Yet a new report from Catalist, a left-leaning political-data firm, shows that although Democrats still won a majority of ...

In February Mr Trump halted graft investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, blaming the law for erecting ...

Cheese rolling is, for now, not officially recognised. That may soon change. This summer, the government will invite public ...

On May 26th Israel launched a distribution network, using “hubs” to hand out weekly rations. The next day thousands of hungry ...

D ONALD TRUMP insists that tariffs will bring back jobs and revitalise American industry, and that short-term pain would be ...

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It helps, too, that big companies tend to have more suppliers in more places. A study by the World Economic Forum and Kearney ...

Mr Trump prefers to govern by executive order, but the bill approved last week addressed administration priorities that couldn’t be tackled with his signature alone. Most significantly, it makes ...

This year’s figure was the highest since France’s Conference of Bishops began such records 20 years ago. At 7,404, the number ...

That might surprise people who had to cope with bubonic plague, ice ages, Vikings, world wars, colonisation and the rest. But ...

In April the party’s Politburo met for its second-ever study session on AI (the first was in 2018). At the meeting, Mr Xi ...

A YEAR AGO, for 30 drones to strike Ukraine in a single night was considered exceptional. Now Russia is saturating Ukraine’s ...