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For families coming together again after more than 18 months of the pandemic, vacations are often emotionally heightened events. “I haven’t had to deal with that family dynamic in so long and I’m also exhausted.”https://on.wsj.com/3BhzCrn 

Thirty people who were willing to contract a deadly virus are helping U.K. researchers understand how Covid-19 attacks the bodyhttps://on.wsj.com/2WzSAe2 

“It’s just so cute. You think it’s going to be a little baby but it’s a furry dog.” How puppy backpacks became a thing.https://on.wsj.com/3ky5gdq 

More employers are adding emergency savings accounts to employee benefit programs, reflecting a desire to attract and retain workers and help them better prepare for unexpected expenseshttps://on.wsj.com/3DnPQ4d 

U.K. researchers are growing the Covid-19 Delta variant in a laboratory and hope to use it to infect volunteers, marking a new phase in the only studies intentionally exposing participants to the virus.https://on.wsj.com/3Bk16N0 

China’s growing assertiveness toward Taiwan has triggering a public push by Japanese leaders to plan for a possible conflict, a shift that could lead to closer cooperation with the U.S. militaryhttps://on.wsj.com/3mL8TiO 

T-Mobile’s CEO apologized for the a security breach that has exposed personal data from more than 50 million people https://on.wsj.com/3ktUxAM https://on.wsj.com/3ktUxAM 

From @WSJopinion: Americans have a right to be angry over these deaths. The obligation of a President is to provide adequate force to execute a mission and protect the troops carrying it out.https://on.wsj.com/2UXHuPu 

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reaffirmed the Fed's emerging plan to start scaling back its stimulus policies this year and his expectations for receding inflationhttps://on.wsj.com/3ktYrtq 

There is a new occupant in corner offices and boardrooms: the meme lordhttps://on.wsj.com/3sZDtGQ 

Apple will allow app developers to tell customers about ways to pay for services outside its App Store, part of a proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuithttps://on.wsj.com/2UW01f0 

China’s government is slow-rolling approval of its first foreign Covid-19 vaccine out of concern it could undermine confidence in Chinese vaccineshttps://on.wsj.com/3mD2iXH 

Heard on the Street: Facebook and other companies view the "metaverse" as the next big thing, but user discretion is advisedhttps://on.wsj.com/3sVkjls 

The studio behind “Jeopardy!” thought they had an ideal successor to Alex Trebek in Ken Jennings. Here’s what went wrong.https://on.wsj.com/2UVPlNs 

Dow CEO Jim Fitterling wants to know how Congress plans to pay for a proposed move to zero-carbon emission electricity that he says could dramatically increase energy costshttps://on.wsj.com/3Dok6M7 

Consumer spending grew 0.3% in July and income rose 1.1%. The slower spending growth suggests the recovery has lost momentum amid Delta variant uncertainty.https://on.wsj.com/3kuKdbJ 

Hundreds of Afghans picked their way through the carnage left behind by the previous day’s deadly suicide bombings outside Kabul airport in a last-ditch effort to flee the countryhttps://on.wsj.com/3jj29GS 

A natural gas startup has joined the meme-stock ranks of GameStop and AMC, due to the unlikely YouTube popularity of its 68-year-old executive chairmanhttps://on.wsj.com/3jnUabQ