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Shipping between the world’s two largest economies has nose-dived since mid-April.

The private school will open its first US campus in Long Island. Will it assimilate Americans into the upper crust – or is it more about branding?

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: If the human immunodeficiency virus is less well suppressed thanks to President Trump’s cuts to USAID, it risks finding more and more hosts in which it can mutate. New and more dangerous strains can develop, which are resistant to existing drugs

Pete Hegseth has said America's troops "need to be fit, not fat", after a report by the American Security Project found two-thirds of Guard and Reserve service members are overweight.

Editorial: Would the legendary American writer have welcomed the publication of her therapy notes? It seems unlikely

Throughout the 2024 presidential election campaign, Donald Trump denied claims he intended to shape his second administration’s policies around Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a renewed conservative America. But despite his repeated denials, Trump 2.0 has adopted much of Project 2025 into the White House’s agenda.

After President Donald Trump's administration revoked hundreds of student visas and threatened deportation for participants of pro-Palestinian campus protests, international students told AFP they were reconsidering their dreams of earning degrees in the United States.

The notion that the accord will lower the dollar’s value, eliminate the trade deficit, and return global production to America is flawed.

In his latest move to secure supplies of critical raw materials, the US president has instructed federal officials to expedite the opening up of America’s continental shelf to mining companies, and in a potentially explosive move, wants to allow US firms to mine in international waters.