Frustrated councillors struggle to convey that the bulk of local taxes goes to social care (two-thirds of local-government spending alone, up from half in 2010), special-needs schooling and temporary ...

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Initial reports that the centuries-old St. Catherine's Monastery would be closed were denied, but Orthodox leaders remain ...

For a few fleeting months in 2021, it looked like President Joe Biden was making great strides in his promise to even the playing field for more Americans. In mid-March of that year, Biden signed ...

Wonder Land: To most voters, what happens in Washington has become an incomprehensible blur. What makes Donald Trump think he can fix it? Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly The general ...

Good times, as they say, don’t last forever, especially when the achievements have been force-managed. For nearly three years, a Taliban ban on poppy cultivation has been in place in ...

The U.S. produces more corn than any other crop and American farms sold $5.3 billion of it to China last year. But China has spent years courting other producers and it is exploring ways to become ...

The European Parliament has lifted restrictions on lawmakers meeting some Chinese officials, in a fresh indication of a potential thaw in EU-China ties. The recommendations were introduced in ...

Fraying or breaking cables will mostly work when you need them to, which makes it easy to fob them off as a problem to be sorted out later. But there are good reasons why you should pay closer ...

Coach and Elena Velez find common cause in style. By Vanessa Friedman It is not exactly a secret that the American dream is fraying. The cowboys are not necessarily the good guys; the founding ...

Progressives and pro-labor Democrats are souring on President Joe Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act as the administration appears to be loosening some of the environmental and transparency ...