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US mulls export controls on AI and other new tech

Restrictions applied to weaponry could be extended as trade war with China intensifies

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Financial Stability Board

Fed governor clinches key global financial regulation job

US and Europe come to an agreement after wrangling over the post

US politics & policy

Pelosi still confident of regaining Speaker’s gavel

No lawmaker from her party has challenged veteran Democrat despite internal opposition

US midterm elections

Republicans extend Senate majority with Florida win

Rick Scott pips Democrat Bill Nelson after contentious recount

California wildfires estimated to cost insurers up to $13bn

Insurers grapple with increasing wildfire risk

Fire disasters take their place alongside hurricanes as ‘major perils’

Opinion & Analysis

A deal between Trump and Xi will not last

Growing military tensions make the US-China trade dispute harder to settle

Anne-Marie Slaughter

US midterms show a shift to a positive populism

Approval of voting reform initiatives springs from the changing nature of local power

Facebook put profits above care for democracy

Silicon Valley faces a reckoning, just as banks did after the financial crisis

Weekend long reads

How America is preparing for a third world war

The US is racing to devise the next generation of weapons. Will China beat them to it?

US politics & policy

Who will challenge Trump in 2020?

Senators, billionaires and governors among those weighing White House runs

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