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

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

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 ...

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

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

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The bill’s main effect is to take the temporary tax cuts from Mr Trump’s first term and make them permanent. A continuation ...

A LMOST EVERY week the world takes another step towards artificial super-intelligence. The most powerful AI models can do an ...

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

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

The debt of other governments looks newly risky, too, with long-term yields rising across much of the rich world (see chart).