Jefferson saw independence as a fight for liberty — and for access to the western lands that promised power and profit.

It was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff well beyond what’s commonly assumed.

In each era of globalisation since the mid-17th century, a single country has sought to be the clear world leader – shaping ...

From June 2024 through February 2025, U.S. beekeepers suffered their worst winter losses in more than a decade, with ...

In the nearly 250 years since the nation’s founding, technological leaps and demographic shifts transformed a scattered collection of farmers and laborers into today’s workforce of more than 150 ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Wednesday pushed back at U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that the Russian economy was going to collapse, saying that Russia had considerable reserves and was ...

Instagram first introduced Teen Accounts in 2024. Meta is rolling out what it describes as its biggest update yet to Instagram's "Teen Accounts" with new protections guided by PG-13 movie ratings. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Uncertainty over the economy and tariffs is forcing retailers to pull back or delay plans to hire seasonal workers who pack orders at distribution centers, serve shoppers at stores and ...

For the last half-century and more, the state’s monopoly political party has been content to rely on our proximity to the nation’s capital as its principal economic development strategy. Our one-party ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics. (Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP) / ALTERNATIVE CROP (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty ...

A segment on CBS’ "60 Minutes" Sunday night suggested record-high stock market levels under President Donald Trump could be a precursor to another crash similar to 1929. Host Lesley Stahl spoke with ...

America’s first merger wave began in the 1890s and forged giants in steel, oil and railroads. A second preceded the crash of 1929. Executives assembled conglomerates in the 1960s; private-equity firms ...