A U.S. federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Department of Defense from forcing American investors to divest from Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp on the grounds the company has ties to China’s military. The Defense Department, under the Trump administration in mid-January, added Xiaomi and eight other firms to a list that requires Americans […]
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The taxi driver is apologetic. “Sir, this is as close I can get,” he tells me, as I climb out more than a mile from my destination. And then, moving in the same direction as everyone else, I join the pilgrimage. The crowd thickens as I get closer. Some travel on foot, others buzz past
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Officials say the Paris region may be headed toward a new lockdown as new variants of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, fill up intensive care units and limited vaccine supplies drag down inoculation efforts. The French government has been relying on curfews for months—along with the long-term closures of
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Commentary On March 10 at the White House podium, Roberta Jacobson, the coordinator for the southern border, echoed President Joe Biden’s promise to address “the root causes of migration from Central America.” She and Biden are doing the opposite, creating a flood of new immigrants that will significantly change the United States. Biden’s policies are
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Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education, has said he’d “like to think that, in many places” in the United States, schools can re-open for in-person education five days a week this Spring. The comments were in response to a question from CNN host Jake Tapper about when the secretary thinks school can return full time. “As soon as
LONDON—A London police officer appeared in court on Saturday after being charged with the kidnap and murder of a 33-year-old woman in a case that has caused widespread outrage in Britain about women’s safety. The disappearance of Sarah Everard as she walked home on the evening of March 3 triggered a wave of accounts from
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The Alabama GOP gave former President Donald Trump a framed copy of a resolution the party passed unanimously, declaring him to be “one of the greatest and most effective presidents” in the history of the United States. The framed resolution was presented to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday evening. “Whereas, President Donald J. Trump was
President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach announced on March 11 that the IOC has agreed to purchase China’s COVID-19 vaccine to administer to willing participants of the Tokyo Olympics this summer and the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. The Japanese Olympic Committee said Japan was not consulted regarding the decision by the
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Our family recently had the pleasure of enjoying a late-winter wonderland at Heavenly Ski Resort, and it was undoubtedly one of the most picturesque places I have ever seen. Situated in South Lake Tahoe, it is the largest resort in the region and offers an absolutely phenomenal playground for family-friendly skiing and snowboarding. This magnetic
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is keeping an honorary degree he received from a college in New York. St. John Fisher College bestowed a doctorate on Giuliani in 2015 in recognition of the role he played in the recovery of New York City after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Some people called
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