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Ever since former New York Times journalist Howard French’s must-read, China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New E...

Rosalind “Roz” Brewer was named the new CEO of Walgreens and Boots Alliance yesterday, a move which will make her the only Black woman to le...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced today that it is keeping the minute hand of the “Doomsday Clock” at 100 seconds to midnight....

While many companies are still suffering in the pandemic, some of luxury fashion’s biggest names are already showing signs of a recovery.Ear...

While there are many advantages to remote work, the isolated nature of working from home during a pandemic can fray employee spirits and con...

Earlier this month, oil major Total took the unusual step of abandoning the American Petroleum Institute (API), the influential trade group...

It’s been a while since anyone new has broken into the pantheon of legendary investors like Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett and retired...

The US is running up debt like never before, and one of the reasons Washington can get away with it is because interest rates are hovering a...

On Jan. 25, the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank simultaneously signaled their intent to make climate considerations a central p...

The Narendra Modi government doesn’t have a very impressive track record when it comes to divestments, yet, when finance minister Nirmala Si...

Struggling with the Covid-19 slump, India’s women entrepreneurs are hoping for a win with this year’s budget.Between March and June when Ind...

India’s union budget, which will be announced on Feb. 1, will need to account for the country’s vast and ambitious Covid-19 vaccination prog...

Italy was hit hard by Covid-19. In March, its northern city of Bergamo, then the site of the world’s deadliest Covid-19 outbreak, became a g...

It’s been well documented that essential workers face heightened risks of contracting Covid-19. Now, research from the University of Califor...

The US government will replace its entire fleet of 645,000 cars and trucks with US-made electric vehicles, president Joe Biden said on Jan....

Former US president Donald Trump’s last minute controversial removal of sanctions against an Israeli businessman named in corruption scandal...

When Janet Yellen became chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in 1997, her husband, economic Nobel laureate George Akerlof, took full l...

With Disney’s US theme parks either closed or operating at severely limited capacity, the Mouse House is taking the opportunity to make a ch...

The new Covid-19 variant discovered in South Africa and found to be more infectious is becoming a dominant variant in the country and has dr...

In Europe, concerns are growing about human rights violations in Chinese supply chains. In response, parliaments are forcing their governmen...

Elon Musk set off market activity again after an early morning tweet.Musk’s tweets about a purchase made Etsy for his dog led to an 18% jump...

The months-long protest against India’s new agribusiness laws turned violent today (Jan. 26) on one of the country’s major holidays.Thousand...

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There is no way to stabilize the world’s temperature without an aggressive plan to pull carbon out of the atmosphere. The Intergovernmental...

This year was supposed to be better than 2020, and yet, not a week into 2021, the other shoe—the one we all knew was coming, the one we all...