China’s Xi ascendant as attention turns to every facet of life
As billions across China celebrate National Day on October 1, Chinese society finds itself amid a government-led re-engineering effort on a scale not seen in...
In Your Facebook Feed: Oil Industry Pushback Against Biden Climate Plans
The ads appear on Facebook millions of times a week. They take aim at vulnerable Democrats in Congress by name, warning that the $3.5 trillion...
Lithuania vs. China: A Baltic Minnow Defies a Rising Superpower
VILNIUS, Lithuania — It was never a secret that China tightly controls what its people can read and write on their cellphones. But it came...
How an 11-Foot-Tall 3-D Printer Is Helping to Create a Community
Square FeetThree-dimensional printing can create nearly any object. A partnership in Mexico is putting that theory to the test, building a village for residents living...
A Strange Comet Erupted 4 Times in a ‘Super Outburst’
This past Saturday, a speck of light shimmering in the shadows behind Jupiter erupted. And then it kept erupting, with two more violent jets of...
UN warns against deporting Haitian migrants: “This situation is bound to worsen”
Four United Nations agencies released a joint statement on Thursday warning countries not to deport Haitians "without proper assessment of their individual protection needs."Why it...
UN shocked by Ethiopia’s decision to expel top officials
Millions of people have been displaced by the fightingThe UN has expressed its shock at the expulsion of seven of its senior officials by the...
Facebook to Face Senate Grilling Over Instagram’s Effects on Teens
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers took sharp aim at Facebook on Thursday, harshly questioning one of its executives about Instagram’s effect on teenagers, in a Senate hearing...
Manchin Says He’ll Support $1.5 Trillion Spending Bill
Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, a centrist Democrat, said Thursday that he could not support a social safety net bill of more than...
European Union nations risk a new virus surge if they ease restrictions now, health officials warn.
Not enough people in the bloc have been fully vaccinated to keep the coronavirus from flaring up again, the European Center for Disease Prevention and...