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 ...

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

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

E ver since Austrian scientists first began looking for them in people in 2018, microplastics have turned up in the blood, ...

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

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 ...

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

M ore than any other country, Donald Trump went after Mexico on his first day in office. He ordered its criminal gangs to be ...