
Kris Maher
Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
@WSJ National Affairs reporter. [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Kris Maher
By Kris Maher | Photographs by Rebecca Kiger for WSJ April 29, 2025 5:31 pm ETEric Anderson, a 44-year-old coal miner, voted for Donald Trump to keep West Virginia’s mines humming and applauded the president’s executive orders allowing power plants to burn more coal. But the administration has also cut programs that keep miners safe, shutting down the country’s only program tracking an epidemic of black-lung disease and silicosis, and firing technicians who give miners chest X-rays.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Kris Maher |Cameron McWhirter
Your browser does not support HTML5 video. 0:00Playing0:00 / 7:43Veterans overwhelmingly supported President Trump’s re-election and anticipated big changes once he took office. And many of the issues that have dominated his first weeks—including veterans’ services, foreign alliances and national-security leadership—are ones veterans care deeply about. Now, these developments are animating VFW halls, veteran Facebook pages, card games and other gatherings of U.S. service members.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Kris Maher
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2 months ago |
wsj.com | Kris Maher
By Kris Maher | Photographs by Octavio Jones for WSJ March 10, 2025 9:00 am ETBARTOW, Fla.—The lights were flickering on above the Little League fields outside the Bartow Civic Center when Dr. Johnny Johnson pulled up in his Ford F-250 and emerged wearing jeans and boots. Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo arrived in a suit, a small entourage trailing him. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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2 months ago |
wsj.com | Kris Maher
$13.75/Week $4/Week Includes unlimited digital access to The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron’s and Investor’s Business Daily
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RT @mollyesque: I've long been fascinated by the Amish vote, and this story by @Kris_Maher is deeply reported & illuminating https://t.co/…

More than 200 million people have fluoridated tap water. A federal judge recently said it poses an unreasonable risk to children at levels now typical across America. https://t.co/4Wl1gpToFV

RT @WSJ: Exclusive: A Chinese ship is suspected of deliberately severing two critical cables in the Baltic by dragging its anchor along the…