Palestinian militants from the armed group Hamas launched a surprise coordinated attack on Israel by land, sea and air on Saturday morning. Israel declared war in response, with another Iran-backed group—Hezbollah—attacking military targets in northern Israel from its positions in southern Lebanon early Sunday. On October 9, at 11 a.m. ET, the Journal's World Coverage Chief Gordon Fairclough speaks with Deputy Middle East Bureau Chief Shayndi Raice, based in Tel Aviv, about the developing situation.

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When Kevin Hochman became CEO last June of the company that owns Chili's Bar & Grill, amid a labor shortage and escalating costs , he started looking for bottlenecks in the kitchen. There, he learned about Chili's french-fry problem. Fries were delivered in their own metal baskets, driving cooks and dishwashers crazy. They had to be lined with paper before each serving and cleaned afterward, some 40 million times a year. In short order, Mr. Hochman scrapped the baskets for fries, advancing his grand ambitions for the Southwest-style restaurant chain: improve service and boost profits.

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Los Angeles-based Shamrock Capital Advisors grew out of the family office of Roy Disney.Photo: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesBy Maria ArmentalFeb. 3, 2023 6:00 am ETShamrock Capital Advisors, a Los Angeles-based investment firm that grew out of the family office of the late Roy Disney, a longtime Walt Disney Co. executive, has raised more than $600 million to spend on entertainment content and media rights.The firm, which long ago severed ties with the Disney family, said its latest fund, called Shamrock Capital Content Fund III LP, is more than double the size of its first such vehicle, which closed on about $250 million in 2016.

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This year, the Journal worked with independent research agencies College Pulse and Statista to put students' experiences at the heart of our 2023 college rankings, with one of the largest surveys of U.S. students ever conducted. On September 7, at 1 p.m. ET, join Education Bureau Chief Chastity Pratt, Rankings Editor Harry Carr and reporter Kevin McAllister to discuss what the rankings mean for prospective students.

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Businesses have long relied on insurance to cover losses from unexpected disruptions. But they have faced an uphill battle in trying to get carriers to pay out on one of the biggest ever: pandemic shutdowns.Insurers that sold 'business interruption' coverage have denied claims by companies that suffered through lockdowns or other fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, and many courts have shot down subsequent lawsuits. The presence of virus wasn't enough to trigger the policies, which generally require some kind of physical damage to property, the courts say.

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TikTok is introducing automated captions, a feature that will add subtitles to posts in its popular video-sharing app without requiring users to enter the text themselves.The feature, which is being rolled out in the coming weeks, is the latest attempt by a social-media company to make its products more accessible and avoid shutting out large segments of the population. Often those moves have followed pressure from advocates, as was the case last summer, when Twitter Inc. began letting users share audio tweets, but initially didn't allow captioning, making it useless to deaf people.

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Photo: dustin chambers/Reuters Three white men have been indicted on federal hate crimes charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was fatally shot in February 2020 while out jogging in southeast Georgia, the Justice Department said Wednesday. More to follow. Write to Sadie Gurman at sadie.gurman@wsj.com

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In a sweeping blow, the Supreme Court rejected the Biden administration's $430 billion program to forgive student-loans. Payments will resume in October for millions of borrowers. On September 27, at 3 p.m. ET, the Journal's Julia Carpenter, Joe Pinsker and Gabriel Rubin sit down to discuss what student-loan repayments mean for your finances.

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Queen Elizabeth II, the longest lived and longest-reigning monarch in Britain's history, has died at age 96. She was just 25 years old when her father, King George VI, died and she became head of the monarchy and the figurehead of a commonwealth of 2.4 billion people and over 50 countries. Photo: PA Images/AlamyBy Max Colchester and Isabel ColesUpdated Sept. 8, 2022 6:38 pm ETListen to article(2 minutes)LONDON—Queen Elizabeth II's eldest son, Charles, has spent nearly his entire life in waiting as heir to the British throne, watching his mother navigate decades of social and political change.

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By Adam Martin More than a quarter of the U.S. population has now been vaccinated against Covid-19, and nearly 40% of people have received at least one shot, but the average number of newly reported cases each day remains high. Some 25.4% of those in the U.S. have been fully vaccinated, according to data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least 39.5% of the population has received one shot, the CDC data show. States including Connecticut, Maine, New Mexico, Vermont and South Dakota have more than 30% of their populations vaccinated, the data show, while 24 states have reported more than 40% of their populations have received at least one dose.

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By Adam Martin Newly reported Covid-19 cases in the U.S. were up slightly from a day earlier but maintained their downward trend, as did deaths. The U.S. reported more than 66,000 new cases for Thursday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and published Friday morning Eastern time. That number might update later in the morning. It was higher than the 62,857 reported a day earlier but lower than the 74,289 reported a week earlier, and brought the national total to nearly 31.93 million.

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Good day. All eyes this week will be on the Federal Reserve, which is likely to begin winding down its $120 billion-a-month asset-buying program with an eye toward ending those purchases by next June. Markets will look for hints from the Fed about potential interest-rate increases amid growing expectations that major central banks will quickly tighten monetary policy. For example, while European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde last week pushed back against market expectations that the ECB will increase rates next year, investors thought her message was too weak and added to their bets that the bank would soon.

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The number of rocket launches rose by nearly one-third last year to 180, according to one tracker. The world's increasing reliance on satellites for everything from weather monitoring to communications services to GPS, as well as a burgeoning space-tourism industry, means rocket launches are growing rapidly. Also growing is concern about what impact all of those launches might have on the atmosphere. While emissions from aerospace activities are still relatively small compared with those of aviation and other industries, some of the pollutants released have the potential to contribute to global warming and damage the ozone layer, researchers say.

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OK, fine. I'll be the general manager of the New York Mets. If no one wants the job, I'll sign up. I'll do it for $4 million, or better yet, $9 million, plus three new bicycles, and all the coffee cake I can eat. You're welcome, New York. It's come to this. The baseball Mets are badly in need of a boss, and can't seem to find one.

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