Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Julie Wernau writes about health and medicine across the U.S. for The Wall Street ... epidemic, Covid-19 and abortion. She previously covered China's consumer market for the Journal in Beijing ... Read More

COVID-19 Variant JN.1 Loses Ground to Emerging Subvariant

declined nearly 14% last week, dropping below 10,000 new admissions for the first time since July 2023. A decline in COVID-19 mortality contributed to a rise in life expectancy in 2022 in the U.S ... Read More

World News

The U.S. Senate ... Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, has been held for more than a year, awaiting trial on spying charges that he, his publisher and the United States vehemently ... Read More

U.S. marks 1 year since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained in Russia

One year after Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia and charged with espionage, journalists, news organizations and U.S ... United States. Earlier this week ... Read More

Here’s what driving Wall Street’s newest and highest S&P 500 forecast

The forecast appears to be the highest target for the large-cap benchmark index among Wall Street’s biggest ... Some good news on inflation? Fed might get it with the CPI this week. Read More

Journal Record Index: Wall Street ends week mostly red

The Journal Record Stock Index slid 8.40 points, or 0.36%, and closed at 2,314.57. Advancing issues and declining issues were in a dead heat at 10 each. Read More

These Eight U.S. Bridges Are Vulnerable to a Repeat of the Baltimore Crash

Fewer than 10 bridges in the U.S. have the clearance of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, the 1,200-foot span that collapsed after a supersize containership slammed into one of its ... Read More

US tuberculosis cases in 2023 were at highest level in a decade, CDC says

The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 was the highest in a decade ... "Although TB incidence in the United States is among the lowest in the world and most U.S. residents are at minimal ... Read More

Most Teachers in America Don’t Get Maternity Leave. Some States Want to Change That.

But Vaughn’s school district, like most in the U.S., offered no paid maternity leave. As her family’s sole wage earner, she felt she had little choice but to go back to work, where she sneaked ... Read More

Am I Glad I Went to College? Well, It’s Complicated

I’m regularly reminded of the years I spent in college. It isn’t an old photo, or a Facebook post or a text from a former classmate that stokes flashbacks of the best years of my life. Read More

Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Cory previously covered state courts and economic development for the Journal's Greater New York section. Before joining the Journal in 2015, she worked as a professional violist. She is ... Read More