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Berkshire, meanwhile, was sitting pretty on a 10% gain—and a pile of cash to make Scrooge McDuck blanch. Converted into $100 ...

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In the eyes of the right, America’s elite universities are guilty of a litany of sins: they propagate illiberal, left-wing ...

In his vocal war on fossil fuels Mr Petro made Colombia the first major oil-producing country to halt new ...

But Donald Trump’s unorthodox ways may yet help avert a looming conflict with Iran. Steve Witkoff, his envoy to ...

The thing about Europe is that it is indecisive, too slow to act. Every crisis requires multiple summits of the European ...

After the chaos that had followed Mr Trump’s announcement of “reciprocal” tariffs a week earlier, that is no small source of ...

Amazon’s boss, Andy Jassy, noted in a letter to shareholders in 2023 that 400m-500m households worldwide lack internet access ...

Donald Trump’s plan to remake universities threatens America’s prosperity and freedom ...

In nearly the same breath as describing the threat to American security, he says the solution for getting away from Mr ...