Trump Sinks Government Funding Deal as Shutdown Looms
Episode Date: December 19, 2024A.M. Edition for Dec. 19. Late-breaking objections by the president-elect and Elon Musk to a bipartisan spending bill raise the prospects of a governm...
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528 episodes transcribedA.M. Edition for Dec. 19. Late-breaking objections by the president-elect and Elon Musk to a bipartisan spending bill raise the prospects of a governm...
P.M. Edition for Dec. 18. The Federal Reserve drops interest rates by a quarter point, but signals intent to slow interest-rate cuts next year. And fo...
A.M. Edition for Dec. 18. Two of Japan’s biggest automakers - Honda and Nissan - are in talks over a tie-up that could create one of the world’s large...
P.M. Edition for Dec. 17. President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks have a range of perspectives. Wall Street Journal senior political corresponden...
A.M. Edition for Dec. 17. Kyiv says it was behind a high-profile assassination in the Russian capital, its latest attempt to strike targets far from t...
P.M. Edition for Dec. 16. Conflicts once viewed as disconnected have merged into what could be the opening shots of a massive confrontation. Chief for...
A.M. Edition for Dec. 16. The U.S. government is sending a drone-detection system to New York to help investigate a recent surge in drone sightings,...
During this presidential election, the youth vote shifted in Trump's favor. The issues guiding young voters are shifting. What does this change tell u...
How Walgreens got on the way to recovery. And why Alphabet’s and Oracle’s paths diverged. Plus, how GM ending its robotaxi program hit rideshare stock...
P.M. Edition for Dec. 13. Dollar stores are a bellwether for the spending of lower-income Americans and recent data shows they are feeling financial s...
A.M. Edition for Dec. 13. The president-elect’s transition team explores ways to shrink, merge or even eliminate the top bank watchdogs in Washington....
P.M. Edition for Dec. 12. The cryptocurrency industry is hoping that under the Trump administration their relationship with banks will improve. Wall S...
A.M. Edition for Dec. 12. Arab meditators say Hamas has agreed to a pair of Israeli demands –including handing over a list of hostages it would releas...
P.M. Edition for Dec. 11. Bills introduced in the Senate and House seek to break up pharmacy-benefit managers, or PBMs. WSJ reporter Liz Essley Whyte...
A.M. Edition for Dec. 11. Donald Trump picks Andrew Ferguson to succeed Lina Khan as FTC chair, seeking to remake the agency. Plus, Trump pledges to s...
P.M. Edition for Dec. 10. The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has unleashed hostility online, and it is making health insurers worried....
A.M. Edition for Dec. 10. Sen. Tom Cotton says he sees President-elect Trump’s tariff threats as designed to get trading partners to the table–except...
P.M. Edition for Dec. 9. Police have arrested a 26-year-old man in Pennsylvania on firearms charges tied to last week’s killing of UnitedHealthcare CE...
A.M. Edition for Dec. 9. The WSJ’s Jared Malsin details how Syrian rebels ended 50 years of Assad rule in a remarkable 11-day blitz, and discusses wha...
President-elect Donald Trump has embraced Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform and nominated him to be his health and human s...