James Leigh

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

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Gaming the Air Raids in Kyiv: A Night in a Capital at War People in the Ukrainian capital spend their evenings clinging to the normal things of life—for as long as the air-raid sirens allow.

As the world's eyes were focused on the Middle East, Putin's war against Ukraine continued. Fearless reporting by my colleague Jane Lytvynenko on the ground in Kyiv www.wsj.com/world/gaming...

What? (Richard M. Nixon)

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RIP Brian Wilson. Hard to believe that a 24-year-old kid primarily known for surf music wrote this youth.be/SQWqhN1NLBs?...

‘The Three Musketeers’ and ‘The Four Musketeers’: Richard Lester’s Spirited Swashbucklers The two-part Dumas adaptation, being released by the Criterion Collection in a 4K restoration, features a superb cast—including Michael York, Raquel Welch and Charlton Heston—and the director’s classi...

These films gave me so much joy when I was a kid. Looking forward to watching them again www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

DHS Is Considering Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for Citizenship “This isn’t ‘The Hunger Games’ for immigrants,” says the producer behind the pitch.

The Department of Homeland Security is considering the creation of a television show in which migrants would compete for potential U.S. citizenship www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland The push underscores the seriousness of President Trump’s intent to acquire the island from Denmark.

The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence-gathering efforts regarding Greenland, drawing America’s spying apparatus into President Trump’s campaign to take over the island www.wsj.com/world/greenl...

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Whiskey-Drinking Rocker Transforms Into West Africa’s Most Dangerous al Qaeda Leader A militant leader from Mali championed a rock band and helped write a hit song before leading an Islamist army that killed tens of thousands.

Story about Iyad ag Ghali, a man who wrote the lyrics of a hit song for a band that has shared the stage with U2’s Bono and Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant. He now leads one of the world’s most deadly al Qaeda franchises. www.wsj.com/world/africa...

Does this mean more Danny Murphy?

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater Is Leaking. Inside the $7 Million Job to Fix It. Work is under way to make the architect’s most famous home water tight—a project that is expected to cost about 40 times more than its entire construction budget.

Having just had my tiny bathroom decorated, I can sympathize www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

I have just listened to the @theresthistory.bsky.social podcasts on King Leopold II, Belgium and the Congo. A harrowing but essential series.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers - 20/20

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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers - 19/20

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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers - 18/20

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The pub where I had Christmas dinner this year played 1969 by the Stooges. A wonderful choice, in my opinion.

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Could this be AI's Space Pen moment? Nasa spent millions of dollars developing a pen that could write in zero gravity, but the project was abandoned when costs rose. The US then went back to using pencils like the Soviets.

Stock Market Today: Dow Futures Fall, Nvidia Stock Sinks in DeepSeek-Fueled AI Rout— Live Updates Futures point to biggest one-day drop in years for the Nasdaq. Follow along for live updates on stocks and other markets, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite.

The AI arms race has taken a new twist with news that a Chinese upstart has trained high-performing AI models cheaply. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers - 15/20

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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers - 14/20

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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. no explanations, no reviews, just covers - 13/20

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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influences you. one album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. no explanations, no reviews, just covers - 12/20

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Back at work after a two-week break

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