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Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, a majority of governorships and more in a massive midterm rebuke of President Trump. In doing so, they pulled off a feat that has bedeviled them for years: uniting around a message—affordability.
The party mostly managed to keep the spotlight on the economy as candidates drove home that Trump’s policies are hurting pocket books. They coalesced around this message, even as a fight for the party’s direction continues to boil. Centrist and far-left candidates alike drilled down on the economy, and largely avoided being drawn into culture wars that have cost Democrats in recent elections.
High fuel and food prices were a top voter concern, with 89% saying the cost of living was a crucial or major factor in how they voted for Congress, according to the Voter Poll for the Associated Press and the major television and cable news networks.
Democrats also largely managed to pick high-quality candidates able to appeal even to independent voters in a number of critical races, including in states Republicans have dominated for decades such as Texas, Kansas and South Carolina.
They will enter 2027 with a comfortable Senate majority—54 seats won and the party leading in two uncalled races—and a House majority that is expected to rival the size that former President Obama had in his first term in office. Read more at the link in our bio.
Photos by @jabinbotsford (2), @brianmkaiser , @achungphoto (2), @ackermangruber , and @erose_ (2) for @wsj.
04 Nov 2026
Nearly 50,000 people are still unaccounted for, according to an online platform tracking missing loved ones, after Wednesday’s earthquakes flattened whole neighborhoods in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, and a string of cities nearby.
International rescue teams and frantic families are in a race against time, heaving debris aside in a desperate bid to find the last survivors. The hopes of finding them alive were fading fast, since people can survive only so long trapped beneath the rubble without water while inhaling suffocating dust.
The Venezuelan government said 1,450 had died and more than 3,100 were injured, with the heaviest damage reported here in the state of La Guaira on the Caribbean, about an hour’s drive from Caracas. The government says the number will rise, and the U.S. Geological Survey’s modeling estimated the likely death count would reach the thousands.
As the hours passed, the people here grew increasingly agitated about a state response that they said was inadequate and disorganized. Adding to the woes, some residents said, were efforts by acting President Delcy Rodríguez’s government to restrict volunteer workers’ access to disaster sites, as well as bureaucracy that slowed down paramedics, firefighters and rescue teams from overseas.
“The rescue efforts have been nonexistent,” said Janett Noriega, a retiree who was looking for six relatives, including her sister-in-law and young nieces, who had lived in one of several high-rise government housing projects near the beach. “It’s total chaos, without any planning.”
For many residents of the housing project where Sánchez and Noriega’s families lived, a series of 12-story buildings called the Caribbean Victors, the tragedy laid bare what people here called years of government negligence and inadequate construction. Read more at the link in our bio.
Photos by @gabyoraa for @wsj.
29 Jun 2026
The Figueroa family has regained their home, but not their neighborhood.
Missi and Frank Figueroa and their three kids moved into their newly built Altadena house last month. At 2,350 square feet with fire-resistant siding, it sits on the same plot where the Eaton Fire destroyed their home of 10 years in January 2025. The firestorm damaged or destroyed around 6,000 local properties northeast of Los Angeles and killed 19 people.
The Figueroas are among a small batch of displaced residents who are back thus far. Only about 65 other homes have been completed in Altadena since the fire scorched the San Gabriel Mountains 16 months ago, county data show. Many more are still under construction.
During the day, the Figueroas’ neighborhood hums with laborers and vendors selling Red Bull drinks and fried food from their cars. But at 6 p.m., it becomes a ghost town.
“It is wildly quiet,” said Missi. She recalled an acquaintance telling her, “You’re like the new pioneers of Altadena.”
On Jan. 7, 2025, hurricane-force winds screaming down from the mountains knocked out the Figueroas’ power. Within hours, one of the most destructive blazes in California history was approaching their yellow craftsman home.
Missi and Frank booked a hotel room for the night, and Frank returned to their home before dawn to pick up their dogs, Bubbles and Guacamole. When he went back three hours later to turn the sprinklers on, the house was already burning.
The family lost everything including baby photos, Missi’s grandmother’s art and the stone urn that contained her late father’s ashes. A Fender bass guitar Frank got when he was 11 years old, and his late father’s tools, were also lost.
Their hotel stay stretched to two months, with 14-year-old Max and 12-year-old Nacho sharing one bed and 6-year-old Lupe sleeping between Frank and Missi in the other, with the dogs at their feet. They moved in the spring to a rental home in the nearby community of La Crescenta. But the kids kept going to school in Altadena, and the family visited their lot almost daily to sift through the ashes and, later, to watch the rebuilding. Read more at the link in our bio. Photos by @alishajucevic for @wsj.
25 Jun 2026
Trump administration officials have spent recent days fretting over the power of Anthropic’s next-generation AI software to potentially wreak havoc on global cybersecurity. For a group of 700 cybersecurity researchers, that startling realization came in March.
That’s when Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini showed how easy it had become to use new models to break into systems. The lanky 35-year-old is a well-respected hacker who’s considered the industry’s “professional skeptic” of AI cybersecurity claims. But lately he had changed his mind.
Early that month, just weeks after getting his hands on Mythos, Carlini offered a stark warning to a standing-room-only crowd of cybersecurity experts at the ornate beaux-arts building that had once housed San Francisco’s Hibernia Bank.
First he showed them how he had used Anthropic’s AI to find and exploit a critical bug in a piece of web-publishing software called Ghost. Then he demonstrated another in the Linux operating system—one of the most battle-tested pieces of software, which powers billions of devices.
Carlini had never before found a bug in Linux, or in Ghost. Now he had discovered many. What he was seeing represented a new world order for cybersecurity. The balance that existed between attackers and defenders over the past two decades “seems like it’s probably coming to an end,” he said. “It’s pretty clear to me that these current models are better vulnerability researchers than I am.”
Two days after his presentation, he sent a note to his colleagues at Anthropic. “I don’t think we should release Mythos yet,” he wrote.
So began Bugmageddon, a realization among security professionals and a community of hackers like Carlini that finding bugs and writing software to exploit them has become dangerously easy with AI. Read more at the link in our bio. Photo by @helynn.ospina for @wsj.
24 Jun 2026
The sight that met Bishop Avraamiy when he arrived at the Dormition Cathedral here shortly after 2 a.m. on Monday was like something torn from the pages of the Bible—or Ukraine’s own bloody history.
The roof of the main cathedral at the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, one of Eastern Orthodoxy’s holiest sites, and overseen by Avraamiy, was ablaze minutes after a Russian explosive drone struck.
As the flames ate away at the roof’s wooden frame, the bearded 41-year-old, clad in a black cassock, formed a rescue team of priests, police officers and first responders for a daunting mission: to save what they could from inside.
What followed was an hourslong battle to rescue Ukrainian religious heritage, which Russia has long laid claim to and, in a vicious twist, was now destroying. Read more at the link in our bio. Photos by @serhiikorovayny for @wsj.
21 Jun 2026
Welcome to the New York rental market, where the median asking rent hit $3,616 in the first quarter this year, 20% above pre-pandemic levels, according to Realtor.com. To manage on a starting salary, some young professionals are turning to convents.
They do come with rules. Some have curfews of 11 p.m. or midnight. Women’s houses bar male visitors from the rooms, and the same usually goes for alcohol. Most houses accept non-Christian residents and don’t require any religious practice.
At Centro Maria, five sisters live alongside their 21 residents in a four-story red-brick building. Each morning the nuns, some of them in their 90s, cook breakfast for the house–a variety of pancakes, eggs, sausage, fruits and juice. They clean the building and host parties so residents can get to know each other. A karaoke machine sits in the dining room and the nuns sometimes join the singing.
“I love living with the girls. They keep me young,” Sister Rita, one of the nuns, said.
Sister Rita grew up in the Philippines, where she studied business in college and assumed she’d have a normal career and get married. “The word nun was not in my vocabulary,” she said. Then she spent time living in a convent house herself. “Two years later I had a veil already,” she said.
Boarding houses were founded to shelter young people, primarily women, arriving alone to work in New York City. At their peak in the early 1900s, dozens of organizations across the city offered such housing. Most have closed, casualties of rising maintenance costs, shrinking religious orders and pandemic-era disruptions. Read more at the link in our bio. Photos by @luciavazquezph for @wsj.
20 Jun 2026
Druzhkivka, an industrial city once home to about 68,000 people, is one of a handful of cities in eastern Ukraine that are Russia’s main target for 2026.
Over the course of a year, The Wall Street Journal followed the town and its people wrestling with leaving their homes as the fabric of their lives is slowly, painfully torn apart.
The Russian army is grinding forward slowly, churning up everything in its path. In a band of towns and cities along the 800-mile front, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians face a daily question: When to drop everything and flee?
The pressure creeps up gradually, almost imperceptible day to day, tormenting inhabitants with uncertainty as they watch their city close down around them.
In February last year, the crump of artillery was still distant, but the factories had long since shut down as the city turned into a military camp with restaurants and barbers catering to soldiers. By July, the city began emptying out as explosive drones started to reach its streets, and fishermen were keeping hold of tiddlers they used to throw back. In December, the streets were deserted as a curfew allowed only four hours outside every day, and evacuation teams were overwhelmed with requests to run the gantlet of Russian drones and artillery on roads out of the city.
Read more at the link in our bio. Photos by @emanuelesatolli for @wsj.
19 Jun 2026
Western companies are pouring money into Brazil’s rare-earth industry, hoping the South American nation can help loosen China’s grip on the minerals used in electric vehicles, wind turbines and advanced weapons.
Miners are racing to develop deposits across Brazil, which holds the world’s second-largest rare-earth reserves after China. But their ambitions extend beyond digging up ore. Companies and government officials say they want to build processing plants that can separate rare earths, produce metals and eventually manufacture magnets.
The realization of that ambition would represent a much bigger challenge to China. While Beijing holds roughly half of global rare-earth reserves, it controls more than 90% of processing and magnet production, giving it a dominating influence over global supply chains.
The push has turned Brazil into a focal point in the struggle between Washington and Beijing over critical minerals. The U.S. has been scouring the globe for rare earths, backing projects from Africa to Australia in an effort to loosen Beijing’s grip on the industry.
Yet Brazil has resisted pressure to join a U.S.-led minerals bloc, insisting it will accept investment from any country willing to help develop the industry. Read more at the link in our bio. Photos by @piravilela for @wsj.
18 Jun 2026
AI has made it trivially easy for anyone with a phone to digitally undress people and post the content online. Called explicit deepfakes, these images, and sometimes videos, are unleashing a new form of bullying and harassment among young people. As ‘nudify’ tools proliferate online, parents and schools are struggling to protect young victims.
Laws cracking down on them have lagged behind cases and aren’t always enforced. Schools don’t know how to handle them. Parents are left trying to help their children regain a sense of safety as they try to scrub the images from the internet.
Megan Mancini in Hingham, Mass., wished she had a playbook for dealing with the issue. Last year, a boy created a deepfake image of her middle-school daughter and shared it on Snapchat with other kids, who then took screenshots and shared them in the hallways during school. The local police said the best way to get the photo offline was to upload it to a website that specializes in removing deepfakes. But because the image depicted a naked minor, federal law prevented the police from giving her the image electronically. They gave her a black-and-white printout of the image instead.
Mancini said the police told her that her daughter would likely need to testify if she pressed charges and said the boy would face limited consequences because he was a minor.
Mancini filed a Title IX complaint against Hingham Public Schools. After a nearly five-month investigation, the district sent a letter saying that there was insufficient evidence to conclude the behavior occurred in the district’s schools. The boy, who had admitted to creating the image, faced no formal disciplinary consequences.
The school district didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Another mother at the school recently contacted Mancini in distress. A boy had approached her daughter with a threatening message: “You’re next.”
“We are the ones left cleaning up the pieces,” Mancini said.
Read more at the link in our bio. Photos by @lrnlncstr for @wsj.
17 Jun 2026
When Franyelis Parra arrived at an airport check-in counter just before midnight with her two children in tow, she believed she might finally be able to leave the U.S.
Then the airline agent furrowed her brow. “We don’t have tickets for your reservation,” she said.
The encounter at John F. Kennedy International Airport was the latest setback for the Venezuelan mother of two living in New York City. She had been trying to use several pathways to leave the U.S. since her husband was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at a routine court hearing in September—and her pregnancy due date was weeks away. But her paperwork was a mess.
One of her children was born in Venezuela, and the other was born in Colombia. Neither she nor her Venezuelan-born son had a passport. Her lack of adequate paperwork prevented her from securing the plane tickets.
It appeared to be easier to get into the U.S. than to get out.
More migrants including Parra, 29 years old, are relenting under pressure from the Trump administration to self-deport before immigration authorities detain them. The problem she and other migrants have found is that self-deporting isn’t always as simple as it sounds without the money, documents or legal clearance to do so.
The administration created a mobile app called CBP Home, which migrants including Parra have used to register and state their intention to depart. It is supposed to help migrants book government-funded plane tickets.
The idea of self-deportation was always central to the White House’s broader immigration agenda. For some, it has worked as intended. For others, it has been messy.
For those who want to leave, departure can cost money many don’t have and require documents lost on the journey north. And using the CBP Home app doesn’t ensure someone won’t end up being deported. Read more at the link in our bio. Photos by @klausgaliano for @wsj.
07 Jun 2026
Club Med’s expansion into South Africa has run into a problem—and this one’s got teeth.
The waters off the Indian Ocean coast where throngs of swimmers will soon congregate are home to the world’s three most-dangerous shark species.
The local government has proposed an old tactic to keep high-paying guests at the luxury resort from becoming chum: Putting a shark net adjacent to the beach.
Scientists aren’t fans of the plan. They say the barriers kill local endangered species such as the Indian Ocean humpback dolphin and the leatherback turtle, and they’re not that good at keeping out sharks. Many are caught on the beach-facing side, meaning they’d already roamed around on the inside of the net.
“If you put the shark nets in, all these protected species are going to die—that’s a guarantee,” said Ryan Daly, a senior scientist at South Africa’s Oceanographic Research Institute. “Are people going to die from a shark attack? I don’t know.”
There’s no sign the standoff over South Africa’s first new shark net in two decades will delay the resort’s planned opening in July, but the clock is ticking. Read more at the link in our bio. Photos by @gulshanii for @wsj.
06 Jun 2026
All around the Phoenix metro area, low-rise office parks with tinted windows and vast parking lots stretch to the horizon. This is America’s back office.
Abundant land and cheap labor made Phoenix a premier place for office workers who don’t need to be physically close to clients or headquarters. The cubicle-based jobs—customer service, data entry, payroll processing—created a vital ladder to the middle class, helping replace factory work lost to overseas competition.
Now, these white-collar jobs are fading, too, thanks to continued offshoring and, increasingly, artificial intelligence. Tens of thousands of local workers suddenly face an uncertain future.
A test grader saw her work outsourced to India. A customer-relations manager, recently laid off and his savings running low, is looking to become a bartender. Those who still have jobs are increasingly leery of automation, even as it’s become an unavoidable part of their days.
“I’m concerned that a lot of call-center workers will not have jobs pretty soon, me included,” said Vonda Wilkins, a Phoenix-based customer-service representative.
Many of her co-workers lost their jobs last year as their employer, Lumen Technologies, relied more on AI to engage with customers and landline use continued to drop. Customers who reach her often had to talk first to bots and are more likely to be in a bad mood. The 49-year-old is making plans to go to nursing school.
Offshoring has been chipping away at back-office jobs for decades. Yet around 16.5 million Americans work in office- and administrative-support jobs like customer-service reps, office clerks and data-entry keyers, according to the Labor Department.
Losses are expected to mount as AI takes over the kind of basic, repetitive tasks that are often back-office hallmarks. The Labor Department has projected employment in this broad sector will fall by 4% in the next eight years, the steepest drop among all major employment categories.
That has major ramifications for the American working class. Read more at the link in our bio. Photos by @reubenj.brown for @wsj.
05 Jun 2026
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