IT IS ALWAYS the best of times and the worst of times in America for President Donald Trump. Various things have simultaneously never been worse, owing to Democratic meddling, but also never been better, thanks to his own intervention. “Our country has a hole, nobody sees anything like it, but we’ve stopped them,” he said…
President Trump declares that the economy is doing “unbelievably well” after payrolls grow by 224,000 in June.ImageWorkers assembling cars at a Ford Motor plant in Chicago. The manufacturing sector, a major driver of growth in the last two years, has been cooling.CreditCreditJim Young/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesJuly 5, 2019A decade after the Great Recession released…
For bond investors, Greece has been the best performing country in the eurozone to invest as the country's bonds have returned 20% this year Bloomberg reported. This also looks set to grow into the weekend, as snap-vote elections could bring the possibility of a pro-business government as well as help from the European Central Bank.…
GEOGRAPHICAL GOOD luck gave Wu Zhaozong a front-row seat as China opened to the world. As a boy he watched his grandfather steer a horse-drawn cart through the docks of Tianjin, on China’s northern coast. Poor neighbours, living in courtyard homes shared with four families, would follow carts to pick up horse dung and fallen…
Poland DispatchImageWorkers cleaning Daniel Libeskind‘s art installation at Auschwitz before its official opening.CreditCreditMaciek Nabrdalik for The New York TimesOSWIECIM, Poland — The letter to Daniel Libeskind’s father arrived shortly after the war ended. His sister, Rozia, informed him that his family was dead. She was the only one of 10 siblings to survive Auschwitz. Over…
Kim Kardashian West won damages of $2.7 million in a lawsuit against a British fashion brand she accused of using her name and profile to sell its clothes, multiple outlets reported.In her lawsuit against Missguided, Kardashian West said the brand is "notorious" for selling knock-off versions of celebrity looks.A judge in California ordered the US…
Our weekly podcast on the science and technology making the newsTHE CHILD chess prodigy who created a computer that outplays human grandmasters—Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind—explains how games are a testing ground for algorithms and what real-world challenges he hopes to tackle with artificial intelligence. And, what can AlphaZero, the game-playing computer, teach human players?…
U.S.|Manslaughter Charge Dropped Against Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While PregnantProsecutors in Alabama said on Wednesday that they were dropping a manslaughter charge against Marshae Jones over the death of the fetus she was carrying when she was shot in the belly.The case stirred outrage across the country in late June after a grand jury…
Reuters Asian shares slumped while gold and bitcoin surged on Wednesday. A fresh threat of US tariffs against Europe and disappointing manufacturing data tempered the market mood following the US-China trade war truce last weekend. Market optimism is "hanging by a thread as US-China trade tensions remain the key antagonist to the global growth outlook,"…
THE FOCAL points of landscape art changed in the 1970s and 1980s. Where painters and photographers from Caspar David Friedrich to Ansel Adams had homed in on awe-inspiring, untouched vistas with mountains, valleys and lakes, a new generation of artists focused instead on grey car parks, nuclear-test sites and the vast swathes of land being…
