New Hampshire may be one of the smallest states, but it traditionally has played an outsized role in the nation’s greatest task: election of the president. For decades the Granite State was ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Friedrich Merz received a rude shock on the morning of May 6, 2025, ...

The Japanese economy suffered a surprising contraction in the first quarter of 2025, with analysts citing tariff stress as a main cause. Gross domestic product fell 0.2% in the first quarter, versus ...

NATO members are set to agree to a goal to increase their defense spending level to 5% of their GDP as a means to address a ...

Japan’s economy shrank in the first quarter of 2025 for the first time in a year, and it faces a bumpy road ahead due to the ...

The government has reported that Japan’s economy contracted at an annual rate of 0.7% in the first quarter, as U.S. President ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his NATO counterparts meet in Turkey to prepare a pivotal summit of alliance leaders ...

Inventories rose 2.5% year-on-year in March. Inventories are the most volatile component of GDP. Businesses front-loaded ...

NATO foreign ministers are debating a U.S. demand to massively ramp up defense investment to 5% of gross domestic product ...

While the euro zone has consistently underperformed the U.S. in recent years, the 0.3% quarterly growth rate is far better ...