Construction outlays reached an annualized pace of $2.17 trillion in August, up from $2.165 trillion the month before, a 0.2% increase. Economists had been expecting construction spending to contract ...

Even before the swearing in, Seattle has given Zohran Mamdani his own "Mini-Me"; expect many more. New York City and Seattle ...

A program to support unpaid New Yorkers caring for aging family members is getting millions in new money to bolster a Big ...

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The number of Palestinians dying in Israeli custody surged to nearly 100 people since the start of the war in Gaza, according ...

A social entrepreneur is reviving Wakasa’s historic Kumagawa Juku in Fukui Prefecture through heritage lodgings, local cuisine and sustainable tourism. Japan faces a declining population, and a ...

Mr Farage and Zia Yusuf, the party’s head of policy, will propose cutting the aid budget by 90 per cent to £1bn. This would eradicate almost all bilateral aid programmes but maintain some multilateral ...