Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s administration asked the US Supreme Court to let him end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, urging the justices to take the unusual step of bypassing federal appeals courts to get the case resolved by next summer. The three connected appeals challenge federal trial court decisions that are blocking Trump from abolishing the programme, started by ...

If China is such a powerhouse of intellectual-property (IP) theft, why doesn’t Beijing do it any better? Take the auto industry. This would seem a sector ripe for forced technology transfer, industrial espionage and all the other sharp practices causing such tension in China’s trade relationship with the US. China is the world’s biggest producer and consumer of vehicles, and ...

The way we eat is going to have to change — that is, if we are to preserve a livable climate on Earth. A new international study makes this clear. Over the next three decades, the food system’s impact on the environment stands to at least double if humanity carries on eating the way it does now. The negative effects ...