It’s Groundhog Day, and weatherman and extreme narcissist Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual appearance of Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who annually predicts when spring will arrive. Despite the large and happy crowd, Phil has nothing but contempt for the town, its people, and its festival. To him […]
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Pan Rui, son of Chinese real estate magnate Pan Shiyi, is allegedly wanted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) public security for his speech on Chinese social media website Weibo about the actual deaths of the Chinese military in border clashes with Indian soldiers in June 2020, according to Chinese state media reports. Pan Shiyi
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DANDONG, China—China put on trial one of two Canadians detained for more than two years in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a senior Chinese telecom executive. Canada said its consular officials were refused permission to attend the proceedings against Michael Spavor, an entrepreneur with North Korea−related business, who is accused by China of stealing
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The Ukrainian government announced it will return ownership of an aircraft engine manufacturer from Chinese investors last week, ruling out the possibility of it falling into the power of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Motor Sich, one of the top jet engine makers worldwide, is a Ukrainian privately-owned company based in Zaporizhia, although being majority-owned
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A coalition of 21 states has filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden, alleging that his decision to revoke a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline violated the constitution, since only Congress can regulate interstate and international commerce. And in other news, the governor of Virginia has signed an executive order giving voting rights to
Loaded with flavor from spices and hominy, this variation of pozole becomes a meal-in-one, with chicken thighs standing in for pork. And I so enjoy the colorful melange of textures and flavors of this crowd-pleasing, Mexican-style stew. Hominy is always a key ingredient in any pozole. What is it? It’s field corn that has been
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The House of Representatives on Thursday passed two bills that would give illegal immigrants a path to becoming U.S. citizens. The American Dream and Promise Act would give legal status to children who were brought illegally into the United States when they were minors. The vote was 228–197 with all Democrats and 9 Republicans in favor. The Farm
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Defence experts believe Russia is the most likely suspect behind the “nest of spies” uncovered by Australia’s domestic spy agency. On Wednesday, Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), delivered the Annual Threat Assessment and outlined how, over the past year, ASIO had dealt with a “significant” number of spies or proxies,
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The United States and China leveled sharp rebukes of each others’ policies in the first high-level, in-person talks of the Biden administration on Thursday, with the deeply strained relation between the leader of the free world and the world’s largest communist state on public display during the meeting’s opening session in Alaska. The United
