For Congress, Storm Adds Another Urgent Issue to a Full Plate

The likely need for a multibillion-dollar emergency relief measure creates another urgent issue for Congress to address in what was already expected to be a busy September.

Houston Mayor’s No-Win Dilemma: Whether to Tell Residents to Stay or Go

With Hurricane Harvey bearing down, Mayor Sylvester Turner had to weigh the risks of sheltering in place against the dangers of a mandatory evacuation that would hopelessly clog highways. Not everyone agrees that he made the right call.

North Korea just fired a missile right over Japan — but here’s why the yen is rallying anyway

“For those Japanese investors who are invested overseas, having their assets in non-yen is a risk because they are exposed to foreign-exchange volatility,” he said earlier this month. “So when these geopolitical risks, or any risks, get heightened,...