Gráinne McCarthy
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Executive News Editor, The Wall Street Journal. Proud WestCorkonian. Former Paris chief. [email protected] @WSJ
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Joined October 2009
“I hope Mamdani is going to give out free Xanax!” New York’s upper crust believe they’re on the verge of being disenfranchised. My dispatch from the Upper East Side, the single best place to observe the anxieties of the 1%.
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The city’s 1% realize their influence is waning: “It’s hard to be chill and relaxed.”
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We often hear Ukraine’s side of this war. But we rarely hear from Russian soldiers. I spent months on this piece about one Russian who left a good life in St. Petersburg to join Moscow’s brutal war machine. His story is hard to believe - but it’s true. https://t.co/Fx62t0MiQ4
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Mikhail Simdyankin was lured into the military by a generous sign-on bonus and was stunned by what he found in Ukraine. ‘If I could, I would rewind and give all that money back.’
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Exclusive: For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump.
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The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’
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“It genuinely feels like hell down there." The hottest place in London is almost always the Tube. And it’s only getting hotter. Great ahed by @AnveeBhutani
https://t.co/ujxNJuXhOU via @WSJ
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Temperatures have been rising since the world’s oldest underground transportation system opened in 1863, presenting challenges that air conditioning can’t easily fix.
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Honored to have been a finalist for the Pulitzer, alongside an excellent team, most notably @evangershkovich, who reported from a Russian jail.
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“Musk Above the Law” examined Elon Musk’s use of drugs, his secret conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his deep ties with Tesla’s board of directors. The series won the WSJ the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Read the series:
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Elon Musk in 2024 became a singularly powerful force in U.S. politics, business and government. The Wall Street Journal showed how he operates.
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The Wall Street Journal won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for its series on how Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elon Musk transformed himself into one of the most powerful forces in the U.S.
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The Journal won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for its series on how Elon Musk transformed himself into one of the most powerful forces in the U.S.
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Jennifer Foley didn’t believe her brother had pointed a gun. Then she found recordings of the deputy police chief telling the shooter, “You’re taken care of.” This @vbauerlein blockbuster is really worth your time. (Part 1 too.) https://t.co/1ts9r6UCZ9 via @WSJ
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Jennifer Foley uncovered secret recordings between the man who shot her brother and the deputy chief in charge of investigations. Second of two parts.
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“I know it’s f— up to say, but I had a f—ing blast.” Weldon Boyd broke into a giggle. “I had a good time.”
After hours of drinking, Scott Spivey got into his pickup and, by all accounts, was in no condition to drive. His killer caught up with him a couple of miles down the road.
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They needed to get the president alone if they were going to convince him. When his tariff-loving adviser was finally away from the Oval Office, they made their move. https://t.co/4CJ6rqeFdD via @WSJ @ajsaeedy @jdawsey1
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The alliance between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick illustrates how fast things can change inside the White House.
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An amazing @vbauerlein story from South Carolina:
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Two drivers crossed paths on Highway 9, headed for trouble. One ended up dead, the other walked free, but there was much more to know.
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The question of what triggered a trade war between this barren archipelago and the world’s biggest economy is consuming officials. “We are 6,000 people and export nearly nothing to the U.S., except maybe some tuna." https://t.co/XQk9KnHCLK via @WSJ @MaximColch @Mike_Cherney
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Locals in some of the most remote parts of the globe are sifting through records to figure out how they landed on the list
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Elon Musk asked federal workers to detail their week’s work in an email. It evoked anger from unions and employees, but also head scratching from corporate America, where technology tracks workers https://t.co/IoWQDo33zE via @WSJ
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Elon Musk’s email to federal employees prompted angst, but lots of employers use technology for continuous feedback on worker performance.
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How good is Scrabble’s GOAT? He wins in languages he can’t speak. “He memorizes words as soon as he reads them once...For him, all words are equal in his memory, and he doesn’t need to know their meaning." https://t.co/BzfRLNqVCH via @WSJ @natasha_dangoor
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With an encyclopedic memory, Nigel Richards conquered the game in English before moving on to French and Spanish. Just don’t ask him what all the words mean.
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Trump’s idea upended deeply held assumptions that the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. https://t.co/Y7as1NVY1y via @WSJ @Shayndi
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The proposal is in line with President Trump’s modus operandi of bringing the unexpected to the center of American policy.
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Trump's moves underscored that he is willing to threaten major economic disruptions to make his point about what he sees as unfair trade practices and other issues such as fentanyl smuggling and illegal border crossings. https://t.co/35EtoboCaV via @WSJ
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The past 48 hours of tariff policies have stunned markets and boardrooms across the world.
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The deadliest plane crash on U.S. soil in decades was a reminder that lives are made up of ordinary moments and there is no way to know when the extraordinary might intervene. https://t.co/1owf7NxaOc via @WSJ @vbauerlein et al
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Some were promising figure skaters. Others were teachers or old friends on a hunting trip. They all perished in an instant, part of the worst U.S. air disaster in years.
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The U.S. has been engaged in weeks of frantic negotiations with Canada and Mexico, as well as lobbying by North American businesses and labor groups that have argued the across-the-board tariffs would drive up prices. https://t.co/oPeUWg0qCz via @WSJ
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The president reiterated that tariffs are coming, even as his advisers are considering several offramps to avoid enacting universal tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
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The United States’ streak of more than 15 years without a major fatal airline crash has been the envy of other countries and a model for other industries. Privately, pilots and air-safety officials knew America’s luck would eventually run out. https://t.co/myLEbw72jA via @WSJ
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The crash involving an American Airlines regional jet occurred in a high-risk location feared by safety officials—a crowded airport.
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Colleagues say DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng isn’t one for the trappings of wealth or fame—but he did once say he wanted the respect of the U.S.-led technology world. It is safe to say he has it now. https://t.co/OXKYfDHgkg via @WSJ @GZuckerman @raffaelehuang
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The math geek caught the investing bug and launched a hedge fund before founding the company whose AI models took the world by surprise.
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