Presidents can control monetary policy even without replacing the Fed chair, Benn Steil writes in a commentary essay.

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Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia on Thursday announced it would cease publishing its reports on Elon Musk's social media platform X, which it said had become a "disinformation network".

The dollar faces a downward correction but any pullback will be modest and brief, ING said. A correction is possible given stretched long-dollar positioning that bets on the currency rising, ING ...

South African police and ambulances were at the site Thursday of an old gold mine shaft where around 4,000 illegal miners ...

The EU said Thursday that "unacceptable" attacks by Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev on the bloc, France and the Netherlands risked undermining the COP29 climate conference being held in Baku.

Plastics and cryptocurrencies could be taxed like flying and fossil fuels to plug the gap in climate finance and help developing countries, according to a task force led by France, Kenya and Barbados.

Seven Hong Kong men involved in a thwarted 2019 bomb plot to murder police officers were jailed on Thursday, with the plan's "mastermind" receiving a sentence of almost 24 years.

Typhoon Usagi slammed into the Philippines' already disaster-ravaged north on Thursday, as authorities rushed to evacuate ...