Europe Has Fallen Behind the U.S. and China. Can It Catch Up?
A “competitiveness crisis” is raising alarms for officials and business leaders in the European Union, where investment, income and productivity are lagging.
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 5, 2024, covering June 5, 2024.
Taylor Swift
Billie Eilish
Twenty One Pilots
Morgan Wallen
RM
Morgan Wallen
Future & Metro Boomin
Gunna
Noah Kahan
Zach Bryan
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A “competitiveness crisis” is raising alarms for officials and business leaders in the European Union, where investment, income and productivity are lagging.
A year of fighting has turned the once proud capital, Khartoum, into a charred battleground. Millions have fled. Now a famine threatens in one of Africa’s biggest countries.
Faced with Russia’s efforts to erase Ukrainian culture, people have embraced traditional music as a way to reconnect with their past and affirm their identity.
Far from Normandy’s beaches, French paratroopers and resistance members fought a rear-guard action to keep the Nazis at bay. But its tragic end had made it a battle to forget.
Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.
Republican leaders in and out of government are publicly pushing to prosecute Democrats as legal retribution for Donald Trump’s felony conviction.
A new bulletin says China is trying to step up recruitment of Western-trained fighter pilots to improve its air combat capability.
Automakers are exploring energy storage as a way to help utilities and save customers money, turning an expensive component into an industry asset.
Weeks before New York was to charge motorists to enter Manhattan’s business district, Gov. Kathy Hochul postponed the program, citing economic concerns.
Zack Winokur, an ambitious dancer-turned-director, now has a New York stage to call his own as the park’s artistic leader.
Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.
Druski began hobnobbing with star rappers and athletes after his Everyman sketches grew popular on social media.