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Davos arrives just in time for the inauguration of Donald J. Trump 2.0, and Europe is anxious. Trump is like an asteroid headed towards Earth, argues Hubert Védrine, the former French Foreign Minister, and debates over the impact will dominate the cozy internationalist bubble that builds up every year under the snowfall of the Swiss Alps.Trump speaks variously of huge new tariffs, of seizing Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal, of tying American involvement in European defense not only to increased military spending by Europeans, but also to the reduction of the surplus trade with the United States.Védrine and other analysts warn that Trump likes to talk big and then bargain, and that threats and problems come and go. As his former national security adviser, John Bolton, once told USA T...

Follow real-time updates on Supreme Court ruling against TikTok.As the TikTok ban approaches, hundreds of thousands of Americans looking for a new video-sharing app have migrated to Xiaohongshu, a social media platform that translates as "Little Red Book," the American nickname for a classic compendium of quotes from Chairman Mao. It all played out as a global prank on the American government: Threatened with exile from TikTok over concerns of Chinese interference, its users simply switched to another Chinese app, whose name evokes the Chinese Communist Party.When I downloaded Xiaohongshu, commonly called RedNote, it ranked first among free apps in Apple's US App Store. (The second was Lemon8, another Chinese alternative to TikTok owned by TikTok's parent company, ByteDance.) I gave away m...

President Biden said Thursday that in the days after the war in Gaza began, he pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to prevent civilian deaths and accommodate Palestinian concerns, while maintaining firm U.S. support for Israel.Biden spoke with MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell in his final television interview while in office, during which he also discussed his political career and presidency. The interview, which aired Thursday night, was recorded earlier in the day.The 15-month war, which began after Hamas carried out a deadly attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. Most of Gaza's approximately two million residents have been displaced at least once, and much of the enclave has been destroyed.Biden and other leaders announced a tentativ...

UnitedHealth Group reported Thursday that it earned less than expected in its latest quarter, citing higher medical costs and pressure on its insurance division at a time when the company is still reeling from the shocking murder of a top executive last month.UnitedHealth Group's revenue came in at $100.8 billion for the fourth quarter, below what analysts expected but still 6.8% higher than the same quarter a year earlier. The company's full-year revenue for 2024 rose to $400.3 billion. For UnitedHealthcare, the insurance division, full-year revenue increased to $298.2 billion, up 6% from 2023.The findings were the first for the company since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel.The killing sparked public outrage at large health insurer...

Patients are dying in British hospital corridors. Pregnant women receive abortion care in semi-public places. Incontinent patients are cleaned next to vending machines.These are just some of the shocking revelations contained in a report published Thursday by the Royal College of Nursing, a British nursing union. In the report, nurses described an overcrowding crisis that they say has led to a collapse of care, privacy and dignity across the country's National Health Service.“Vulnerable people are being stripped of their dignity and nursing staff are being denied access to vital life-saving equipment,” Nicola Ranger, the union's general secretary and chief executive, said in a statement.The nation's health workforce has reached a "breaking point", the report adds.The 460-page report, which...

Anduril, a technology start-up that designs autonomous systems and weapons for government and military agencies, plans to build a $1 billion factory in Columbus, Ohio, the company said Thursday.He said the factory, called Arsenal-1 and described as a “hyperscale” facility, will bring more than 4,000 jobs to Ohio and eventually produce tens of thousands of autonomous systems and weapons each year.“We will create with our partners in Ohio something that does not currently exist” on that scale, Chris Brose, Anduril's chief strategy officer, said in a briefing with reporters. The company worked closely with state officials on the project and received tax breaks to locate it in Columbus.Anduril, based in Costa Mesa, California, is part of a new wave of defense startups working to build autonomo...

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The long-sought and torturously negotiated Gaza ceasefire agreement announced Wednesday is the result in part of a remarkable collaboration between President Biden and President-elect Donald J. Trump, who temporarily put aside animosity mutual to achieve a common goal.The two presidents ordered their advisers to work together to push Israel and Hamas over the finish line toward an agreement to halt the fighting that has devastated Gaza and free hostages who have been held there for 15 months. The deal is expected to begin Sunday, the day before Biden hands over the White House to Trump.Each president had his own interest in resolving the issue before Inauguration Day. For Biden, the deal, if it holds, represents a final vindication under his watch, what he hopes will be an end to the deadl...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday banned the use of red dye No. 3 in foods, drinks and drugs, more than three decades after the synthetic dye was found to cause cancer in male laboratory rats.The dye, a petroleum-based additive, has been used to give candy, soda and other products their vibrant cherry-red hue. Consumer advocates said the FDA's decision to revoke the authorization was long overdue, given the agency's decision in 1990 to ban the chemical's use in cosmetics and topical medications.Under federal rules, the FDA is prohibited from approving food additives that cause cancer in humans or animals.“This is wonderful and long overdue news,” said Melanie Benesh, vice president for government affairs at the Environmental Working Group, one of several organizations that have...