Updated Jan. 16, 2024 2:07 pm ET The U.S. military was searching for two Navy SEALs lost at sea during an operation that seized Iranian-made missile parts bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen, as the U.S. launched another series of strikes against the group. The waters off the Yemen coastline have become a zone of … Read more
Updated Jan. 15, 2024 3:19 pm ET The Israeli military is close to completing its most intensive phase of fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s defense minister said Monday, warning that the lack of a plan for postwar Gaza could hurt the military campaign. In northern Gaza, the most intensive phase of fighting … Read more
Updated Jan. 11, 2024 7:58 am ET Armed, uniformed men boarded an oil tanker off the coast of Oman that has been at the center of a dispute between Iran and the U.S. and changed its course toward Iranian waters on Thursday, according to maritime intelligence firms, marking a further escalation along shipping routes in … Read more
Listen to article (1 minute) When Braxton Clark was in high school, he used marijuana to control his emotions. At 17, he used it every day. When he was 18, he had a psychotic episode after using cannabis and was admitted to a hospital. He spent the next three years sober. Then one day he … Read more
Updated Jan. 6, 2024 10:31 pm ET The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a temporary grounding and immediate inspections of dozens of Boeing 737 MAX jets, after one of the planes made an emergency landing when a section of the aircraft ripped away in midair. Passengers and flight attendants described a harrowing incident during an Alaska … Read more
Updated Jan. 6, 2024 12:14 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Tibet is no longer “Tibet,” not in China anyway. Chinese officials are increasingly using the term “Xizang,” the official English spelling of the name that China’s ethnic Han majority applies to the Tibetan homeland on the country’s far western frontier. Copyright ©2024 Dow … Read more
Employers hired at a solid pace in December, capping a year of steady gains for a job market that continues to defy expectations and remains a bright spot in a gradually cooling economy. The U.S. economy added 216,000 jobs last month with most industries increasing employment, the Labor Department reported Friday. That was larger than … Read more
Updated Jan. 4, 2024 2:13 pm ET In its certification, Airbus was required to prove that its A350 aircraft can be evacuated in less than 90 seconds. In Tuesday’s collision in Japan, the last crew member escaped the aircraft after 18 minutes—but there were still no casualties. The sizable discrepancy, for the moment, represents a … Read more
Updated Dec. 12, 2023 6:12 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Israel’s military has begun pumping seawater into Hamas’s vast complex of tunnels in Gaza, according to U.S. officials briefed on the Israeli military’s operations, part of an intensive effort to destroy the underground infrastructure that has underpinned the group’s operations. The move to … Read more
A gradual cooling of the still-solid labor market extended into November, renewing optimism the economy is still on a glide path for a soft landing. Employers added a seasonally adjusted 199,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, slower than earlier in the year but consistent with gains before the pandemic. When excluding the … Read more