The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Donald Trump’s victory and the fallout from the US election in 2024.

Few world leaders have left office as lauded as Angela Merkel. When she stepped down as chancellor in 2021, after 16 years, ...

The island has just 140 inhabitants. It got mains electricity only in 1992 and an undersea cable to the UK electrical grid in ...

Gavin Newsom’s podcast in which he tries to convince listeners that he is their totally normal podcast bro bestie—the ...

Yet increasingly Uruguay demonstrates not just the benefits of stability, but also its limits as a development strategy.

Nearly half of British employers say a degree is no longer important, according to Hays, a recruitment firm. That widens the applicant pool and boosts retention; hires without degrees are more likely ...

In 2009 Dr Monteiro came up with a classification system, called Nova, that sorts foods into four buckets depending on the degree of processing they undergo. The first group includes minimally ...

O F DONALD TRUMP’s nominees to high office, few are more suspicious of the government they are pegged to join than Tulsi ...

But victory for the BJP and its partners in Maharashtra, with more than 80% of 288 local assembly seats, is now almost ...

To understand the forbidding world that Donald Trump will confront, open the 75-page report of a bipartisan commission on national security, published in July. “The threats the United States ...

Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the United States was met with trepidation across most of Latin America. And with good reason: the impact of his return to the White House in 2025 will be felt ...

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