Rare intervention from head of Catholic Church comes as top executives are due to meet at White House on Tuesday

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping squandered a chance to tackle the world’s gravest threats

Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology.

President Trump said that Iran had been “the bully of the Middle East, but they are the bully no longer.” Earlier, António Guterres, the U.N. secretary general, called on the General Assembly to end conflicts.

The AfD is likely to be prevented from running Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania by a strong second-place showing from the Social Democrats.

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The company said Claude leads 26 percent of its research and development, an indicator of progress toward AI that builds itself without human help.

But the Houthis have been here before, and lost it

Despite the lingering questions, China remains optimistic about the summit.

A third of under-30s haven’t had a partner. Tyler Bennett knows how that happens

Alternative for Germany, or AfD, went into the vote seeking an absolute majority in the state legislature to govern on its own. That would overcome the so-called firewall of mainstream parties’ refusa...

The Kremlin has perfected covert influence. I’ve seen how poorly equipped Canada is to stop it

Fusing populism and moderation proves a recipe for staying in power

The U.S. government flew 170 Haitians to the island, days before a massacre.

Chinese companies rush into sector as global conflicts raise demand for interceptors

The relative indifference to the news that the U.S. government now owes $40 trillion demonstrates how drastically the politics of deficit spending has changed.