The White House accused China of evading American tariffs by rerouting exports through more than 40 countries. It said other nations subject to high tariffs are doing something similar. The Trump ...

There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism. Nor is there evidence that spreading out vaccines is beneficial. In fact, doing so increases the window in which kids are vulnerable to infection.

The balance of power in oil markets may shift again. For a while, once the Gulf crisis abates, there could be a “superglut” ...

Yet surely European integration is about more than summits and regulation (right?). Those who make Europe feel like a single ...

Japan was no doubt grateful. But it would be wrong to think of it as a helpless naïf. On the contrary, in teaming up with Japan’s government, America was joining forces with one of the biggest ...

The study, published in the Lancet, a British medical journal, offers the most comprehensive estimate to date of mental disorders’ prevalence in China, with 191m cases in 2023 (equivalent to about one ...

C ould Moldova disappear? It has happened before: in 1918, just after separating from the collapsing Russian Empire, Moldova’s parliament voted to join neighbouring Romania. Tod ...

In a $12.5bn deal announced on August 12th, Joshua Kushner, founder of Thrive Capital, an investment firm, will become the Lakers’ controlling shareholder, with Bob Iger, an ex-CEO of Walt Disney, as ...

W estern Europe is facing its fifth heatwave this year, and the waters of the Rhine and Danube rivers are the lowest since official records began in 1880. The gauge in Kaub, a med ...

Iowa has voted solidly Republican at the state and federal level for more than a decade. Republicans have dominated the state legislature since 2016; no Democrat has won the governorship since 2006, a ...

The focus should be on harnessing AI and out-competing China, writes Michael Kratsios, the White House science chief ...

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow it to direct the United States Postal Service to oversee mail-in ballots. Mr Trump has falsely linked their use to fraudulent voting. It is ...