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The world is turning toward nuclear power as a solution to the increasingly dire energy trilemma – the tricky issue of sourcing energy that is simultaneously af

Accusations of foul play have swirled around this year’s tournament — but England fan Gideon Rachman still can’t get enough

The soccer tournament has helped propel the prediction markets to new user records, creating what may be the largest gambling event in history.

Don Garber, the M.L.S. commissioner, has been planning for this moment for eight years.

“It doesn’t make a difference who wins the game. The IRS will get a piece.”

Soccer-Spain’s World Cup winner Capdevila seeks Trump’s help after US entry denial

Nvidia shares have underperformed in 2026 as Wall Street shifts to companies powering the infrastructure AI buildout.

The smoke coming from active wildfires in Canada has led to unhealthy air quality in swaths of the U.S., which could affect the World Cup final in New Jersey.

Nearly half of registered voters watched the 2026 World Cup, with income and education shaping viewership more than party affiliation, the survey found.

No one ever said overseeing monetary policy for the world's largest economy would be easy.

Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast. While these forecas

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. There’s a lot of hype

Uber has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion all-stock deal that would nearly double the company’s global footprint and create one of the world’s

Over a seventh of the world's copper mine output is now hostage to a sulphuric acid market thrown into chaos by the Middle East conflict and Beijing's export ba

A potential Category 5 atmospheric river is battering the world’s biggest copper producer just as US strikes near Iran’s export terminal rattle metals markets.

Cesium is an “obscure object of desire” in one of the world’s most tightly constrained critical mineral markets, where commercial production has historically co

China’s giant state LNG importers are in talks to secure long-term LNG supplies from exporters that don’t need the Strait of Hormuz, as the world’s biggest LNG

South Korean regulators fear single-stock leveraged ETFs are fuelling volatility

Doing business in a more dangerous and unpredictable world will cost more, pushing up the price of everything from food to electronics.