T HE PETITIONER in Trump v United States was not present on April 25th when the Supreme Court considered whether he and other ex-presidents should enjoy immunity from criminal lia ...

America’s stockmarket finished the first quarter of 2024 on an astonishing tear, with its benchmark S&P 500 index having ...

This week, however, after months of dithering, Congress approved $40bn of such assistance, a sum roughly equivalent to all ...

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In the vast majority of cases, including Giddings’s, this is usually because a body is too decomposed to examine properly.

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In six weeks’ time Narendra Modi is expected to win a third term as India’s prime minister, cementing his status as its most ...

Where other historians saw a mob of hungry peasants, E.P. Thompson saw resistance to capitalism. Studying England’s ...

Mr Trump’s appeals have delayed one of his criminal trials—the federal election-interference case—which was scheduled to ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Joe Biden signed legislation that ...

FLOWS OF INFORMATION and energy underpin all economic activity, and advanced technologies support both. Hence the sky-high stakes in the tech wars between America and China. Started during Donald ...

IT IS DIFFICULT to wrap your mind around California. The Golden State is larger and more populous than many countries, with an economy to match. It is home to towering mountains, unforgiving desert ...