John Power

US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says administration will work with the US Congress to abolish department. The United States Department of Education has announced it will lay off almost half of its employees as President Donald Trump moves to […]

The US stock market has shed more than $1.7 trillion in value after United States President Donald Trump declined to rule out the possibility the economy could enter a recession this year. The benchmark S&P 500 on Monday tumbled 2.7

US president says economy is in a “period of transition” amid uncertainty over his trade policies. United States President Donald Trump has declined to rule out the possibility that the world’s largest economy is headed for a recession amid market

As United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs and his shift in Washington’s Ukraine policy send shivers through global stock markets, Europe’s defence firms are flying high as investors bet on the continent taking charge of its own defence. With Trump’s

A conservative media outlet in Ireland has become the latest lightning rod for populist concerns about free speech that have exposed stark divisions between Europe and the United States in the era of President Donald Trump. Gript, a news site

EDITOR’S ANALYSIS The rise in prices under the Biden administration proved fatal to Kamala Harris’s election hopes. Of the many possible explanations for former US President Donald Trump’s stunning return to the White House, one towers above all others: the

Six weeks after Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Israel in the country’s history last October, the Palestinian group’s Houthi allies in Yemen seized control of a British-owned cargo ship in the Red Sea. The Houthis’ audacious hijacking of the

Once upon a time, the United States’s ballooning national debt was a major talking point of presidential elections. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s final debate in 2016 featured a dedicated 12-minute segment on the topic. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney

In his first policy address after taking office in October 2021, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged to “faithfully rebuild” the economy after three decades of stagnation. In a speech to parliament almost exactly two years later, Kishida said the

The use of pagers and walkie-talkies in back-to-back coordinated explosions in Lebanon has drawn scrutiny to the security of global supply chains and their vulnerability to tampering by governments or other actors. The utilisation of thousands of electronic devices in