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WATCHERS with binoculars, observers of America’s presidential race have had their eyes trained on the opinion polls to see ...

No indictments have come down, and no one has been accused or charged with any wrongdoing, but as federal agents raid the ...

That Israel activated the bombs without any further action indicates that, for now, it is not rushing to all-out war. It may ...

The accusation of Western double standards, gleefully amplified by Russia and China, resonated across the halls of UN ...

I n 2012 politicians in Britain burned lots of political capital by raising the cap on how much English universities can ...

If the Liberal Democrats want to replace the Conservatives, they must move further right on the economy ...

C ould Earth once have had a planetary ring like the ones around Saturn? Scientists from Monash University in Australia think ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the ...

Neither supporters nor opponents of independence have much to crow about. A YouGov poll suggests that, excluding those who do ...

Explore our coverage of artificial intelligence, from its technical underpinnings to its social, political and economic consequences ...

Madagascar’s pigs, for example, though not native, have made themselves essential to the survival of truly native species. Similar relationships are suspected to hold in South America between rabbits ...