Low taxes, which are not in line with inflation, are ineffective in reducing alcohol or sugary drink consumption, the World Health Organization warns....
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is set to return to court on Tuesday to appeal a graft conviction, with her 2027 presidential ambitions hanging in the balance. Le Pen was banned from standing fo...
Grok - the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk's company - is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have ...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Iran’s current leadership may be nearing its end amid mass protests across the country. “If a regime can only stay in power through the use of violence, then it i...
Education Sec. Linda McMahon said that wage garnishments for defaulted student-loan borrowers are on pause. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Education Sec. Linda McMahon said that wage garnishments for d...
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Despite US President Donald Trump’s insistence on acquiring Greenland, public support for the idea remains low. A Reuters/Ipsos poll of US residents this week showed that fewer than one in five respon...
Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams has come under fire after his new cryptocurrency token crashed just hours following its launch on Monday. As reported by CoinDesk , Adams' "NYC Token" hit a $580 million ma...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (left) and Donald Trump. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent took aim at US defense contractors on Tuesday. He said they'...
The cities building the most homes rely more heavily on immigrant labor. Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times The cities that build and remodel the most homes rely the most heavily on immigrant worker...
Prediction market apps are thriving in Trump's second term, with traders betting on migrant deportations to election outcomes. A community of young, mostly male and very online traders are driving the...
Catherine Viette welcomes Kim Aris, son of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who bears witness to the fraught political landscape of Myanmar five years after the 2021 military coup. Mr. Ari...
Dimon said at Davos that the cap would cause a "disaster." Denis Balibouse/Reuters Jamie Dimon said Trump's proposed cap on credit card interest rates could hurt 80% of Americans. Speaking at ...
Yoweri Museveni has been declared the winner of the presidential election, extending his rule beyond four decades. Meanwhile, the opposition candidate has reportedly gone into hiding....
A South Korean court has sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison, the first verdict in eight criminal trials for allegations that include his 2024 martial law decree. (Image c...
Today’s episode of Decoder is about X, Grok, and Elon Musk. By now we’re several weeks into one of the worst, most upsetting, and most stupidly irresponsible AI controversies in the short history of g...
The European Union's parliament voted on Wednesday to refer a freshly signed trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur to the EU's top court, casting the hard-fought accord into legal limbo. The vo...
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images an...
The Trump administration announced last week that it wants Americans to consume more protein, churning out a colorful illustration of an inverted food pyramid that prominently features a big, red stea...
European Union lawmakers on January 21 to hold up ratification of a major free trade agreement with the Mercosur group of South American countries over concerns about the legality of the deal. The dea...