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Supporters of California’s proposed billionaire tax say it could raise $100 billion, with 90% of the proceeds earmarked for health care. A pair of Stanford economists warn it could instead leave the state $39 billion worse off in today’s...

Maine Republican Susan Collins has promoted her reputation as one of the most independent U.S. senators and she is using the waning days of the election season to sell that message to voters by campaigning with a former Democratic...

Federal prosecutors in Mexico have charged a former state prosecutor with treason for allowing US agents to join a raid on a suspected drugs lab in April without proper authorisation.César Jáuregui Moreno served as attorney general of the northern...

Pope Leo XIV does not need any further treatment following an operation to remove a cancerous growth from his lung, his doctors have said.Test results on tissue removed during surgery confirmed he had had a lung adenocarcinoma, as was...

Pope Leo XIV's doctors said no further treatment is necessary following the pontiff's surgery for lung cancer, according to a Vatican statement."The results confirmed that the tumor was a pulmonary adenocarcinoma and that the disease was localized," Dr. Luigi...

For me, the most telling statement of the day was from Vladimir Putin's foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov. He took part in the St Petersburg talks.Ushakov said that Steve Witkoff had told President Putin about the discussions in Oslo...

None of the contacts, who are now in isolation, are known to have developed symptoms, including the person the patient travelled with, the health minister said, adding that the woman had not travelled outside Abuja since landing.Kaseya explained that...

Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp has been hit with the largest ever fine against it for its business practices.A judge in New Mexico on Wednesday ordered the company to pay $25bn (£18.6bn) following a two week...

The CJP is not a registered political party, but a collective which began by mobilising thousands of young people to protest over leaked exam papers. By July it had emerged as a major force.A march towards parliament that month...

Amazon is reversing its plan to expand its data center footprint in Virginia—forgoing its $427 million plan to build data centers on George Washington University’s Virginia campus it had signed an application for in February. The company will donate...