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 ...

Start with Gaza, where the Israel Defence Forces ( IDF) are poised to launch the main phase of a devastating new campaign.

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

The battle over Chinese AI is taking place across three layers: cloud infrastructure, models and applications. Consider each in turn. Cloud-computing sales in China will exceed $50bn this year, and ...

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

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).

Vietnam’s economy has come a long way since the Vietnam war ended 50 years ago, leaving an already poor country in ruins. At ...

Science needs shaking up, he said, because it has become inefficient and sclerotic, and its practitioners have been captured ...