Brazilian police have accused some his backers of involvement not just in a coup, but in an assassination plot ...

DONALD TRUMP’S victory on November 5th was decisive. The reaction of America’s stockmarket was jubilant. On November 6th the S&P 500, an index of America’s biggest firms, leapt by 2.5% in anticipation ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Bob Casey, a three-term Democratic ...

MATT GAETZ, Donald Trump’s choice for America’s attorney-general, spent November 20th meeting senators and telling reporters ...

The ICC is meant to be a court of last resort that steps in when a country’s own courts fail to prosecute abuses. Israel’s ...

Metamorphoses. By Karolina Watroba. Franz Kafka’s fame is not only the product of literary excellence. He also got lucky, as this biography of the writer’s afterlife reveals. It traces his ...

Y OU WOULD have thought Elon Musk was busy enough building brain implants, electric cars, grid-scale batteries, robots, ...

M any Americans hope that Donald Trump will fulfil his campaign pledges to bring down prices and deport illegal immigrants.

Nearly a third of the lorries entering Gaza are hijacked, reckons an Israeli officer. On November 18th, only 11 lorries in a ...

The authority runs the subway, buses and commuter lines to the suburbs, as well as some tunnels and bridges, and will now ...

Worse still, Messrs Trump and Sanders are looking past genuine problems with American credit cards. That may be because the ...

As of today,” the prosecutor tells the magistrates, “and congratulations by the way, that can all still be done here.” He is ...