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Luke Vargas

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Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

While United has already cut 35 daily round-trip flights from Newark, the Federal Aviation Administration has proposed further limits as the airport deals with runway construction and a controller shortage. The FAA is set to meet with airlines to discuss the move this week.

WSJ What’s News
Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

While United has already cut 35 daily round-trip flights from Newark, the Federal Aviation Administration has proposed further limits as the airport deals with runway construction and a controller shortage. The FAA is set to meet with airlines to discuss the move this week.

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Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

The Trump administration is probing Harvard for alleged discrimination against white, Asian, male, and heterosexual employees. In opening the probe, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission pointed to now-deleted documents on Harvard's website tracking its progress in diversifying its faculty over a decade.

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Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

The Trump administration is probing Harvard for alleged discrimination against white, Asian, male, and heterosexual employees. In opening the probe, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission pointed to now-deleted documents on Harvard's website tracking its progress in diversifying its faculty over a decade.

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Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

That includes a drop in tenured white male faculty from 64% to 56% between 2013 and 2023. In response, a Harvard spokesperson pointed to a Monday letter by President Alan Garber in which he said employment at the university was based on merit and achievement and denied the use of quotas.

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Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

That includes a drop in tenured white male faculty from 64% to 56% between 2013 and 2023. In response, a Harvard spokesperson pointed to a Monday letter by President Alan Garber in which he said employment at the university was based on merit and achievement and denied the use of quotas.

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Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

The Justice Department is overhauling its whistleblower program created during the Biden administration to reward people who tip authorities about companies involved in immigration crimes or tariff evasion, making them eligible to reap a share of funds forfeited to the government.

WSJ What’s News
Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

The Justice Department is overhauling its whistleblower program created during the Biden administration to reward people who tip authorities about companies involved in immigration crimes or tariff evasion, making them eligible to reap a share of funds forfeited to the government.

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Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

The changes are part of a broader shakeup of white-collar enforcement priorities aimed at encouraging self-reporting and leaning less on compliance monitors that prosecutors sometimes embed within businesses. And finally, a bellwether week for art sales kicked off in New York last night, with auction houses Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips aiming to sell more than $1.2 billion in art by Friday.

WSJ What’s News
Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

The changes are part of a broader shakeup of white-collar enforcement priorities aimed at encouraging self-reporting and leaning less on compliance monitors that prosecutors sometimes embed within businesses. And finally, a bellwether week for art sales kicked off in New York last night, with auction houses Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips aiming to sell more than $1.2 billion in art by Friday.

WSJ What’s News
Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

The strength of the market will be closely watched following recent economic uncertainty. Yesterday, bidding was tepid at Christie's, even though paintings by Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian and Claude Monet sold for more than their low estimates. Another test will come this evening with a sculpture by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti on the block at Sotheby's.

WSJ What’s News
Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

The strength of the market will be closely watched following recent economic uncertainty. Yesterday, bidding was tepid at Christie's, even though paintings by Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian and Claude Monet sold for more than their low estimates. Another test will come this evening with a sculpture by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti on the block at Sotheby's.

WSJ What’s News
Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

In a video, the auction house says the bust of his brother Diego is considered to be his masterpiece and is estimated to top $70 million.

WSJ What’s News
Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

In a video, the auction house says the bust of his brother Diego is considered to be his masterpiece and is estimated to top $70 million.

WSJ What’s News
Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

Historically, fine art has been largely exempt from most U.S. customs duties, but President Trump's new tariffs impose a 10 percent duty on all imports, and it remains unclear how that could impact auction houses. And before we go, we made a mistake in yesterday morning's episode saying that Istanbul was Turkey's capital. Ankara is in fact Turkey's capital.

WSJ What’s News
Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

Historically, fine art has been largely exempt from most U.S. customs duties, but President Trump's new tariffs impose a 10 percent duty on all imports, and it remains unclear how that could impact auction houses. And before we go, we made a mistake in yesterday morning's episode saying that Istanbul was Turkey's capital. Ankara is in fact Turkey's capital.

WSJ What’s News
Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

And that's it for What's News for this Tuesday morning. Today's show was produced by Daniel Bach and Kate Bullivant. Our supervising producer is Sandra Kilhoff. And I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal. We will be back tonight with a new show. And until then, thanks for listening.

WSJ What’s News
Trump Kicks Off Mideast Trip Built Around Deals

And that's it for What's News for this Tuesday morning. Today's show was produced by Daniel Bach and Kate Bullivant. Our supervising producer is Sandra Kilhoff. And I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal. We will be back tonight with a new show. And until then, thanks for listening.

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WSJ What’s News
Stocks Surge as U.S. and China Slash Tariffs

Every day you're faced with millions of data points, making crucial research noisier than ever before. When every second counts, successful business decisions hinge on access to the right information at the right time. Utilize AlphaSense's AI search technology to extract critical market knowledge and insights in seconds, not hours. Outpace the competition today. Stocks surge as the U.S.