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Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman warns that President Trump's unpredictable and often reversed tariff policies are creating deep ...

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After 53 years of Assad rule, the regime had fallen. In the early hours of the morning, Ghazi encountered fighters from the Southern Front, a relatively moderate rebel force. “They had big ...

Map: The Economist A command bunker of the 91st Anti ... Ivan, a soldier deployed to the front there but relaxing for a few hours in the nearby town of Druzhkivka, says that in his sector the ...

Stop to look at each artwork for 15 seconds, and you would be there for about 145 hours. As a result, few of the nearly 9m people who visit the Louvre each year leave feeling as if they have truly ...

The election was dominated by Mr. Trump and his relentless focus on Canada. Pierre Poilievre, the opposition leader, lost the ...

Here are three statements for your consideration. 1) The minimum wage should be set at $0 per hour; 2) Landlords should be ...

Early in his second term, President Trump is struggling to deliver on his campaign trail promises to invigorate the U.S. economy.

The Trump administration's tariffs mean items shipped from China will soon cost consumers much more, experts say.

So when he issued a bold prediction for the future back in the 1930s, people listened, and they listened for decades. Keynes said that the five-day, 40-hour work week would eventually be reduced to ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada won a new term on Monday night, a remarkable turnaround for his Liberal Party, owed in large part to President Trump’s aggressive stance toward the country.