Senior officials at the U.S. State Department are working to expand exemptions to the freeze on foreign aid, aiming to unlock additional economic and security assistance for Ukraine, Politico reported ...

Investors' high hopes coming into 2025 are slowly being dashed. The optimism that was priced into the market is starting to reverse course. The S&P 500's pullback last week could indicate that ...

Daron Acemoglu has long studied technology-driven growth. He thinks we should slow down and make sure we’re using AI the right way. For all the talk about artificial intelligence upending the ...

The layoffs from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could be much bigger than many expect, according to a prominent economist, who warned about DOGE-led “growing” risks ...

A prominent economist has sounded the alarm over the potential economic turmoil that could result from Elon Musk’s aggressive cost-cutting measures in the federal government. The warning comes as ...

It “seems almost unavoidable at this point” that the United States is “headed for a deep, deep recession” thanks to the Trump administration’s massive government job cuts and pullback from official ...

To read more of The Economist’s data journalism visit our Graphic detail page. AMERICA IS IN the throes of its worst flu season in at least seven years. The Centres for Disease Control and ...

Yet three years after his invasion started on February 24th, 2022, it is not clear what “winning” means. His goals are elusive. His “special military operation” was planned in secret. His government ...

Economist Duma Gqubule has called for Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to resign after his doomed two percentage point increase for VAT was shot down, forcing a postponement to the Budget Speech.

You could have made a deal.” This leads us back to the Istanbul communique, produced at the end of March 2022 after initial peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Antalya, Turkey. Some US ...

As one of Asia’s biggest air and defence shows, Aero India always generates a buzz in the arms trade, not to mention the skies over Bangalore. But there was an extra frisson around this year’s ...