The Wall Street Journal
Anglicans Install First Woman Head
A former cancer nurse who became a priest at the age of 40 was installed as archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday, in a ceremony celebrating her election as the first woman to lead the Church of England. Although Sarah Mullally, 63, became archbishop...
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Oil Supply Crunch Is Spreading From Mideast to Rest of World
For a glimpse of how much higher energy prices could still soar, look beyond the prices Wall Street analysts normally track for West Texas Intermediate in the U.S. and Brent in Europe. At the center of the supply squeeze in the Middle East, traders...
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Pilots Killed as Plane Rams Firetruck at LaGuardia
TARMAC TRAGEDY: An Air Canada Express jetliner struck a firetruck on a runway at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, killing two pilots and injuring 41 people. The airport, which has had a shortage of air-control staff, reopened Monday.
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ICE Gets New Role as Airport Security Lines Grow
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are set to begin trying to ease bottlenecks at airports on Monday, as the Trump administration scrambles to develop a plan to end hourslong security lines amid a continuing partial government...
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Tehran’s Airstrikes Prove Persistent
NO SHELTER: An Israeli family crouches on the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as sirens warn of an incoming Iranian missile. The U.S. is racing to ship air defenses to the Gulf, and the war has sparked attacks on American diplomatic missions.
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U.S. Hails War Gains Even as It Seeks Out Assistance
WASHINGTON—President Trump and top aides spent the weekend framing their Iran operation as a resounding military success while imploring other countries to join their effort to resolve a worsening energy crisis related to the Strait of Hormuz. The...
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Oil Market Turmoil Expected To Linger as Price Tops $100
The oil market is waking up to a new reality: Disruption to the Gulf’s energy supplies isn’t ending anytime soon. When the U.S. and Israel first attacked Iran, some traders expected days of disorder. Now they are expecting the turmoil to last weeks or...
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Nations Initiate Record Release Of Oil Reserves
The International Energy Agency said its member countries would release 400 million barrels of oil from their emergency stocks, the largest reserves distribution in history, in a bid to bring down crude prices that have soared during the war with...
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Grip on Strait Lets Iran Export More Oil Than Before the War
Iran is exporting more oil through the Strait of Hormuz than before the war, showing it is in control of a strategic waterway that it has closed off to the rest of the region’s oil producers. As Gulf Arab oil producers from Saudi Arabia to Iraq cut...
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Tehran Regime Gives No Indication Of Yielding Amid War’s Heavy Toll
After 10 days of punishing airstrikes by the U.S. and Israel, Iran’s leadership is battered but showing signs it is still in control and able to keep fighting. Senior Iranian political figures, while hunted from the air and limiting their appearances...
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A Long-Feared Gulf Oil Squeeze Begins to Hit the Global Economy
The chairman of oil producer DNO was flying from New York to Oslo early on Feb. 28 when he told staff to turn off the company’s oil wells in Iraq. America and Israel had just attacked neighboring Iran. Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani wasn’t taking any chances,...
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Embattled Regime Steps Up Strategy to Survive
DEFIANCE: Women hold posters of slain leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during Friday prayers in Tehran. Iran’s leaders had crafted a plan, now playing out, to escalate the fighting across the Middle East in the event Khamenei was killed.
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Pentagon Races to Secure Cash For Iran Operations, Munitions
Pentagon officials are drawing up plans to replenish U.S. munitions expended fighting Iran over the past week, according to people familiar with the matter, a step in the Trump administration’s efforts to drastically increase the number of missiles...
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U.S. Sub Torpedoes Iranian Warship
A torpedo from an American submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, while the U.S. also shot down an Iranian missile that was heading toward a key Turkish military base. The dayslong Middle East...
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War Spreads in Mideast, Roils Markets
A broadening Middle East conflict sparked stock-market declines from New York to Seoul, with an early spike in oil prices touching off fears about an economic slowdown and a fresh bout of inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid more than...
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Trump Sees Weekslong War Timeline
U.S. attacks on Iran are projected to last four or five weeks but could go longer, President Trump said on Monday as he and other officials offered new rationales for the strikes conducted with Israel since Saturday. “This was our last best chance to...
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U.S., Israel Intensify Attacks on Iran
U.S. and Israeli airstrikes pummeled Iran for a second day on Sunday, a day after the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as Tehran responded with a retaliatory barrage that threatened to further destabilize the Middle East. Three U.S....
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Pakistan Calls Conflict With Afghans ‘Open War’
HOSTILITIES: Taliban security personnel in Khost province watch for Pakistani aircraft on Friday. Strikes occurred in Kabul and along the border after Pakistan said it had lost patience with what it said were attacks by Afghan forces and a militant...
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Mamdani Peddles NYC Housing Plan to Trump
ODD COUPLE: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited President Trump to discuss building 12,000 housing units. He gave Trump a copy of a famous tabloid edition, right, and a fake one. The mayor posted this photo on his X account.
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Iran Nuclear Enrichment on Hold, Experts Say, Amid U.S. Buildup
Iran’s atomic program hasn’t advanced significantly since the U.S. and Israel struck its three main nuclear sites last June, according to experts and diplomats, despite Washington’s top negotiator saying Tehran could make fissile material for a bomb...
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Trump Seeks to Quell Anxiety On Economy, Touts Turnaround
WASHINGTON—President Trump told a national audience on Tuesday that he had unleashed a new age of economic prosperity. One thing he didn’t say: I feel your pain. At the core of Trump’s State of the Union address was a calculation that he can persuade...
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Storm Brings Much of Northeast to a Standstill
A major nor’easter crippled much of the East Coast on Monday, shuttering airports, closing roads and dumping more than 2 feet of snow that set records in some areas. The storm slammed cities from Maine to Virginia, bringing travel in hubs such as...
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Overtime Goal Lifts U.S. to Olympic Hockey Gold
THEY’RE NO. 1: Jack Hughes of the men’s hockey squad gave his all—including two teeth—as his goal beat Canada, 2-1. The win on the last day of the Milan Cortina Winter Games delivered the U.S. its first Olympic championship since 1980.
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Court Rejects Trump’s Tariffs
WASHINGTON—President Trump’s global tariffs are illegal, the Supreme Court ruled Friday, in a stinging repudiation of a signature White House initiative. The 6-3 decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, removes a diplomatic tool Trump has...
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U.K. Ex-Prince Arrested Amid Epstein Probe
LONDON—U.K. police arrested Andrew MountbattenWindsor, the former Prince Andrew, on suspicion of misconduct in public office, as revelations linked to Jeffrey Epstein roil British politics and the royal family. King Charles III said he had learned of...
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Shiffrin Blazes to Victory in Olympic Comeback
RED, WHITE, BLUE AND GOLD: U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin won the women’s slalom Wednesday at the Olympics in Italy, adding to golds she amassed in 2014 and 2018. The 30-year-old overcame surgery after a crash and puncture wound in 2024.
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New Orleans Enjoys a Last Bash Before Lent
REVEL WITH A CAUSE: Mardi Gras celebrants splash their colors in the city’s Jackson Square on Fat Tuesday, the end of the weekslong Carnival season. Today marks Ash Wednesday, the Christian period of sacrifice ahead of Easter.
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Companies, Beset by Costs, Are Jacking Up Prices Again
Companies from Levi Strauss to McCormick, among others, say they are raising prices early this year on items from bluejeans and spices to housewares and industrial products. After holding the line for several months, companies— big and small—have...
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Skating’s ‘Quad God’ Is Mortal, After All: ‘I Blew It’
COLD AND MISERABLE: Ilia Malinin, the heavily favored American figure skater known for his quadruple jump, crashed out of medal contention Friday at the Winter Olympics in Italy, falling twice to finish eighth. ‘I blew it,’ he told NBC.
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Olympics Bars Ukrainian Over Tribute Helmet
OUT: Skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified from Winter Games in Italy on Thursday for wearing a helmet with images of Ukrainian athletes killed during the war with Russia. ‘I do not get my moment at this Olympics,’ he said.
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Bondi, Lawmakers Trade Angry Words on Epstein
WASHINGTON—Attorney General Pam Bondi defended the Justice Department’s release of files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation during a fiery congressional hearing in which she traded barbs with Democrats, praised President Trump and declined to...
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Seattle Dominates Patriots in Super Bowl LX
From the start of this Super Bowl, the Seattle Seahawks defense had New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye running for his life. Time after time, the star passer dropped back to pass only to be instantly swarmed by Seattle defenders. By halftime,...
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Cuba, Feeling Oil Squeeze, Reaches Out to U.S.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said his government is willing to engage with the Trump administration as the Communist island braces for severe fuel shortages after the U.S. threatened to impose trade sanctions on countries shipping oil to the...
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A Tiny Rembrandt Draws a Roaring $17.9 Million
CAT EYES: A chalk drawing of a recumbent lion by Rembrandt sold for $17.9 million at a Sotheby’s auction on Wednesday, smashing the Dutch master’s $3.7 million record for a work on paper and reflecting the strength of the art market’s recovery.
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Russia Resumes Attacks to Cripple Ukraine Energy
WARM HEARTS: Polish volunteers served soup in a bitterly cold Kyiv on Tuesday as Russia launched one of its biggest strikes on Ukrainian cities. The air attack hit thermal power plants and left nearly 2,000 apartment buildings without heat.
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Handful of Gazans Enter Egypt as Border Opens
The Rafah border crossing connecting Gaza with Egypt reopened on Monday, a longawaited step that got off to a rocky start with only a few Palestinians able to leave and enter the war-torn enclave. Reopening the Rafah crossing was the final major...
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What’s News
Business & Finance ♦ Apple’s normally generous profit margins will face pressure this year, analysts said, as artificial-intelligence companies begin to outbid the iPhone maker in the race to secure components. A1 ♦ Trump joked during a speech that...
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Plan to Save Elephants Turns Deadly
LUMEZI, Zambia—Three-year-old Dickson Ngwira was deep into his afternoon nap when half a dozen elephants, using trunks as trowels, gouged a fivefoot-wide hole in the brick wall near his bed. His mother, Matilda Banda, was caught out in the open....
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Deal Is Reached to Avert Shutdown
WASHINGTON—President Trump and Senate Democrats said there is a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security, as negotiations continue on proposed restrictions to immigration enforcement. Under...
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Fed Holds Key Interest Rate Steady
WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve entered a new holding pattern on interest rates Wednesday and signaled little urgency to resume cuts after contentious reductions at officials’ three previous meetings. The decision to hold the benchmark federal-funds...
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Rep. Omar Is Attacked at Town Hall in Minneapolis
Rep. Ilhan Omar was unhurt after a man charged at her and sprayed an unknown liquid on her Tuesday as she spoke at a town hall in Minneapolis. The attacker was tackled and taken into custody, while the Minnesota Democrat continued her event.
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U.S. Digs Out From Monster Winter Storm
SNOW SLAM: People shoveled Monday in Boston, where over 17 inches of snow fell in the weekend storm that had nearly 200 million Americans under weather warnings. More than 710,000 households from Texas to Maine were still without power.
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Winter Wallops Much of the U.S.
A massive winter storm is disrupting swaths of the U.S., dropping snow, freezing roads and causing thousands of flight cancellations and power outages. Almost 200 million people were in the path of the storm, which is straining the nation’s power grid...
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Winter Storm Threatens Much of the Nation
A store employee restocks bags of ice melt Friday in Bethesda, Md., ahead of a massive weekend storm expected to bring snow, sleet, ice and frigid cold from Texas to New England, affecting about half the U.S. population.
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Jan. 6 Prosecutor Smith: ‘I Will Not Be Intimidated’
CAPITOL CONFRONTATION: Former special counsel Jack Smith said at a House hearing Thursday he expects the Trump administration will seek to prosecute him for investigating the president. Afterward, Trump said he wants to do just that.
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Trump, With Deal in Sight, Backs Off Greenland Threats
DAVOS, Switzerland—President Trump said Wednesday that he wouldn’t deploy the military to take control of Greenland and called off promised tariffs on European nations, a head-spinning U-turn as he said he “formed the framework of a future deal”...
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Trump’s Threats to Allies Stir Worry U.S. Has Lost Its Way
DAVOS, Switzerland—President Trump is showing up for an annual gathering of the global elite here in the Swiss Alps, swinging a wrecking ball at the international order. Trump insists he will take possession of Greenland from NATO ally Denmark—by...
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Canada Warms to China After U.S. Trade Spat
China and Canada agreed to lower tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles and Canadian canola oil as a part of what their leaders called a “new strategic partnership,” with U.S. trade frictions looming. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, after...
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Iran Suspends Plans to Execute Detained Protesters, Trump Says
President Trump said he was told Iran suspended plans to move forward with executions of antigovernment protesters, hours after Tehran signaled it was preparing swift trials and executions in defiance of a warning from Trump and the threat of U.S....
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U.S. Tries Fresh Tack on Regime Change
In the aftermath of the U.S. raid to seize Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, Washington is trying a new approach to regime change: Keep the regime—and try to change its behavior. Having removed Maduro from power, the Trump administration has kept...
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As Turmoil Rocks Tehran, Regime Vows Crackdown
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Friday that the theocratic government won’t back down amid fast-growing protests and threats from President Trump to intervene. Protests erupted again Friday night in Tehran, a day after the largest...
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Minneapolis on Edge After Fatal ICE Shooting
DIVIDED: Authorities investigated Wednesday after an ICE officer shot to death a woman in her car during a confrontation with agents in Minneapolis. City and federal officials offered starkly different narratives about what led to the killing.
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President’s Greenland Demand Spreads Alarm Among Allies
President Trump’s embrace of military interventionism in Latin America has led to the diplomatic equivalent of embarrassed coughing from the U.S.’s allies in Europe. But his renewed designs on the Danish territory of Greenland are causing growing...
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U.S. Raid Leaves Venezuela in Confusion
President Trump ticked off a list of reasons for his decision to capture and arrest Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. He talked about the Maduro regime sending illicit drugs and gangs to the U.S. and nationalizing American oil-company assets. One...
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Families Desperately Search For Survivors of Swiss Fire
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland—Umberto Marcucci was asleep in this Swiss mountain resort town when the phone rang around 2 a.m. on New Year’s Day. A fire had engulfed a local bar popular with teenagers, and his 16-year-old son, Manfredi, was...
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Mamdani Takes Oath as NYC Mayor
Zohran Mamdani became the mayor of New York City on Thursday, declaring he will govern “expansively and audaciously” and promising to make good on his pledge to lower the cost of living for New Yorkers. “We may not always succeed, but never will we be...
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Stocks Defy Tariff Jitters in ’25
The U.S. stock market is closing out 2025 near an alltime high, with the S&P 500’s 17% gain vaulting the index toward its seventh-best threeyear run on record. The yearslong rally appeared to end abruptly in the spring with the rollout of President...
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Trump Cites Progress After Talking to Putin and Zelensky
PALM BEACH, Fla.— Talks on Sunday to end the Ukraine war spurred fresh optimism from President Trump yet no clear signs that the two sides reached a breakthrough as Russia continues to push for land gains and reject a ceasefire. Ukrainian President...
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U.S.’s Missile Strikes in Nigeria Wade Into Fractured Landscape
The Christmas Day attack in Nigeria ordered by President Trump targeted two alleged Islamic State camps with more than a dozen missiles fired from a U.S. Navy warship, killing multiple militants, according to a U.S. official and a Pentagon...
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Christmas Eve Mass Is Milestone for New Pope
In his first Christmas Day message, Pope Leo XIV urged the faithful to shed indifference in the face of those who have lost everything, such as in Gaza, those who are impoverished, such as in Yemen, and the many migrants who cross the Mediterranean Sea...
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Consumers Fuel Surge in Growth
Robust spending by U.S. consumers drove greaterthan-expected economic expansion in the third quarter, and the strongest growth rate in two years. Gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced across the economy, rose at a...
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Vance Rallies the Right as His Allies Look to ’28
PHOENIX—Before Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, he was readying for JD Vance to become the next president of the United States. Now, Erika Kirk is determined to make that happen. In her kickoff remarks for Turning Point USA’s first major event since his...
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In Year-End Q&A, Putin Tries to Rally Russians
HOME THEATER: A woman in St. Petersburg watched a TV broadcast of President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference on Friday. Putin used the event, which lasted 4½ hours, to try to bolster support for continuing the war in Ukraine.
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New York City Catholics Get a New Shepherd
Pope Leo XIV appointed a bishop from Illinois as the new leader of New York’s Catholic archdiocese, succeeding conservative Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is retiring. Leo named Bishop Ronald Hicks, 58 years old, as archbishop on Thursday. Hicks who,...
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Australians Pay Tearful Tribute to Jewish Victims
HEARTBREAK: The parents of 10-year-old Matilda Britvan, one of the 15 people killed in a shooting that targeted a Hanukkah celebration Sunday, mourn at a vigil for the victims in Sydney on Tuesday. The attack has shaken up a tightknit community.
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Troubled Son Is Arrested in Reiners’ Killing
SHOCK: The Los Angeles home where actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were slain. Their son Nick, who has battled addiction, was held on suspicion of murder. For video on Rob Reiner’s career, scan the code with the articles on
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