The Wall Street Journal
Patients Evacuated in Race to Trace Deadly Virus
OUTBREAK: Three people, including two with acute hantavirus symptoms, were moved Wednesday from the MV Hondius off Cape Verde. Swiss authorities were trying to trace the contacts of a man who became ill after leaving the cruise ship.
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Most—Except a Few Sharks— Lose on Prediction Markets
Share of profitable traders on Polymarket, by trading frequency John Pederson, 33, couldn’t work. The former Outback Steakhouse line cook was recovering from a car crash and low on money. Kalshi, the prediction market, promised a quick way to fix that....
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Global Economy Powers Ahead Despite Growing Energy Shock
One of the major surprises about the gravest energy shock since the 1970s is how resilient much of the world has been. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has yanked around 13 million barrels of oil a day from global energy supplies. Blackouts have...
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Twin Spires and Traditions Herald Derby Day
TRAINER BRAD COX has won a raft of the world’s most prestigious horse races, including the Dubai World Cup and the Breeders’ Cup Classic. His horses have earned more than $40 million since the start of 2025, making him the leading trainer in North...
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Welcome Back to Caracas
BANNER DAY: The pilot of an American Eagle plane waved a Venezuelan flag after flying from Miami to Caracas on Thursday. It was the first direct U.S. commercial flight there since 2019.
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Powell Plans To Remain On Fed Board
WASHINGTON—Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he would stay on the central bank’s board after his chairmanship ends next month to defend the institution from what he called unprecedented legal attacks from the Trump administration. His decision...
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King Urges U.S. to Keep Special Ties
WASHINGTON—King Charles III issued a veiled plea for President Trump not to turn his back on the trans-Atlantic alliance between the U.K. and its former colony during a rare address to Congress to mark 250 years of U.S. independence. During a speech...
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In Tense Times, King Aims to Keep Calm, Carry On
TEA PARTY: Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla kick off their Washington visit Monday with tea at the White House with the Trumps. The trip, marking 250 years of U.S. independence from Britain, is meant to soothe tense U.S.-U.K. relations.
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Security Flaw Left President Exposed To D.C. Gunman
At the same hotel where then-President Ronald Reagan was shot 45 years ago, it was remarkably easy for a shooter to charge toward a ballroom where President Trump—along with his cabinet members and the reporters who cover his administration—were dining...
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Iran Divisions Frustrate Peace Efforts
Tensions between Iranian leaders over talks with the U.S. spilled into the open this week, highlighting how difficult it will be for President Trump to secure the diplomatic win he wants to end the war. The disagreements were apparent in the first...
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U.S. Forces Capture Ships Carrying Iranian Oil
The Iranian-flagged oil tanker Dorena slipped past a U.S. Navy cordon and was headed into the Indian Ocean when it switched off its location signal and went dark. The ship, whose movements were tracked by shipping-intelligence firm Kpler, is one of...
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Wildfires Explode Along Georgia-Florida Border
IN FLAMES: The Pineland Road Fire, one of multiple blazes, rages Wednesday in southeast Georgia. Dozens of homes have been destroyed and several pets killed. Drought, low humidity and changeable winds created ideal conditions for the outbreaks.
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Warsh Pledges Independence At Fed Hearing
President Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, told senators Tuesday he would chart a sharp departure from the central bank’s recent approach while promising to maintain institutional independence from a president who has repeatedly...
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Tailwind Lifts Spirits, Helps Set Boston Record
BIG STEPS: More than 30,000 runners strode down Boylston Street toward the finish line Monday at the Boston Marathon. Men’s defending champion John Korir broke the course record, riding a tailwind to win in 2 hours, 1 minute, 52 seconds.
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Big Oil Explores Farther Afield To Dodge Middle East Turmoil
Exxon Mobil, Chevron and other energy companies are speeding up their searches for new oil-and-gas prospects— far away from the perils of the war in the Middle East. Exxon recently outlined a potential plan to pump as much as $24 billion into...
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U.S. and Iran Signal Easing Of Tensions
A top Iranian official raised hopes of a breakthrough in the standoff between Washington and Tehran when he said the Strait of Hormuz is “completely open,” while President Trump said a U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports would remain in force,...
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Virginia Ex-Lieutenant Governor Kills Wife, Self
A body is removed Thursday from the Annandale, Va., home where police say former Lt. Gov Justin Fairfax fatally shot his wife, Cerina, before killing himself. Two teens were in the house when the murder-suicide occurred but were unharmed.
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Pope Blasts ‘Chains of Corruption’ on Africa Trip
BLUNT GUEST: Pope Leo urged Cameroon to break ‘the chains of corruption, which disfigure authority and strip it of credibility.’ President Paul Biya, who won an October contested election, and his wife, Chantal, hosted the pope in Yaoundé on Wednesday.
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Europe Presses Fallback Plan If U.S. Retreats From NATO
fallback plan to ensure Europe can defend itself using NATO’s existing military structures if the U.S. pulls back is gaining traction after getting buy-in from Germany, a long-term opponent of a goit-alone approach. The officials working on the plans,...
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President’s Criticism of the Pope, Religious Image Stun Christians
WASHINGTON—President Trump’s decisions to post an AI-generated image depicting himself as a Christ-like figure and to fire off criticism of the pope triggered the most significant pushback from his Catholic and evangelical Christian supporters since he...
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Hungarian Voters Reject Orbán After 16-Year Rule
BUDAPEST—Prime Minister Viktor Orbán suffered a landslide defeat in Hungary’s election on Sunday, ending the 16year rule of a politician who had become a standard-bearer for populist right-wing leaders worldwide. With 98% of the votes counted, Péter...
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Artemis II Crew Returns From Historic Moon Trip
The astronauts on NASA’s moon mission returned home, completing a historic lunar flyby after drifting back to Earth under parachutes. The Orion capsule that ferried the crew during the mission landed off the coast of San Diego at 8:07 p.m. ET Friday,...
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Netanyahu Keeps on Fighting, But the Payoff Remains Unclear
JERUSALEM—Just before 1 a.m. Wednesday in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a phone call from President Trump, who told him that he was about to announce a cease-fire. The Israeli leader agreed to participate. But Israel, which wasn’t...
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Cease-Fire Teeters on Its First Day Iran threatens to keep strait closed in response to Israeli strikes on Lebanon
A two-week cease-fire between the U.S. and Iran was on tenterhooks Wednesday, as Israel launched massive attacks on Lebanon and Iran threatened to reverse its plan to open the Strait of Hormuz to traffic. Both the U.S. and Iran claimed victory on...
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Trump Backs Off Threat to Level Iran
President Trump backed down Tuesday from a threat to wipe out the entirety of Iranian civilization, saying he agreed to a two-week cease-fire deal with Iran in hopes the countries will be able to finalize a long-term peace agreement. “We have already...
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Astronauts Ride Into the Record Books
The Artemis astronauts have gone the distance—the longest in human history, in fact. Just before 2 p.m. EDT Monday, the astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission rode their Orion craft into the record books, flying more than 248,655 miles from...
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Force, Deception Were Crucial To U.S. Airman’s Rescue in Iran
For nearly two days, injured and alone, a U.S. aviator hid in a remote mountain crevice as Iranian forces and militias closed in on him with helicopters and drones. “God is good,” the Air Force colonel had radioed once he reached an elevated ridge, a...
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Pope Marks Solemn Good Friday Before Easter Joy
CROSS TO BEAR: Pope Leo XIV, in a photo provided by the Vatican, leads a Good Friday liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica, marking the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The 70-year-old will celebrate a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, his first Easter as...
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Astronauts Orbit Earth, Head Toward Moon
An overshadowed Earth is seen from the Artemis II astronauts’ Orion spacecraft on Thursday. The crew resolved several glitches before firing the main engine and heading at more than 20,000 miles an hour on their way to lunar orbit.
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Astronauts Soar Into First Moon Mission Since ’72
A NASA rocket carrying the four Artemis II astronauts took off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday on the first human spaceflight to orbit the moon in a half-century. They later began maneuvers preparatory to swinging onto a lunar path.
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Russian Oil Tanker Brings Cuba Some Relief
A Russian tanker carrying 730,000 barrels of oil docked early Tuesday in the northern Cuban port of Matanzas, bring- ing some brief relief to the fuel-starved island as its econ- omy comes to a grinding halt. President Trump’s decision to allow the...
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Bruised by Stocks, Investors Find Little Relief in Bonds
The worst rout in Treasurys since last April’s tariff chaos is exacerbating strain in financial markets, a stark demonstration of how war’s disruptions to oil flows are leaving investors with few places to shelter. The Hormuz blockade has spurred one...
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Trump Signs Order to Pay TSA Workers
WASHINGTON—President Trump directed federal officials to pay Transportation Security Administration workers, bypassing a gridlocked Congress after the latest proposal to fund the broader Department of Homeland Security ran aground Friday. The move,...
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Iran’s Missiles Still Wreak Havoc, Despite Pounding by U.S., Israel
The U.S. and Israel are pounding Iran’s missilelaunching sites, hitting some over and over across almost a month of war. But the missiles keep flying. Tehran shifted to firing from deeper inside its territory with longer range missiles, military...
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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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