Poor Europe. That continent embodied the loftiest visions of peace and integration in the post-Cold War period. It has become the poster child for weakness in the rougher age that followed.

UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is shaking up the police service with plans to create a “British FBI.” Don’t hold your breath for an elite corps of glamorous, technically brilliant and morally serious agents who will uncover vast conspiracies and save the nation from catastrophic threats in the mythical, TV-version manner of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is at least the third time in two decades a UK government has proclaimed a British FBI. The label may stick no better this tim

Nigel Farage has a dilemma. In some ways it’s a happy one. He boasted this week that there have now been 200 consecutive opinion polls putting his Reform UK party ahead in the battle to win the next UK general election. That’s the good part.

If you could safely implant a chip in your brain to enhance your intelligence, would you?

The Trump administration’s crackdown was never about undocumented immigrants, since 90% of Minnesota’s Somali community are US citizens.

The world’s biggest program of deforestation is being made superfluous before it’s really begun. Thank electric cars.

For three years, China’s auto sector has been defined by a profit-sapping price war. Now, one company is bucking the trend and charging more. If others follow, they could potentially deliver a critical win for the industry and for China Inc.

To the extent American children have a relationship with coal, it’s usually a negative one. Every kid knows the worst thing you can get on Christmas morning is a lump of the bituminous stuff as harsh ...

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To the extent American children have a relationship with coal, it’s usually a negative one. Every kid knows the worst thing you can get on Christmas morning is a lump of the bituminous stuff as harsh payback for a year spent behaving poorly.

This article includes spoilers for Bridgerton.Bridgerton is finally giving us a proper older couple romance in Season 4, and the rest of Hollywood should take note.

Elon Musk, ever attuned to the political zeitgeist, has updated Tesla Inc.’s mission to “amazing abundance.” It is the kind of hyperbole beloved of investors in the company he runs. Before the amazing...

Do President Donald Trump’s policies have staying power? Conventional Beltway wisdom would suggest no. But we are not in conventional times.

Amid the shifting tone of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign in Minnesota, it’s worth recalling that the original aim in early December was supposedly to deport people from Somalia. This should have been a pretty clear signal that sending thousands of federal agents to the state wasn’t truly about stopping illegal immigration, given how few unauthorized Somali immigrants are in Minnesota or anywhere else in the US.

Who could forget those heady days when Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella looked like the smartest man in tech? When ChatGPT emerged in late 2022, his decision to back OpenAI put Nadella’s company at the forefront of the AI boom. The top AI models would be embedded in its software and available on its cloud platform exclusively.

Boeing Co.’s turnaround is firmly on track.

Once upon a time, being a pension fund manager was a relatively straightforward job. The objective is simple: Invest the pension’s assets in such a way that its beneficiaries will be paid.

With voters increasingly alarmed about rising prices, the White House has set its sights on a familiar villain: credit card issuers.

The siege of Minneapolis is not ending, but it may at least be easing. President Donald Trump has removed US Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino, promised a still-unspecified drawdown of the 3,000 federal agents blanketing the area, and has sent border czar Tom Homan to provide new leadership.

The stocks of rare earth companies soared Monday following news that the Trump administration had taken a 10% stake in Oklahoma mining and magnet company USA Rare Earth Inc. Such is the visible benefit enjoyed by the growing number of firms that count Uncle Sam as a shareholder. Yet recent events surrounding perhaps what is the most well-known state-picked champion, Intel Corp., exposed a major unseen cost of the federal government’s unprecedented intervention in private business: the distortion

Elon Musk, ever attuned to the political zeitgeist, has updated Tesla Inc.’s mission to “amazing abundance.” It is the kind of hyperbole beloved of investors in the company he runs. Before the amazing variety arrives, however, another type of abundance was announced on Wednesday evening’s earnings call: Tesla’s investment budget will more than double.