Luke Vargas

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Here is your Morning Brief for Monday, March 23rd.

I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal.

Iran has just hours left to open the Strait of Hormuz or face U.S.

attacks on its power plants.

Two pilots have been killed after an Air Canada Express plane arriving from Montreal collided with a firefighting vehicle shortly after landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

And we're exclusively reporting that activist investor Elliott Investment Management has taken a multi-billion dollar stake in chip designer Synopsys.

Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it.

Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll.

This bill would cut the vital resources they need.

Oil futures retreat as countries step in to try and calm markets.

Here is your morning brief for Friday, March 20th.

I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal.

Plus, Dubai pairs an advertising blitz with a social media crackdown to protect its image.

The U.S.

military is scaling up efforts to try and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

We report that the operation involves attacking Iranian naval vessels with low-flying jets and hunting drones with Apache helicopters, an effort meant to clear away a web of Iranian assets that have harassed traffic through the maritime chokepoint.

And we'll get the latest from D.C.