The Wall Street Journal

Heard on the Street: Tesla has shed nearly half its value but still looks expensive compared with tech and auto peers.

A Russian negotiator rejected a U.S.-brokered cease-fire proposal as Moscow pushes back Ukrainian troops in Kursk. https://on.wsj.com/3DQ7iDn

Vietnam’s northern port city Haiphong helped the country become an unexpected winner in Trump’s first trade war. Will that fortune be reversed under his second term?

A new generation of young men are discovering finasteride, the generic name for Propecia—and its potential risks.

🔗: https://on.wsj.com/4huBnpM The stranger messaging Matthew Van Andel online last July knew a lot about him—including details about his lunch with co-workers at Disney from a few days earlier. He knew no one outside Disney would have access to that information. How did the person messaging him on chat forum Discord know what he had said in a private workplace Slack channel? “I have gained access to certain sensitive information related to your personal and professional life,” another Discord message said. Van Andel realized he had been hacked. The next morning, the lunchtime Slack exchange became one of more than 44 million Disney messages from the workplace collaboration tool published online by a cryptic hacking group with murky motivations. The hacker had used Van Andel’s login credentials to steal from his employer. The breach upended Van Andel’s life. The hacker stole his credit-card numbers and racked up bills—and leaked his account login details, including those to financial accounts. The attacker published Van Andel’s personal information online, ranging from his Social Security number to login credentials that could be used to access Ring cameras within his home. “It’s impossible to convey the sense of violation,” said Van Andel, a 42-year-old father of two boys. A few weeks later, Van Andel was also out of a job. His experience is a cautionary tale for companies—and individuals—of how vulnerable they are to opportunistic hackers.

Russia said its forces were in the final stages of ousting Ukraine’s army from the Kursk region.

Orders to a hit man and charges of crimes against humanity. The battle between the Philippines’s Duterte and Marcos families is roiling a prime U.S. ally in the Pacific.

New Census Bureau data shows America’s biggest metro areas aren’t shrinking—at least for now—thanks to immigration.

Europe could pack a strong punch if it was forced to defend itself against Russia without the U.S.

For decades, scientists have been on the hunt for an antiaging drug. Now, some say we may have already found it. An accumulating body of research has led longevity clinics to market and prescribe GLP-1s like Ozempic as so-called gerotherapeutics—drugs that can target certain biological hallmarks of aging. 🔗 Read more: https://on.wsj.com/41ZvlsO