In an unprecedented one-two punch against a big American firm, Mr Trump said he would immediately ban all American federal agencies from using Anthropic’s technology. Pete Hegseth, the secretary of ...

The closure of the deal now seems likely, though not certain. Warner’s shareholders will have to approve the takeover at a ...

A better model for governance of the ocean commons can be found in the nuclear test-ban treaty agreed in 1963. Nobody could ...

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Pakistan is fed up with the Afghan Taliban, a group it once sheltered and aided, accusing the group, which has ruled the country since 2021, of harbouring and supporting its ideological cousins, the ...

D onald Trump called members of the Supreme Court of the United States “fools” after they ruled on February 20th to limit his ability to impose tariffs willy-nilly. It was a taste of the travails the ...

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In a study published in Nature and Science of Sleep in August 2025, 69 participants with poor sleep were offered a nightly dose of a magnesium compound. After four weeks, say the researchers, they ...

A: Woodrow Wilson opened his state-of-the-union address in 1913, the first since John Adams, by looking forward to “an age of settled peace and good will” between countries. As bad predictions go, the ...

The energy shortage was an overwhelming problem even before Mr Trump’s attention turned to Cuba. His threat to impose tariffs ...

China’s dominance over critical minerals means that continuing to place full faith in the invisible hand would be naive and ...

In America someone is accidentally killed roughly every 18 minutes. Most die in car crashes, though some are killed by ...