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The space rivalry between the U.S. and China is suddenly heating up after a top Chinese scientist said his nation may be able to send astronauts to the moon for the first time by 2030.
South African hospitals are bracing for a surge in admissions as the new omicron variant drives a sharp rise in coronavirus infections and as more evidence emerges about the severity of the illness caused by the strain.
The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo issued a warning Monday about foreigners being stopped and searched by Japanese police in what it said were suspected to be “racial profiling incidents.”
Topline Former President Donald Trump's new media company said Saturday that it has lined up $1 billion in funding from a “diverse group” of institutional investors contingent on the consummation of its planned merger with the blank check company Digital World Acquisition Corp. Key Facts Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), which aims to launch…
Updated Dec 4, 2021, 04:27pm EST Topline Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) tweeted a Christmas photo of his family Saturday in which they’re all holding guns and smiling in front of a Christmas tree, with the caption: “Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo,” days after a mass shooting at a Michigan high school sparked renewed…
China’s Internet Billionaires Suffer $73 Billion Wipeout As Economy Slows And Government Cracks Down
China’s Internet Billionaires Suffer $73 Billion Wipeout As Economy Slows And Government Cracks Down
The fortunes of China’s richest Internet billionaires are still getting slammed, with four of the country’s best-known tycoons– Colin Huang , Jack Ma , Pony Ma , and Wang Xing —losing more than $73 billion from their combined net worth since April, when Forbes published this year’s World’s Billionaires List . The tycoons face heightening…
A new Covid-19 variant may be sweeping across Europe, but in Portugal, omicron is being met with new restrictions — and restraint. From the olive orchards of Alentejo to the suburbs of Lisbon , reaction to the new variant has been characteristically low-key. The Portuguese tourism industry, slammed by the Covid outbreak two years ago,…
Updated Dec 4, 2021, 11:40am EST Topline James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of a 15-year-old boy accused of shooting dead four at his Michigan high school pleaded not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter at an arraignment hearing Saturday, after police found them overnight hiding in a building in Detroit. Key Facts James and…
“It begins with trust,” says Andrew Penn, registered nurse and associate clinical professor at UC San Francisco’s School of Nursing. Penn is describing how nurses can be naturals at providing care for people in psychedelic states. “I think sometimes that nurses are often really the glue that holds the healthcare system together,” he says, adding…