Economy and Politics

Eric Toner is a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and was a part of a simulation, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, that posited such a disease could kill 65 million people within 18 months.

President Donald Trump’s lawyers began delivering their opening arguments in his historic impeachment trial on Saturday, telling senators the president “did absolutely nothing wrong” and charging that Democrats are trying to keep the Republican off the ballot in the upcoming election.

The market at the center of the deadly coronavirus outbreak in China sold live animals — including wolf pups, foxes, rats and peacocks, as well as crocodiles, giant salamanders, snakes, porcupines, and camel meat.

The Hoover Institution’s Niall Ferguson shares his thoughts on the World Economic Forum’s 50th annual meeting.

The U.S. government is arranging a charter flight Sunday to evacuate its citizens and diplomats from the epidemic-stricken Chinese city of Wuhan to the U.S.

The alleged threat during the impeachment trial stoked strong reactions on Twitter

A guy who still insists that the 2017 tax cut ‘will pay for itself’ should not be lecturing anyone — even a 17-year-old —about economics.

Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee are getting attention as an important step in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial nears.

Sometimes it helps to look in the rear-view mirror to see what lies ahead for U.S. economy. And what it shows is a open road with just a few potholes.

President Donald Trump complained Friday about the timing of his legal team’s defense in his impeachment trial, saying it will occupy time during TV’s “Death Valley” on Saturday.

Our best hope against authoritarianism lies in access to quality education that reinforces the autonomy of the individual by cultivating critical thinking and emphasizing intellectual freedom, writes investor and philanthropist George Soros.

ABC News reports that it has reviewed a recording that appears to capture President Donald Trump telling his associates he wanted Marie Yovanovitch, the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, fired.

The unemployment rose in 2019 in a few key states critical to President Trump’s reelection, but joblessness fell in most of the country as the U.S. finished the year with the lowest level of layoffs in 50 years.

Many religious Catholics and evangelical Protestants support Donald Trump even though he has not led a pious life.

The IHS Markit flash purchasing managers index fell to 51.7, a 3-month low in January.

The peer, who is attending the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland and is the chairman of strategic advisory firm Global Counsel, refused to back any specific candidate.

Most people could benefit from unplugging more, research shows

As House Democrats pressed their case in the second day of arguments in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, the head of the House Judiciary Committee said the country isn’t obligated by its defining legal document to keep him in power.

Trump critics absolutely love it when world leaders diss the president, and they were relishing what they thought was another opportunity on Thursday to cackle at the White House’s expense. But were they mistaken?

The percentage of American workers in unions fell to a record low in 2019, extending a long slide that began in the 1970s.