Donald Trump said he had decided who to nominate to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, though he declined to name his pick. Kevin Hassett, a senior economic adviser to Mr Trump, ...

And, given the outward strength of America’s labour market, how credible are fears of a jobs-pocalpyse? The case for concern ...

On November 30th the country held a referendum on their proposal to levy a 50% federal inheritance tax on the super-rich and ...

Humans are trafficked for two main reasons: sexual exploitation, mostly of women and girls, and forced labour, which ensnares ...

T ourists in the bars of Tokyo are rejoicing. Visiting Japan was once a mightily expensive endeavour; now it is cheaper than ...

John Prideaux, our US editor, considers the implications of a leaked phone call between American and Russian officials ...

London will mark the company’s first international expansion and put it in direct competition with Uber, which is also set to ...

This ad hoc leadership has emerged because it seems to work. It began to take root when Mr Merz took office in May, and after ...

The number of American cities on the robotaxi roadmap is rising fast. Alphabet-owned Waymo, which has the world’s biggest ...

Many Iranians point to mismanagement and corruption as the root of the economy’s difficulties. In front of billboards urging ...

In medicine, meanwhile, China has turned itself from a copycat maker of generics into the world’s second-largest developer of ...

Certainly, the latest rounds of American bargaining and pressure on Ukraine are the most substantial yet. “This isn’t another ...