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Exclusive | Warren Buffett Reveals He Stepped Down After Finally Feeling His Age The legendary investor, 94, opens up about his decision to hand the top job to Greg Abel.

Warren Buffett Reveals He Stepped Down After Finally Feeling His Age

Dow Slips; Walmart to Raise Prices Due to Tariffs

Oil prices sink after President Trump touts Iran talks

Exclusive | UnitedHealth Group Is Under Criminal Investigation for Possible Medicare Fraud The company’s stock has declined over its financial performance and the sudden replacement of its CEO.

UnitedHealth Group Is Under Criminal Investigation for Possible Medicare Fraud

Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to Delay Foreign-Aid Payouts A divided Supreme Court declined to suspend a lower court’s order that directed the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid funding.

A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s emergency request to pause foreign-aid funding, refusing to suspend a lower court order that required the government to pay contractors nearly $2 billion for work they already have performed.

Trump’s Tariff War Puts CEOs on the Front Lines Executives in banking, construction, autos and retail wonder how long tariffs will last; “your guess is as good as mine.”

Trump’s Tariff War Puts CEOs on the Front Lines

Essay | Have We Ruined Sex? Five writers ask whether society has lost its way when it comes to the most intimate of human acts.

Have we ruined sex? Five writers ask whether society has lost its way when it comes to the most intimate of human acts. trib.al/jX6m7Wx

How to Dress Like a Boss in 2024, According to Powerful Men You can no longer channel power by simply pulling on a suit and tie. We grilled eight executives—and formulated tips to help any man dress more authoritatively in today’s workplace.

What does a boss wear to work today? We grilled eight executives—and formulated tips to help any man dress more authoritatively in 2024 on.wsj.com/4eU8jXA

The Sex Advice We Should Take From Grandparents People in their 60s, 70s and beyond have practice keeping the spark alive. Here’s how they do it.

Could your sex life be better? Try this sex advice from seniors. on.wsj.com/4g8BqaA

Biden’s Surprising Middle East Peace Strategy: Working With Trump The alignment could produce mutual benefits: for Biden, a legacy-defining foreign-policy win before he departs; for Trump, one less global crisis to handle.

As the Biden administration seeks to broker an end-of-term peace deal in the Middle East, it is bringing along a surprising back-seat partner: Donald Trump

Essay | How Pediatricians Created the Peanut Allergy Epidemic By recommending that children avoid exposure to peanuts until age 3, doctors inadvertently turned a rare issue into a major health problem.

Who’s to blame for America’s peanut allergy epidemic? Well-meaning pediatricians, writes Dr. Marty Makary

Essay | My Wife’s Death Led Me Into the World of Online Hookups For novelist Charles Bock, becoming a widower meant discovering the “pulsing virtual cesspool” of Ashley Madison.

For novelist Charles Bock, becoming a widower meant discovering the “pulsing virtual cesspool” of online hookups

The Cancer That Doctors Don’t Want to Call Cancer Renaming the lowest-risk prostate cancer would cut down on overly aggressive treatment, some doctors say.

The cancer that doctors no longer want to call cancer on.wsj.com/496RabV

The Sex Advice We Should Take From Grandparents People in their 60s, 70s and beyond have practice keeping the spark alive. Here’s how they do it.

Could your sex life be better? Try this sex advice from seniors. on.wsj.com/3Zfv6sf

How to Dress Like a Boss in 2024, According to Powerful Men You can no longer channel power by simply pulling on a suit and tie. We grilled eight executives—and formulated tips to help any man dress more authoritatively in today’s workplace.

What does a boss wear to work today? We grilled eight executives—and formulated tips to help any man dress more authoritatively in 2024 on.wsj.com/40VoLUg

Trump Picks Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary The president-elect has selected the hedge-fund manager to lead the Treasury, elevating one of his most vocal supporters in the finance world.

Breaking: Donald Trump named hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent to lead the Treasury Department

‘I Don’t Know Where to Turn or What to Do.’ His $763,094 Retirement Fund Is in Limbo. Richard Whitacre transferred his entire 401(k) into an account offering a ‘guaranteed’ 15.25% return. Will he ever see his money again?

Richard Whitacre transferred his entire 401(k) into an account offering a ‘guaranteed’ 15.25% return. Will he ever see his money again?

ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant Deepen Israel’s Isolation The move by the International Criminal Court will complicate travel by Israel’s prime minister and former defense minister, who would risk arrest in the court’s member countries.

Arrest warrants issued for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza threaten to deepen the country's global isolation

Exclusive | U.S. to Add Nearly 30 Chinese Companies to Forced-Labor Blacklist The raft of additions is the single-largest expansion of a list created to combat alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

Exclusive: The Biden administration will block imports from more than two dozen Chinese companies over their alleged ties to forced labor in the country's Xinjiang region.

China’s Plan B to Save the Economy: A Crusade Against Busywork When China’s top leaders pledged to act more aggressively to stimulate economic growth, they rounded off their remedies with a political order: Have fewer meetings and cut the busywork.

China’s vast bureaucracy wants to liberate its workers from drudgery by slashing red tape and holding fewer meetings

Exclusive | A Miami Financier Is Quietly Trying to Buy Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline The investor says a deal for the Russian pipeline would serve long-term U.S. interests.

An American investor with a history of dealmaking in Russia has asked the U.S. government to allow him to bid on the sabotaged Nord Stream Pipeline 2 if it comes up for auction

Opinion | Dick Durbin’s Plan to ‘Fix’ Credit Cards Rewards points could vanish if Congress caps transaction fees.

From @WSJopinion: Dick Durbin is pushing a bill in Congress’s lame-duck session that would shift the cost of processing card transactions from retailers to consumers. If it passes, rewards programs could vanish as they did with debit cards.

Opinion | Can Trump Bust Up the Beltway? Bureaucracies kept winning because no one paid attention to them. Until now.

From @WSJopinion: Can Trump bust up the Beltway? He seems serious about pulling the plug on the swamp. Like everything else about his presidency, we’ll see, writes @DanHenninger.

She Rented a Theater for Watching ‘Wicked.’ Then Came the Background Checks. ‘Unless you have won a Tony,’ a ‘Wicked’ fan tells friends, ‘no singing will be permitted’

Theatergoers worry about being able to watch the "Wicked" movie in peace. One fan rented a theater and set rules. "Unless you have won a Tony," she says, "no singing will be permitted."

Elon Musk Jabs at Billionaire Rival Jeff Bezos Over Trump The world’s two richest men got into it on Musk’s social-media platform X over the election.

Elon Musk took to X to reignite a public dispute with fellow billionaire and space-industry rival Jeff Bezos

Brazilian Police Accuse Former President Bolsonaro of Plotting Coup The sweeping charges against the former leader and 36 of his allies come after police uncovered a plan to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Brazilian federal police accused former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 of his allies of plotting a coup to stop President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from taking office in 2023

Opinion | Shy Conservatives Keep the Left in Its Bubble Otherwise reasonable people believe crazy things because nobody dares challenge them.

From @WSJopinion: The shock of the election results demonstrated how many Americans are willing to vote their values at the ballot box even as they remain unwilling to explain that vote even to a pollster, much less to a friend, writes John Masko

Apple Offers $100 Million Investment in Indonesia to Lift iPhone 16 Ban The amount the U.S. tech giant has offered is 10 times higher than an initial plan to invest $10 million and will be invested over the next two years.

Apple has proposed investing $100 million in Indonesia after the country banned sales of its latest iPhone 16 handsets over what officials say is the company’s nonfulfillment of local investment requirements

Is China a ‘Developing’ Country? That’s the Trillion-Dollar Question at U.N. Climate Talks Officials from developed and developing countries agree that more than $1 trillion a year is needed to finance poorer nations’ response to climate change—but not on who should pay up.

Western powers say it's time for China, Saudi Arabia and other wealthy countries to join them in pledging climate finance for poorer nations

Sam Altman’s Startup Appoints Former X Executive as Policy Chief Tools for Humanity named X’s former vice president of global affairs Nick Pickles as its head of policy, the latest executive from what was formerly Twitter to join the startup.

Tools for Humanity named X’s former vice president of global affairs as head of policy, the latest executive from what was formerly Twitter to join the startup co-founded by OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman

MicroStrategy’s Magical Bitcoin Buying Machine Uses Some Wacky Math Citing “yield” as a performance measure is likely to confuse some investors already overpaying for its stock.

Heard on the Street: Every new market mania needs new metrics to attract investors and explain the reason for its existence. Here’s one for the bitcoin boom.