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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Committee has decided to keep their Ferris wheel, known as the “SkyStar Wheel,” in the music concourse in Golden Gate Park for four more years. The original agreement for the 150-foot-tall wheel was one year, as part of the park’s 150th anniversary. Those in favor of the wheel staying […]

Chinese top politicians are facing a tough bottleneck issue, how to develop China’s stock of seeds and breeding animals, at the two sessions—the Chinese Communist Party’s most important annual political conference from March 4 to 11. “China faces a similar dilemma in the seeds and breeding animals industries as it does with semiconductor chips,” China

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) sounded the alarm on March 3, urging organisations to follow tech giant Microsoft’s instructions to patch vulnerable systems which came under threat by a state-sponsored Chinese cyber attacker. This comes after Microsoft announced on March 2 that a cyber actor based in China, which they called “Hafnium,” hacked its email

A state judge ruled on Wednesday that Texas can remove Planned Parenthood and its affiliates from its Medicaid program. Texas had previously given Medicaid recipients using Planned Parenthood a Feb. 3 deadline to find new health care providers. Planned Parenthood challenged that in its recent lawsuit, which argued that the state didn’t follow the law when it issued a 30-day notice

The nation’s top cybersecurity agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Wednesday regarding the hack of the Microsoft Exchange Server, calling on potential victims and users to install patches and verify any unauthorized executions of some functions. “Continual use of unpatched exchange servers

LOS ANGELES—The Kroger Co. announced March 10 that it’s closing three Los Angeles stores following the city council’s vote to approve an ordinance that requires large grocery and pharmacy retailers to offer employees an additional $5 per hour in hazard pay amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A Food 4 Less at 5420 W. Sunset Blvd., and

OTTAWA—Former Liberal cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould is set to publish a political memoir that’s promising to shed new light on her final controversial days in the Trudeau government. HarperCollins Canada says it has acquired the rights to the former Liberal justice minister’s book, titled “‘Indian’ in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power.” The publisher says

A Florida Senate committee approved a reworked elections bill that would ban drop boxes used for mail-in ballots. The panel on March 10 voted 4–2 to approve the proposal, known as Committee Substitute Senate Bill 90, which would—among other initiatives—prohibit an immediate family member from picking up a voter’s ballot. It would also require vote-by-mail ballots to

During the annual meeting of China’s rubber-stamp legislature earlier this month, the Chinese regime proposed new plans to bolster its research and development in critical technology sectors in order to surpass the United States and achieve global dominance. Meanwhile, U.S. think tanks and lawmakers have proposed strategies to counter the threat posed by China’s tech

The United States is projected to reach herd immunity against the virus from China by the end of summer or early fall, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday, adding that people can begin to change their behaviors as more and more people get vaccinated. “We don’t want to get too hung up on reaching this,