EIU grades 167 countries out of ten according to the state of their democracy, and sorts them into four camps: full and flawed democracies, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. By that measure, ...

Growth forecasts cut for US and global economy, while UK suffers sharpest downgrade in G7 Reeves arrives at IMF with little leeway to prove its UK downgrade wrong A further escalation in the Iran war ...

Global approval of China surpassed the U.S. in 2025, the widest favorability gap between the two countries in almost 20 years, according to a new Gallup poll released Friday. Gallup found that China’s ...

Global Entry is open again. The service reopened on March 11 at 5 a.m. ET, according to a Department of Homeland Security statement shared with USA TODAY. The move comes as the partial government ...

Global warming has picked up speed in the past decade, according to a new analysis from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). By removing short term natural influences such as El ...

Oil and gas prices spiked on Monday as the Iran conflict escalated and shipping was disrupted in the Strait of Hormuz. About 20% of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas flows through the strait ...

The immediate impacts of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Ukraine’s agriculture sector were abrupt and widespread. Though Ukrainian producers have demonstrated remarkable resilience in ...

Xi Jinping has laid out an explicit goal for China’s currency, urging that the renminbi evolve into a widely used international unit that can eventually be held as a reserve currency. In an essay ...

Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers. By Mark Arsenault Until recently, ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

U.S. President Donald Trump greets Chinese President Xi Jinping before a bilateral meeting at the Gimhae International Airport terminal in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025. Credit: Official White ...

The return of U.S. President Donald Trump for a second term has spurred significant changes to a post-Cold War international order that was already going through upheaval for myriad reasons, from ...