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Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for One Fair Wage More than two dozen Democratic lawmakers are urging President Biden to nominate Julie Su to replace outgoing Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, renewing ...

Illinois hobby group says balloon went missing the day military missile costing $439,000 destroyed unidentified entity nearby
A group of amateur balloon enthusiasts in Illinois might have solved the mystery of one of the unknown flying objects shot down by the US military last week, a saga that had .
The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade says one of its hobby craft went “missing in action” over Alaska on 11 February, the same day a US F-22 jet downed an unidentified airborne entity not far away above Canada’s Yukon territory.

Footage seems to show 10 officers training to neutralise one man using fabric banners
How many police officers does it take to neutralise a single unarmed protester? According to a video purported to be from China, it takes at least 10 highly disciplined members of law enforcement, as well as some bespoke blue banners.
In footage that emerged on Thursday, black-clad officers are shown practising a drill to surround a single person holding up a white piece of paper – an item that became the symbol of the that rocked several major Chinese cities at the end of last year, and the demonstrations against the security laws imposed on Hong Kong in 2020.

While the military is focused on foreign objects flying over American and Canadian territory, a more disturbing threat to our national security is occurring on the ...

Disappearance of China Renaissance chair raises fears of fresh crackdown on China’s finance industry
A billionaire Chinese dealmaker has gone missing, plunging one of the country’s top investment banks into turmoil.
Bao Fan, the founder and executive director of China Renaissance, is a major figure in the Chinese tech industry and has played an important role in the emergence of a string of large domestic internet startups.

Given network TV’s record of failing to cast Asian actors as main characters, an extraordinary number of recent broadcast series have Asian or Asian American lead actors.

Former defender of Truss’s failed plans advises ex-PM to figure out new backbench role
Liz Truss’s political interventions “should be like sex in a long and happy relationship, infrequent but anticipated with glee”, the former Conservative party chairman has said.
Sir Jake Berry, formerly a key defender of Truss’s failed radical economic plans, said it was time for the former prime minister to figure out her new backbench role.

Deep-pocketed American universities have steered somewhere in the range ... Hillhouse is also a shareholder of the Chinese solar company Longi, which Customs and Border Protection in 2022 blocked from ...

Some of the largest and most competitive universities in the United States have invested massive amounts in cash with a shady private equity firm linked to the Chinese government's genocide of Uyghur ...

More than 200m people treated for virus and death rate now ‘lowest in the world’, says government
The Chinese government has declared a “decisive victory” in the battle against Covid-19, claiming it had created “a miracle in the history of human civilisation” in successfully steering China through the global pandemic.
The comments were made at a meeting presided over by President Xi Jinping on Thursday. The government said more than 200 million people had been treated for Covid and that China’s death rate from coronavirus was “the lowest level in the world”.

Works by Asian-American artists Zhaoming Wu, Mian Situ and Benjamin Wu will be featured in the new exhibit, "Masters of Classical Painting," at Broadmoor Galleries at The Broadmoor. It opens ...

US finishes recovering Chinese balloon 16:49 American authorities have retrieved all the wreckage of the Chinese spy balloon a US fighter jet shot down off South Carolina’s coast, the Associated Press ...