A scam that is both vile and deeply stupid The United States has an ugly reputation in Latin America -- a reputation that, I’m sorry to say, is mostly …
Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction. After reading Jill Lepore’s The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, I have a new destination for a time machine, should I ever finally get my hands on one. I’d set the dial to some …
The country’s “stability” hides a host of problems. Compared with Donald Trump’s chaotic, divided, and violent America, China is a bastion of steady progress and serene order. This, at least, is the story that Beijing’s propagandists have been eager to spread. The Global Times, a Communist Party–run …
The Trump administration announced an agreement with the Venezuelan government on Friday to develop a vast amount of Venezuela's oil reserves. The U.S. government says it is entering into a joint venture with a private Venezuelan company, according to an official who spoke to NPR on the condition of …
President Trump says a new deal with Venezuela would give the U.S. control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves. NPR's energy and climate correspondent Julia Simon explains the hurdles that remain before the oil can start flowing. This episode was produced by Henry Larson. It was edited by …
For 30 years, the world wide web has run on a surprisingly profound social contract: most sites are free for search engines to access, but if you use …
Every negotiation assumes that both sides will honour what they agreed to, or that someone else — a court, a regulator, a contracting authority — can …
Amazon Web Services and Nvidia have expanded their long-running partnership to add far more computing power for artificial intelligence workloads. The …
NEW YORK (AP) — The bond market swung Friday as investors built bets that the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates soon to get the nation’s high inflation under control. U.S. stocks, meanwhile, dipped but not by much after economists said a speech by Chairman Kevin Warsh helped strengthen faith …
Any move to increase borrowing costs in September will likely invoke the frustration of President Donald Trump. JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming — Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh on Friday laid the groundwork for a possible interest rate hike in the coming months, arguing that the economy is strong and the …
Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers. Donald Trump may be preparing to announce sweeping new semiconductor …
Salesforce and Anthropic announced Tuesday a sweeping expansion of their partnership, called Claudeforce, that pushes the world's largest customer relationship management platform directly inside Claude — a tacit acknowledgment that the future of enterprise software may not involve enterprise …
President Trump’s repeated attempts to impose tariffs have become an encapsulation of his second term. They have hurt the American economy and his own popularity. They also range from legally dubious to blatantly illegal. With Mr. Trump now engaging in a trade war with Canada — which has decided to …
More than 150 people are dead and hundreds more missing after an enormous wave of water, ice, mud and rock cascaded more than 170 kilometres down the …
This summer has been a terrible fire season in the U.S.—just not in the most populated places. The summer of 2026 has been one of extraordinary fires. In Europe, they have burned hundreds of thousands of acres in France and Spain and destroyed homes across England; they killed 13 people in Spain …