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Governments usually regulate technology companies, subsidise them, or buy their products. On Thursday 29 October 2026, Canada did something rarer: it bought into one. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced in…
For the first time in more than eight months, Russia, Ukraine and the United States are preparing to sit in the same room again — and the argument over who…
For the 203 people living aboard the MV Odyssey, the ship was not a holiday. It was home. The Bahamas-flagged vessel, run by the Florida-based company Villa Vie Residences, had…
The highest tides of the autumn did not arrive with a hurricane, a named storm or even a rainy day. They arrived under a full moon, on calm mornings, and…
When the House of Representatives returns on 9 November, one of the first fights waiting for it will not be about who won the election. Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky…
The deadline at the heart of the War Powers Resolution came and went on Friday, 30 October 2026, and Congress did nothing — because Congress was not there. Lawmakers had…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, 29 October 2026, that sets the federal government against state artificial intelligence laws, directing the Justice Department to sue states over…
Minutes before he sat down with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea on Thursday, 30 October 2026, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would resume testing nuclear…
A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a rule that would have made it harder for chronically ill Medicaid patients to escape the programme’s new…
The fight over whether 42 million Americans will eat in November moved into a federal courtroom in Boston on Thursday, 30 October 2026, the thirtieth day of a government shutdown…