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A 16-year-old boy who fatally shot a 17-year-old boy and wounded two others during a fight between two groups at a mall in El Paso, Texas, faces a murder charge and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said Friday. The suspect himself was shot and wounded by an armed bystander as […]

Queensland will become the first Australian state to roll out pill-testing sites in an attempt to curb the harmful effects of illicit drugs. The move will shift the country more in line with global standards on harm minimisation, one advocate says. Health Minister Yvette D’Ath said on Feb. 25 that Queensland would introduce pill testing at mobile

MINNEAPOLIS—Shen Yun Performing Arts often opens to theater-wide gasps and delighted applause. “The curtains lifted up, the fog kind of rolled out—just a very epic scene to start the show. I haven’t seen anything like it,” said Steven Jones, CEO in digital marketing, at the Orpheum Theatre on the evening of Feb. 24. He attended the

FORT MYERS, Fla.—A Florida man has been sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison for stealing more than $2.6 million in COVID-19 relief funds. Daniel Joseph Tisone, 35, of Naples, was sentenced Tuesday in Fort Myers federal court, court documents show. He pleaded guilty last August to wire fraud, bank fraud, illegal

WASHINGTON—The World Bank on Friday announced $2.5 billion in additional grant financing from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support Ukraine’s budget and maintain essential services. The latest financing under the World Bank’s Public Expenditures for Administrative Capacity Endurance in Ukraine(PEACE) project lifts the total to $20.6 billion and will support salaries in

LONDON—Aluminum prices on the London Metal Exchange shrugged off a decision by the United States to impose steep tariffs on Russian metal on Friday, though traders said prices would have jumped if the U.S. had imposed sanctions instead. One year on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States said it would impose a 200

PARIS—Philippe Drobinski is a research director at the CNRS, specialized in meteorology and climatology. On Saturday, Feb. 18, he came to experience Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Palais des Congrès. “It’s poetry!” he said enthusiastically. “The performances are just incredible. The dancers are outstanding and the story is just incredible!” The artistic level of

Private-owned port operator NSW Ports has won an appeal case in which it was accused of monopolising container port services in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). The case was first brought by the Australian Competition Consumer Commission (ACCC) in 2018 when the competition authority alleged the firm violated competition laws when it

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged the international community to resist normalizing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s crimes in the ongoing war against Ukraine, while also downplaying Beijing’s proposal to end the conflict. Speaking at the United Nations Security Council on Friday—the anniversary of Russia’s invasion—Blinken stressed the need for member nations to uphold the

NANTES, France—On Wednesday, Feb. 22, Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company played in front of a full house at the Cité des Congrès. Jean-Marc Delhumeau is a real estate entrepreneur and his wife, Magalie Delhumeau, a professor at the École Supérieure d’Agriculture in Angers. “Bravo for everything that is physical, gymnastics, for an athletic