If Trump wins a Nobel Prize, he would become the sixth US president to earn it, after Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, whom the ...

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President Trump’s blueprints to build a space-based missile defense shield could help him push for reductions in atomic weapons arsenals across the great nuclear powers.

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Romer received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis.” He shared the prize with ...

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Wrapping up a Vatican summit on the rights of children, Pope Francis announced he was going to publish a papal document ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to walk back the aid freeze last week, only to cause more confusion, and this latest ...