Nikki Haley’s Civil War Battlefield
Nikki Haley made a mess. Part of the job of running for president is being able to think on your feet and answer weird questions that come out of the blue. Enemies are always looking to trip you up. Voters want to see how you handle yourself under fire. It’s a necessary skill to answer […]
Maine Casts Its Ballot for Trump
This week’s huge in-kind contribution to Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is from Maine secretary of state Shenna Bellows, who announced Thursday that she will unilaterally delete Mr. Trump’s name from the presidential primary ballot. Maine is now the second state, after Colorado, to declare him a Jan. 6 insurrectionist under Section 3 of the 14th […]
Pardon Lt. Ridge Alkonis – WSJ
Japan helped mend a diplomatic sore before Christmas when Tokyo transferred an imprisoned U.S. Navy lieutenant back into American hands. But this international incident isn’t over, and the outcome matters to U.S. troops wondering if they’re vulnerable to rough justice while stationed abroad. Lt. Ridge Alkonis was assigned to a Navy destroyer in Japan in […]
Shocker: Sanity Prevails in New York
In the rare good news department, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ended the year by vetoing two bills that would have driven more businesses and high earners out of the state. Are declining tax revenue and population spurring a political awakening? It would be nice to think so. Ms. Hochul vetoed a bill that would […]
What to Watch: The 18 Best Movies and TV Shows From December
By WSJ Arts in Review Staff Here’s a roundup of the month’s most noteworthy movies and TV shows, as covered by The Wall Street Journal’s critics. Poor Things Sumptuous, dazzling and glorious seem barely adequate as descriptors of “Poor Things,” a two-hour-and-20-minute cinematic fable of self-discovery. Writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos, the dryly weird Greek filmmaker who has […]
Opinion | Nikki Haley Erases Civil War History
Nikki Haley drew criticism this week for what she didn’t say. As she campaigned in New Hampshire for the Republican presidential nomination, a person asked her to name the cause of the Civil War. Ms. Haley, a former South Carolina governor, joked it was not an “easy question.” She then mentioned “how government was going […]
Electric Mandates Have California Truckers Charging Overtime
Dec. 29, 2023 12:52 pm ET Compton, Calif. Electric trucks are supposed to save the world, but they’re wasting Mike Stanley’s time. Mr. Stanley, a longtime trucker whose rectangular beard flows down to his chest, now leads operations in the main Los Angeles office of IMC, a Tennessee-based drayage trucking company that carries cargo to […]
Columbia Symbolized Campus Strife Over the Israel-Hamas War. What Changed?
In the weeks after Oct. 7, Columbia University was the scene of rising tensions over the Israel-Hamas war on American college campuses. A Jewish student said he was assaulted after putting up posters of hostages. Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian students accused one another of support for genocide in a series of heated protests and counter-protests. But […]
One dead following cheese recall over E. coli
A person dies in Scotland after an outbreak of the infection in the UK. Source link
CES 2024 Preview: Get Ready for a ‘Tsunami’ of AI
If you’re waiting for the hubbub over generative AI to die down, maybe pull up a chair. The buzz around artificial intelligence shows no signs of quieting—a fact that will become all too obvious at this year’s CES. CES, the consumer electronics industry’s largest annual gathering in the US, is returning to Las Vegas on […]