WSJ News Exclusive | Biden Urged to Curb China’s Dominance of Older-Generation Chips

WSJ News Exclusive | Biden Urged to Curb China’s Dominance of Older-Generation Chips

The Biden administration needs to take stronger action to stem China’s growing dominance in making older-generation microchips that are essential across several U.S. industries, according to the bipartisan leaders of a House of Representatives panel. The lawmakers’ call for new efforts, including potential tariffs, is intended to counteract an overreliance on China for less-advanced chips,…

U.S. spacecraft suffers fuel loss, threatening historic moon landing

U.S. spacecraft suffers fuel loss, threatening historic moon landing

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save A commercial spacecraft bound for the lunar surface lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., early Monday in the first launch of a U.S. space mission designed to land softly on the moon since the last of the Apollo flights in 1972. But after it separated…

Boeing, Aviation Stocks Fall After Rough Start to Year for Air Travel

Boeing, Aviation Stocks Fall After Rough Start to Year for Air Travel

Updated Jan. 8, 2024 2:26 pm ET A burning inferno on the runway, followed four days later by a midair emergency involving a gaping hole in the side of the plane, isn’t the way the airline industry wanted to start 2024. After a fraught 2023, in which safety specialists and regulators raised alarms about mounting…

Commanders hire Bob Myers. Can ex-Warriors GM help Magic Johnson turn franchise around?

Commanders hire Bob Myers. Can ex-Warriors GM help Magic Johnson turn franchise around?

Josh Harris and his investment partners coughed up $6.05 billion to purchase the Washington Commanders last summer. The purchase price was a record for a North American sports franchise and the sale was approved by a unanimous vote of NFL owners desperate to rid their exclusive fraternity of the villainous Dan Snyder. Harris stayed in…

Barclays slashed 5,000 jobs last year in major cost-cutting drive

Barclays slashed 5,000 jobs last year in major cost-cutting drive

Barclays slashed its workforce by around 5,000 jobs in 2023 as part of a major cost-cutting drive announced last year, the bank said Monday. The majority of the cuts fell in Barclays Execution Services, the bank’s support unit, the lender said, confirming for the first time Reuters reporting from last November that the lender was eyeing thousands of…

Apple Vision Pro headset launches in U.S. on Feb. 2, preorders begin Jan. 19

Apple Vision Pro headset launches in U.S. on Feb. 2, preorders begin Jan. 19

Apple announced the Vision Pro headset at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Apple’s Vision Pro will launch in the U.S. on Feb. 2, the company said in a press release Monday, with preorders beginning Jan. 19. Preorders will open at 5 p.m. Pacific Time on Jan….

Mary Lou Retton Faces Long Recovery After Pneumonia Scare

Mary Lou Retton Faces Long Recovery After Pneumonia Scare

Olympic gymnastics great Mary Lou Retton said she faces a long battle recuperating at home from a rare form of pneumonia in which doctors weren’t sure whether she would survive. In an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show, Retton said while wearing a breathing tube pumping oxygen through her nose that she was…