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Europe buys the future, America builds it
Does that matter? A high-stakes transatlantic spat has erupted over GDP figures
Andy Burnham following his win at the Makerfield by-election.
Makerfield man
Andy Burnham is now Britain’s prime-minister-in-waiting
After his by-election win he is set to challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the party (and the country’s) leadership
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What comes next?
War has strengthened the Islamic Republic. Peace could split it
For now, the hardliners are in the ascendant
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AI has granted America vast new power
Its government is now the gatekeeper to frontier models—and most compute
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Why Westerners are falling for love scams
Romance fraud is driven by poverty in west Africa and loneliness in the West, a new book argues