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D onald Trump has not been shy: he wants interest rates down, fast. For months, the president has berated the Federal Reserve ...

President Donald Trump has for months sought interest-rate cuts in spite of tariff-driven inflation, only to be met with ...

Many countries use exit bans to prevent people accused of crimes from escaping justice, but the bar is usually high. In China ...

China’s innovation chains often start with grants for researchers, who find a placement in state-backed labs. These in turn ...

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The global ai race is defined by competing approaches, led by America and China. On one side is a nimble ecosystem of tech ...

Such projections, though, now have been foiled by India’s government. On August 21st India’s parliament passed a bill banning ...

This month’s summits between America, Russia and Europe have produced no concrete agreements on ending Ukraine’s war. On land ...

L ike many politicians running for office, Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old New York Democratic mayoral candidate, is partly a ...

As is well known to the 5m radio listeners who followed the harvest over several days in early August, the background to this ...