By Andrew MacAskill and Andrea Shalal EDINBURGH/TURNBERRY, Scotland (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump spoke warmly about ...

U.S. President Donald Trump set a new deadline of 10 or 12 days for Russia to make progress toward ending the war in Ukraine ...

U.S. President Donald Trump, dogged by questions about his ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump, dogged by questions about his ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, ...

MACASKILL GREW UP IN the village of Dunvegan, on the north end of Skye, where the biggest claim to fame B.D.— Before Danny—was a folk band called the Peatbog Faeries.

MacAskill says nothing in his new book about the potential for unfathomable numbers of “digital people” in vast simulations spread throughout the universe.

MacAskill is a leader of the effective-altruism, or EA, movement, whose adherents use evidence and reason to figure out how to do as much good in the world as possible.

Also according to the Sequoia profile, it was MacAskill who suggested Bankman-Fried pursue an internship at the trading firm Jane Street, rather than more directly public-spirited options Bankman ...

MacAskill's primary example is the moral revolution, sparked by religious dissenters in the 18th century, that ended the age-old, once largely unquestioned practice of slavery.

WILLIAM MACASKILL: In the world today, especially if you include forced marriage, something like 0.5 percent of the world’s population is in some form of slavery.