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As Julia Letlow takes on Sen. Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, the race is becoming an early test of whether President Trump can still shape Republican primaries ahead of the midterms.
Reporter/Host: Olivia Beavers
Producer/Editor: @farah_oteroamad
Mark Rothko’s “Brown and Blacks in Reds” just sold for $85.8 million at Sotheby’s, kicking off the spring auction season. In a rare occurrence, multiple works from the painter are up for auction this week, testing the market strength of the famous abstract artist.
Reporter: @kellycrowwsj
Producer: @jvsli
President Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, his second state visit to China and the first U.S. presidential visit to the country in nearly nine years.
Here were the top takeaways from the summit:
1️⃣ Trump said Xi asked if the U.S. would defend Taiwan. They discussed the possibility of U.S. troops being sent to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, as well as arms sales to Taipei.
2️⃣ The summit ended without any joint announcements on specific deals, or any broader communiqué covering trade or other matters, but both sides celebrated the visit as a reset in relations. China said the two sides agreed on a new vision of “strategic stability,” while Trump described the U.S.’s relationship with China as “a very strong one.”
3️⃣ Trump said the U.S. and China agreed that the war in Iran should end, that ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz should be free and that Iran should never get a nuclear weapon. China didn’t directly address Iran in its statements about the summit, but has previously supported such positions.
4️⃣ Trump touted “fantastic trade deals” struck at the summit, but so far, details have been scarce. The president said China agreed to buy 200 Boeing planes, as well as more American oil and agricultural products. China hasn’t yet announced any such purchases.
5️⃣ Trump invited Xi to the White House on Sept. 24, and both leaders may also see one another at two international gatherings set to take place this year.
Read more at the link in our bio.
Photos: Mark Schiefelbein/AP, Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images, Xie Huanchi/Xinhua/ZUMA Press, Maxim Shemetov/Reuters, Evan Vucci/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
President Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, his second state visit to China and the first U.S. presidential visit to the country in nearly nine years.
Here were the top takeaways from the summit:
1️⃣ Trump said Xi asked if the U.S. would defend Taiwan. They discussed the possibility of U.S. troops being sent to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, as well as arms sales to Taipei.
2️⃣ The summit ended without any joint announcements on specific deals, or any broader communiqué covering trade or other matters, but both sides celebrated the visit as a reset in relations. China said the two sides agreed on a new vision of “strategic stability,” while Trump described the U.S.’s relationship with China as “a very strong one.”
3️⃣ Trump said the U.S. and China agreed that the war in Iran should end, that ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz should be free and that Iran should never get a nuclear weapon. China didn’t directly address Iran in its statements about the summit, but has previously supported such positions.
4️⃣ Trump touted “fantastic trade deals” struck at the summit, but so far, details have been scarce. The president said China agreed to buy 200 Boeing planes, as well as more American oil and agricultural products. China hasn’t yet announced any such purchases.
5️⃣ Trump invited Xi to the White House on Sept. 24, and both leaders may also see one another at two international gatherings set to take place this year.
Read more at the link in our bio.
Photos: Mark Schiefelbein/AP, Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images, Xie Huanchi/Xinhua/ZUMA Press, Maxim Shemetov/Reuters, Evan Vucci/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
President Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, his second state visit to China and the first U.S. presidential visit to the country in nearly nine years.
Here were the top takeaways from the summit:
1️⃣ Trump said Xi asked if the U.S. would defend Taiwan. They discussed the possibility of U.S. troops being sent to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, as well as arms sales to Taipei.
2️⃣ The summit ended without any joint announcements on specific deals, or any broader communiqué covering trade or other matters, but both sides celebrated the visit as a reset in relations. China said the two sides agreed on a new vision of “strategic stability,” while Trump described the U.S.’s relationship with China as “a very strong one.”
3️⃣ Trump said the U.S. and China agreed that the war in Iran should end, that ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz should be free and that Iran should never get a nuclear weapon. China didn’t directly address Iran in its statements about the summit, but has previously supported such positions.
4️⃣ Trump touted “fantastic trade deals” struck at the summit, but so far, details have been scarce. The president said China agreed to buy 200 Boeing planes, as well as more American oil and agricultural products. China hasn’t yet announced any such purchases.
5️⃣ Trump invited Xi to the White House on Sept. 24, and both leaders may also see one another at two international gatherings set to take place this year.
Read more at the link in our bio.
Photos: Mark Schiefelbein/AP, Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images, Xie Huanchi/Xinhua/ZUMA Press, Maxim Shemetov/Reuters, Evan Vucci/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
President Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, his second state visit to China and the first U.S. presidential visit to the country in nearly nine years.
Here were the top takeaways from the summit:
1️⃣ Trump said Xi asked if the U.S. would defend Taiwan. They discussed the possibility of U.S. troops being sent to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, as well as arms sales to Taipei.
2️⃣ The summit ended without any joint announcements on specific deals, or any broader communiqué covering trade or other matters, but both sides celebrated the visit as a reset in relations. China said the two sides agreed on a new vision of “strategic stability,” while Trump described the U.S.’s relationship with China as “a very strong one.”
3️⃣ Trump said the U.S. and China agreed that the war in Iran should end, that ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz should be free and that Iran should never get a nuclear weapon. China didn’t directly address Iran in its statements about the summit, but has previously supported such positions.
4️⃣ Trump touted “fantastic trade deals” struck at the summit, but so far, details have been scarce. The president said China agreed to buy 200 Boeing planes, as well as more American oil and agricultural products. China hasn’t yet announced any such purchases.
5️⃣ Trump invited Xi to the White House on Sept. 24, and both leaders may also see one another at two international gatherings set to take place this year.
Read more at the link in our bio.
Photos: Mark Schiefelbein/AP, Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images, Xie Huanchi/Xinhua/ZUMA Press, Maxim Shemetov/Reuters, Evan Vucci/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
President Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, his second state visit to China and the first U.S. presidential visit to the country in nearly nine years.
Here were the top takeaways from the summit:
1️⃣ Trump said Xi asked if the U.S. would defend Taiwan. They discussed the possibility of U.S. troops being sent to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, as well as arms sales to Taipei.
2️⃣ The summit ended without any joint announcements on specific deals, or any broader communiqué covering trade or other matters, but both sides celebrated the visit as a reset in relations. China said the two sides agreed on a new vision of “strategic stability,” while Trump described the U.S.’s relationship with China as “a very strong one.”
3️⃣ Trump said the U.S. and China agreed that the war in Iran should end, that ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz should be free and that Iran should never get a nuclear weapon. China didn’t directly address Iran in its statements about the summit, but has previously supported such positions.
4️⃣ Trump touted “fantastic trade deals” struck at the summit, but so far, details have been scarce. The president said China agreed to buy 200 Boeing planes, as well as more American oil and agricultural products. China hasn’t yet announced any such purchases.
5️⃣ Trump invited Xi to the White House on Sept. 24, and both leaders may also see one another at two international gatherings set to take place this year.
Read more at the link in our bio.
Photos: Mark Schiefelbein/AP, Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images, Xie Huanchi/Xinhua/ZUMA Press, Maxim Shemetov/Reuters, Evan Vucci/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
President Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, his second state visit to China and the first U.S. presidential visit to the country in nearly nine years.
Here were the top takeaways from the summit:
1️⃣ Trump said Xi asked if the U.S. would defend Taiwan. They discussed the possibility of U.S. troops being sent to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, as well as arms sales to Taipei.
2️⃣ The summit ended without any joint announcements on specific deals, or any broader communiqué covering trade or other matters, but both sides celebrated the visit as a reset in relations. China said the two sides agreed on a new vision of “strategic stability,” while Trump described the U.S.’s relationship with China as “a very strong one.”
3️⃣ Trump said the U.S. and China agreed that the war in Iran should end, that ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz should be free and that Iran should never get a nuclear weapon. China didn’t directly address Iran in its statements about the summit, but has previously supported such positions.
4️⃣ Trump touted “fantastic trade deals” struck at the summit, but so far, details have been scarce. The president said China agreed to buy 200 Boeing planes, as well as more American oil and agricultural products. China hasn’t yet announced any such purchases.
5️⃣ Trump invited Xi to the White House on Sept. 24, and both leaders may also see one another at two international gatherings set to take place this year.
Read more at the link in our bio.
Photos: Mark Schiefelbein/AP, Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images, Xie Huanchi/Xinhua/ZUMA Press, Maxim Shemetov/Reuters, Evan Vucci/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
“I like to joke that my parents were my first patients," says clinical psychologist Dr. Orna Guralnik. "As a child, I’d first try to figure out internally what was going on between them, who was right and who was wrong, and who needed help. Then I worked hard to make them happy.
“My childhood was divided into two major chapters: when my family lived in the U.S. and after we moved to Israel. The latter was a shock, culturally and economically.”
Guralnik is the therapist on “Couples Therapy,” the Paramount+ documentary series that starts its new season on Friday. She spoke about mediating problems between her mother and father, her two-chapter childhood and working with patients in front of the camera.
Read more at the link in our bio.
Photo: Giovanna Schlüter Nunes/Paramount+
The World Cup that kicks off next month in North America has been defined by sticker shock ever since tickets first became available.
Host/Reporter: Rachel Bachman
Producer: Julia Munslow
Camera: Farah Otero-Amad
Photo: Reuters
Anthropic is emerging as the presumptive front-runner in the race for artificial-intelligence supremacy, with faster growth and fundraising that could soon yield a higher valuation than rival OpenAI.
Once a scrappy underdog in a race that OpenAI appeared to have already won, the gap between the two companies has narrowed significantly this year, with new data suggesting Anthropic’s growth continues to accelerate rapidly. OpenAI’s, by some indications, has begun to plateau.
Anthropic has received investment offers in recent months valuing it at more than $900 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. That would more than double the company’s current valuation and surpass OpenAI’s for the first time. Earlier this year, OpenAI raised $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation.
In data released Wednesday, finance startup Ramp said more of its customers used Anthropic’s models than OpenAI’s for the first time, with 34.4% using Anthropic versus 32.3% using OpenAI. Adoption of Anthropic’s Claude tools jumped 3.8% from March to April, while OpenAI adoption fell 2.9%, according to the data. Ramp analyzes the spend of approximately 50,000 customers to track AI adoption trends.
An OpenAI spokesman said the Ramp figures offer an incomplete picture of business customers because large enterprise clients don’t pay for software services through credit cards. Bloomberg earlier reported on Anthropic’s fundraising offers.
Before this year, OpenAI had long been seen as the default front-runner in the AI race, and its ChatGPT chatbot still maintains a sizable lead over Anthropic’s Claude in overall users.
Anthropic has caught up by focusing on developing a handful of products rather than trying to dominate every corner of the market, and its success with coding users and businesses has reset the AI race on its terms.
Read more at the link in our bio.
Poppi co-founder Allison Ellsworth and her husband became centimillionaires when they helped sell the company for $1.95 billion to PepsiCo last year. Ellsworth shares advice she got on tipping as a wealthy person.
At the link in our bio, Ellsworth opens up about how she and her husband manage their money, the post-exit blues and her $1 million family vacation to Europe.
Monday was a typical day for President Trump. He took questions in the Oval Office. He met with members of Indiana University’s football team. And he had dinner with law-enforcement officers in the White House Rose Garden.
After the sun went down, another familiar ritual began: late-night social-media posting. The president’s Truth Social account posted 55 messages between 10:14 p.m. and 1:12 a.m.
The messages, mostly reposts from other accounts, falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen, aired frustrations from anonymous social-media users that Democrats hadn’t been indicted by the Justice Department and called for the arrest of former President Barack Obama.
The activity is emblematic of Trump’s account, which operates as a nearly round-the-clock, high-volume amplification system that blends his own voice with a network of partisan and fringe content. Since the start of his second term, Trump’s Truth Social account has ballooned to 12.6 million followers, up from about 8.6 million. Trump—with the help of staff—has posted at least 8,800 times, according to a WSJ analysis.
The bursts of social-media activity feature content from other accounts—including images, videos and text—that appeal to the president and his team. The nighttime missives often include some of the president’s sharpest and most divisive messaging, amplifying conspiracy theories, describing migrants as a threat to the country, threatening to punish his adversaries and mocking his opponents—all while giving a platform to obscure, anonymous accounts.
“Truth Social has never been hotter, and it’s because President Trump offers his unfiltered and direct thoughts to the American people, without the biased media taking him out of context,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement. “We don’t discuss internal deliberations of how the process works, but no other social-media tool has been more effective than Truth.”
Read more at the link in our bio.
🎨: Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ
Monday was a typical day for President Trump. He took questions in the Oval Office. He met with members of Indiana University’s football team. And he had dinner with law-enforcement officers in the White House Rose Garden.
After the sun went down, another familiar ritual began: late-night social-media posting. The president’s Truth Social account posted 55 messages between 10:14 p.m. and 1:12 a.m.
The messages, mostly reposts from other accounts, falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen, aired frustrations from anonymous social-media users that Democrats hadn’t been indicted by the Justice Department and called for the arrest of former President Barack Obama.
The activity is emblematic of Trump’s account, which operates as a nearly round-the-clock, high-volume amplification system that blends his own voice with a network of partisan and fringe content. Since the start of his second term, Trump’s Truth Social account has ballooned to 12.6 million followers, up from about 8.6 million. Trump—with the help of staff—has posted at least 8,800 times, according to a WSJ analysis.
The bursts of social-media activity feature content from other accounts—including images, videos and text—that appeal to the president and his team. The nighttime missives often include some of the president’s sharpest and most divisive messaging, amplifying conspiracy theories, describing migrants as a threat to the country, threatening to punish his adversaries and mocking his opponents—all while giving a platform to obscure, anonymous accounts.
“Truth Social has never been hotter, and it’s because President Trump offers his unfiltered and direct thoughts to the American people, without the biased media taking him out of context,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement. “We don’t discuss internal deliberations of how the process works, but no other social-media tool has been more effective than Truth.”
Read more at the link in our bio.
🎨: Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ
Monday was a typical day for President Trump. He took questions in the Oval Office. He met with members of Indiana University’s football team. And he had dinner with law-enforcement officers in the White House Rose Garden.
After the sun went down, another familiar ritual began: late-night social-media posting. The president’s Truth Social account posted 55 messages between 10:14 p.m. and 1:12 a.m.
The messages, mostly reposts from other accounts, falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen, aired frustrations from anonymous social-media users that Democrats hadn’t been indicted by the Justice Department and called for the arrest of former President Barack Obama.
The activity is emblematic of Trump’s account, which operates as a nearly round-the-clock, high-volume amplification system that blends his own voice with a network of partisan and fringe content. Since the start of his second term, Trump’s Truth Social account has ballooned to 12.6 million followers, up from about 8.6 million. Trump—with the help of staff—has posted at least 8,800 times, according to a WSJ analysis.
The bursts of social-media activity feature content from other accounts—including images, videos and text—that appeal to the president and his team. The nighttime missives often include some of the president’s sharpest and most divisive messaging, amplifying conspiracy theories, describing migrants as a threat to the country, threatening to punish his adversaries and mocking his opponents—all while giving a platform to obscure, anonymous accounts.
“Truth Social has never been hotter, and it’s because President Trump offers his unfiltered and direct thoughts to the American people, without the biased media taking him out of context,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement. “We don’t discuss internal deliberations of how the process works, but no other social-media tool has been more effective than Truth.”
Read more at the link in our bio.
🎨: Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ
Monday was a typical day for President Trump. He took questions in the Oval Office. He met with members of Indiana University’s football team. And he had dinner with law-enforcement officers in the White House Rose Garden.
After the sun went down, another familiar ritual began: late-night social-media posting. The president’s Truth Social account posted 55 messages between 10:14 p.m. and 1:12 a.m.
The messages, mostly reposts from other accounts, falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen, aired frustrations from anonymous social-media users that Democrats hadn’t been indicted by the Justice Department and called for the arrest of former President Barack Obama.
The activity is emblematic of Trump’s account, which operates as a nearly round-the-clock, high-volume amplification system that blends his own voice with a network of partisan and fringe content. Since the start of his second term, Trump’s Truth Social account has ballooned to 12.6 million followers, up from about 8.6 million. Trump—with the help of staff—has posted at least 8,800 times, according to a WSJ analysis.
The bursts of social-media activity feature content from other accounts—including images, videos and text—that appeal to the president and his team. The nighttime missives often include some of the president’s sharpest and most divisive messaging, amplifying conspiracy theories, describing migrants as a threat to the country, threatening to punish his adversaries and mocking his opponents—all while giving a platform to obscure, anonymous accounts.
“Truth Social has never been hotter, and it’s because President Trump offers his unfiltered and direct thoughts to the American people, without the biased media taking him out of context,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement. “We don’t discuss internal deliberations of how the process works, but no other social-media tool has been more effective than Truth.”
Read more at the link in our bio.
🎨: Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ
Monday was a typical day for President Trump. He took questions in the Oval Office. He met with members of Indiana University’s football team. And he had dinner with law-enforcement officers in the White House Rose Garden.
After the sun went down, another familiar ritual began: late-night social-media posting. The president’s Truth Social account posted 55 messages between 10:14 p.m. and 1:12 a.m.
The messages, mostly reposts from other accounts, falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen, aired frustrations from anonymous social-media users that Democrats hadn’t been indicted by the Justice Department and called for the arrest of former President Barack Obama.
The activity is emblematic of Trump’s account, which operates as a nearly round-the-clock, high-volume amplification system that blends his own voice with a network of partisan and fringe content. Since the start of his second term, Trump’s Truth Social account has ballooned to 12.6 million followers, up from about 8.6 million. Trump—with the help of staff—has posted at least 8,800 times, according to a WSJ analysis.
The bursts of social-media activity feature content from other accounts—including images, videos and text—that appeal to the president and his team. The nighttime missives often include some of the president’s sharpest and most divisive messaging, amplifying conspiracy theories, describing migrants as a threat to the country, threatening to punish his adversaries and mocking his opponents—all while giving a platform to obscure, anonymous accounts.
“Truth Social has never been hotter, and it’s because President Trump offers his unfiltered and direct thoughts to the American people, without the biased media taking him out of context,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement. “We don’t discuss internal deliberations of how the process works, but no other social-media tool has been more effective than Truth.”
Read more at the link in our bio.
🎨: Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ
For as long as he can remember, Trevor Larcom wanted to look different.
He’d grown up overweight in the public eye as a child actor, appearing on the sitcoms “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Fuller House.” He was 18 years old and 300 pounds when he turned his focus to working out and cutting calories.
Yet once he was down to 170 pounds, he still felt insecure. Dating wasn’t going well. What if I could change how my face is presented to people? he recalled thinking.
“One of the first things I looked up was ‘how to get a better jawline,’” said Larcom, now 22.
That’s how he fell into the online world of looksmaxxing, where young men relentlessly pursue physical ideals. He dyed his eyebrows. He did neck exercises and chewed extra-firm gum that he’d seen looksmaxxers claim would help build the jawline’s masseter muscles. And after seeing numerous before-and-after transformations, he ordered a peptide “stack,” or a combination of several peptides for supposed enhanced results.
Unrealistic beauty standards have long saddled women and girls, from models to movie stars to the growing masses of GLP-1 users. Now men and boys are facing their own heightened images of perfection: sharp jawlines, massive muscles, glowing skin.
Read the full story at the link in bio or on wsj.com.
Written by Sara Ashley O’Brien
Photos: @rsamuelhayes
For as long as he can remember, Trevor Larcom wanted to look different.
He’d grown up overweight in the public eye as a child actor, appearing on the sitcoms “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Fuller House.” He was 18 years old and 300 pounds when he turned his focus to working out and cutting calories.
Yet once he was down to 170 pounds, he still felt insecure. Dating wasn’t going well. What if I could change how my face is presented to people? he recalled thinking.
“One of the first things I looked up was ‘how to get a better jawline,’” said Larcom, now 22.
That’s how he fell into the online world of looksmaxxing, where young men relentlessly pursue physical ideals. He dyed his eyebrows. He did neck exercises and chewed extra-firm gum that he’d seen looksmaxxers claim would help build the jawline’s masseter muscles. And after seeing numerous before-and-after transformations, he ordered a peptide “stack,” or a combination of several peptides for supposed enhanced results.
Unrealistic beauty standards have long saddled women and girls, from models to movie stars to the growing masses of GLP-1 users. Now men and boys are facing their own heightened images of perfection: sharp jawlines, massive muscles, glowing skin.
Read the full story at the link in bio or on wsj.com.
Written by Sara Ashley O’Brien
Photos: @rsamuelhayes
For as long as he can remember, Trevor Larcom wanted to look different.
He’d grown up overweight in the public eye as a child actor, appearing on the sitcoms “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Fuller House.” He was 18 years old and 300 pounds when he turned his focus to working out and cutting calories.
Yet once he was down to 170 pounds, he still felt insecure. Dating wasn’t going well. What if I could change how my face is presented to people? he recalled thinking.
“One of the first things I looked up was ‘how to get a better jawline,’” said Larcom, now 22.
That’s how he fell into the online world of looksmaxxing, where young men relentlessly pursue physical ideals. He dyed his eyebrows. He did neck exercises and chewed extra-firm gum that he’d seen looksmaxxers claim would help build the jawline’s masseter muscles. And after seeing numerous before-and-after transformations, he ordered a peptide “stack,” or a combination of several peptides for supposed enhanced results.
Unrealistic beauty standards have long saddled women and girls, from models to movie stars to the growing masses of GLP-1 users. Now men and boys are facing their own heightened images of perfection: sharp jawlines, massive muscles, glowing skin.
Read the full story at the link in bio or on wsj.com.
Written by Sara Ashley O’Brien
Photos: @rsamuelhayes
For as long as he can remember, Trevor Larcom wanted to look different.
He’d grown up overweight in the public eye as a child actor, appearing on the sitcoms “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Fuller House.” He was 18 years old and 300 pounds when he turned his focus to working out and cutting calories.
Yet once he was down to 170 pounds, he still felt insecure. Dating wasn’t going well. What if I could change how my face is presented to people? he recalled thinking.
“One of the first things I looked up was ‘how to get a better jawline,’” said Larcom, now 22.
That’s how he fell into the online world of looksmaxxing, where young men relentlessly pursue physical ideals. He dyed his eyebrows. He did neck exercises and chewed extra-firm gum that he’d seen looksmaxxers claim would help build the jawline’s masseter muscles. And after seeing numerous before-and-after transformations, he ordered a peptide “stack,” or a combination of several peptides for supposed enhanced results.
Unrealistic beauty standards have long saddled women and girls, from models to movie stars to the growing masses of GLP-1 users. Now men and boys are facing their own heightened images of perfection: sharp jawlines, massive muscles, glowing skin.
Read the full story at the link in bio or on wsj.com.
Written by Sara Ashley O’Brien
Photos: @rsamuelhayes
For as long as he can remember, Trevor Larcom wanted to look different.
He’d grown up overweight in the public eye as a child actor, appearing on the sitcoms “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Fuller House.” He was 18 years old and 300 pounds when he turned his focus to working out and cutting calories.
Yet once he was down to 170 pounds, he still felt insecure. Dating wasn’t going well. What if I could change how my face is presented to people? he recalled thinking.
“One of the first things I looked up was ‘how to get a better jawline,’” said Larcom, now 22.
That’s how he fell into the online world of looksmaxxing, where young men relentlessly pursue physical ideals. He dyed his eyebrows. He did neck exercises and chewed extra-firm gum that he’d seen looksmaxxers claim would help build the jawline’s masseter muscles. And after seeing numerous before-and-after transformations, he ordered a peptide “stack,” or a combination of several peptides for supposed enhanced results.
Unrealistic beauty standards have long saddled women and girls, from models to movie stars to the growing masses of GLP-1 users. Now men and boys are facing their own heightened images of perfection: sharp jawlines, massive muscles, glowing skin.
Read the full story at the link in bio or on wsj.com.
Written by Sara Ashley O’Brien
Photos: @rsamuelhayes
For as long as he can remember, Trevor Larcom wanted to look different.
He’d grown up overweight in the public eye as a child actor, appearing on the sitcoms “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Fuller House.” He was 18 years old and 300 pounds when he turned his focus to working out and cutting calories.
Yet once he was down to 170 pounds, he still felt insecure. Dating wasn’t going well. What if I could change how my face is presented to people? he recalled thinking.
“One of the first things I looked up was ‘how to get a better jawline,’” said Larcom, now 22.
That’s how he fell into the online world of looksmaxxing, where young men relentlessly pursue physical ideals. He dyed his eyebrows. He did neck exercises and chewed extra-firm gum that he’d seen looksmaxxers claim would help build the jawline’s masseter muscles. And after seeing numerous before-and-after transformations, he ordered a peptide “stack,” or a combination of several peptides for supposed enhanced results.
Unrealistic beauty standards have long saddled women and girls, from models to movie stars to the growing masses of GLP-1 users. Now men and boys are facing their own heightened images of perfection: sharp jawlines, massive muscles, glowing skin.
Read the full story at the link in bio or on wsj.com.
Written by Sara Ashley O’Brien
Photos: @rsamuelhayes
For as long as he can remember, Trevor Larcom wanted to look different.
He’d grown up overweight in the public eye as a child actor, appearing on the sitcoms “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Fuller House.” He was 18 years old and 300 pounds when he turned his focus to working out and cutting calories.
Yet once he was down to 170 pounds, he still felt insecure. Dating wasn’t going well. What if I could change how my face is presented to people? he recalled thinking.
“One of the first things I looked up was ‘how to get a better jawline,’” said Larcom, now 22.
That’s how he fell into the online world of looksmaxxing, where young men relentlessly pursue physical ideals. He dyed his eyebrows. He did neck exercises and chewed extra-firm gum that he’d seen looksmaxxers claim would help build the jawline’s masseter muscles. And after seeing numerous before-and-after transformations, he ordered a peptide “stack,” or a combination of several peptides for supposed enhanced results.
Unrealistic beauty standards have long saddled women and girls, from models to movie stars to the growing masses of GLP-1 users. Now men and boys are facing their own heightened images of perfection: sharp jawlines, massive muscles, glowing skin.
Read the full story at the link in bio or on wsj.com.
Written by Sara Ashley O’Brien
Photos: @rsamuelhayes
For as long as he can remember, Trevor Larcom wanted to look different.
He’d grown up overweight in the public eye as a child actor, appearing on the sitcoms “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Fuller House.” He was 18 years old and 300 pounds when he turned his focus to working out and cutting calories.
Yet once he was down to 170 pounds, he still felt insecure. Dating wasn’t going well. What if I could change how my face is presented to people? he recalled thinking.
“One of the first things I looked up was ‘how to get a better jawline,’” said Larcom, now 22.
That’s how he fell into the online world of looksmaxxing, where young men relentlessly pursue physical ideals. He dyed his eyebrows. He did neck exercises and chewed extra-firm gum that he’d seen looksmaxxers claim would help build the jawline’s masseter muscles. And after seeing numerous before-and-after transformations, he ordered a peptide “stack,” or a combination of several peptides for supposed enhanced results.
Unrealistic beauty standards have long saddled women and girls, from models to movie stars to the growing masses of GLP-1 users. Now men and boys are facing their own heightened images of perfection: sharp jawlines, massive muscles, glowing skin.
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Written by Sara Ashley O’Brien
Photos: @rsamuelhayes
WSJ's Valerie Bauerlein explains why the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned Alex Murdaugh’s 2023 conviction in the double-murder of his wife and son, all but ensuring a do-over of one of the most-watched court cases in memory.
Murdaugh, a 57-year-old disbarred lawyer, is imprisoned in the rural western corner of the state and will likely spend the rest of his life in prison on separate financial crimes regardless of Wednesday’s ruling.
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The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as the Federal Reserve’s 17th chair Wednesday in a party-line vote that reflected how tensions with the White House have dragged the Fed deeper into the political fray.
Warsh won confirmation 54–45, earning support from all Senate Republicans but just one Democrat, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania. No Fed chair has been confirmed by such a narrow margin since Senate approval became a requirement for the job in 1977.
Chair Jerome Powell, whose leadership tenure ends Friday, captured at least 80 votes in Senate confirmations for each of his two terms atop the Fed. The previous chair, Janet Yellen, was confirmed 56–26 in 2014, with many senators absent because of bad weather.
A difficult economic backdrop and President Trump’s broadsides against the Fed’s independence have set up the central bank for a thorny leadership transition.
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In a heated exchange, FBI Director Kash Patel said allegations that he has been unreachable to his staff while drinking were "unequivocally, categorically false."
Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP
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