70% off

USA Times-9020 Online|News,Blog,Mall

Paid Content
00:00:00

Can America’s stockmarket rally last?

Can America’s stockmarket rally last?

    Global temperatures have broken records three times in a weekAre these records falling faster?To read more of The Economist’s data journalism visit our Gra...

Read More

The Supreme Court blocks Joe Biden’s student-debt-relief plan

The Supreme Court blocks Joe Biden’s student-debt-relief plan

    image: Getty ImagesIN ITS LAST decision of the 2022-23 term, the Supreme Court on June 30th scuttled President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel some $430bn in fe...

Read More

Rioting in France presents a fresh political test for Emmanuel Macron

Rioting in France presents a fresh political test for Emmanuel Macron

    image: AFPTHE FRENCH president, Emmanuel Macron, is facing one of the toughest challenges yet of his second term, after rioting across the country continue...

Read More

France’s riots shine a light on policing, and put President Macron in a vise

France’s riots shine a light on policing, and put President Macron in a vise

    THE KILLING of a teenager in a Paris suburb has ignited national unrest. We ask what is driving the disquiet, and what it means for a president squeezed on...

Read More

The humbling of Vladimir Putin, hard truths about green growth and how to design better flags

The humbling of Vladimir Putin, hard truths about green growth and how to design better flags

    A SELECTION OF three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the humbling of Vladimir Putin, how misfiring environ...

Read More

Israel launches its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years

Israel launches its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years

    image: ReutersAS THE SUN dipped on July 3rd, the fighting in a refugee camp in Jenin, a city in the West Bank, entered its second night. Ambulances ferried...

Read More

Israel’s raids in the West Bank hint at how Palestinian militants are changing

Israel’s raids in the West Bank hint at how Palestinian militants are changing

    THE SO-CALLED refugee camp in the city of Jenin has been subject to raids for months—and a hotspot for militants for decades. We ask what set things off so...

Read More

The future of war

The future of war

    Britain’s lighthouses are being transformedWatch the sweep of history along the coastlineAt first glance the war in Ukraine may look like a conflict from t...

Read More

Is the Japan-China relationship at a turning-point?

Is the Japan-China relationship at a turning-point?

    THE CONUNDRUM of how to de-risk and deter conflict with China is puzzling the West. But one country is ahead in figuring out how to deal with a changing Ch...

Read More

The Wagner Group is likely to stay put in Africa—but do Africans still want them?

The Wagner Group is likely to stay put in Africa—but do Africans still want them?

    ITS LEADER is in exile and its future is uncertain. But the Wagner Group will be loth to abandon the influence and the cashflow that its murky African oper...

Read More

High-speed descents are the talk of the Tour de France

High-speed descents are the talk of the Tour de France

    image: Getty ImagesIT TAKES GREAT skill to urinate off the side of a moving bicycle. Tom Pidcock did so after zooming down the Col du Galibier during the 1...

Read More

An interview with Vint Cerf, one of the “fathers of the internet”

An interview with Vint Cerf, one of the “fathers of the internet”

    ALMOST 50 YEARS ago, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn designed TCP/IP, a set of rules enabling computers to connect and communicate with each other. It led to the cr...

Read More

David Eaves on the promise and pitfalls of digital government

David Eaves on the promise and pitfalls of digital government

    image: Dan WilliamsOVER THE past decade a small but growing number of governments have begun to challenge the assumption that the state is no good at deplo...

Read More

Meta’s Threads app has better odds of usurping Twitter than previous clones had

Meta’s Threads app has better odds of usurping Twitter than previous clones had

    IF THERE IS one thing Facebook’s parent company does well, it is aping other social-media features and platforms—and it is a propitious time to steal Twitt...

Read More

Drug-trafficking networks are expanding into new territories

Drug-trafficking networks are expanding into new territories

    Global temperatures have broken records three times in a weekAre these records falling faster?STORIES ABOUT illicit drugs are often local: influenced by re...

Read More

Will aviators ever kick their carbon habit?

Will aviators ever kick their carbon habit?

    THE AVIATION INDUSTRY is responsible for more than 2% of annual carbon emissions. That figure is set to rise as more passengers take to the skies. But the ...

Read More

An interview with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s spymaster

An interview with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s spymaster

    WE SIT DOWN with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s youngest-ever spymaster. He is intense, resolute—and oddly charismatic. A world of electrified transport is goin...

Read More

North Korea’s hackers are after intel, not just crypto

North Korea’s hackers are after intel, not just crypto

    Global temperatures have broken records three times in a weekAre these records falling faster?To read more of The Economist’s data journalism visit our Gra...

Read More

Britain’s lighthouses are being transformed

Britain’s lighthouses are being transformed

    The future of warThe Ukraine conflict reveals how technology is reshaping warfareMany of the lights that for more than a century have swept across Britain’...

Read More

Was the Supreme Court right to overturn affirmative action?

Was the Supreme Court right to overturn affirmative action?

    AMERICA’S SUPREME Court has ended the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. It is 45 years since the court gave its blessing to such ...

Read More

Global temperatures have broken records three times in a week

Global temperatures have broken records three times in a week

    North Korea’s hackers are after intel, not just cryptoThe country’s “all-purpose sword” is living up to its nameTo read more of The Economist’s data journa...

Read More

A lighter look at the week’s big story

A lighter look at the week’s big story

    This week's cartoon is by Saffron Swire, a Melbourne-based British journalist, editor and illustrator.We regularly commission artists from around the world...

Read More

[World] Michael Charles Burham: US inmate with 'survivalist skills' in Pennsylvania jail break

[World] Michael Charles Burham: US inmate with 'survivalist skills' in Pennsylvania jail break

    Image source, Warren Police DepartmentBy Max MatzaBBC NewsA suspected murderer with "survivalist skills" has broken out of a Pennsylvania jail by climbing ...

Read More

[World] Cluster bombs: Unease grows over US sending cluster bombs to Ukraine

[World] Cluster bombs: Unease grows over US sending cluster bombs to Ukraine

    Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The remnants of a cluster bomb found in a field in Ukraine in April 2023By Kathryn Armstrong & Antoinette RadfordB...

Read More

[World] Sudan conflict: Air strike kills at least 22 in Khartoum

[World] Sudan conflict: Air strike kills at least 22 in Khartoum

    Image source, ReutersImage caption, Fighting for control of the capital has continued since 15 April, including on Tuesday when this photograph was takenBy...

Read More

[World] Zelensky visits Snake Island on Ukraine War's 500th day

[World] Zelensky visits Snake Island on Ukraine War's 500th day

    Image source, TelegramImage caption, President Zelensky called Snake Island a "place of victory" that would never be reconqueredBy Thomas MackintoshBBC New...

Read More

[World] Recife: 14 killed in Brazil apartment block collapse

[World] Recife: 14 killed in Brazil apartment block collapse

    Image source, EPAAn apartment building has collapsed in the city of Recife in north-eastern Brazil, killing at least 14 people, rescuers say.Two children, ...

Read More

[Sport] US football star Rapinoe to retire at end of season

[Sport] US football star Rapinoe to retire at end of season

    Megan Rapinoe helped USA win the World Cup in 2015 and 2019USA forward Megan Rapinoe, one of the most successful players of her generation, says she will r...

Read More

[World] Syria cancels BBC media accreditation

[World] Syria cancels BBC media accreditation

    Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad seen in Syria in May 2023By Antoinette RadfordBBC NewsThe Syrian government has c...

Read More

[World] Georgia Pride festival in Tbilisi stormed by right-wing protesters

[World] Georgia Pride festival in Tbilisi stormed by right-wing protesters

    Image source, ReutersImage caption, Protesters broke through a police cordon to stop the Pride eventUp to 2,000 anti-LGBT protesters stormed a gay pride fe...

Read More

[Science] How warming oceans are driving the climate juggernaut

[Science] How warming oceans are driving the climate juggernaut

    Image source, Getty ImagesBy Justin RowlattClimate editor, BBC NewsIt is hot. Very hot. And we are only a few weeks into summer.Texas and part of the south...

Read More

[World] Ghana's batmen hunting for pandemic clues

[World] Ghana's batmen hunting for pandemic clues

    By Naomi Grimley and Camilla HorroxBBC News, AccraBats are essential to the world's ecosystems, but they are known carriers of several viruses. Humans are ...

Read More

[World] TikTok and Title 42 rumours fuel human smuggling at the US border

[World] TikTok and Title 42 rumours fuel human smuggling at the US border

    Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Migrant on his mobile at the US-Mexico borderBy Bernd Debusmann JrBBC News, WashingtonStepping into the brown wate...

Read More

[World] Watch: Cars plough through massive Delhi flooding

[World] Watch: Cars plough through massive Delhi flooding

    Heavy rain in India's capital has caused the city to flood, leaving residents stranded and vehicles at a standstill.

Read More

[World] Giessen Eritrea festival clashes leave 26 police officers injured

[World] Giessen Eritrea festival clashes leave 26 police officers injured

    Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, German police report large-scale unrest in Giessen (file pic)Hundreds of German police have used batons and pepper...

Read More

Gunman riding scooter in Queens kills 1 person and injures 3 others in back-to-back ‘random’ shootings, New York police say

Gunman riding scooter in Queens kills 1 person and injures 3 others in back-to-back ‘random’ shootings, New York police say

    One person died and three others were wounded Saturday in a string of shootings in Brooklyn and Queens that New York police described as “random” in nature...

Read More

West Georgia woman faces meth trafficking charge after drug raid while she wasn’t home

West Georgia woman faces meth trafficking charge after drug raid while she wasn’t home

    A west Georgia woman wasn’t at her Haralson County home when it was raided earlier this week, but she’s now been arrested.Deputies say they searched a home...

Read More

Murder, rape suspect uses bedsheets to escape jail

Murder, rape suspect uses bedsheets to escape jail

    A homicide suspect arrested in South Carolina escaped from a Pennsylvania jail using bedsheets, police said.Michael Burham, 34, is accused of murder and ra...

Read More

Chicago Police officers accused of sexual misconduct with migrants housed in police station

Chicago Police officers accused of sexual misconduct with migrants housed in police station

    CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Chicago Police Department is investigating claims that several officers engaged in sexual misonduct with migrants living at a West Sid...

Read More

Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist and ex-conductor of the Philly Pops, dies at 89

Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist and ex-conductor of the Philly Pops, dies at 89

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist who interpreted pop songs through classical and jazz forms and served as the Philly Pops' conducto...

Read More

Can America’s stockmarket rally last?

Global temperatures have broken records three times in a weekAre these records falling faster?To read more of The Economist’s data...

Read More

The Supreme Court blocks Joe Biden’s student-debt-relief plan

image: Getty ImagesIN ITS LAST decision of the 2022-23 term, the Supreme Court on June 30th scuttled President Joe Biden’s plan to...

Read More

Rioting in France presents a fresh political test for Emmanuel Macron

image: AFPTHE FRENCH president, Emmanuel Macron, is facing one of the toughest challenges yet of his second term, after rioting ac...

Read More

France’s riots shine a light on policing, and put President Macron in a vise

THE KILLING of a teenager in a Paris suburb has ignited national unrest. We ask what is driving the disquiet, and what it means fo...

Read More

The humbling of Vladimir Putin, hard truths about green growth and how to design better flags

A SELECTION OF three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the humbling of Vladimir Put...

Read More

Israel launches its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years

image: ReutersAS THE SUN dipped on July 3rd, the fighting in a refugee camp in Jenin, a city in the West Bank, entered its second ...

Read More

Israel’s raids in the West Bank hint at how Palestinian militants are changing

THE SO-CALLED refugee camp in the city of Jenin has been subject to raids for months—and a hotspot for militants for decades. We a...

Read More

The future of war

Britain’s lighthouses are being transformedWatch the sweep of history along the coastlineAt first glance the war in Ukraine may lo...

Read More

Is the Japan-China relationship at a turning-point?

THE CONUNDRUM of how to de-risk and deter conflict with China is puzzling the West. But one country is ahead in figuring out how t...

Read More

The Wagner Group is likely to stay put in Africa—but do Africans still want them?

ITS LEADER is in exile and its future is uncertain. But the Wagner Group will be loth to abandon the influence and the cashflow th...

Read More

High-speed descents are the talk of the Tour de France

image: Getty ImagesIT TAKES GREAT skill to urinate off the side of a moving bicycle. Tom Pidcock did so after zooming down the Col...

Read More

An interview with Vint Cerf, one of the “fathers of the internet”

ALMOST 50 YEARS ago, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn designed TCP/IP, a set of rules enabling computers to connect and communicate with eac...

Read More

David Eaves on the promise and pitfalls of digital government

image: Dan WilliamsOVER THE past decade a small but growing number of governments have begun to challenge the assumption that the ...

Read More

Meta’s Threads app has better odds of usurping Twitter than previous clones had

IF THERE IS one thing Facebook’s parent company does well, it is aping other social-media features and platforms—and it is a propi...

Read More

Drug-trafficking networks are expanding into new territories

Global temperatures have broken records three times in a weekAre these records falling faster?STORIES ABOUT illicit drugs are ofte...

Read More

Will aviators ever kick their carbon habit?

THE AVIATION INDUSTRY is responsible for more than 2% of annual carbon emissions. That figure is set to rise as more passengers ta...

Read More

An interview with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s spymaster

WE SIT DOWN with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s youngest-ever spymaster. He is intense, resolute—and oddly charismatic. A world of elec...

Read More

North Korea’s hackers are after intel, not just crypto

Global temperatures have broken records three times in a weekAre these records falling faster?To read more of The Economist’s data...

Read More

Britain’s lighthouses are being transformed

The future of warThe Ukraine conflict reveals how technology is reshaping warfareMany of the lights that for more than a century h...

Read More

Was the Supreme Court right to overturn affirmative action?

AMERICA’S SUPREME Court has ended the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. It is 45 years since the court g...

Read More

Global temperatures have broken records three times in a week

North Korea’s hackers are after intel, not just cryptoThe country’s “all-purpose sword” is living up to its nameTo read more of Th...

Read More

A lighter look at the week’s big story

This week's cartoon is by Saffron Swire, a Melbourne-based British journalist, editor and illustrator.We regularly commission arti...

Read More

[World] Michael Charles Burham: US inmate with 'survivalist skills' in Pennsylvania jail break

Image source, Warren Police DepartmentBy Max MatzaBBC NewsA suspected murderer with "survivalist skills" has broken out of a Penns...

Read More

[World] Cluster bombs: Unease grows over US sending cluster bombs to Ukraine

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The remnants of a cluster bomb found in a field in Ukraine in April 2023By Kathryn Armstr...

Read More

[World] Sudan conflict: Air strike kills at least 22 in Khartoum

Image source, ReutersImage caption, Fighting for control of the capital has continued since 15 April, including on Tuesday when th...

Read More

[World] Zelensky visits Snake Island on Ukraine War's 500th day

Image source, TelegramImage caption, President Zelensky called Snake Island a "place of victory" that would never be reconqueredBy...

Read More

[World] Recife: 14 killed in Brazil apartment block collapse

Image source, EPAAn apartment building has collapsed in the city of Recife in north-eastern Brazil, killing at least 14 people, re...

Read More

[Sport] US football star Rapinoe to retire at end of season

Megan Rapinoe helped USA win the World Cup in 2015 and 2019USA forward Megan Rapinoe, one of the most successful players of her ge...

Read More

[World] Syria cancels BBC media accreditation

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad seen in Syria in May 2023By Antoinette RadfordBBC NewsTh...

Read More

[World] Georgia Pride festival in Tbilisi stormed by right-wing protesters

Image source, ReutersImage caption, Protesters broke through a police cordon to stop the Pride eventUp to 2,000 anti-LGBT proteste...

Read More

[Science] How warming oceans are driving the climate juggernaut

Image source, Getty ImagesBy Justin RowlattClimate editor, BBC NewsIt is hot. Very hot. And we are only a few weeks into summer.Te...

Read More

[World] Ghana's batmen hunting for pandemic clues

By Naomi Grimley and Camilla HorroxBBC News, AccraBats are essential to the world's ecosystems, but they are known carriers of sev...

Read More

[World] TikTok and Title 42 rumours fuel human smuggling at the US border

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Migrant on his mobile at the US-Mexico borderBy Bernd Debusmann JrBBC News, WashingtonSte...

Read More

[World] Watch: Cars plough through massive Delhi flooding

Heavy rain in India's capital has caused the city to flood, leaving residents stranded and vehicles at a standstill.

Read More

[World] Giessen Eritrea festival clashes leave 26 police officers injured

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, German police report large-scale unrest in Giessen (file pic)Hundreds of German police ha...

Read More

Gunman riding scooter in Queens kills 1 person and injures 3 others in back-to-back ‘random’ shootings, New York police say

One person died and three others were wounded Saturday in a string of shootings in Brooklyn and Queens that New York police descri...

Read More

West Georgia woman faces meth trafficking charge after drug raid while she wasn’t home

A west Georgia woman wasn’t at her Haralson County home when it was raided earlier this week, but she’s now been arrested.Deputies...

Read More

Murder, rape suspect uses bedsheets to escape jail

A homicide suspect arrested in South Carolina escaped from a Pennsylvania jail using bedsheets, police said.Michael Burham, 34, is...

Read More

Chicago Police officers accused of sexual misconduct with migrants housed in police station

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Chicago Police Department is investigating claims that several officers engaged in sexual misonduct with migr...

Read More

Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist and ex-conductor of the Philly Pops, dies at 89

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist who interpreted pop songs through classical and jazz forms and served as ...

Read More

Media Union

Contact us >