This is the practice of presidents refusing to spend funds that Congress has appropriated, shifting power to the White House.

G et your $TRUMP now,” came the message from America’s president-elect three days before his inauguration. The ...

Whatever the assailant, though, snake-bite treatment has been the same for a century: inject an antivenin containing ...

Tom Homan was in Dallas talking about a new agency he was helping to set up. It would eventually be known as Immigration and ...

Despite the American government’s efforts to hold back China’s AI industry, two Chinese firms had reduced their American ...

Over the next two decades it became Russia’s equivalent of Amazon. Customers from Siberia to the Crimean Peninsula (which was ...

Until, of course, in 2013 the Silk Road was shut down by FBI agents and Mr Ulbricht, then 29 years old, was arrested in the ...

Joe Biden’s administration feared that advanced ai could secure the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) military supremacy. So ...

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With few other safe assets to turn to, banks that are under pressure, as well as insurers and fund managers, have piled into ...

One further force promoting AI innovation could be defence spending. America puts only a tiny fraction of its $850bn defence ...

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