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Wall Street Journal Page One: When Grandma Is a TikTok Star and the Grandkids Are the Managers
Reporting by Joseph Pisani. Photographs by Michelle Gustafson and Yehyun Kim
Wall Street Journal Page One: $1,500 Bedazzled Jacket, $350 Dress: Fans Shell Out to Look Like Taylor Swift
Reporting by Joseph Pisani. Photographs by Nicole Buchanan and Bethany Mollenkof
Wall Street Journal Politics: Nebraska’s Legislative Session Is Tangled Up in Transgender Rights Fight
Photographs by Rebecca S. Gratz
Wall Street Journal U.S.: California’s Wet Winter Could Lead to First Superbloom in Years
Photographs by Allison Zaucha
Wall Street Journal Page One: Chipotle Peppered With Complaints Over Salsa Spiciness
Reporting by Andrew Restuccia and Heather Haddon
Photographs by F. Martin Ramin/The Wall Street Journal
Food Styling by Mieko Takahashi
Mariah Carey wants the title “Queen of Christmas” to herself. Another Queen of Christmas is fighting back.
Elizabeth Chan, an independent artist who has written and performed original Christmas songs for a decade, is opposing a trademark application by the pop diva that could potentially stop Ms. Chan and others from using the words Queen of Christmas on albums, Christmas decorations and a long list of other goods staked out by Ms. Carey, including dog leashes and soy milk.
“Christmas is big enough for more than one ‘Queen,’ ” Ms. Chan said in a filing to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Aug. 11.
Photos by Mary Kang for The Wall Street Journal.
Wall Street Journal Page One: Parents, what would persuade you to pay $300 for Harry Styles tickets? Your teens want to know.
Photos by Amanda Andrade-Rhoades and Laura Thompson for The Wall Street Journal
Gasoline prices are falling almost as quickly as they rose, creating new headaches for the mom-and-pop entrepreneurs and other independent operators who run roughly half of U.S. gas stations.
Photographs by Caroline Yang for The Wall Street Journal.
Geneticists and immunologists are studying factors that might protect people from infection, and learning why some are predisposed to more severe Covid-19 disease.
Photographs by Ryan Young and Yehyun Kim for The Wall Street Journal.
A mega-spending package to grow U.S. semiconductor production must reckon with a tough reality: The world is already awash in chip-making incentives.
What makes the U.S. effort unique is the enormous one-time sum—roughly $77 billion in subsidies and tax credits—earmarked to boost American manufacturing of the ubiquitous tech component. But other countries, especially in Asia, have doled out government dollars and offered favorable regulations for decades. And they plan for more.
Photographs by Caitlin Ochs and Heather Ainsworth for The Wall Street Journal.
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When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher's photographs, you might think you're looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes, skyscrapers or shorelines. In fact, you're looking at her tears. The Los Angeles-based photographer's project, The Topography of Tears, stemmed from a curiosity steeped in emotional release.
The images of official White House photographers have always been shared widely. What made Pete Souza's tenure with the Obama White House different was that social media — and especially Instagram, founded in 2010 — gave him a popular new platform that previous photographers in the role didn't have.
During the Obama years, Souza posted current and archival photographs of the president's daily life and amassed several hundred thousand followers. Although Souza left the White House in 2017, he remained on Instagram as a private citizen. But his choice of photos — and the captions he wrote — changed.
Photography and nostalgia often have gone hand in hand; the scrapbook, the family album, the postcard, the Polaroid, even the Instagram post all reinforce a love for the way something was. In Nashville: Scenes from the New American South, novelist Ann Patchett and photographer Heidi Ross — both longtime Nashvillians — instead set out to show, in all its varied forms, how Nashville is.
"As emotions go, nostalgia is both cheap and unrealistic," Patchett writes. "Sometimes we're not even nostalgic for things we liked, it was just that we were used to seeing a particular thing in a particular place."
In 2012, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based photographer Dirk Anschütz became a father. The shift in his life was enormous. Anschütz was raised by a single mother. "I had never met my father, which was never a big deal," he says. But after his son Ray's birth, Anschütz says he didn't have a male parenting role model. This led to a curiosity about how other dads were raising their kids; curiosity that resulted in a six-year portrait project called Fathers and Sons.
When Los Angeles Times photographer Wally Skalij photographed a tiny owl sitting on the beach in Malibu as the flames of the Woolsey Fire burned in the background, he had no idea how many people would connect with the image.
Last year, the Chinese wife of a Pakistani man traveled back home to China with their two children. She wanted to introduce her younger boy, 18 months old, to her mom. But after she landed in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, she was detained, says her husband, a doctor named Rehman. His wife is a Uighur Muslim, a member of a minority group that has been targeted in a Chinese crackdown.
Photographs by Diaa Hadid for NPR
It's a fall Monday morning in New Haven, Conn., and Officer Christian Bruckhart has lost track of how many calls he has had. He thinks it has been six. Maybe seven. There was the family dispute involving vandalism to a car. He needs to write reports on stolen property and a woman being harassed on Facebook. But first, he has to help search for a missing woman who may be suicidal.
"I'm backed up," he says.
There are supposed to be six officers patrolling this territory; three are on duty today, including one who's already into overtime.
Photographs by Ryan Caron King/Connecticut Public Radio
"I'm on the phone with an associate history professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, named Ellen Wu. We're talking about skin color, identity and how people like us — Americans of East Asian descent — can describe ourselves.
Wu and I agree that there are many words we could use: Asian American, East Asian, East Asian American. People with roots from South Asia or Southeast Asia sometimes refer to themselves as brown, which seems like a useful shorthand. But for a bunch of reasons, brown doesn't work for East Asians. I'm wondering if there's a parallel word for us.
I pose this question, a little hesitantly: What about yellow?"
Role: Archival Image Research and Build
"Judge Brett Kavanaugh was defiant and visibly angry as he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday afternoon, rebutting earlier emotional testimony from the woman who has accused him of sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford.
Departing from his prepared statement he had submitted to the committee the night before, Kavanaugh cast himself as the victim of a political smear campaign driven by the partisan divide in the country.
'This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit,' Kavanaugh said, 'fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record and revenge on behalf of the Clintons.'"
As former hurricane Florence marches on to New England, the Carolinas remain inundated with waters that just keep rising.
"I know for many people this feels like a nightmare that just won't end. I know many people are tired of the present and are scared of the future," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday, The Associated Press reports. "But please know we will not give up on you."
Florence is now a post-tropical cyclone, which the National Weather Service is describing as an "increasingly elongated low pressure area," which continues to dump heavy rain over the Mid-Atlantic and southern New England, where flash flood warnings are in effect in some places.
Live coverage of the 2018 United States midterm elections.
Role: Live Editing
The Citadel's Cadre Visits USMC Recruit Depot Parris Island
Before dawn’s first light Saturday morning, 525 cadets from The Citadel boarded a fleet of 11 buses and left Charleston for a training unlike many of them had ever experienced, at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island. The cadets, all upperclass leaders, were thrown into a variety of courses ranging from team puzzles to obstacles designed to test their physical strength.
It comes as they prepare to welcome a new class of cadets at the military college next weekend.
Photography by Michael Wiser
Role: Assignment, Image Editing, Build
