Alex Ossola

Bloomingdale's doesn't seem like a retailer that should be succeeding right now.

Rivals like Saks and Lord & Taylor have filed for bankruptcy or gone out of business.

But Bloomingdale's is thriving.

It's posted five straight quarters of sales gains, and analysts expect that trend to continue.

Suzanne Kappner covers retail for the journal.

Suzanne, why is Bloomingdale's doing so well when so many rivals have failed?

Selling luxury brands is a key part of this strategy.

But you write in your story that a decade ago, many of those luxury brands wouldn't sell to Bloomingdale's.

Why has that changed?

That was WSJ reporter Suzanne Kaffner.

Thanks, Suzanne.

Thank you.

Coming up, who decides what the military can do with AI?

The fight has already begun.

That's after the break.

President Trump has capped off weeks of tension between the Pentagon and Anthropic.

He posted on Truth Social late this afternoon that he was ordering every federal agency in the United States government to stop using Anthropic's technology.

He says the Department of Defense and other agencies using Anthropic's Claude models will have a six-month phase-out period.

He said there would be civil and criminal consequences if the company was not helpful during the transition.

Anthropic said earlier that it wouldn't back down from its guardrails around the military's use of Claude.