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The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Donald Trump’s victory and the fallout from the US election in 2024.
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E VERY NOVEMBER we publish our annual predictive guide to the coming year, The World Ahead. In this year’s edition, our ...
At the bottom of the chart are the fundamental particles—quarks, bosons (eg Higgs, w +, w -, z ), protons, neutrons, ...
In a surprise announcement on December 11th Ethiopia and Somalia appeared to make up. After negotiations in Ankara, brokered ...