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Key takeaways: Bill Taylor, George Kent testimony in…

Two career foreign-service officers laid out a devastating portrait on Wednesday of President Donald Trump's efforts to strong-arm an ally into delivering political dirt on a rival. Bill Taylor, the US's chief envoy in Ukraine,…

China has been reluctant to commit to the…

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The White House said in mid-October that China would buy as much as $50 billion worth of US farm products. But that has not yet been confirmed by the second-largest economy.  That…

Nobel laureates Banerjee and Duflo take on worlds…

MIT economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have been at the forefront of rethinking the way we tackle extreme poverty. Their approach of using randomized control trials, typically used by clinical researchers, can sound deceptively…

Kent blows hole through key Trump talking point…

One of the witnesses who testified during the first public impeachment hearing on Wednesday blew a hole through President Donald Trump's main talking points. George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state for European and…

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Robinhoods infinite money glitch shows the dangers of…

Reuters/ Jason Redmond Dr Cesar Albarran-Torres is a senior lecturer in media and communication at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. He says Robinhood's "infinite money" glitch — which enabled premium users to borrow seemingly…