s 5,000 ‘Dividend’ Promise Is His Biggest Election Gambit Yet (www.wsj.com)
Trump Defends Iran War, While Other Republicans Largely Steer Clear at Convention (www.wsj.com)
Trump Floats Renaming New Mexico ‘New America,’ to Cheers (www.wsj.com)
President Trump gave cash gifts of 45,000 apiece to three White House aides last Christmas, according to financial disclosure forms released by the administration (on.wsj.com)
The Baltic Country Calling for Calm in the Face of Russian Threat (www.wsj.com)
A DNC Vice Chair Calls Fetterman ‘Laziest Benedict Arnold America Has Ever Seen’ (www.wsj.com)
Dr. Oz Hails ‘Historic Weight Loss’ Due to GLP-1s (www.wsj.com)
Rhode Island’s Governor Is Trounced in Democratic Primary (www.wsj.com)
Exclusive Trump’s Top Advisers Confront Possibility That Iran War Lasts Through End of Term (www.wsj.com)
Systems that could have slowed an Amazon Air flight that crashed in Miami over the weekend weren’t deployed before the plane careened off a runway, into nearby vehicles, investigators said (on.wsj.com)
Exclusive Ford CEO Says Transportation Secretary Had ‘Basic Misunderstandings’ in Letter (www.wsj.com)
Star AI Researcher Is Leaving Meta (www.wsj.com)
Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas and Republican former Sen. John E. Sununu prevailed in Tuesday’s New Hampshire Senate primary, setting up a competitive fall campaign in the battleground state (on.wsj.com)
Why Are Republicans Holding a Special Midterm Convention? (www.wsj.com)
Video: Inside Day One of the 2026 Republican Midterm Convention (www.wsj.com)
Tax-break reversals on data centers underscore how states that once welcomed the facilities powering the AI boom suddenly treat them like a political liability (on.wsj.com)
RNC 2026 Live: Republican Midterm Convention Underway; Trump to Deliver Keynote Address in Dallas (www.wsj.com)
Bessent’s Latest Buyback Move Leaves Investors Wanting More (www.wsj.com)
Steve Witkoff Earned More Than 100 Million From Entity Tied to Trump Crypto (on.wsj.com)
Federal contractors are largely failing to meet government-set hiring goals for military personnel, a new analysis finds (on.wsj.com)
Tate Brothers Denied Bail as They Fight U.K. Extradition (www.wsj.com)
Facing a three-way arms race with Russia and China, the U.S. is turning to a nuclear-fusion startup to turbocharge its nuclear weapons (on.wsj.com)
Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy, reported earning more than 100 million from the entity that owns his stake in World Liberty Financial, according to a new financial disclosure (on.wsj.com)
Nordic Energy Company Fortum Shares Jump on Google Nuclear Power Agreement (on.wsj.com)
Online shoppers who try to send back their purchases are discovering surprise fees, shorter return windows and delayed refunds (on.wsj.com)
Ilhan Omar Cleared of Wrongdoing After Overstating Assets by Millions (www.wsj.com)
Albertsons Names Former HP, eBay CEO Meg Whitman as Executive Chair to Help Spur Growth (on.wsj.com)
The End of the Captcha? Not So Fast (www.wsj.com)
New Hampshire’s Senate Primary Winners Now Face Tight Fall Matchup (on.wsj.com)
Republicans are putting an unpopular president at the center of their campaign to keep control of Congress (on.wsj.com)
Google Pledges Over 15 Billion for AI Infrastructure in Finland (on.wsj.com)
U.S. security agencies accused six Chinese AI companies of systematically exploiting American AI models to train their own systems (on.wsj.com)
LIV Golf Files for Bankruptcy—and Owes Top Golfers Millions (on.wsj.com)
An Anthropic researcher is quitting the artificial-intelligence industry over fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems they won’t be able to control (on.wsj.com)
Unpaid Ebola Workers Let Families Touch the Dead (www.wsj.com)
Republicans’ Midterms Strategy Will Test Trump’s Political Power as Polling Sags (on.wsj.com)
The AfD Is Trying to Turn Its First State Government Into a Far-Right Policy Lab (on.wsj.com)
Aperol’s Maker Bets Americans Are Ready for a Pinker, Sweeter Spritz (on.wsj.com)
Amazon Plane’s Systems Weren’t Deployed to Slow Jet Before Crash, Investigators Say (on.wsj.com)
Melting Glaciers and Monster Floods Threaten Nepal’s Big Bet on Hydropower (on.wsj.com)
How Japan Made American Denim Its Own—and Built a Cult Following (www.wsj.com)
Trump Gifted Natalie Harp, Two Other Aides 45,000 Each Last Christmas (on.wsj.com)
AstraZeneca Says Lung-Disease Drug Shows Benefits Across Patient Groups (on.wsj.com)
Nick Bilton, the new leader at “60 Minutes,” is trying to move past a tumultuous period when the show itself was the story (on.wsj.com)
What’s going on with captchas, those demands from websites to prove you are human? Here is a look at how they are evolving in the wake of AI. (on.wsj.com)
Trump Signs Orders to Ban Some Canadian Products From U.S. Market (on.wsj.com)
States That Gave Data Centers Billions in Tax Breaks Are Now Ripping Up the Deals (on.wsj.com)
Exclusive Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears (on.wsj.com)
IRS’s Data Sharing With ICE Violated Law, Appeals Court Rules (www.wsj.com)
‘60 Minutes’ Returns in a Major Test for New Leadership (www.wsj.com)
Supreme Court Denies Missouri Bid to Use Voting Map That Benefits Republicans (on.wsj.com)
U.S. Strikes Iranian Oil Tankers in Response to Tehran’s Attacks on Navy Ships (www.wsj.com)
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sharply criticized Ford’s business with Chinese automotive firms (on.wsj.com)
Meta announced a new personal AI agent that can buy goods online, respond to emails and complete other tasks (on.wsj.com)
New Documents Detail Air-Quality Issues in Lower Manhattan After 9/11 (www.wsj.com)
The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal seeking the Supreme Court’s blessing to deploy a federal immigration database that it says could be used to root out people improperly registered to vote (on.wsj.com)
GE Aerospace to Buy Consolidated Precision Products for 11.75 Billion (on.wsj.com)
OpenAI Says It Has Solved a Millennium Prize Problem—a Holy Grail of Math (on.wsj.com)
Amazon Sued for Allegedly Discriminating Against Pregnant Workers (on.wsj.com)
The Trump administration violated federal law when it shared confidential taxpayer information with immigration authorities, an appeals court ruled Tuesday (on.wsj.com)
Many of the world’s biggest shipping countries warn that conflicts, trade restrictions and shadow fleets are eroding the freedom of the seas, threatening global trade (on.wsj.com)
Verizon, Corning Reach Multi-Billion Dollar Agreement for Broadband Expansion (on.wsj.com)
The Stock Market’s Breezy Summer Is Over. Investors Beware. (on.wsj.com)
New York City releases more than 170,000 pages of reports on air quality and health issues related to 9/11 (on.wsj.com)
Your anonymous online account is not as anonymous as you think. AI might be able to unmask you. (on.wsj.com)
U.S. Small Business Confidence Edged Lower Last Month (on.wsj.com)
Google Cloud and Accenture are striking a new deal to train up to 1,000 forward-deployed engineers who will help customers get more value from AI (on.wsj.com)
Terra Drone Bets Supply Chains Key to Drone Warfare (on.wsj.com)
U.S. Gets Minority Stakes in D-Wave, Rigetti, Quantinuum in 300 Million CHIPS Act Funding Deal (on.wsj.com)
Yemen’s Houthi Militants Attack Saudi Energy Infrastructure (on.wsj.com)
How the Unity of 9/11 Sowed the Seeds of America’s Deep Political Division (on.wsj.com)
The Trillion-Dollar Bright Spot in China’s Economy: Tourism (on.wsj.com)
Mistral AI Exceeds 24 Billion Valuation After Samsung-Led Investment Round (on.wsj.com)
Now 25 years after 9/11, can American politics again find the kind of unity that was felt immediately afterward? (on.wsj.com)
See How Drones Are Infiltrating NATO Territory in Europe (on.wsj.com)
Chasing side deals, flexing influence: Lewandowski’s power moves at Homeland Security. (on.wsj.com)
Accident investigators probing an Amazon.com cargo flight crash in Miami are scrutinizing the speed of the aircraft and the weather (on.wsj.com)
The GOP Senate Campaign Gone Disastrously Wrong in Georgia (on.wsj.com)
Stainless Steel Is Pricier and Trendier in the Home Than Ever (on.wsj.com)
Trump’s Latest Target for a Name Change: New Mexico (on.wsj.com)
Trump made a series of social-media posts over the holiday weekend calling for changing New Mexico’s name to “New America,” his most ambitious—and unlikely—attempt yet to remake the North American map (on.wsj.com)
Belgium’s Arrest of Chinese Alleged Chip-Tech Thief Fuels European Fear of Beijing (on.wsj.com)
Onitsuka Tigers are having a moment as a weak yen and the Japanese sneakers’ classic look are luring tourists to Tokyo stores (on.wsj.com)
Exclusive Hunter Biden (and His Laptop) Enter the Cryptosphere With New Meme Coin (www.wsj.com)
Carmakers Have a New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine (on.wsj.com)
Jaguar Land Rover Plans to Cut Around 9% of Workforce as Headwinds Mount (on.wsj.com)
Insilico’s Co-CEO Has Big Hopes That Fibrosis Drug Can Reverse Aging Too (on.wsj.com)
Novo Nordisk Says Wegovy Shot Helped Children Lose Weight in Trial (on.wsj.com)
There''s a Legal Fight Brewing at Oktoberfest (on.wsj.com)
Young People See a Different America Than Older People. Where Do You Fit In? (on.wsj.com)
Mike Collins faces a tough Georgia Senate race as scandals and weak fundraising threaten to drag down other Republicans (on.wsj.com)
25 Years After the Sept. 11 Attacks, Lower Manhattan Is Thriving (www.wsj.com)
The 16 Fall Movies You Need to Know About (on.wsj.com)
The Women Who Escaped Kabul for America but Left Their Dreams Behind (on.wsj.com)
The Unexpected Cost of Pet Care Has Young Adults Rethinking Their Finances (on.wsj.com)
The Next Big Opportunity in Data Centers: Insuring Them (on.wsj.com)
Boomers Are Moving Into Retirement Communities Alongside Their Parents (on.wsj.com)
How Two Men Without Lawyers Got Their Cases to the Supreme Court (on.wsj.com)
How Billions in Iranian Money Passes Through U.S. Banks (on.wsj.com)
Why More Hospitals and Doctors Are Asking Patients to Pay First (on.wsj.com)
Inside the USS Abraham Lincoln’s Nine Months at Sea: Loneliness, Fatigue, Pride (on.wsj.com)
Americans Without College Degrees Are Having One of the Best Job Markets in Years (on.wsj.com)
Patients Are Flying to China for the Latest Cancer Treatment (on.wsj.com)
After Far-Right Election Breakthrough, Germany’s Merz Faces Painful Dilemma (on.wsj.com)
Pensions Were on the Brink of Extinction. Now Companies Are Bringing Them Back. (on.wsj.com)
Trump is backing AI data centers as bipartisan opposition grows, raising new political risks for Republicans ahead of the midterms, WSJ’s @timkhiggins writes (on.wsj.com)
How One Woman Was Caught in Epstein’s ‘Cult’—and Escaped (on.wsj.com)
Amazon Cargo Plane Overshoots Runway in Miami, Killing Five People (on.wsj.com)
A cargo plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport and crashed into nearby vehicles before bursting into flames and sending dark clouds of black smoke into the air (on.wsj.com)
As President Trump’s approval rating hovers near all-time lows, MAGA-centered merchandise retailers and their suppliers are seeing sales dwindle (on.wsj.com)
Protecting your elderly parents from scammers could require a master course in behavioral science (on.wsj.com)
Democratic Socialists of America chapters are using nonstop social activities to bring in new members and form closer bonds with existing ones (on.wsj.com)
The auto industry has a new solution to Americans’ fear that electric vehicles will run out of juice: a gasoline engine (on.wsj.com)
Hospitals and doctor’s offices are increasingly asking patients to foot the bill ahead of medical procedures (on.wsj.com)
Every so often, a product seems to come from nowhere and feels like it’s everywhere. This summer, that product was the JonnyPop. (on.wsj.com)
Jersey City is a rarity among its Northeast peers: It’s a postindustrial town on a serious growth streak. But its new property-tax increase signals trouble. (on.wsj.com)
SpaceX and Tesla directors are spending millions to fund academic research and commercial ventures around MDMA and other drugs (on.wsj.com)
President Trump’s super PAC has entered the competitive Senate race in Texas with its largest spend of the current political cycle—a 10 million ad buy to back Republican Ken Paxton (on.wsj.com)
The insurance industry is eyeing a once-in-a-generation chance to generate tens of billions of dollars in additional income: the 1 trillion race to build data centers (on.wsj.com)
Gen Zers are becoming pet parents—and getting slammed with the cost of caring for their furry family members (on.wsj.com)
Sextortion has entered the family group chat, writes @juliejargon. In this shocking incident, family members were surprised with pornography featuring a relative. (on.wsj.com)
Vance warns AI could deepen social isolation and pose spiritual risks as the Trump administration embraces the technology (on.wsj.com)
One of the women Jeffrey Epstein called his “assistants” publicly discussed her ordeal for the first time, revealing she was the lead Jane Doe plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against Bank of America (on.wsj.com)
Time Is No Longer on Iran’s Side in the Battle of the Blockades (on.wsj.com)
Why Putin’s Friends Are Now Confronting Him Over the War (on.wsj.com)
Why 10,000 People Are Clamoring to Dig in London Mud (www.wsj.com)
Michele Tafoya seeks a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, distancing herself from Trump while targeting Democrats over a fraud scandal (on.wsj.com)
The Supreme Court cleared the way for political parties to buy television ads at special reduced rates in the lead-up to the midterm elections (on.wsj.com)
Ukraine’s Next Goal Is to Shut Down Russia’s Commercial Airspace (www.wsj.com)
Record Fuel Prices Pose Fresh Challenge for Trump Ahead of Midterms (www.wsj.com)
How the Death of a Newborn Has Inflamed a Debate Over Vaccination (www.wsj.com)
Democrats Assail Fetterman After WSJ Report (www.wsj.com)
The 2026 Races That Could Determine House Control (www.wsj.com)
‘A Tale of Two Cities’ Review: Less-Than-Revolutionary Dickens on MGM (on.wsj.com)
Musk’s Boring Co. Pushes Investors for Recruiting, Business Help (on.wsj.com)
The Cancer Vaccine Gold Rush Has Begun. So Has the Race for Picks and Shovels. (on.wsj.com)
How to Appeal Your Health Insurer’s ‘Prior Authorization’ Denial—and Win (on.wsj.com)
Tesla-Challenging EV Truck Startup Windrose Loses Most of Chinese Staff (on.wsj.com)
Hiring Picked Up in August, With 162,000 New Jobs (on.wsj.com)
Two Men Pulled Alive From Tunnel Nine Days After Nepal Flood (on.wsj.com)
The ‘Deeply Nerdy’ Founders Behind Nvidia’s 13 Billion Bet on Hugging Face (on.wsj.com)
Preppy Style Is Booming. What Does It Look Like Now? (on.wsj.com)
Drugmakers Halt Autoimmune Trials After Deaths, Life-Threatening Side Effects (on.wsj.com)
Steve Ballmer and the Clippers Get the NBA’s Doomsday Hammer (on.wsj.com)
Trump Administration Again Asks Supreme Court to Allow New Mail Voting Rules (on.wsj.com)
Nvidia Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for 13 Billion (www.wsj.com)
Missouri Supreme Court Rules State Can’t Use Redrawn Map in Midterms (on.wsj.com)
Tesla Cybercabs Hit Austin Streets in Expansion of Robotaxi Service (on.wsj.com)
Exclusive Musk’s Boring Co. Pushes Investors for Recruiting, Business Help (on.wsj.com)
Behind Closed Doors, John Fetterman Shows Little Interest in the Work of a Senator (on.wsj.com)
‘Marble Hall Murders’ Review: Overlapping Mysteries on PBS (on.wsj.com)
The ‘Claw Grip’ Goes Glam (on.wsj.com)
Chinese Warships Are Cruising Too Close for Comfort Off Japan’s Shores (on.wsj.com)
Leon Black Sues House Committee Over Epstein Probe (www.wsj.com)
Nothing Makes Humans Happier Right Now Than Watching Robots Fail (on.wsj.com)
Hegseth Extends Mideast Deployments Into 2027, Escalating Strain on Troops (on.wsj.com)
How Anna Wintour’s Quest to Salvage John Galliano’s Legacy Was Thwarted (on.wsj.com)
Fall’s Best Shoes Lighten the Mood (on.wsj.com)
He Was a Washed-Up Pop Star. Now He’s Selling Out Stadiums Hosting Baby Raves. (on.wsj.com)
‘O.J. Unseen: Exploitation of Evil’ Review: A Wretched Reality Show Revisited (on.wsj.com)
Ted Cruz Is Testing the Waters for a 2028 Run—and Taking Swipes at JD Vance (on.wsj.com)
The Most Expensive Home on Martha’s Vineyard Sells for 43 Million (on.wsj.com)
Exclusive Ford’s 30,000 EV Truck Sets Ambitious Goal: 100,000 Sales in Year One (on.wsj.com)
G-20 Squabbling Overshadows Summit as Global Bond Markets Strain (on.wsj.com)
NBA Imposes Historic Punishment on the Clippers and Steve Ballmer in Salary Cap Scandal (on.wsj.com)
‘Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Running Fence at 50 Years’ Review: Commemorating a Shimmering Spectacle (on.wsj.com)
Chevron to Invest 7 Billion in Venezuela, Doubling Production (on.wsj.com)
Trump Picks Veteran Hung Cao to Become Navy Secretary (on.wsj.com)
Volkswagen Fights Chinese Competition—and Its Own Board—in Battle to Survive (on.wsj.com)
House Votes to Censure GOP Lawmaker Over Sexual-Harassment Allegations (on.wsj.com)
The Island Paradise That Is a Secret Hub for Russian Sanctions Evasion (on.wsj.com)
Can Evan Spiegel Sell the World on 2,195 Smart Glasses? (on.wsj.com)
How to Make Sense of All Those Airport Line-Cutting Options (on.wsj.com)
Sen. Ed Markey Trounces Younger Challenger in Massachusetts (on.wsj.com)
What to Know About Mail-Ballot Allegations Against the Postal Service (on.wsj.com)
How Aperol Built a 900 Million Global Brand Around the Spritz (on.wsj.com)
Apple Updates Maps to Show Lake America to U.S. Users (on.wsj.com)
Exclusive New Google AI Model Said to Narrow Gap on Coding Ability (on.wsj.com)
Music Artists Sue AI Song Generator Suno Over Alleged Copycats (on.wsj.com)
The Apple Empire That John Ternus Inherits—By the Numbers (on.wsj.com)
A War That Won’t End Is Complicating the Fed’s Next Move (on.wsj.com)
Nestle Inks 1 Billion Deal to Sell Health-Supplements Brands to Private Equity Firm (on.wsj.com)
Stan Kroenke Expands His Sports Empire With 4 Billion Angels Purchase (on.wsj.com)
David Ellison Is Promising at Least 30 Movies a Year. Hollywood Is Skeptical. (on.wsj.com)
Germany Blames Russia for Explosive Drones Sent to Leipzig Airport (on.wsj.com)
Lawmakers Take Government Shutdown Off the Table Before Midterms (on.wsj.com)
The Most Expensive College Towns in America (on.wsj.com)
Bobby Flay Failed Every Subject in High School. The Kitchen Saved Him. (on.wsj.com)
My Kids Don’t Want the Family Silver. Should I Melt It Down? (on.wsj.com)
Washington’s Deadly New Headache: an al Qaeda-Houthi Terrorist Alliance (on.wsj.com)
Trump Administration Steps Up Immigration Crackdown on Truck Drivers (on.wsj.com)
Londoners Are Stewing Over Supercar Tourists Who Park Wherever They Want (on.wsj.com)
The Ukraine Drones That Are Carrying a Bigger Punch, Deeper Into Russia (on.wsj.com)
Former Gang Leader Convicted of Tupac Shakur’s Murder After 30 Years (on.wsj.com)
How a Brazilian Billionaire Helped Shape Trump’s Beef Import Plan (on.wsj.com)
Judge Presses Mamdani Administration on Pied-à-Terre Tax Rollout (on.wsj.com)
Trump Calls for Federal Film and Television Tax Incentive (on.wsj.com)
To help Apple reach new heights, incoming CEO John Ternus must take it beyond the supply chain mastery of Tim Cook, who built it into a 5 trillion colossus (on.wsj.com)
Exclusive Donald Trump Jr.’s Fund Boosts Polymarket Investment by Around 300 Million (on.wsj.com)
Exclusive Army Secretary Resigns After Months of Friction with Hegseth (on.wsj.com)
Vance to El-Sayed: ‘Keep My Wife’s Name the Hell Out of Your Mouth’ (on.wsj.com)
Trump Administration Reaches Drug Pricing Deals With 9 Companies (on.wsj.com)
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Keep Building White House Ballroom (on.wsj.com)
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Trump to keep building his White House ballroom, clearing the way for construction crews to continue their work to complete one of the president’s prized projects (on.wsj.com)
At least two people died in the Grand Canyon and over a dozen were still unaccounted for after a weekend of punishing rain flooded portions of the Arizona park (on.wsj.com)
SLB to Buy Data Center Cooling Firm Kelvion for 4.1 Billion (on.wsj.com)
Los Angeles County sued State Farm Monday over its handling of insurance claims after the deadly and destructive 2025 wildfires (on.wsj.com)
FTC to File Lawsuit Alleging Amazon Deceived Advertisers (on.wsj.com)
The FTC plans to sue Amazon, alleging the company manipulated prices businesses paid to advertise on its retail platform (on.wsj.com)
The World’s No. 1 Golfer Just Ended His Agonizing Season With a 10 Million Payday (on.wsj.com)
President Trump said that communities that don’t embrace data centers will “end up being backwards and poor,” putting himself at odds with most Americans who say they don’t want the facilities that power AI to be built near them (on.wsj.com)
EY is one of a number of firms trying to foster the critical thinking, judgment and other skills needed to better work alongside AI (on.wsj.com)
Exclusive Ernst & Young Is Giving 100 Million in Bonuses to Staff for ‘Human’ Skills (on.wsj.com)
Met Museum Cancels Controversial John Galliano Exhibition and Gala (on.wsj.com)
The Geopolitical Mismatch Driving Russia to Threaten the West (on.wsj.com)
Ex-Congressman George Santos Receives Kalshi’s First-Ever Lifetime Ban (on.wsj.com)
Kalshi permanently banned George Santos after regulators accused the former congressman of profiting from bets tied to Trump’s State of the Union (on.wsj.com)
German Inflation Rises But Few Signs of Energy-Shock Spillover (on.wsj.com)
Nissan, Honda Team Up on Systems, Software (on.wsj.com)
Japan Targets Record Defense Spend as China Pressure Grows (on.wsj.com)
Eli Lilly to Buy Merida Biosciences For Up to 2.875 Billion (on.wsj.com)
China’s Official Gauges Point to Continued Contraction in Economic Activity (on.wsj.com)
Texas banking veteran Gerald J. Ford is ensnarled in a legal fight with some of his children over a large stake in Hilltop Holdings, the 2.2 billion financial-services holding company he forged (on.wsj.com)
The Olympic Hockey Player Who Became a Global Expert on Caesar Salads (on.wsj.com)
Since 2021, NHTSA has received nearly 2,800 complaints of sunroofs unexpectedly exploding, of which more than 500 involve newer vehicles, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis (on.wsj.com)
EU to Hold ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox to Higher Standard of Scrutiny (on.wsj.com)
China’s Biggest Airlines Post Over 1 Billion Loss in First Half as Fuel Shock Bites (on.wsj.com)
The young rent-stabilized tenants of New York City represent a rare breed of their generation. A few of them opened their doors to The Wall Street Journal. (on.wsj.com)
Some companies are returning part of their tariff windfalls to price-scorched consumers, hoping also to cement market share. (on.wsj.com)
G20 Warned Of Growing Threat to Financial Stability Posed By New AI Models (on.wsj.com)
These Young New Yorkers Scored the Ultimate Deal: A Rent-Stabilized Apartment (on.wsj.com)
The Summer That Scorched French Grapes, English Gardens—and Europe’s Economy (on.wsj.com)
Tariff refunds and the ever-resilient U.S. consumer are fueling the heftiest rise in big-company profits in years (on.wsj.com)
Can’t You Take a Joke? When Trash Talk Crosses the Line (on.wsj.com)
James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, is raising lots of cash and giving Democrats hope that they can capture statewide office for the first time since the 1990s (on.wsj.com)
NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a powerful observatory device that will study so-called dark matter and hunt for other planets (on.wsj.com)
Employers Are Making Job Candidates Jump Through Hoops to Prove They’re Real (on.wsj.com)
Steak ’n Shake is betting that beef tallow and grass-fed beef will draw diners as it embraces the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda (on.wsj.com)
Social Security’s looming insolvency is the country’s most foreseeable problem, threatening automatic benefit cuts in 2032. Congress is trying to work up the nerve to solve it. (on.wsj.com)
‘A Roth IRA on Steroids’: Wealthy Americans Find Another Tax-Free Way to Invest (on.wsj.com)
How ‘I Will Always Love You’ Almost Cost Dolly Parton 3 Million (on.wsj.com)
Why Syracuse Can’t Attract the Students It Needs to Pay the Bills (on.wsj.com)
Inside Trump’s plan to give the Pentagon a stake in Venezuela’s oil riches (on.wsj.com)
As the start of the school year approaches, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is locked in an unlikely showdown with a powerful classroom ally: the New York City teachers union (on.wsj.com)
The enrollment crisis taking down smaller schools is now hitting bigger, brand-name universities. (on.wsj.com)
Nearly 70 years after the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, there is more man-made material in space than ever before (on.wsj.com)
Good Good Was Golf’s Hottest Company—Until an Ad Went Badly, Badly Wrong (on.wsj.com)
Scientists monitoring data from satellites and ocean buoys declared the onset of El Niño in June. It is shaping up to be among the strongest in living memory. (on.wsj.com)
The Silicon Valley playbook is failing AI. And the messier things become, the more out of touch many tech leaders appear, writes the WSJ columnist @timkhiggins (on.wsj.com)
The U.S. has rushed so many munitions to the Middle East to fight Iran that planners are concerned the loss of firepower is diminishing the military’s ability to defend against potential threats from China and Russia, U.S. officials said (on.wsj.com)
More Americans now support school phone bans than ever before. Do they work? Locking up student phones leads to improved well-being but so far has minimal effect on test scores, writes @juliejargon. (on.wsj.com)
Here’s how the drug industry’s biggest revenue cliff in decades is playing out, in seven charts (on.wsj.com)
Republicans Are Worried About the Midterms. Trump Is Focused on His Legacy. (on.wsj.com)
The Trailblazing Business Savvy That Built Dolly Inc. Into an Empire (on.wsj.com)