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How America Celebrated Its Previous Big Birthday in 1976
Men dressed as Revolutionary War soldiers exit a cab on the way to a bicentennial exhibit in New York, February 1976. Dave Pickoff/AP Men dressed as Revolutionary War soldiers exit a cab on the way to a bicentennial exhibit in New York, February 1976. Dave Pickoff/AP “USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker.
By Rachel Wolfe and Dave Cole | Photography by Giancarlo D’Agostaro for WSJ BATON ROUGE, La.—At a busy intersection near highway 190, the Food N’ Geaux gas station sits at an economic crossroads: where Americans’ patience and resilience are tested every time they fill up. On Thursday, the price for a gallon of regular gas with a credit card was $3.84 at Food N’ Geaux. Louisiana’s statewide average hit $3.79, a steep climb from the average of $2.72 just a month ago, according to AAA.
One Gas Station, 12 Customers, and a Test of America’s Patience
By Rachel Wolfe and Dave Cole | Photography by Giancarlo D’Agostaro for WSJ BATON ROUGE, La.—At a busy intersection near highway 190, the Food N’ Geaux gas station sits at an economic crossroads: where Americans’ patience and resilience are tested every time they fill up. On Thursday, the price for a gallon of regular gas with a credit card was $3.84 at Food N’ Geaux. Louisiana’s statewide average hit $3.79, a steep climb from the average of $2.72 just a month ago, according to AAA.
A Movie Lover’s Guide to the Business of Work
The workplace has always been ready for its close-up. From Fritz Lang’s German Expressionist “Metropolis” to “Wall Street” in the 1980s and 2011’s “Horrible Bosses,” offices, factories and other worksites have often been the setting—indeed, a main character—in the movie canon.
The Breakup 130 Years in the Making, GE Makes Its Final Split
At its height, General Electric was one of the biggest companies in the U.S., touching nearly every part of life with its lightbulbs, movies, refrigerators, plane engines and MRI machines, among other things. After two decades of turmoil, GE is much smaller. It sold off many of those businesses, shedding jobs and debt. On April 2, it will finish its breakup by splitting apart its power and aerospace divisions.
Female Logger. Male Dental Hygienist. Meet the Labor Force’s Unicorns Original
As an apprentice, Irving sometimes had to fight for the opportunity to learn, she said. Male electricians would step in to do something for her, often trying to be helpful. “You have to be assertive, because your economic security depends on how well you know your trade,” she says. Photo: Shauna Irving
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
I’ve just finished putting up the Christmas tree, and although ‘tis the season to be jolly, I’ve never been one to get too excited about it all. This year hasn’t been great on the family front either, so there’s been even more reason for ‘bah humbug’ to be the sentiment of choice from my direction.
Inside Walmart’s Warehouse of the Future
BROOKSVILLE, Fla.—Inside a sprawling Walmart warehouse here, hundreds of jobs slinging boxes are changing into roles managing robotic arms, conveyor belts and screens.
SpaceX's Starship Explosion: How We Got Here
SpaceX’s Starship successfully lifted off at roughly 9:30 a.m. ET Thursday from a launchpad in south Texas. The uncrewed flight was the first big test of a vehicle that Elon Musk wants to use for pioneering deep-space missions. SpaceX Minutes later, Starship experienced what SpaceX called a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." The explosion happened after Starship failed to separate from the Super Heavy booster rocket and begin flying on its own.
The End of Netflix's DVD Service: a Look Back at the Red-Envelope Era
Mailed DVDs “paved the way for the shift to streaming,” Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said in a blog post announcing the end of the DVD service, citing the range of titles offered and the ability to binge watch. The company reported $145.7 million in revenue from DVDs in 2022, down 20% from the year before. Jordan Strauss/Invision/Associated Press
The Ukraine War Sends More U.S.-Fracked Gas to Europe
Cities across Europe are keeping the lights on and heating homes with natural gas fracked from wells in Texas and Louisiana, as U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas to the continent reach record levels. After its tanks rolled into Ukraine, Russia all but cut its flows of pipeline gas to Europe, by far its largest customer. The curtailment forced Europe to tap into supplies of American LNG like never before, its shores attracting tankers filled with the liquid gas by the hundreds.
The Ukraine War Sends More U.S.-Fracked Gas to Europe
By Benoît Morenne , Dave Cole and Dan DeLorenzo March 3, 2023 5:30 am ET Cities across Europe are keeping the lights on and heating homes with natural gas fracked from wells in Texas and Louisiana, as U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas to the continent reach record levels. After its tanks rolled into Ukraine, Russia all but cut its flows of pipeline gas to Europe, by far its largest customer.
Check Out Images of NASA’s DART Mission to Redirect a Distant Asteroid
About the length of a bus when fully deployed, the DART spacecraft consists of two large solar arrays jutting out from a boxy structure the size of a refrigerator. The spacecraft weighs about 1,300 pounds. Ed Whitman/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA
Photos: A Preview of NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission
The launch will be a practice run for the agency’s big rocket, the Space Launch System, or SLS, and the spacecraft sitting on top, named Orion. SLS is meant to blast Orion off of Earth and toward an orbit around the moon. Craig Bailey/Florida Today/Associated Press
Serena Williams Retires From Tennis: Serena Inc. Is Getting Going
Serena in 2003 signed a five-year, $40 million deal with Nike Inc. that made her one of the highest-paid female athletes, launching a two-decade pairing that was cemented this year with the opening of the Serena Williams Building on the company’s Beaverton, Ore., campus. Theo Karanikos/Zuma Press
A Guide to NASA’s Stunning Images Captured by the James Webb Telescope
By Peter Champelli , Taylor Umlauf and July 12, 2022 4:45 pm ET The National Aeronautics and Space Administration released its first set of scientific images from the James Webb Space Telescope, showcasing the instrument’s ability to peer deeper into space and further back in time than ever before. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope orbiting Earth, which detects mostly visible light, Webb detects mostly infrared light from its orbital perch about 1 million miles from our planet.
Billionaire Buddies: The Friendship of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett
In 2020, Mr. Gates resigned from the boards of Berkshire and Microsoft, saying he wanted to spend more time on his philanthropy. The following year, he and Ms. French Gates divorced, and Mr. Buffett resigned from the Gates Foundation board. Andy Wong/Associated Press Jie Zhao/Corbis/Getty Images
イーロン・マスク氏はツイッター社を完全買収できるか？ テスラのCEOはこうして財を築いた
EVメーカーのテスラはマーティン・エバーハード氏とマーク・ターペニング氏が2003年に創設。マスク氏が最初期の投資家として参加したのは2004年だった。「テスラをゼロから築き上げたわけではない」との批判に対してマスク氏は、同社は当時まだ名ばかりのものだったと答えている。 Reed Saxon/Associated Press Joanne Ho-Young Lee/The Mercury News/Getty Images
Can Elon Musk Buy All of Twitter? How Tesla’s CEO Made His Fortune
Elon Musk made a surprise $43 billion offer for Twitter, the biggest move yet from the eccentric billionaire whose varied business pursuits have included making electric cars, drilling huge tunnels and selling flame throwers. Here’s how we got to this point. Mr. Musk started an internet business called Zip2 with his younger brother, Kimbal Musk, in the 1990s dot-com boom, seen here on the Internet Archive. The company helped newspapers go online and was sold to Compaq Computer in 1999.
Photos Chronicle the Devastation of Mariupol
By Max Rust , Jennifer Kerrigan, Dave Cole and Alexander Cohn Mar. 27, 2022 5:30 am ET The battle for the port city of Mariupol has waged for weeks, with much of it being destroyed. Mariupol is strategically important, linking Russian-controlled parts of eastern Ukraine with a swath of territory Moscow has captured in the south. Russian forces continue to encircle the city, fighting block-by-block in an effort to gain control, according to the Institute for the Study of War.
New Cola War: Brands Exit Russia Amid Ukraine Invasion
Apple’s iPhones have been in Russia through resellers and carriers since 2008. In 2010, Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev visited Steve Jobs at Apple’s headquarters. The company opened an online store in Russia in 2013. Dmtiry Astakhov/RIA-Novosti/Presidential Press Service/AP Dmitry Astakhov/TASS/Abaca USA
Russia’s Oligarchs: Lifestyles of the Rich and Sanctioned
U.S. and European governments have imposed sanctions on Russian oligarchs in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Here is a look at several of these billionaires and some of the superyachts, mansions, companies and other assets they own. Alisher Usmanov is the majority owner of Russian telecom MegaFon, which sponsored English soccer team Everton until the team recently suspended the pact and removed the company’s branding from the stadium.
Supply-Chain Snarls and Labor Shortages Are Holding Back Fiestaware
“For the area around here, it’s decent pay,” said Jesse Rahe, a press hand who has worked at Fiesta 11 years. He says new hires often don’t stay long. “People come in then quit. They don’t show up at all. I don’t know why people don’t want to work.”
How Simone Biles Performs Her Most Difficult Gymnastics Moves at the Olympics
The physics behind the extraordinary feats Biles is expected to pull off at the Summer Games By Louise Radnofsky , Juanje Gómez , and Andrew Beaton July 26, 2021 1:30 pm ET Simone Biles—widely considered the greatest gymnast of all time—is a favorite to take as many as four individual titles at her second consecutive Olympic Games, and to boost the U.S. to another team title, too.
Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos Are Going to Space. Here’s How Their Trips Differ.
This browser does not support the video element. Virgin Galactic’s method for getting passengers to space starts with an airplane attached to a spacecraft. The twin-fuselage plane takes the spacecraft to an altitude of around 45,000 feet, where it is released. Virgin Galactic This browser does not support the video element. Upon its release, a pilot flying the spacecraft rockets the vessel into suborbital space.
Photos: Inside Bill Gates’s Net Worth. There’s More Than Microsoft.
What’s at stake in divorce? A fortune that includes sprawling farms, Four Seasons hotels and a rare Da Vinci notebook. Tap story By Inti Pacheco, Dave Cole and Theo Francis May 7, 2021 Bill Gates became one of the world’s richest men from Microsoft Corp., and while he still is a sizable shareholder, he has diversified his fortune. His recently announced divorce from Melinda Gates will divide up an estate estimated at $130 billion, which goes beyond mansions and jets.
How a Year of the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed New York City. The Numbers Are In.
A year later, Broadway was still dark and subway platforms eerily quiet at rush hour. There were signs of hope, including vaccination sites and loosening restrictions on businesses, but officials predict it will take years for the city’s economy to rebound. By comparing January 2020 to January 2021, we can clearly see how dramatically things have changed in New York City.
Covid-19 Live Updates: New U.S. Cases Rise; Vaccine Eligibility Expands
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Newly reported Covid-19 infections in the U.S. rose from a day earlier, as did deaths, while the country’s vaccination effort continued apace. There were more than 56,000 new infections reported for Monday, according to the latest data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, including a backlog of more than 4,000 cases recorded by Alabama. The daily total was up from 38,222 a day earlier and 45,014 a week earlier.
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Photos: Presidents in Post-Election Transition
Nov. 9, 1988 'If you want to know how Nancy and I feel about it, just read our smiles,' President Reagan said. 'There’s never been a case in modern presidential politics where a president has worked so hard for someone else to achieve this office,' President-elect George H.W. Bush said. Bob Daugherty/Associated Press
Remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: ‘She Fought for Us All’
People left flowers and notes for late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in front of the Supreme Court on Sunday. "She's the reason that I want to be a lawyer, because of everything that she's done just for the women's rights movement...If I could be even half the attorney or the person she was, I would consider it the biggest honor of my life and of my career." — Simone Volman, on Sunday “This woman was a champion for the cause of women and champion for health care.
Photos: Black Lives Matter Murals Painted Across America
Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Shutterstock In addition to approving the mural project, the city also renamed the area Black Lives Matter Plaza. The local Black Lives Matter chapter, however, on Twitter, called the mayor’s actions a stunt and "a performative distraction from real policy changes." Representatives of the mayor and Black Lives Matter DC didn't respond to requests for comment. Several cities across the country painted similar sentiments on city streets.
Coronavirus Advice Is Everywhere. It Was the Same With the Spanish Flu.
Tap story Michael M. Phillips and Dave Cole Jun 12, 2020 An influenza epidemic swept across the planet at the end of World War I, killing as many as 100 million people in 1918 and 1919. Many companies tried to capitalize on the epidemic, playing up their offerings in newspaper ads. “Some of those were scams,” says John Barry, a scholar at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
Why Advertisers Pay Up for a Super Bowl Spot
NFL title game consistently draws huge ratings and diverse audience
The History of a Cold War Missile Treaty
The Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, one of the linchpins in the arms-control framework that helped seal the end of the Cold War, is at risk of collapsing and fueling a new arms race. The Trump administration accused Russia of violating the treaty and in December issued a 60-day ultimatum for Moscow to come into full and verifiable compliance with the INF treaty. That ultimatum expires on Feb. 2.
Why Advertisers Pay Up for a Super Bowl Spot
Tap left to go back Tap right to continue Estimated spending on Super Bowl commercial air time 1995’96’97’98’992000’01’02’03’042005’06’07’08’092010’11’12’13’142015’16’17’18’19$400 million$200 million Source: Kantar Last year, advertisers spent an estimated $336 million on in-game Super Bowl commercial air time. That was down slightly from $341 million in 2018. Those figures don't include production costs, which can be anywhere from $1 million to $5 million per ad.
Why Advertisers Pay Up for a Super Bowl Spot
NFL title game consistently draws huge ratings and diverse audience
From Tears to Spider Embryos: Photos Reveal World’s Microscopic Wonders
Microscopes allow researchers, artists and science aficionados to zoom in on nature’s wonders. These instruments can harness light, lasers, fluorescent molecules or beams of electrons to visualize brain cells, coffee crystals, butterfly wings, and flowers among others. For more than 40 years Nikon Instruments Inc. has sponsored an annual competition that aims to elevate these images to works of art.
Photos: Key U.S.-Russia Summits Over the Decades
For years, U.S. leaders have sought to resolve global difficulties in summits with the Kremlin, the outcomes of which have ranged from lasting treaties to unintended consequences. Feb. 4-11, 1945: In the closing months of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met in Yalta on the Crimean peninsula to plan the defeat of Germany and the re-establishment of order in Europe after the war.
Former Toys ‘R’ Us Kids Say Goodbye as Final Store Closes
Toys “R” Us Inc. stores went dark last week, but that hasn’t stopped kids of all ages from grieving over the retailer’s demise. The retailer had sought chapter 11 protection in September with the hopes of survival, but abandoned those plans following a dismal holiday season.
NRA Advertising Through the Years
The organization founded a lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action, in 1975 to fight for gun rights. Led by Harlon Carter, this new politically motivated faction wrested control of the organization at the 1977 annual convention. It opposed any form of gun control, according to Osha Gray Davidson, author of Under Fire: The Nra and the Battle for Gun Control. Harlon Carter, left, and NRA executive Neal Knox, right, in 1978. PHOTO: Associated Press
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