Now that President Joe Biden has signed the $550 billion infrastructure legislation, $15 billion will be spent to remove lead from the nation’s drinking-water systems. Of all the economic and social necessities in the spending package — from roadways and bridges to the power grid and broadband expansion — ensuring access to safe, clean water is perhaps the most fundamental. ...

Brexit was supposed to let the UK “take back control” of its borders from others, namely the European Union (EU). Yet, as with so many other simplistic slogans echoed by populist administrations around the world, it has managed to achieve the opposite. In Northern Ireland, it has threatened peace and created new political divisions over the compromises needed to avoid ...

Bloomberg Airlines, passengers and businesses had to respond to a deluge of travel restrictions introduced to slow the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant. An initial spate of flight bans from southern Africa, where omicron was first detected, gave way to wider-ranging measures that will make travel more expensive and less convenient — if possible at all — recalling earlier ...