Los Angeles As questions linger about safety protocols on the movie set where Alec Baldwin killed a cinematographer with a prop gun he’d been told was safe, Hollywood professionals say they’re baffled by the circumstances and production crews have quic…
Read moreTAIPEI — After experiments aimed at assimilating ethnic minorities in Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, the Chinese government now is moving to apply its cultural assimilation policy for managing all minority populations by eliminating classroom inst…
Read moreKAMPALA, UGANDA — Ugandan police are investigating an explosion on a long-distance bus that killed one person Monday, the second fatal blast in less than 48 hours in the East African country.The bus was traveling from the capital, Kampala, to the weste…
Read moreWASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden held a crucial private meeting with two key senators Sunday as he races to complete the details of a pared-down social safety net and climate control spending plan set for introduction in Congress as soon as Monday…
Read moreU.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday new measures to fight discriminatory lending practices.The Justice Department’s new Combating Redlining Initiative will redirect federal resources to investigating fair lending concerns, according …
Read moreLed by an unlikely hero, the Atlanta Braves are heading back to a place that used to be so familiar to them.The World Series.Eddie Rosario capped a remarkable National League Championship Series with a three-run homer, sending the Braves to the biggest…
Read moreEleven Picasso paintings and other works that helped turn Las Vegas into an unlikely destination for art were sold at auction on Saturday for more than $100 million.The Sotheby’s auction was held at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, where the works had …
Read moreIn a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world’…
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