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Peter Thiel is obsessed with atoms. The prescient venture capitalist has said that the Manhattan Project, which created the ...

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Freedom House, a think-tank in Washington, calls Brazil a “swing state” because it is one of just a few large democracies ...

The UAE rejects the charges. Reem Ketait, a foreign-ministry official, calls them a “cynical and baseless PR stunt” and ...

The thousands of troops Mr Trump has stationed at the border may also act as a deterrent. Immigrant advocates in El Paso say ...

In 2019 Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, an internet giant, famously defended the “996” work culture—9am to 9pm, six days a ...

The Supreme Court issued a 9-0 ruling that the federal government should “facilitate” his return to America. A few days later ...

During the stockmarket slumps of 2008 and 2020, for instance, the dollar rose. When investors are fearful, they normally rush ...