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One Tory MP, who served in the last Conservative cabinet under Rishi Sunak, would sometimes muse over lunch: why not aim for ...

W HEN MIKE JOHNSON, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, went to the Western Wall in Jerusalem on August 3rd, placing ...

In 1960 America’s total fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman could be expected to have, was 3.6. By 2022 ...

AI technologies have “broken through the critical threshold of usefulness”, says one early-stage investor who frequents ...

Dave’s Redistricting is a web app developed by Dave Bradlee, a software engineer, that allows users to draw imagined ...

To answer that question, The Economist used a list compiled by Altrata of alumni of the strategy trio who have run a company ...

Great powers have always resisted rules that might cramp their battle plans. Even after the second world war, with memories ...

Previously, Mr Trump has complained about bilateral trade worth $190bn. India had hoped this would be a happy sign of ever ...

According to Parrot Analytics, a data firm, “Wednesday” made $360m in advertising and subscription revenue for Netflix ...

Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives voted to issue civil arrest warrants for more than 50 of their Democratic ...

Switzerland had negotiated early and swiftly. The deal it offered “was not so different from that of the European Union”, ...