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Opinion | Joe Biden Is Succeeding

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By David Brooks Opinion Columnist Source: Read Full Article

Opinion | What Happens When a Court Goes Rogue?

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Linda Greenhouse Contributing Opinion Writer A rogue court is on the loose in the country. No, not the Supreme Court — not yet, anyway. It’s the United States Court of Appeals […]

Drugmaker Sanofi invests $180 million in French AI startup Owkin

A test tube is seen in front of a displayed Sanofi logo in this illustration taken September 8, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationPARIS (Reuters) – Drugmaker Sanofi is investing $180 million in French startup Owkin, whose predictive algorithms aim to improve the research and development of new cures against cancer, the Paris-based group said on Thursday. The […]

Spain's BBVA offers to buy 50.15% in Garanti for up to 2.25 billion euros

MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s BBVA said on Monday it had decided to launch a tender offer for the 50.15% stake it does not own in its Turkish lender Garanti BBVA for up to 2.25 billion euros ($2.58 billion), strengthening its presence in emerging markets.FILE PHOTO: A view of Spanish bank BBVA’s headquarters in Madrid, Spain, November […]

Living with Covid-19: Coming to grips with our anger and angst

They call it ennui. You know, that lingering mix of feelings of listlessness and tedium, of being adrift, bereft of neither a sense of anticipation, nor agency to shake the malaise off. In Singapore, we have a fine local equivalent for this French expression – xian – which just about sums up the sense of […]

Viasat to buy UK rival Inmarsat in $7.3 billion deal

(Reuters) – U.S.-based Viasat on Monday agreed to buy British rival Inmarsat in a deal worth $7.3 billion, as it seeks to broaden its offerings of satellite- and land-based communications services. The deal comes two years after Inmarsat was taken private in a $3.4 billion transaction by a consortium of UK-based Apax partners, U.S.-based Warburg […]

Mark Cuban-backed FiscalNote to go public via $1.3 billion SPAC deal

FILE PHOTO: Mark Cuban, entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, speaks at the WSJTECH live conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S. October 21, 2019. REUTERS/ Mike Blake(Reuters) – FiscalNote Holdings Inc, a Mark Cuban-backed legal data and analytics company, said on Monday it would merge with a blank-check firm to go public in a […]

US, China spooking each other into a dangerous arms race

Power Play is a weekly column that looks at various facets of US-China rivalry and its implications for Asia. Two military developments have brought US-China rivalry into sharp focus in the past few weeks. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. Latest headlines and exclusive stories In-depth analyses and award-winning multimedia […]

Opinion | Ancient History Shows How We Can Create a More Equal World

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By David Graeber and David Wengrow Mr. Graeber and Mr. Wengrow are the authors of the forthcoming book, “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity,” from which this essay is […]