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“We have to make Biden lose”: Arab-Americans are switching to Trump: Anger over Gaza in the swing state of Michigan might cost the president the election
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“We have to make Biden lose”: Arab-Americans are switching to Trump
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Has Taylor Swift peaked?: The musician is at the height of her commercial, but not her creative, power
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Has Taylor Swift peaked?
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Efforts to tackle student protests in America have backfired badly: Police intervention at Columbia has provoked protests at other universities
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Efforts to tackle student protests in America have backfired badly
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Don’t be gloomy about Tesla and its EV rivals : The industry has had a terrible few months. But demand is likely to pick up
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Don’t be gloomy about Tesla and its EV rivals
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous: It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
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Without fanfare, the Philippines is getting richer: And its economy is unusually well-defended against American politics
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Without fanfare, the Philippines is getting richer
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Can the world save Sudan from a nationwide famine?: Also on the daily podcast: disappearing languages and Scottish wildcats
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Can the world save Sudan from a nationwide famine?
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How Iran covered up the damage from Israel’s strikes: New images shared with The Economist show how a swap helped calm a crisis
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How Iran covered up the damage from Israel’s strikes
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In its latest abortion case the Supreme Court seems to back Idaho: Moyle v US asks if federal law protects women whose pregnancies threaten their health
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In its latest abortion case the Supreme Court seems to back Idaho
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Congress tells China: sell TikTok or we’ll ban it: Only America’s courts can save the video app now
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Congress tells China: sell TikTok or we’ll ban it
Quick Glance: Biden Signs TikTok Ban Bill Into Law, ByteDance Forced to Sell
  • After signaling his intention, President Joe Biden signs the foreign aid package including the TikTok ban bill into law.

  • The U.S. Senate passes a bill forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban.

  • ByteDance has nine months to sell TikTok to comply with the law.

  • The U.S. government has been persistent in trying to ban TikTok due to national security concerns.
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For its next phase of growth, India needs a new reform agenda : With the right changes, it can become an engine of global growth, say Arjun Ramani and Thomas ...
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For its next phase of growth, India needs a new reform agenda
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Will Spain’s prime minister suddenly quit?: Pedro Sánchez stunned Spain with a promise to announce plans on April 29th
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Will Spain’s prime minister suddenly quit?
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Why South Korean pop culture rocks and North Korea’s does not: Dictatorship stifles creativity and joy
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Why South Korean pop culture rocks and North Korea’s does not
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Reasons to be cheerful about Generation Z: They are not doomed to be poor and anxious
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Reasons to be cheerful about Generation Z
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How the Chinese state is hollowing out religion in Xinjiang: Our weekly podcast on China. This week our co-host travels to Xinjiang during Ramadan to see the ...
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How the Chinese state is hollowing out religion in Xinjiang
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Why growing student protests at American universities could be bad for Biden: Also on the daily podcast: Brexit regret and whale-detection technology
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Why growing student protests at American universities could be bad for ...
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Inside the Kenyan cult that starved itself to death: During covid-19 a preacher lured thousands of people into a remote forest. Then he told them to stop eating
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Inside the Kenyan cult that starved itself to death
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Why is so much of the internet’s infrastructure run by volunteers?: Malware smuggled into XZ Utils software highlights a bigger problem
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Why is so much of the internet’s infrastructure run by volunteers?
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Desmond Shum on how Xi Jinping beat down China’s red aristocrats: It took one of their own to do it, says the businessman and author
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Desmond Shum on how Xi Jinping beat down China’s red aristocrats
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How Chinese networks clean dirty money on a vast scale: These shadowy “banks” are becoming the financiers of choice for transnational criminal gangs
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How Chinese networks clean dirty money on a vast scale
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A conservative strategist on how Joe Biden can win: Sarah Longwell says “double-haters” will decide the election
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A conservative strategist on how Joe Biden can win
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Why so many Chinese graduates cannot find work: Our number-crunching suggests that their plight could be much worse than previously thought
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Why so many Chinese graduates cannot find work
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Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the latest polls?: The Economist is tracking the race to be America’s next president
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Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the latest polls?
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How Russia targeted France and radicalised Emmanuel Macron: He is now one of Europe’s leading Russia hawks
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How Russia targeted France and radicalised Emmanuel Macron
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The growing role of fighting robots on the ground in Ukraine: Drones already fill the skies. Now uncrewed vehicles are heading to the front lines
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The growing role of fighting robots on the ground in Ukraine
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What to read about India’s economy: Can it emulate China’s past manufacturing success—and should it even try?
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What to read about India’s economy
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Who will lead the LVMH luxury empire?: Bernard Arnault sizes up his heirs apparent
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Who will lead the LVMH luxury empire?
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Two years of war have impoverished many Ukrainians: The elderly, the displaced and the disabled are the worst affected
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Two years of war have impoverished many Ukrainians
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Citigroup, Wall Street’s biggest loser, is at last on the up: Jane Fraser’s unexpected success
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Citigroup, Wall Street’s biggest loser, is at last on the up
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war: And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
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Is Generative AI built on theft?: Also on the daily podcast: deaths of ex-prisoners and booing
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Is Generative AI built on theft?
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On its 150th anniversary, Impressionism is surprisingly relevant: What the once-derided movement reveals about art today
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On its 150th anniversary, Impressionism is surprisingly relevant
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How to fix Britain’s barmy VAT regime: Britain’s second-most-important tax is riddled with holes
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How to fix Britain’s barmy VAT regime
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Why do cicadas have such a strange life cycle?: Two broods will soon emerge simultaneously for the first time in 221 years
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Why do cicadas have such a strange life cycle?
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Why the stockmarket is disappearing: Large companies such as ByteDance, OpenAI and Stripe are staying private
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Why the stockmarket is disappearing
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Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?: The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
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Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
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Käthe Kollwitz, a pioneering German artist, finally gets her due: Major exhibitions in Frankfurt and New York showcase her portrayals of the scars of war
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Käthe Kollwitz, a pioneering German artist, finally gets her due
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After Dobbs, Americans are turning to permanent contraception: More young women are tying their tubes
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After Dobbs, Americans are turning to permanent contraception
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The House of Representatives gives Ukraine its best news in a year: $61bn of aid is on the way. It should have an almost instant effect
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The House of Representatives gives Ukraine its best news in a year
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How American politics has infected investing: Beware: taking a stand can be expensive
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How American politics has infected investing
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The world’s insatiable appetite for Canada’s maple syrup: Production is booming, but climate change is making output more erratic
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The world’s insatiable appetite for Canada’s maple syrup
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The dark side of growing old: A coming wave of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia will test China to its limits
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The dark side of growing old
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Israel responds to Iran’s barrage with a symbolic strike: Both sides have a chance to de-escalate their conflict, at least for now
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Israel responds to Iran’s barrage with a symbolic strike
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Finally, America’s Congress does right by Ukraine: Disaster has been dodged. But the political malaise that delayed the Ukraine funding bill remains
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Finally, America’s Congress does right by Ukraine
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Locust-busting is getting an upgrade : From pesticides to drones, new technologies are helping win an age-old battle
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Locust-busting is getting an upgrade
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Truth Social is a mind-bending win for Donald Trump: And disturbing evidence of how he destabilises reality for Americans
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Truth Social is a mind-bending win for Donald Trump
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How Hollywood fell in love with video games: “Fallout” is the latest in a successful run of adaptations
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How Hollywood fell in love with video games
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay: Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
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Examining the fluff that frustrates northern China: An effort to improve the environment has had unintended consequences
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Examining the fluff that frustrates northern China
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Climbing Everest is the extreme sport du jour: More people are reaching the summit, but more people are dying on the way, too
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Climbing Everest is the extreme sport du jour
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China is talking to Taiwan’s next leader, just not directly: Officials in Beijing want the island’s new president to be more like one from the past
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China is talking to Taiwan’s next leader, just not directly
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Tensions mount between China and the Philippines : The latest incident was just inside the “nine-dash line”
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Tensions mount between China and the Philippines
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Kennedy for President?: An interview with RFK Junior
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Kennedy for President?
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Would you really die for your country?: Military conscription is on the agenda in the rich world
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Would you really die for your country?
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Online dating spells the end of Britain’s lonely-hearts ads: A 300-year-old genre is losing its GSOH
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Online dating spells the end of Britain’s lonely-hearts ads
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Much of the Great War was decided in the east: A new history argues the Eastern Front gets less attention but was hugely consequential
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Much of the Great War was decided in the east
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The lessons of woke Scrabble: When heritage meets innovation
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The lessons of woke Scrabble
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The White House unveils a pair of bad policies to woo voters: Tariffs for steelworkers and loan forgiveness for students are both regressive
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The White House unveils a pair of bad policies to woo voters
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Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich: Millennials were poorer at this stage in their lives. So were baby-boomers
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Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
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Radio Modi: How India’s prime minister sweet-talks the nation: We analysed hundreds of Narendra Modi’s broadcasts. They reveal a meticulously cultivated image
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Radio Modi: How India’s prime minister sweet-talks the nation
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Five charts that show why the BJP expects to win India’s election: Narendra Modi’s party is eyeing another big victory
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Five charts that show why the BJP expects to win India’s election
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Lawrence Wong will be only the fourth PM in Singapore’s history: The next leader promises continuity and change
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Lawrence Wong will be only the fourth PM in Singapore’s history
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Britain’s black-mass problem: The thorny business of recycling electric-vehicle batteries
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Britain’s black-mass problem
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Is ticketing homeless people a cruel and unusual punishment?: The question has confounded western cities. The Supreme Court will weigh in
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Is ticketing homeless people a cruel and unusual punishment?
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Lots of state legislators believe any contact with fentanyl is fatal: (It is not)
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Lots of state legislators believe any contact with fentanyl is fatal
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How to get more people into military uniforms: Why mandatory military service makes sense for some countries but not others
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How to get more people into military uniforms
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Akebono was the first foreign-born grand champion of sumo : The wrestler who shocked and changed Japan died in early April, aged 54
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Akebono was the first foreign-born grand champion of sumo
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America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population: Which is a worry, because much of it is already shrinking
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America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population
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What is weighing on CEOs’ minds this earnings season? : Shareholder letters are proving to be bleakly prophetic
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What is weighing on CEOs’ minds this earnings season?
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Where are all the British robots?: Firms’ small size is the biggest barrier to automation
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Where are all the British robots?
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Germany is flunking the education test: Its scores are heading down, as its schools fail to adapt
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Germany is flunking the education test