The Wall Street Journal

SpaceX’s IPO is set to be the biggest ever. It still relies on a bank of phones to sell the shares.

For more than a year, Republican senators had largely been deferential to President Trump‘s wishes. This week, they revolted over a Trump endorsement and his $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization fund."

Born as the Miata, the Mazda MX-5 is modeled on 1960s-era open-top British sports cars. And it’s one of the last remaining delivery systems for a proper six-speed manual transmission. https://on.wsj.com/4tMk5L3

Modern dating can feel like a rat race, where meetups are faster, cheaper and more abundant. Dating is a numbers game; the more you swipe on the apps, the more matches you get, the more dates you have. It feels impractical and slightly antiquated to dedicate more than a little bit of time, energy and money to each person you’re likely to never see again. The lower your investment, the less of a crushing blow it can be if it doesn’t work out. But now, Gen Z is pushing to revive the first-date dinner. They’re fed up with a dating culture that makes them feel disposable, competing with an endless stream of suitors on apps where someone else is just a swipe away. They want to know they have their date’s time and attention. Read more: 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4tSJNh7

A highhanded international organization with a reputation for skulduggery and cozy relationships with autocrats may have finally met its match: the state of New Jersey. FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, will stage eight World Cup matches—including the final—at the Garden State’s MetLife Stadium. But just as the extravaganza is set to kick off, many New Jerseyans are viewing their hosting duties less as an honor and more as a costly burden they could do without. The tension came to a boil when NJ Transit announced last month it would charge fans $150 for a round-trip ticket from Manhattan to the Meadowlands, a ride that typically costs around $13. Such charges would have “a chilling effect,” FIFA’s chief operating officer, Heimo Schirgi, warned—which struck some New Jersey officials as rich, coming from a body that touts the inclusive nature of the games while charging nearly $33,000 for top tickets. NJ Transit has since reduced the train fare to $98, thanks to contributions from corporate sponsors. Still, New Jersey’s new Democratic governor, Mikie Sherrill, shows no sign of bending further to an organization that expects to generate at least $14 billion from the quadrennial soccer-fest. ⚽️ Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4fBQ2lQ

Not long after Martin St. Louis retired from the NHL in 2015, he found himself in the heat of a 3-on-3 drill, flying down the ice on a breakaway, every bit the Hall of Fame player who survived 16 seasons in the league. Only this time, that ice wasn’t in Madison Square Garden, but at a community rink in Stamford, Conn. The fearsome defenders across from him were all of 12 years old. For most retired NHL players, coaching pee-wee hockey is a cushy off-ramp to civilian life. What St. Louis couldn’t know then was that it would lead him straight back to the NHL and into a head coaching job with the Montreal Canadiens. In 2022, St. Louis went straight from coaching high-schoolers to leading the most historic franchise in hockey despite having zero professional coaching experience—or, for that matter, any time at all between working with kids and the most fearsome hockey players on earth. It didn’t slow him down. Four years later, St. Louis has revitalized the downtrodden Canadiens and has Montreal dreaming of ending Canada’s 33-year Stanley Cup drought. Read more: 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/49JLF4s

It is a tough job market for young college graduates. For young people without a bachelor’s degree, it is even tougher. 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4fwLDAE The college class of 2026 is entering one of the most nerve-racking job markets in recent memory. Employers have sharply reduced hiring—awful news for those trying to land their first job. Worries that artificial intelligence will be able to perform many of the skills graduates spent years honing are running high. Commencement speakers lauding the technology are drawing jeers. A widely followed quarterly report from the New York Fed, based on the detailed data that underlies the Labor Department’s monthly jobs report, shows that as of March, the unemployment rate for people with bachelor’s degrees, and between the ages of 22 and 27, was a seasonally adjusted 5.6%. That was a big step up from the 3.6% registered in December 2019, before the Covid pandemic. The unemployment rate for all workers in that age group—college graduates, those with associate degrees, those with just high-school degrees, and so on—was higher at 7.2%. But the move higher from right before the pandemic, when it was 6.8%, was much smaller. So in relative terms, it looks as if the employment prospects for young college grads versus other young people have worsened significantly.

Elizabeth Smart lit up the internet last month after posting a picture of herself in a tiny midnight-blue bikini with a full-body spray tan, blonde hair extensions and a seriously ripped physique. In 2002, when she was 14, she was abducted in Utah by an older married couple and sexually and physically abused for nine months. Now a married mother of three, Smart, 38, who was raised Mormon, is an advocate for survivors of sexual violence. Decades after captivity that she said made her feel less than human, she’s now adopting the almost superhuman form of a competitive bodybuilder. Smart started lifting weights in late 2024 and competed in her first contest last spring under her married name, Elizabeth Gilmour. This year, Netflix released the documentary “Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart” about her abduction, and last year the bestselling author published her third book, “Detours.” Here, she discusses her physical and mental transformation, the importance of intimacy and the candy joy of a Nerds Gummy Cluster. 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4flx8zN

Have a tendency to reach for a racket, a pen or a glass with one specific hand? New research traces the answer back millions of years—to the time when our ancestors stood up. When we shifted from climbing trees with four limbs to walking upright on two, we freed up our hands for gripping food, hunting and even crafting tools. A preferred hand made such tasks more efficient, according to a recent paper in the journal PLOS Biology. And, coupled with a growing brain—more on that in a bit—the right hand later emerged as a clear favorite. No other primate species shows such a strong preference for one hand over another: 90% of people are right-handed. 🔗 Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4v1jypz

Tulsi Gabbard was frozen out of the planning to capture Nicolás Maduro and clashed with President Trump over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Here are key moments from Gabbard’s difficult tenure as the top U.S. intelligence officer.