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Nvidia Corporation's stock has dropped from its highs due to competition from China's DeepSeek and rising US-China trade ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump's health secretary, putting the ...

Gallup found that 45% of Democrats and independents who identified as “leaning” toward the Democratic Party said in a survey ...

More Democrats prefer their political party to be more moderate this year than in 2021, according to the results of a Gallup ...

It found that 45 percent of Democratic respondents wanted the party to become "more moderate," compared to 34 percent in 2021 ...

Gen Z, or Zoomers, might as well be two generations in one when it comes to politics. The dividing line can be traced back to ...

The latest growth (or non-growth) figures show that living standards have taken another knock with GDP per head shrinking for ...

Meanwhile the Social Mobility Commission, itself an arm’s-length body of government, is currently setting up a new panel of ...

Rising GDP signals economic growth, which is generally welcome news for the country’s companies, households and politicians. When GDP is falling, it means the economy is shrinking. If it falls for two ...

We're getting a look at how the public mood and political attitudes have changed over time thanks to economic shifts and dislocation. Paul Solman sat down with Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman to ...