By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns said on Thursday that Chinese President Xi Jinping's ambitions toward Taiwan should not be underestimated, despite him likely being sobered by the performance of Russia's ...

This is pretty crazy: decades of computers and video games and the #1 game going viral is still chess. The Lindy effect is real. https://t.co/CYC3OMjMo5 — Nabeel Qureshi (@nabeelqu) February 2, 2023 Here is my 2018 Bloomberg column on chess being a killer app for the internet and due for ...

I often think back to our Founding Fathers and wonder if they, at any point, envisioned a future in which a construct like a ‘think tank’ would have a prominent role in public policy. Something tells me that, like most Americans today, our Founding Fathers would have little idea of what a think ...

Researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom have revealed that Lagevrio, a drug designed by Merck meant to treat COVID, is causing the virus to mutate in patients. This creates the potential for more communicable and deadly versions of COVID to emerge in the future. When one ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) angrily called out House Republican racism and Islamophobia and said she didn’t get a single apology from Republicans after her life was threatened. Video: "This about targeting women of color!" — AOC's impassioned defense of Ilhan Omar ...

A U.S. citizen was arrested for walking a cow through Red Square in Moscow, according to local media. Alicia Day, “who is a vegetarian and animal rights activist, was walking on Red Square … using a calf as visual propaganda and shouting the slogan ‘animals are not ...

Jo Johnson, the younger brother of the former prime minister Boris Johnson, has resigned as a director of a London-based investment bank allegedly linked to the Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s crisis-ridden business empire.Lord Johnson, a former Conservative minister who was given a peerage by ...

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks at an event taking place in a restaurant at Dezerland amusement park in Orlando, Florida, U.S. January 31, 2023. REUTERS/Joe Skipper BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian opposition Senator Marcos do Val said on Thursday that a ...

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A worker operates one of the metal cutting machines at Gent Machine Co.'s factory in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., May 26, 2021. REUTERS/Timothy Aeppel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. worker productivity increased faster than expected in the fourth quarter, resulting in a ...

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Iranian film director Jafar Panahi smiles, following his release on bail, at his home in Tehran May 25, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian film director Jafar Panahi has started a hunger strike in prison to protest against authorities' refusal ...