Новости за 24.06.2018

Amid the lowest unemployment in years, fast-food restaurants are turning to machines—not to get rid of workers, but because they can’t find enough. Flippy the burger chef doesn’t complain about the drudgery of grill work and never leaves the kitchen.

Online dating apps try to woo female users in one of the world’s largest untapped markets; ‘not for average-looking guys’

Opinions from Justices Kagan and Kennedy speak to the need to restore constitutional constraints.

In the week ahead, the U.S. Commerce Department is set to release data on durable goods, gross domestic product and personal income.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling enables states to collect sales tax from all online purchases, eliminating the advantage of buying some big-ticket items from websites like Amazon.com.

With their escalating trade feud showing little evidence of hurting their economies, the U.S. and China aren’t close to backing down. Investors may get squeezed between the two giants before one of them cracks.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing serious challenges as voters head to the polls. A tumbling currency has left some questioning his economic acumen.

The company turned out to be a hedge fund masquerading as an industrial giant.

The leftist López Obrador leads in the polls. But don’t rule out a surprise result.

The acquisition could have anticompetitive effects, so the FTC should scrutinize it.

Automation rarely outright destroys jobs. It instead augments—taking over routine tasks while humans handle more complex ones. Oren Cass reviews “The Future of Work” by Darrell M. West and “Human + Machine” by Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson.

Working Americans sense that taxes and transfers now leave them little better off than those who work less.

The Singapore summit was likely more successful than it looked. Relationships are paramount in the East.

Trump’s supporters love the idea of extending U.S. superiority beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.

EU leaders failed to bridge disagreements over the bloc’s politically toxic migration issue, a long-unresolved conundrum now threatening to topple the EU’s most powerful leader, Germany’s Angela Merkel.

After a 6-1win over Panama, England appears ready to shed its reputation as the great chokers of international soccer.

You want to choose your streaming service carefully because whichever you pick will take over your music.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who boasts he has never lost a ballot, is facing serious challenges as voters head to the polls. A tumbling currency has left some questioning his economic acumen. And despite little access to media a credible rival has emerged.

The cartel’s decision last week to increase production modestly lifted the stock prices of U.S. oil producers, which have learned to survive at whichever price OPEC pursues.

The lifting of Saudi Arabia's female driving ban Sunday marked an extraordinary moment for women​.​ Photo: Donna Abdulaziz/The Wall Street Journal

The Syrian regime’s main military ally, Russia, carried out airstrikes Sunday in the country’s southwest, defying a cease-fire pact with the U.S. and Jordan.

Before AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson set his sights on Time Warner, he expressed interest in acquiring CBS and met with Shari Redstone.

Under U.S. rules, forgiven debt is considered a borrower’s income for that given year, and taxed as such. Those delayed tax bills are piling up.

You want to choose your streaming service carefully because whichever you pick will take over your music.

Tens of thousands have been trying to cross the southern border into the U.S. to seek asylum. Most won’t win, according to U.S. government data.