STORY: Top figures in business and politics are gathering once again in the Swiss mountains. The annual meeting of the World ...

Billionaires' wealth grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, while the number of the world’s poor has barely ...

World leaders will gather in Davos, Switzerland from Monday, 20 January for the annual World Economic Forum. They will have a lot to say about pressing global issues, everything from climate change ...

Police on Sunday cleared several hundred demonstrators protesting against next week's gathering of the global elite at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the Swiss Alps.

Friday Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao will make their public debut at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. The pair arrived ...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is traveling to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland next week, where she will be ...

This week in politics, President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address, the Senate conducted confirmation hearings for ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 3 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leader John Thune faces the test of his career this year as he tries to steer Donald Trump's agenda through a narrowly divided Congress while ...

Washington — Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Friday that he doesn't believe there is "clarity" yet on whether all 53 Republican senators will support President-elect Donald Trump's picks ...

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With Donald Trump just weeks from being sworn in, he will be replaced by former Republican White House deputy chief of staff Joel Kaplan, who served under George W Bush from 2006 to 2009.