These Albertans feel neither strong nor free but constrained, in particular by the environmental predilections of their ...

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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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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Mr Trump prefers to govern by executive order, but the bill approved last week addressed administration priorities that couldn’t be tackled with his signature alone. Most significantly, it makes ...

This year’s figure was the highest since France’s Conference of Bishops began such records 20 years ago. At 7,404, the number ...

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