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The president of the United States has, legally speaking, a ton of power. He can fire the head of the country’s federal investigative agency. He can decide, unilaterally, to give ultra-classified information to foreign leaders. He has essentially unconstrained authority…
This is the greatest mystery of my adult life: How can I spend all day typing at a computer and go home feeling exhausted? How could merely activating the small muscles of my fingers leave me craving the couch at…
In December 2017, the UK defense giant BAE Systems clinched a deal with Qatar to sell the Gulf nation 24 Typhoon fighter jets as well as a package comprising weapons, pilot training and maintenance. Underwriting a deal to sell Typhoon warplanes…
With UK and EU negotiators yet to strike a deal in Brussels, British businesses are becoming increasingly concerned about the prospect of a no-deal scenario, urging the government to do everything in its power to prevent such an eventuality. Confidence…
No other European financial center will beat London “anytime soon,” says new index, despite the potential of Brexit uncertainty to harm investment and prompt business to move elsewhere. A new report by the think-tank New Financial named Britain “the dominant European…
The Soviet rocketry program, which would eventually help Moscow achieve strategic parity with the United States and send human beings into space, had its origins in a design reverse-engineered from a captured German V-2. Russian Space Systems, a subsidiary of Roscosmos,…
