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Two Chinese anti-submarine aircraft violated Taiwan’s airspace, according to a statement by Taiwan’s Defence Ministry on Thursday September 17.

Carlos Ghosn, the former chairman of The Nissan Motor Company, Ltd., remains a fugitive in Lebanon as his right-hand man Greg Kelly goes on trial in Japan over allegedly conspiring ...

Much of the United States’ West Coast is on fire in what has become the worst wildfire season on record for California and one of the worst for Oregon and ...

Since mid-August, hundreds of thousands have staged protests and school boycotts in China’s Inner Mongolia, prompted by a modified, government-imposed teaching curriculum that ethnic Mongolians are calling a form of ...

On September 3, Hong Kong authorities arrested 15 people on charges of money laundering and suspicion of conspiracy to defraud in connection with last month’s surge in shares of Next ...

On Tuesday, September 15, the leaders of Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain met at the White House with United States President Donald Trump to sign the Abraham Accords. ...

China’s government announced through the state-operated Xinhua News Agency on September 6 that it had completed the successful launch and landing of its first-ever reusable spacecraft.

On Monday, Oracle Corp. won the bid to acquire the United States operations of the popular Chinese app TikTok after the app’s parent corporation Bytedance Ltd. rejected Microsoft’s acquisition offer.

On July 21, the United States ordered the immediate shutdown of the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, which was followed by Beijing issuing a statement that accused the US of ...

In April, TMS first compared the broad policy positions of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. In the months since then, Biden secured the delegates to become ...

Citigroup Inc. recently announced 53-year-old Jane Fraser as its new chief executive officer. The move makes Fraser Citi’s first ever female chief executive and one of the few women leading ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on global economies, “Mulan,” Disney’s latest live-action update of an animated classic, was expected to be one of the year’s biggest theatrical draws. There ...

The diplomatic tussle between China and the United States carved another chapter as Beijing on Saturday announced fresh restrictions on the activities of US diplomats in China, including those in ...

Xi Jinping is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, which is now in essence China’s only ruling political party.

Amid protests for criminal justice reform, names can be heard echoing down the streets in an effort to immortalize the victims of police brutality, some of whom have become emblems ...

Since COVID-19 spread from China to countries around the world, researchers have been attempting to develop a vaccine against the virus. In addition to approximately 900,000 deaths worldwide, the economic ...

Despite recent international oil finds and impetus from an oil-friendly President Donald Trump, oil, which has been drilled for continuously in the United States since 1859, may be facing its ...

The White House on Tuesday walked back an attack from President Donald Trump in which he claimed that top officials at the Pentagon, who he alleges to be indebted to ...

Cheng Lei, an anchor with the state-owned CGTN since 2012, has been detained by Chinese authorities, leading to speculation that they may be using her as a political hostage.

The seemingly never-ending dispute over the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud contract is no closer to ending, despite the Pentagon recently upholding its decision to award the contract to Microsoft in October ...

On September 3, the Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was cleared of criminal intimidation charges dating from 2017, bringing to a close one of several pending cases against him.

The increasing uncertainty over TikTok’s future may be coming as a benefit to other social media rivals, with Snapchat posting good figures for August and looking forward to capitalizing on ...

United States President Donald Trump on Sunday strongly refuted the claims made in a media report that he had disparaged fallen troops.

Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang revealed Nvidia’s latest line of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in an online event last week, claiming the company’s latest range would prove to be ...

Political tensions between the United Kingdom and Beijing have intensified in recent weeks, as the UK continues to push back on China’s policies. The UK’s most recent point of contention ...

During President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign in the United States, the real estate mogul revived the “America First” slogan that first gained prominence – and infamy – in the 20th ...

As the presidential elections draw near, security authorities in the United States remain on alert for signs of interference from foreign actors. Russia is clearly rooting for Trump, reports state, ...

In a Department of Defense (DOD) Report published September 2 – titled, “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China” – the United States warned of Beijing’s increasing ...

On Monday, August 31, former Vice President Joe Biden spoke out against the violence and rioting that had occurred amid protests against police brutality in cities across the United States. ...

India’s Ministry of Information and Technology banned 118 Chinese mobile applications on Wednesday, citing national security concerns.

Human trafficking has gained greater attention in recent years due in part to the arrests of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Yet, the issue has also become fodder for one ...

While Hong Kong was once a refuge for Vietnamese and mainland Chinese seeking political asylum, some Hong Kongers are now fleeing their own city in a similar manner.

The end of August saw some positive news for the American financial markets, leading some to claim that the United States might finally be on the road to recovery from ...

In yet another sign of the growing disharmony between the United States and the World Health Organization (WHO), President Donald Trump’s administration stated on Tuesday that it would not be ...

In a study published last month, climate researchers found that the Greenland ice sheet had melted to such a severe degree that the long-term effects could not be reversed. The ...

Massachusetts is experiencing an unprecedented moment in its more recent electoral history, as 74-year-old Senator Ed Markey won the Democratic Senate primary election on September 1 to cement what may ...

Flights and passenger numbers plummeted from February and March of this year as governments around the world adopted drastic measures to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus within their ...

Few industries have experienced as cataclysmic an effect from the COVID-19 pandemic as live music and entertainment. Even as cities reemerged from lockdowns, music venues and nightclubs remained closed or ...

Neuralink Corporation, Elon Musk’s brain-interface technology company, gave a presentation on August 28 in which a pig fitted with implant technology was featured.

On August 15, a routine reentry screening at the Hong Kong airport revealed the first documented case of COVID-19 reinfection: a 33-year-old Hong Kong man returning after traveling in Europe.

While the specifics of the QAnon conspiracy theory can be difficult to parse, even the most casual observer of the movement likely knows it all revolves around the anonymous Q. ...

In late 2018, a wave of orders were issued from the White House in response to the rise of the Middle Kingdom. Trump had accused China of stealing the United ...

On Sunday, August 23, a confrontation with police in Kenosha, Wisconsin resulted in a 29-year-old Black man, Jacob Blake, being shot seven times by a white officer. As has become ...

On August 31, news broke that a further deadly confrontation between Indian and Chinese soldiers along a disputed border in the Himalayas had been narrowly averted, making clear that the ...

On Sunday, August 16, a message posted to Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, read, “Ring the doorbells of your neighbors, call your friends and relatives, write to your colleagues. We ...

According to a new report from CloudResearch, a research company run by a team of academics, a significant number of voters who support Trump could be keeping their opinions to ...

The secretive data analytics company Palantir announced this week that it would begin preparations for its Initial Public Offering, with shares of the private company to be sold publicly for ...

As a Christian, I do believe that we are known by what comes out of us – our words, our actions. Nothing Trump says or shows reflects faith in Jesus, ...

While schools in the United States are grappling with how they’ll safely reopen for the fall semester, the British education system is facing its own coronavirus-related crisis. A decision to ...

First Lady Melania Trump, President Donald’s Trump’s wife, gave a speech at the Republican National Convention on August 25. In her speech, she sought to defend her husband’s record and ...

In the wake of the 2016 election in the United States, social media giants like Facebook, Inc, YouTube, Inc and Twitter, Inc spent billions of dollars trying to bolster their ...

The escalating trade war between the United States and China has made economic opportunities and future ties between the two nations increasingly uncertain.

According to a Pew Research poll released in July, Trump’s approval rating with white Evangelical Christians remains high, with 59% of them approving of Trump’s handling of the job and ...

Amid all the debate over whether voting by mail should be allowed in this election, former President Barack Obama and many others have urged people to vote early. While Election ...

The shutdown of the ride-hailing apps Uber Technologies, Inc. and Lyft, Inc. in the state of California was narrowly avoided this week when a judge temporarily halted an order that ...

During a campaign stop on August 17, President Donald Trump told supporters the decision to move the United States embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was “for the Evangelicals.” Looking to ...

For years, commentators have written about the possibility of a “tech exodus” from Silicon Valley spurred by high rental prices and the difficulty of achieving homeownership in the Bay Area, ...

Across social media platforms in recent weeks, the #SaveTheChildren hashtag has been spreading, sometimes linked to snippets from a controversial documentary known as “Out of Shadows.” While that documentary does ...

With the Democratic Convention now concluded, it is now the turn of Republicans to make the case to the American people for why President Donald Trump should be reelected.

Pundits from across the political spectrum are taking note of the tone of the Democratic convention. Instead of relying on facts, figures and policy proposals, Democrats are largely making arguments ...

Bumble’s founder and chief executive officer Whitney Wolfe Herd wants the female-centric dating app to grow its expanding world reach and its mission-based focus, according to a recent piece by ...

Apple Inc. has come under increasing fire in the last few months over the policies of its iOS App Store, which some developers claim breaches antitrust rules and stifles competition.

The Senate Intelligence Committee has released the fifth and final volume of its investigation into Russian interference in the United States’ 2016 election. Like the fourth volume, released in April ...

This year’s Democratic convention started on August 17 and runs through Thursday, August 20. Originally scheduled to take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the event was moved to a livestream video ...

For years, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has struggled financially. While in the 1990s USPS was routinely turning a profit, the advent of digital services and the popularization of ...

The budget deficit in the United States has hit a record US$2.81 trillion amid wider fallout over the coronavirus pandemic and continuing debate over the next round of economic stimulus.

For many residents of New Orleans, Louisiana, August 29, 2005, marks a turning point, not just in their lives but in the character of their city. A decade and a ...

On Tuesday, August 11, former Vice President Joe Biden made history in selecting Senator Kamala Harris to be his running mate. When Biden officially accepts the Democratic Party’s nomination for ...

Chinese state-backed hackers have pillaged Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, according to reports. The hack once again shows that cyber warfare is likely to be the primary battleground between nations in the ...

The coronavirus pandemic has affected the entire world, with the number of cases having passed 21 million worldwide. But in the United States, millennials – generally defined as those born ...

Longtime Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward is set to release a new book on September 15 about the Trump administration titled “Rage.”

In an interview on Sunday, August 9, White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien stated that China may use cyberattacks during the 2020 election to “intervene with our democracy.” O’Brien, ...

On Tuesday, Joe Biden announced that he had chosen Kamala Harris to be his running mate. The selection of Harris, a 55-year-old United States Senator from California, was received well ...

Few figures inspire greater antagonism and conspiracy-mongering than Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros. Among many on the right of the political spectrum, Soros is the ultimate boogeyman, a billionaire who uses ...

In a recent opinion piece in The New York Times, economist Paul Krugman claimed that the United States is headed for a “Greater Recession” without a new round of stimulus ...

Since the coronavirus crisis took hold in the United States, many aspects of social life have been altered, postponed or canceled, including professional sports.

With the world’s largest economies projecting downturns for the rest of this year and likely into the future, it’s clear that the coronavirus pandemic has affected the economy on a ...

In a presidential election year, politicians and pundits tend to view everything through a political lens. It is standard practice for talking heads and opinion writers to discuss what an ...

According to a recent report from The New York Times, Wall Street donors are funneling money into Joe Biden’s campaign despite the record gains many investors have seen during the ...

Hong Kong media tycoon and outspoken China critic Jimmy Lai was arrested yesterday for allegedly breaching the new national security law. Lai’s was part of a new round of arrests ...

August 18, 2020 marks 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which prohibited states from denying a person the right to vote based on their sex. It marked ...

In late July, President Donald Trump suggested in a tweet that the November election should be delayed due to the prospect of mail-in voting fraud.

In a 2017 article, The Economist announced that “the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data,” pointing to the unstoppable growth of America’s tech giants, which the ...

It’s been more than 60 years since a new state was admitted into the United States of America, though not for a lack of options. Both Washington, DC, the nation’s ...

As tensions between the United States and China continue to rise, the possibility that the Trump administration may adopt a “nuclear option” by cutting Hong Kong off from its supply ...

With the presidential election in the United States now less than three months away, the candidates are heading into the final stretch of the campaign. Although the coronavirus has significantly ...

Masayoshi Son, the founder and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese telecom and investment giant, has long attracted attention due to his enigmatic personality and bold investments, ...

Juan Carlos I, the king emeritus and father of the current king, Felipe VI, had abruptly left the country. The Spanish monarchy has been embroiled in scandal for much of ...

With November 3 rapidly approaching and the COVID-19 pandemic still raging in the United States, it increasingly appears that the US Postal Service will play a pivotal role in the ...

The popular social media and video sharing platform TikTok has continued its meteoric rise to become one of the most popular social media platforms worldwide.

According to data from the Pew Research Center released at the end of July, Americans who get their news primarily on social media are less informed, less engaged and more ...

With the COVID-19 pandemic taking up a significant amount of the world’s collective attention, anxieties and resources, one of its impacts has been the nature of relationships between countries.

In news that could lead to increased relations between China and Latin America, Pan American Health Organization head Dr. Carissa Etienne has labeled Latin America the new “epicenter” of the ...

Amid rising tensions between China and the United States, Apple has announced that it will move production of the iPhone 11 to India to avoid any issues related to the ...

In a recent interview with Fox’s Maria Bartiromo, billionaire investor Ray Dalio suggested that the United States could soon find itself facing a “capital war” with China in which the ...

Amid a renewed focus on social justice and structural inequalities in America, some commentators have argued that there is a growing hostility toward opinions that deviate from the norms of ...

In 2015 and 2016, while Donald Trump was making his pitch to the American people as to why he should become president, one of his selling points was his “tremendous ...

Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmol, a former freedom fighter for Fidel Castro’s revolution in Cuba, is the son of Leonardo del Marmol, one of Castro’s principal funders in the run ...

Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey announced this month that, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and civil unrest across the United States, the social media platform would make ...

The 1MDB corruption scandal embroiling Malaysia today reached a new chapter as former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was found guilty of corruption in connection with the disappearance of some ...

Over the past several months, China’s international and domestic policies have become increasingly problematic in the eyes of many Western governments.

On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability – formally defined as an individual ...

President Donald Trump is one of the most famous men in the world, a politician who is equal parts showman and conspiratorial populist. Well before he was the president of ...

As American influence recedes around the world, China appears poised to push forward with its superpower ambitions. However, China’s path is by no means an easy one and the United ...

As the 2020 presidential election in the United States grows closer, the polling lead established by Trump’s Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, appears increasingly unassailable, buffeted by Biden’s ...

In late March, the United States government passed a nearly US$2 trillion economic relief package aimed at buttressing the economy and providing economic relief for workers and families, including the ...

In April, as much of the country entered into lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States liquor industry immediately experienced a contraction in sales. While sales of ...

With the 2020 presidential election only four months away, this election cycle remains one of the most unusual in recent history. In addition to the candidates trying to figure out ...

Over the past several years, calls to break up American tech industry giants have become more prevalent across the political spectrum in the United States. Advocates for breaking up the ...

A week ago, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s admission into the hospital for a “possible infection” was enough to spark breaking headlines. For most public figures, an unconfirmed infection ...

Though it is highly unlikely that a President Kanye West will be in office to meet with any world leaders in 2021, the rapper and fashion mogul’s unusual presidential campaign ...

According to reports, the United States government owns a portfolio of HK$41 billion (approximately US$5.2 billion) in Hong Kong property, including its Consulate-General office which alone is valued at HK$24.7 ...

On July 7, Harper’s Magazine published an “Open Letter” signed by around 150 luminaires from the fields of academia, writing, music and more. Its abstract title, “A Letter on Justice ...

Over the weekend, the 20-year-old son of US District Judge Esther Salas was assassinated by a man disguised as a FedEx driver. Salas’ husband was also critically wounded in the ...

For years, even before his presidency, Donald Trump has been an outspoken advocate for taking a hard line against China. Whether in addressing the ongoing trade imbalance, China’s behavior on ...

Last week, a video of unidentified law enforcement officers in Portland, Oregon grabbing a protester off the street appeared online. In the video, two men dressed in military camouflage with ...

Vice President Joe Biden, both on a policy front and as a leader, would be a drastic improvement for our local communities, our nation, and our world. Vice President Biden ...

On July 14, a study published in The Lancet medical journal revealed that global fertility rates and population growth were both expected to drop by 2100. The study, funded by ...

For generations, the global economy has relied heavily on the United States dollar as a reserve currency. This means that much of the flow of international investments, transactions and debt ...

I believe Biden serving his hinted one-term will continue the dissatisfaction many of us feel and continue the status-quo political arena where a candidate like Trump can even be competitive. ...

During Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign for president of the United States, one of his popular slogans was “Drain the swamp,” which was a promise to rid Washington, DC of corruption. ...

On the evening of August 24, 2019, 23-year-old Elijah McClain was killed by three police officers in Aurora, Colorado. In what has become a familiar chain of events, police were ...

As the number of new coronavirus cases reaches all-time highs in the United States, recently surpassing 60,000 confirmed cases per day, the Trump administration appears to be planning on pushing ...

On July 13, Tucker Carlson took some time during his Fox News show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, to address a report that his top writer had anonymously posted racist and sexist ...

Donald Trump has in the last three years built up the economy and removed many of the restrictive federal laws that had been tying the hands of industry. Even though ...

Following the 2016 presidential election, Russia’s interference in American politics has regularly been discussed by intelligence agencies in the West and in the media. These reports have suggested that Russian ...

In June 2019, Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands announced it would restrict new job vacancies to women in an attempt to balance out the staff’s gender disparities over ...

In Australia, coronavirus cases are starting to rise more rapidly since tapering off in April. The country has seen just over 9,000 confirmed cases and 106 people have died. Although ...

On Tuesday, July 7, the state of New York imposed a US$150 million fee on Deutsche Bank, based in Frankfurt, Germany, for dealings it had with the now-deceased convicted sex ...

This week, the Small Business Administration (SBA) released a full list of the 4.9 million Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans given out since the CARES Act was passed in March ...

Ever since President Donald Trump labeled concerns over his handling of COVID-19 a “hoax,” the United States’ pandemic response has been deeply politicized. At times, the Republican president has publicly ...

On the United States’ Independence Day, the Gettysburg National Park in Pennsylvania was once again to be the setting of a great battle. According to social media posts, anti-fascist protesters ...

Despite the continued impact of the global coronavirus pandemic, especially in places like the United States, Brazil and Russia, global airline companies are looking to restart operations, albeit with caveats.

In mid-May, with cases of COVID-19 steadily declining, Spain was among a number of countries that began a phased approach to ending its lockdown. Through an abundance of caution, which ...

After President Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore on July 3, the evening before Americans celebrated their Independence Day, many observers noted that the president seemingly went out of his way ...

The brutal civil war in Syria that has lasted since March 2011 has killed hundreds of thousands of people and led millions to flee the country in search of refuge ...

Since its inception, with an anonymous post on the 4chan messageboard in October 2017, the QAnon conspiracy movement has been labeled a cult.

The rapid industrialization and high economic growth rate Hong Kong saw in the 1960s led to it being labeled as one of the four “Asian Tigers,” with seemingly limitless potential.

As cases of COVID-19 in the United States have seen a worrying increase in recent weeks, a film industry that was already experiencing a difficult year is facing the possibility ...

Following reports last weekend that Russia was offering Taliban combatants a bounty for killing American troops and their allies, United States President Donald Trump denied knowing about the scheme. A ...

Wednesday, July 1, was the last day of a week-long voting period in which Russians reportedly approved multiple amendments to their constitution. Among the controversial changes proposed by President Vladimir ...

Joseph James DeAngelo, one of the most prolific serial killers and rapists in California history, pleaded guilty to 13 counts of murder on Monday, June 29.

Over the past several weeks in the United States, coronavirus cases have increased significantly. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, which has become one of the most popular virus ...

With Twitter recently adding warnings to some of President Donald Trump’s tweets, the platform has been accused of actively censoring conservative voices.

On June 26, President Trump signed an executive order instructing law enforcement officials to prosecute those who damage or destroy statues, monuments and religious iconography “to the fullest extent permitted ...

With former Vice President Joe Biden securing enough delegates to lock up the Democratic nomination for president in early June, attention has turned to the November election.

“There will continue to be a very rough ride between the US and China over the next six months. In fact, their relationship will get worse,” says Chris Leung, the ...

Even after the presidential nominees have been decided, the primary season carries on, with multiple states holding primaries on Tuesday, June 23.

Amid the latest reckoning on race and racism in America, The Millennial Source reached out for perspectives from black business owners and employees regarding their circumstances, hopes and fears. The ...

A New York Times/Siena College poll conducted using a nationally representative sample of 1,337 registered American voters interviewed over the phone from June 17 to June 22, shows Joe Biden ...

Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was supposed to mark President Donald Trump’s grand reentrance to political campaigning with his first public rally in over three months.

The Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have been met with militarized police responses, including the use of tear gas and ...

With China’s rise as an economic powerhouse in recent decades, along with its international investment program – known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which seeks out large-scale infrastructure ...

Immigration advocates have celebrated the Supreme Court’s rejection of the Trump administration’s bid to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Though originally a criticism of the economic policies of President Ronald Reagan, “trickle-down economics” is now the phrase most commonly associated with the supply-side economic theory that underpinned so-called “Reaganomics.” ...

According to a United States government report in 2019, over 500,000 people on any given night suffer from homelessness in America.

Since early May, Fox News viewers have been seeing something quite unusual on the network – harsh criticism of President Donald Trump.

The hanging deaths of two black men, Malcolm Harsch and Robert Fuller, over a time span of less than two weeks has spurred a federal investigation.

For a decade, reports have been placing the death of various industries at the feet of Millennials. In reality, as the oldest Millennials approach their 40s, they are rapidly aging ...

In late May, after Black Lives Matter protests first took place in response to the police killing of George Floyd, violence and rioting broke out in Floyd’s hometown of Minneapolis ...

Law enforcement agencies across the United States have long upheld a practice known as civil asset forfeiture (or civil judicial forfeiture) as an important tool for combating crime. This practice ...

Amid the strong public response to the death of George Floyd, a black man murdered at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis, there has been a renewed ...

For many in the United States, June 19, or Juneteenth, is among the most important dates on the calendar. Though it’s not an official federal holiday, it marks one of ...

New waves of protest have spread across Hong Kong after China voted in late May to move forward with drafting new national security legislation aimed at undermining “secession, subversion, terrorism ...

After nearly a month of negotiations, Uber was thought to be close to a deal to buy Grubhub in what would have combined two of the three largest meal delivery ...

In the wake of the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and, most recently, Rayshard Brooks, there has been a ...

On Wednesday, June 10, United States Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin stated, “America’s economy has begun to rebound” from the COVID-19 crisis.

In the midst of nationwide protests around police violence towards black Americans, two tech giants have announced that they will no longer sell facial recognition technology to law enforcement after ...

With videos of police violence surfacing amid nationwide protests, there have been bipartisan calls for law enforcement agencies to be reformed. These recommended reforms have run the gamut from internal ...

For weeks, cities across the United States have experienced Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in response to well-publicized instances of police brutality. But with some protests resulting in rioting and ...

On Saturday, June 6, J.K. Rowling, the British author best known for the Harry Potter series, set off a firestorm on Twitter with a single tweet.

Tuesday, June 2, was the second largest day of the 2020 presidential primary season, with seven states and Washington, DC voting. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide protests against ...

Protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd by police officers have been met with military-grade police force. In response, a three-word phrase has become a rallying cry for protestors: ...

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has resigned and asked that the company replace him on its board with a black candidate. Ohanian’s decision comes in the wake of nationwide protests against ...

With restrictions easing and the summer months ahead, public health officials were already expecting a rise in cases, but in the wake of the mass protests sparked by the death ...

The policeman who killed George Floyd in Minneapolis, Derek Chauvin, was charged with murder after he was filmed kneeling on Floyd’s neck for over 8 minutes during a call to ...

With daily cases of COVID-19 in the United States reportedly on the decline, the airline industry is looking to the summer months as a possible chance to rebound from losses.

Schools, offices and restaurants have begun to reopen as countries around the world start easing COVID-19 lockdown measures. This has led public health officials to seek ways to minimize the ...

The United States is about to enter the third week of protests over the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, by Minneapolis police officers. The protests, which started ...

In American politics, men have always occupied most of the seats of power. In addition to the United States never having had a female president, the makeup of both the ...

Since last week, protests have erupted across the United States in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, a black man, by police officers. The protests, led by the ...

On September 13, 1994, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, often referred to today as simply the 1994 crime bill. Go beyond ...

Trump and Biden agree on little, but one of their largest divides is on issues pertaining to women, particularly reproductive rights and domestic violence.

Since winning the primaries over his main challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden has received plenty of criticism from the progressive wing of the party, which ...

Microsoft has decided against renewing the contracts of dozens of journalists and editorial staff at its news organizations, including MSN, planning instead to replace them with artificial intelligence (AI).

Though Floyd’s death initially sparked unrest only in his native Minneapolis, the angry protests soon spread to cities throughout the country, where reports have come in claiming that other groups ...

On Wednesday, May 27, the Supreme Court of British Columbia decided that the extradition case against Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Meng Wanzhou, could proceed after prosecutors cleared the necessary ...

While theater companies such as AMC may have staved off bankruptcy for the time being, it’s unclear what the simple act of going out to a movie will entail in ...

Over the last few weeks, multiple outlets have published articles with headlines like this one from USA Today on May 27: “17-year cicadas are waking up. They have red eyes ...

In recent years, there have been repeated calls for the President Trump to be banned from Twitter, and the social media platform has received criticism for not curtailing Trump’s activities. ...

Chinese tech giant Tencent plans to invest 500 billion yuan (US$70 billion) over the next five years towards making advances in cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI).

On May 12, in the midst of days of tweeting about the alleged crimes of Obamagate, Trump took a break to tweet about another conspiracy theory – the supposed 2001 ...

The Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2017 immediately set up a protracted legal battle. With the United States Supreme Court set ...

On Wednesday, May 20, a man named Armando Hernandez Jr. entered the Westgate Entertainment District in Glendale, Arizona and fired on the crowd, injuring three. Go beyond the headlines... - ...

President Donald Trump, who has faced frequent accusations of racism, regularly polls poorly among Blacks and Latinos. He is just as unpopular with most Jewish Americans. Go beyond the headlines... ...

In the wake of the 2016 election, some observers, including many in the broader public, were surprised by Donald Trump’s victory. Much of this surprise stemmed from polling data from ...

While the Libertarian Party (LP) is unlikely to supplant a Republican or Democrat in the White House, taking even a small percentage of votes from key states in a tight ...

In December 2019, as part of a US$738 billion defense bill, President Donald Trump unveiled the sixth branch of the United States military, called the Space Force. It is the ...

China’s rise over recent decades has been both feared and welcomed. Go beyond the headlines... - How does the fluidity of the coronavirus crisis gives weight to the idea that ...

The 2020 US presidential election is looking to be as contentious, if not more contentious, than the 2016 election. Go beyond the headlines... - What is astroturfing?

Humans have been battling health emergencies throughout history. From the bubonic plague and smallpox to the 1918 pandemic and H1N1, disease has always been a part of life. Go beyond ...

Through March, as the COVID-19 crisis in the United States was worsening, President Donald Trump championed an antimalarial drug, called hydroxychloroquine, as a possible cure for the virus. The supposed ...

Political experts frequently state that the 2020 election could be determined by voter turnout with the conventional wisdom being that more voters would be better for Democrats while fewer voters ...

In late April, Eric Schmitt, the Republican attorney general of Missouri, introduced a lawsuit in a United States federal court against the Chinese government over alleged negligence in the early ...

In the early hours of Friday, March 13, police officers entered the Louisville, Kentucky home of Breonna Taylor in pursuit of a suspect. In the ensuing firefight, Taylor was shot ...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep across the United States, businesses in numerous sectors have been devastated by the accompanying economic fallout. However, the country’s biggest tech companies have ...

The news that the United States Department of Justice intended to drop charges against retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn was met with an immediate outcry when it was announced on ...

Retail spending in the United States fell a record 16.4% from March to April, the second straight record decrease in Americans’ retail spending after the first, in March, saw retail ...

On May 7, a leading team of cyber threat experts reported on a string of cyberattacks by Naikon APT, a group of hackers with ties to China’s military. Go beyond ...

In March 2019, federal investigators in the United States announced that they were bringing fraud and bribery charges against some wealthy parents for securing their children’s acceptance to some of ...

In the United States, a controversial decision by the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding a former member of President Donald Trump’s administration has placed a harsh spotlight on its head, ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average took a hit at the end of February, dropping over 8,000 points by mid-March. The Dow Jones has largely stabilized since then, though events in ...

Much of the current conversation taking place around the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is centered on when states will reopen for business and allow their citizens to return ...

Over the past few days, President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter and repeatedly helped give credence to a rapidly evolving conspiracy theory. That theory, known as “Obamgate” and disseminated ...

In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, many world leaders and influencers are emphasizing the need for cooperation. Behind the scenes though, there are other moves taking place that reportedly ...

On Sunday, May 10, President Donald Trump tweeted an all-caps Happy Mother’s Day message. A few hours later, he tweeted a completely different all-caps message: “OBAMAGATE!” Go beyond the headlines... ...

A technique reportedly used by Chinese authorities to contain the outbreak – or at least to blunt any fears, rumors or criticism surrounding its spread – has been obfuscation and ...

The United States is said to have a two-party political system, made up of the Republican Party (also known as the GOP) and the Democratic Party. But in every presidential ...

While many Americans have received their stimulus checks, reports indicate that the rollout of the project hasn’t been as smooth as intended. For individuals, the checks have gone out in ...

In June 2019, Facebook announced that it was developing a new global payments system called Libra that would integrate blockchain technology to its platforms in order to allow free and ...

The February 23 shooting death of an unarmed black man, Ahmaud Arbery, by two white men, Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory McMichael, has sparked outrage across the United States. ...

On Wednesday, May 6, the European Union (EU) released its Spring 2020 Economic Forecast, which concluded that the 27-country alliance would “experience a recession of historic proportions” with an uncertain ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been called both “fiercely patriotic” and “the world’s favorite dictator.” Having led Russia in some capacity for two decades, Putin is a leader who inspires ...

Even before the coronavirus crisis hit the United States, the topic of Universal Basic Income (UBI), a government-mandated baseline income, had been further popularized by recent Democratic presidential candidate, Andrew ...

In the first year of his presidency, United States President Donald Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program started by his predecessor, President Barack Obama. The termination ...

To prevent public servants from profiting from being in a position of power, the United States government has multiple statutes that forbid self-dealing and nepotism. But in spite of these ...

On April 27, the Pentagon, the United State’s headquarters for its Department of Defense, released three videos that they claim are legitimate examples of “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” which is the ...

Since the late 1990s, Victoria’s Secret has played a major role in defining what is sexy through its catalog and annual runway shows, granting the company global status and making ...

In late April, NASA gave three American companies - SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics - the rights to develop lunar landers for manned moon missions scheduled for 2024. In total, ...

From the time the first case of COVID-19 appeared in the United States, estimates for the final number of infections and related deaths have fluctuated greatly. Go beyond the headlines... ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every industry, whether big and small, but the book industry may be one of the hardest hit. Go beyond the headlines... - What did ...

In the weeks prior to former Vice President Joe Biden becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, a former staffer, Tara Reade, accused him of having sexually assaulted her in ...

Recently released FBI documents confirm Roger Stone, a former member of United States President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, has repeatedly communicated with Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks. Go beyond the ...

According to official numbers, the United States has by far the highest number of coronavirus cases of any country in the world, as well as the most deaths attributed to ...

On Monday, March 9, the Spanish government announced it would be closing schools for two weeks in regions badly affected by the rapidly spreading coronavirus. The following day, United States ...

One of the legacies of major crises is that they have the potential to spark change and renewal. From the ashes of World War II major powers forged ahead with ...

With COVID-19 exacting a heavy toll on populations and national economies, many have speculated that countries around the world will experience increases in rates of suicide. Go beyond the headlines... ...