Big Tech Beats Earnings Expectations, While Intel Announces Shakeup
Some big tech companies beat earnings expectations this week, while Intel announced its chief engineering officer is leaving. WSJ’s Gunjan Banerji breaks down the week’s tech winners and losers. Photo: Graeme Jennings/AFP/Getty Imagesfrom WSJ.com Video - Most Viewed WSJ Videos https://ift.tt/3hU5711
Top executives of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will appear at a House antitrust hearing on Wednesday. They’re expected to face questions about whether their companies have become too powerful and dominant. WSJ’s Jason Bellini reports. Photo composite: Sharon Shi
Tiwanna Jackson, the owner of a Minneapolis beauty salon, is working toward a grand opening in mid-August after delays caused by Covid-19 and looting.
Dr. Anthony Fauci testified before a House Covid-19 subcommittee that European countries were more successful in reducing coronavirus infections due to their initial shutdowns. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Shutterstock
Based on June's underwhelming Consumer Confidence Index, Conference Board chief economist, Bart Van Ark, says that the prospects of a strong economic recovery are not promising.
Russia said it plans to register the world’s first coronavirus vaccine as early as mid-August, drawing global skepticism. Here’s how Moscow reached this milestone faster than anyone else, and what we know about the drug. Photo: Sechenov Medical University Pres/Zuma Press
After an unprecedented drop in air travel due to the coronavirus, passenger airlines are being forced to make long-term, make-or-break decisions at a time of great uncertainty and minimal cash flow. So how are they planning to survive? WSJ finds out. Composite: George Downs/The Wall Street Journal
Plexiglass dividers and floor decals might not be permanent, but the pandemic will bring lasting change to offices. Experts from the architecture and real-estate industries share how they are getting back to work and what offices will look like in the future. Photo: Cesare Salerno for The Wall Street Journal
Potomac Watch: After weeks of getting played by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Senate GOP demand virus-aid votes. Image: Michael Reynolds/EPA/Shutterstock
As Congress debates the next coronavirus relief package, millions of Americans are waiting to see if the extra $600-a-week unemployment benefit will be extended or reduced. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday reports. Photo: Bryan Woolston/Reuters
The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google faced tough questions and, at times, hostile criticism about their business practices during a House antitrust hearing. The session highlighted how four of America’s five most valuable companies are under scrutiny from both sides of the aisle. Photo: U.S. House Judiciary Committee/Reuters
Three former U.S. presidents were among those paying tribute to the late Rep. John Lewis at a funeral service in Atlanta on Thursday. Photo: Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP
NBA players, coaches and referees knelt together in a coordinated protest on the opening night of the league's restart, and the NBA said it wouldn't enforce a longstanding rule prohibiting anthem protests. Photo: Ashley Landis/Press Pool
Vietnam went for months without recording any new locally transmitted coronavirus cases, but new infections have forced the government to lock down a popular tourist destination. Here’s how a country that had kept the virus in check is dealing with new surges. Photo: Luong Thai Linh/Shutterstock
Wonder Land: Voters can’t pretend a Biden presidency will help the black children trapped in failing inner-city schools. Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly
Herman Cain, the former Godfather’s Pizza chief executive who sought the 2012 Republican presidential nomination and more recently led a group called “Black Voices For Trump,” has died at age 74. He's one of the most prominent Americans to have died of complications related to Covid-19. Photo: Melissa Golden for the Wall Street Journal
The $2.7 billion Perseverance rover spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Thursday on a 300-million-mile journey to Mars. The vehicle, equipped with cameras, computers and experiments, will search for signs of past life. Photo: John Raoux/AP
Oregon and the Trump administration said they reached a deal for federal agents to begin withdrawing from Portland. WSJ's Miriam Gottfried reports on the significance of the agreement and what’s next for the protest-shaken state. Photo: Caitlin Ochs/Reuters
Watch live coverage of the House Judiciary Committee hearing with CEOs from Apple, Facebook, Alphabet and Amazon.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai faced questions about concerns that social media companies are censoring certain types of content, and how their policies guide those decisions. Photo: Mandel Ngan/Shutterstock
Florida’s surge in coronavirus-related deaths and new hospitalizations is spurring greater demand for Covid-19 tests. WSJ speaks with residents waiting for a test in Miami, the state’s most populous county and current epicenter of the outbreak. Photo: Cesare Salerno for The Wall Street Journal
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Attorney General William Barr and panel Democrats sparred over policing in the Black community and the U.S. government response to quelling nationwide protests. Barr also defended his decision in the Roger Stone case. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said legislative elections would be postponed for a year because of the pandemic, but pro-democracy groups denounced the move as part of a political crackdown by China. WSJ’s Natasha Khan explains what it means for the city. Photo: Anthony Wallace/AFP
Tropical Storm Hanna has brought heavy rainfall and life-threatening flash floods to communities in southern Texas that are already facing a surge in new coronavirus cases. Meanwhile, Hurricane Douglas approached Hawaii. Photo: Eric Gay/Associated Press
Smartwatches, smart rings and patches that gather your temperature, heart rate and blood oxygen could serve as an early detection system for Covid-19. WSJ’s Joanna Stern strapped a bunch of stuff to her body and recruited a doctor to figure it all out.
Former Prime Minister Najib Razak was sentenced to a total of 12 years in jail in connection with the 1MDB financial scandal by a Malaysian court. WSJ’s Niharika Mandhana reports on the multibillion-dollar web of alleged fraud that has touched Goldman Sachs and Hollywood. Photo: Samsul Said/Bloomberg News
The property, which is on an extra-large lot, fronts a long shoreline with water rights that extend to Gottskär Harbor.
Tens of thousands of people continued to demonstrate against racism and police tactics in protests across the country that at times turned violent, with shootings in Texas and Colorado and officials declaring "riots" in Portland, Ore., and Seattle. Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press
Washington paid its respects Monday to the late Rep. John Lewis, the civil-rights icon who helped usher in a landmark voting-rights law aimed at bringing an end to political suppression of Black Americans. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Zuma Press
Gold prices have risen to a record high against a backdrop of high market uncertainty. But Heard on the Street’s Aaron Back explains why no single insurance policy covers you against all the risks. Photo: Michael Dalder/Reuters
J.Crew was the first big retail chain to file bankruptcy in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns. But analysts say J.Crew's struggle started years earlier, as its debt mounted and it lost touch with its customers. Illustration: Carter McCall/WSJ
On Monday, the U.S. lowered the American flag at its consulate in Chengdu, China, as the deadline to exit approached. WSJ’s Liza Lin describes how Beijing’s shutdown of the outpost weakens an already limited U.S. presence in China. Photo: Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images