WAILIN WONG: Empirically, what's happening is that we are really seeing the pace of job creation, job growth slow down. And at the same time, you're not seeing a huge increase in the unemployment rate ...

Why does the United States want Greenland? President Trump has made it clear that he thinks the U.S. needs control of the island to ensure the security of America and its NATO allies, a point those ...

The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost. It’s hard to quantify a zeitgeist, but here at WIRED, chronically ...

A ferocious surge in influenza cases is linked in part to a variant that has not been dominant in the past few years — resulting in a waning of natural immunity. As millions of bedridden people can ...

Over the holidays, the first trend of 2026 emerged: the year 2016. “2026 is the new 2016,” users declared, in captions waxing poetic about the good old days, accompanied by Instagram-filtered photo ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured concurrency in the coming year. Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward ...

Since the beginning of January, Greenland – the vast, autonomous Arctic territory ruled by Denmark – has catapulted from the sidelines of international affairs to the very center. As President Donald ...

On December 25, 2025, the United States struck two apparent Islamic State camps in northwest Nigeria with Tomahawk missiles. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced that it struck “ISIS terrorists in ...

Affordability is top of mind for consumers and politicians. Prices for things like housing, food and electricity have risen sharply since before the Covid-19 pandemic, even as inflation has ...

Jim Beam, a popular whiskey distillery in the U.S., is closing one of its Kentucky distilleries next year as demand for the product is declining and tariffs are reaching an all-time high. The ...

First, we have a jet stream pattern that favors warmer weather, with a high pressure ridge sitting right on top of us. As the jet stream volatility remains west and north of us, we are typically ...