To cheers in some quarters and wails in others, various countries are making parts of the web off limits to minors. Australia ...
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On December 8th the Supreme Court heard arguments about the fate of Humphrey’s Executor, a New Deal era precedent that limits ...
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A S MOST DEFENCE ministries know, military-equipment procurement is governed by Murphy’s law: “Anything that can go wrong ...
The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...
When Reform, Nigel Farage’s seven-year-old populist party, swept to power in ten local councils and two mayoralties in May ...
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Donald Trump has embraced crypto, aggressively promoting deregulation, creating a legal framework for stablecoins and ...
Roosevelt Roads, a United States naval base that was shut down in 2004, is being revived. Outside an aircraft hangar young soldiers wander towards a supplies trailer plastered with “We go where you go ...
When I re-ran the model this week, the median number of seats won by the Conservatives would be 70—that is 51 fewer than they won last year, in their worst-ever defeat. The model gives the party a 10% ...