Elon Musk Has Twitter’s Data, but Getting Answers on Spam Accounts May Be Tougher
Elon Musk has gained access to the Twitter data that he said was needed to complete his $44 billion acquisition,...
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CVS, Walmart and Rite Aid Limit Purchases of Plan B Pills After Surge in Demand
Some of the nation’s biggest retailers are rationing over-the-counter emergency contraceptive pills as demand spikes following the Supreme Court ruling...
Bidding Wars Overheated the Home-Buyer Market, Now They’re Coming for Renters
When Donna Jones and her husband looked to rent a home in Northern Virginia in February, they often received the...
Tesla, Ford and GM Raise EV Prices as Costs, Demand Grow
Auto makers are marking up electric vehicles to offset rising battery-material costs and capitalize on the interest caused by higher...
Pension Funds Plunge Into Riskier Bets—Just as Markets Are Struggling
U.S. public pension funds don’t have nearly enough money to pay for all their obligations to future retirees. A growing...
U.S. and G-7 Allies Detail Infrastructure Plan to Challenge China
TELFS-BUCHEN, Austria—The U.S. and allies on Sunday laid out plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars for infrastructure projects...
Pfizer’s Omicron-Targeting Covid-19 Vaccines Generate Stronger Immune Response
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE vaccines modified to target the Omicron variant produced a significantly larger immune response than the...
What It Takes to Buy Your First Home Now
Dylan Holland and Breanna Cameron started shopping for their first home in the Atlanta suburbs in December 2021, with a...
Fertility Doctors Move Embryos, Expecting Abortion Law Changes
Fertility companies and patients have been moving embryos and making contingency plans, anticipating that if Roe v. Wade were overturned,...
Chinese Internet Giants’ Ad Revenue Suffers as Business Confidence Wanes
Companies in China are cutting back on digital-ad spending as the economy slows and recurring Covid-19 outbreaks weigh on consumption,...
Jerome Powell Pressed Over How Fed Would Respond to Economic Slowdown
Lawmakers pressed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell over how the central bank would manage trade-offs it could confront if its...
WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Parent Meta Pulls Out of Sponsorship Deal for U.S. 250th Anniversary Project
WASHINGTON— Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. said Wednesday it has canceled its sponsorship agreement with the organization planning the federal...
Americans With ALS Look to Canada for Promising Drug the U.S. Hasn’t Approved
Canada approved Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s new drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis last week. Now some U.S. patients with the fatal...
U.S. Push for Exceptions in Europe’s Sanctions on Russian Oil Gains Traction
A U.S. push to pare back one of the European Union’s sanctions on Russian oil has tentatively started to gain...
Biden Expected to Call for Temporary Federal Gasoline Tax Suspension
WASHINGTON—President Biden is planning to call for a temporary suspension of the federal gasoline tax, according to people familiar with...
Lawyers Make Final Arguments in Fraud Case Against Former Theranos President
Government prosecutors in the criminal-fraud trial of Theranos Inc.’s former second-in-command, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, made their final pitch to the...
Biden Administration Targets Removal of Most Nicotine From Cigarettes
The Biden administration is moving forward on a plan to mandate the elimination of nearly all nicotine in cigarettes, a...
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Bayer Appeal on Roundup
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by Bayer AG to end thousands of lawsuits alleging its...
Biden Says He Is Near Decision on Backing Federal Gasoline-Tax Holiday
WASHINGTON—President Biden said Monday that he may make a decision on seeking a pause to the federal gasoline tax by...
GM and Ford, Driving to Beat Tesla, Turn on Each Other
Ten miles away at Ford F -0.18% Motor Co.’s headquarters, executives were plotting a pre-emptive public-relations strike, said people familiar...
