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Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, fired John Phelan, the navy secretary. Mr Phelan, the civilian head of the service, ...

O ne strait”, Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto told his ministers in a televised cabinet meeting on April 8th, ...

These were to be paid for with new taxes on the highest earners. A start was made on April 15th, when Kathy Hochul, the ...

N OT ALL wars are fought alike. One reason for the 78-year survival of Israel, a small democratic country in a mostly hostile ...

More than 2,000 people had descended on Jericho, a city in the West Bank, with whole villages turning out to support local ...

Even Republicans’ weak performance in 2022, derided as a “red ripple”, ended Joe Biden’s trifecta. And although Donald Trump ...

S INCE 1980 the World Bank and the IMF have stuck to a plan. When countries on the brink of financial collapse come to them, ...

On April 5th Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, conducted a surprise visit to Damascus, and Syria said it would reopen ...

Defence firms in Ukraine make new weapons much faster and cheaper than most Western companies ...

By November 2025—a little over two years after she first laced up her trainers—Ms Ranson had completed the Abbott World ...

Judith—by then Judy Blume, and a frustrated housewife with two small children—sought a creative outlet. As she cleaned up ...