Copy That: Here’s What the U.S. Should Steal

One of the world’s poorest regions is emerging as an unlikely hotbed of innovation for transforming emergency care.

London’s ambulances, sirens screeching, searched for civilians wounded in the 2017 London Bridge terror attack. But many of the injured hid away from the streets and were hard to find. Had it been Accra, Ghana’s capital, instead of the English capital, the ambulances likely would have had a much easier time. That’s because, while Ghana has a notoriously inexact postal address system, it also has a new fix for ensuring that emergency services get precision guidance during moments of crisis.

The GOP is softening its decades-long opposition to spending that could lead to inflation and a widening budget deficit.

President Donald Trump’s appetite for easier money chimes with a broader shift within the Republican Party as politicians shed some of the hawkish plumage they donned in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

The president unquestionably counts as an outlier among Republicans in demanding this month that the Federal Reserve unleash a new blast of bond-buying stimulus as well as lowering interest rates. But faced with an inflationary dog that failed to bark, and a president demanding low rates as he seeks to bolster the economy ahead of the 2020 election, Republican policymakers appear much less anxious to brandish hard-money credentials today. The shift comes as they preside over a major expansion of the budget deficit, despite past vows to control public debt.

Prakash Raj loves Frank Sinatra, cognac, beer, books — and getting under the skin of India’s big political parties.

The three bullets that killed his friend shocked actor Prakash Raj. What followed stunned him even more. Within hours of the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh in September 2017, Twitter trolls — many of them followed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi — began posting celebratory messages. When Raj questioned Modi’s silence on the posts, the trolls hit back with bigotry, referring to his Catholic mother and Hindu wife.

A year and a half later, Raj, 54, is ready for battle again — the biggest one of his life. For 30 years, the multilingual winner of five national film awards has challenged the norm in the movie industry, acting in five languages — Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam and Telugu — in a country where few have made that transition easily. This time, he’s taking on India’s entrenched political establishment in the 2019 general elections, history’s largest ever democratic exercise.