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Your trading bot crashes at 3 AM because the forex feed went silent. Real-time currency data really shouldn't mean spe ...

A common belief among many investors is that fortune favours the brave. That stops being true past a certain, quite limited ...

When people talk about huge casino wins, the stories rarely stay accurate for long. Numbers grow, details blur, and someone always knows “a friend” who won even more. Very few of those stories hold up ...

Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.

Last week, the federal government announced $6-million over 15 years to study Canada’s productivity crisis. The initiative is led by Trevor Tombe, one of Canada’s finest economists, and will bring ...

Motherlands are castles made of glass. In order to leave them, you have to break something — a wall, a social convention, a cultural norm, a psychological barrier, a heart. What you have broken will ...

Instead, military involvement in domestic law enforcement becomes normalized, power concentrates in the executive, civilian institutions weaken, and civil liberties erode. Democratic institutions ...

According to the Chinese Zodiac, the New Year begins in mid-February and ushers in the Year of the Horse, a symbol of movement, courage, energy, and high aspirations. It’s a year that promises ...

Elemental will retain a 1% NSR royalty on any new projects organically generated (i.e. newly staked) by Goldsky in Sweden and Finland within five years.

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s best-known sexual abuse victims was a runaway who first encountered a wealthy man in Key Biscayne.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...