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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 ...

T HREE YEARS ago the French Socialist Party was crushed into irrelevance. The party that supplied two modern ...

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

They will work closely with the series producer to develop compelling and insightful live digital programmes. We’re looking ...

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

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

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

America started doing so at the end of the civil war. The constitution was amended then to overturn the Dred Scott decision ...

International cables make electricity cheaper, greener and more reliable. Around the world, less than 3% of all power crosses ...

A merican presidents are often disappointed to discover limits to their authority, but the country’s founders intended the ...