The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision, announced in May, follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert ...

Republicans Defeat First Attempt to Block Trump’s $1.8 Billion Payout Fund Some Republicans support permanently blocking the fund, but were wary of a Democratic proposal to do so that would also ...

Try this short quiz on written works that were persuasive enough to influence American life and law. By J. D. Biersdorfer “The Fire Agent,” by David Baerwald, is a historical novel that spans two ...

US cites forced labor concerns as grounds for new tariffs The Trump administration has proposed tariffs of up to 12.5% on imports from 60 countries after determining they had failed to curb trade in ...