China’s move to strip away another layer of Hong Kong’s autonomy was not a rash impulse. It was a deliberate act, months in the making. It took into account the risks of international umbrage and reached the reasonable assumption [...]
Hong Kong was born at the crossroad of empires, a hybrid of British and Chinese parentage. It may fade there, too.
This “barren rock,” as an envoy of Queen Victoria once called it, transformed into one of the world’s first [...]
DAKAR, Senegal — In the northern Nigerian city of Kano, some people say they now get four or five death notices on their phones each day: A colleague has died. A friend’s aunt. A former classmate.
The gravediggers of the city, [...]
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Pamela Austin, a recruiter at Adventist Health Bakersfield in California, made seven job offers to foreign nurses in February and just finished a first round of interviews with 12 more candidates. They are from all over [...]
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The Senate broke on Monday afternoon with no deal to replenish an empty relief fund for small businesses, though the Senate scheduled a Tuesday session in case negotiators complete a deal in the next 24 hours.
In a brief Monday [...]
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The toll of the human tragedy let in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic cannot be underestimated. Currently, there have been 764,177 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and 40,591 lives lost in the United States—and [...]
Home News Humor writer Rex Huppke on Trump, the Coronavirus, and just about everything
Chicago Tribune humor writer Rex Huppke joins us for a long discussion about everything and nothing. Boy it’s hard to summarize this discussion, it was [...]
The streets of Black Hawk, Colo. are empty after the casinos in town were closed by state mandate earlier in the month. | Rick T. Wilking/Getty Images
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The mammoth $ 2 trillion rescue package on the brink of heading to President [...]
What that means in practice has scared some Muscovites but comforted others.
Artyom, 30, who works in the media industry and requested his last name not be published, was of both minds.
He left his apartment building to take out the trash [...]
SAN DIEGO (AP) – The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to continue making asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for their U.S. court hearings. It may be the most far-reaching measure in a series of policies the government has [...]
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