U.S. economic growth slowed a bit more than expected in the final three months of 2024, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Gross domestic product, a measure...
THE SPRAWLING al-Hol camp in north-eastern Syria is part of a network of prisons holding tens of thousands of detainees and family members from Islamic State’s...
The Frankfurt skyline at dusk on a November day. Helmut Fricke | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The German economy shrank by 0.2% quarter-on-quarter in the...
TO GET a sense of what Donald Trump’s first week did to the federal government, talk to people who work in it. “I’ve been with the...
Kash Patel likes conspiracy theories. Luckily for everyone else, conspiracists are normally kept far away from America’s federal law-enforcement and intelligence machinery, with all its powers...
The European Central Bank is widely expected to kick off its 2025 meetings with another interest rate cut on Thursday, as traders aim to gauge how...
Economy and Climate Action Minister and Greens Party chancellor candidate Robert Habeck arrives for the weekly federal government cabinet meeting on January 29, 2025 in Berlin,...
ON THE FIRST day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth...
LEADING THE Office of Management and Budget (OMB) may sound mundane, but the role is one of Washington’s most important. Russell Vought, who did the job...
This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insight from our correspondents in America. James Bennet, our Lexington columnist, considers...