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What's News brings you the biggest news of the day, from business and finance to global and political developments that move markets. Get caught up in minutes twice a day on weekdays, then take a step back with our What’s News in Markets wrap-up on Saturday and our What’s News Sunday deep dive.
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How Startup Insiders Are Using IRAs to Stash Their Wealth
P.M. Edition for July 22. WSJ special writer Theo Francis explains how startup founders, hedge-fund managers and Silicon Valley insiders are using IRA...
Trump to Help Saudi Arabia Go Nuclear
A.M. Edition for July 22. In a landmark agreement, President Trump okays a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. WSJ’s Laurence Norman explains why the comm...
Chinese AI Models Are Worrying Washington and Silicon Valley
P.M. Edition for July 21. Recent AI models from China claim they’re just as powerful as some of the most cutting-edge models from OpenAI and Anthropic...
Can Disney Magic Save the Kraft Heinz Kingdom?
A.M. Edition for July 21. The White House claims trade discrimination in slapping new 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, including wine, hockey sticks and...
Why Retail Traders Are Over the Mag Seven
P.M. Edition for July 20. The Magnificent Seven have dominated the stock market for years. But now, as markets reporter Hannah Erin Lang discusses, th...
U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Collapses as American Death Toll Rises
A.M. Edition for July 20. As fighting between the U.S. and Iran intensifies, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Tehran’s actions speak louder than wo...
How Governments in the U.S. and Europe Are Stalling the AI Buildout
Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions on infrastructure to power AI, but they’ve run into a major roadblock: government regulation. From th...
What’s News in Markets: IBM’s Warning, Apple’s Comeback, Wall Street Cashes In
Can a 115-year old company reinvent itself for the AI era? And what does Apple’s rally say about the AI trade? Plus, why are Wall Street traders havin...
Taco Bell Stumbles on a Lettuce Crisis
P.M. Edition for July 17. Taco Bell has outpaced fast-food rivals for years, but contaminated lettuce could put a damper on its growing business. Heat...
Fact-Checking Trump’s Election Fraud Claims
A.M. Edition for July 17. President Trump is ramping up his efforts to sow doubt about election results, raising familiar but unproven claims about th...
The Trump Administration’s Latest Crackdown on Legal Immigration
P.M. Edition for July 16. A new regulation from the Trump administration will cap student visas to a maximum of four years, and require extensions to...
How the Surge in Listings Threatens Historic Stock Rally
A.M. Edition for July 16. President Trump mulls a further escalation of the war in Iran. That could include more airstrikes, targeting the fortified t...
Who Are the Millions of Americans Locked Out of the Job Market?
P.M. Edition for Wednesday, July 15. The U.S. labor market is in a great position, according to most key metrics. But two million people are still loo...
U.S. Rewards U.A.E. with Coveted AI Chips After Iran War
A.M. Edition for July 15. WSJ reporter Eliot Brown details how the U.A.E.’s years-long lobbying efforts have finally paid off, after the Trump adminis...
What’s Behind a Red-Hot Quarter for Bank Earnings
P.M. Edition for July 14. Big U.S. banks like JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America reported soaring profits in the second quarter. But c...
The Tech Company That Rejects 99.9% of Job Applicants
A.M. Edition for July 14. New York becomes the first state to ban data center construction as builders and operators across the U.S. move to cash out...
President Trump to Reimpose a U.S. Blockade of Iran
P.M. Edition for July 13. The standoff over the Strait of Hormuz heats up: President Trump says he is reinstating the U.S. blockade of Iranian shippin...
Stunned GOP Looks to Replace Graham After His Sudden Death
A.M. Edition for July 13. Republicans begin the scramble to replace Senator Lindsey Graham following his sudden death on Saturday evening. WSJ reporte...
More States Want to Tax the Rich. Here's How.
Voters in California are weighing a one-time tax on billionaires. Meanwhile, states including Maine and Massachusetts have already implemented income...
What’s News in Markets: Middle East Strikes Send Oil Higher, South Korean Chip Stocks Fall, SpaceX Stumbles
How are markets responding to renewed tensions in the Middle East? And why did Samsung’s blockbuster earnings send shares lower? Plus, why didn’t Spac...
Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging the AI Company Stole Trade Secrets
P.M. Edition for July 10. Apple’s lawsuit also names one of OpenAI’s top executives, a former Apple employee. Plus, Israeli intelligence about a possi...
Trillion-Dollar Chipmaker SK Hynix Lands on Nasdaq
A.M. Edition for July 10. The South Korean chip-making giant raised more than $26 billion in the largest share sale by a non-U.S. company. Plus, the E...
Why It’s So Hard to Crack Down on Deadly Counterfeit Air-Bag Parts
P.M. Edition for July 9. Federal safety officials have linked air-bags with counterfeit parts to at least 10 deaths in the U.S. since 2023. WSJ autos...
Beijing Weighs Curbs on the AI Models Americans Love
A.M. Edition for July 9. Maine’s populist Senate candidate Graham Platner drops out of the race under heavy pressure from Democrats. Plus, WSJ tech re...
U.S. Launches New Strikes on Iran
P.M. Edition for July 8. While there’s more fighting in the Middle East, the NATO summit ended with a show of unity between the U.S. and its European...
Trump Calls Off Iran Ceasefire
A.M. Edition for July 8. President Trump has lashed out at Iran’s leadership following a night of retaliatory strikes and said the ceasefire between W...
Oil Prices Have Fallen. So Why Haven’t Airfares?
P.M. Edition for July 7. Airlines raised prices after the Iran war to cover rising fuel costs. Now, fuel prices have fallen, but travelers may find th...
NATO Allies Announce Billions in New Spending to Placate Trump
A.M. Edition for July 7. As President Trump heads to Turkey for a NATO summit, Brussels Bureau Chief Daniel Michaels says the alliance is rushing to f...
Khamenei Funeral Is a Show of Defiance Against the U.S.
P.M. Edition for July 6. Crowds thronged the streets of Tehran today as part of the week of funeral events for Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader kil...
How the White House Overturned a World Cup Red Card
A.M. Edition for July 6. European leaders are preparing for the latest test in a fractured relationship with the Trump administration. Ahead of this w...
Why a Hot U.S. Job Market Cooled in June
P.M. Edition for July 2. The U.S. economy added fewer jobs than expected in June, changing investors’ expectations for a July interest-rate hike. We h...
Is There Already Too Much AI Computing Power?
A.M. Edition for July 2. A report that Meta plans to enter the cloud business to sell excess AI computing power has dragged down an array of tech stoc...
Inside the First Flight of the Qatari-Gifted Air Force One
P.M. Edition for July 1. Today President Trump flew to North Dakota in new digs: the Air Force One plane that was gifted by Qatar. Journal national se...
Inside Trump's Growing Crypto Fortune
A.M. Edition for July 1. The first family’s focus on crypto investing helped President Trump to a windfall of more than $1 billion in 2025, alongside...
Why the Supreme Court Upheld Birthright Citizenship
P.M. Edition for June 30. In the last day before its summer recess, the Supreme Court rejected President Trump’s effort to upend the longstanding guar...
U.S. Stocks Set To Close Out Blockbuster Quarter
A.M. Edition for June 30. A premarket rally in tech companies is putting U.S. stocks on track for their best quarter since 2020. Investors pouring int...
What the Lisa Cook Decision Means for the Fed’s Independence
P.M. Edition for June 29. The Supreme Court has ruled that President Trump can’t fire Fed governor Lisa Cook. Journal chief economics correspondent Ni...
A New Chinese AI Resets the Global Tech Race
A.M. Edition for June 29. Researchers find a new Chinese AI model is able to match the performance of Anthropic’s Mythos, a development WSJ tech repor...
Owning a Piece of America
Ever since the Homestead Act of 1862, the U.S. government has worked to help everyday Americans own a piece of their nation. One important innovation...
What’s News in Markets: AI Tales, Oracle Woes, Wendy’s Sizzles
Why are Micron and Cerebras telling two different AI stories? And why is Oracle one of the worst stocks this week? Plus, who’s behind Wendy’s big rall...