If Sir Keir Starmer is forced to stand down – either in the coming weeks, or at another point before the next general ...

Reeves signalled on Tuesday that she would be prepared to bring in a one-year freeze on private sector rents, as she looked ...

National statistical systems generate the statistics that underpin policy, economic analysis, and public trust. Yet, despite decades of investment in statistical capacity, two persistent challenges, ...

What are the most pressing global crises in 2026? Each year, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist identifies the countries at greatest risk of new or worsening humanitarian ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

President Donald Trump yesterday announced what amounts to a federal takeover of law enforcement in the District of Columbia. He declared that he would deploy the National Guard and invoke an obscure ...

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a disappointing jobs report he said was "RIGGED." While BLS faces data collection problems, monthly revisions to the job creation numbers ...

For the first time, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been fired by the President of the United States for political reasons, launching the $30 trillion economy into uncharted and ...

The Atlanta Braves experienced a big offensive night against the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday. First baseman Matt Olson slammed the team's second grand slam of the season. The return of outfielder ...