ETH Zurich Economist Isabel Martinez explains that, even at a time of extreme inequality, Swiss voters are likely to reject a referendum on a national inheritance tax.

The US military carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September 2 after an initial attack did not kill everyone on board, sources familiar with the ...

In just a few short hours on Wednesday afternoon, what began as a small fire on the first floor of an apartment building swelled into a raging inferno that consumed seven high-rise towers on a Hong ...

Ukraine’s anti-corruption authorities said on Friday they were searching the home of Andriy Yermak, the top aide to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Thanksgiving never, ever disappoints. The day typically entails good food, good company and most importantly, good NFL action ...

Thousands of the most popular passenger aircraft in the world need emergency maintenance to protect from a problem that injured passengers and caused an emergency landing last month.

President Donald Trump is doubling down on the aggressive anti-immigration policies that helped deliver him a second term, launching an interagency federal investigation into the shooting of two ...

Every weekday, people go to 26 Federal Plaza in New York to meet with judges handling their immigration cases. But now, ...

There’s been a spate of record-breaking auction sales recently and experts at Christie’s in London think we might be about to see another. A legendary Fabergé Imperial Egg, commissioned by Russian ...

ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum once compared him to Miley Cyrus and the late Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis called him a “flat-out liar.’’ ...

Fire survivors grieve after Hong Kong’s worst disaster in decades.

For decades, measles vaccination has been a global success story. Deaths from measles dropped 88% around the world from 2000 to 2024, according to a new report from the World Health Organization, with ...