<p>Oct 7, 2019; Washington, DC, USA; Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer (31)hits a fly out during the fourth inning in game four of the 2019 NLDS playoff baseball series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Nationals Park. Mandatory Credit: Brad Mills-USA TODAY Sports</p>
Boyds, Md., (7/2/2020) – The Washington Spirit fell 2-0 to the reigning National Women’s Soccer League champion North Carolina Courage in their…
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US recovery from the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 epidemic received a major boost Thursday with the labor department reporting 4.8 million Americans got back to work in June, a record single-month gain.
Hours after President Trump’s campaign announced an enormous cash influx of $131 million last month, Joe Biden’s team said it had brought in even more.
Coach Michael Malone provided an update on Nikola Jokic as the Denver Nuggets prepare for their return on August 1.
Rep. Mark Green, National Interest
Like the Great Wall of generations past, Xi’s Internal Great Wall will continue to keep China behind the rest of the world because a nation that suppresses its own people is not a nation the world can trust to do business fairly.
George Friedman, Geo. Futures
The media exploded late last week with reports that Russia had paid the Taliban bounties to kill U.S. and Afghan troops. The plot was revealed by “spies and commandos” who had, among other things, discovered a large cache of U.S. dollars in a Taliban base and traced it back to Russia. The use of the terms spies and commandos is a bit odd, as they are not terms that American intelligence would normally use; U.S. operatives are not normally referred to as spies... Читать дальше...
Rick Moran, PJ Media
The new Beijing-backed security law went into effect in Hong Kong yesterday with immediate consequences. The Hong Kong police announced the first arrest relating directly to the new national security act.
Tatyana Stanovaya, Moscow Times
The Russian president is banning his associates from looking around for a successor.
John McLaughlin, Ozy
While attending the annual international security conference in Munich earlier this year, I heard Trump administration officials tell a skeptical audience that the United States was still leading the world. A European official turned to me and said: “They should substitute ‘v’ for ‘d,’ because it feels more often like this administration is leaving the world.”
A. Zenz, FP
Ethnic minorities are being targeted by family planning departments as reproduction restrictions loosen on Han Chinese.
Ron Shine, CapX
At the height of the protests in Hong Kong there were fears that the Xi administration would send in the troops, that we might see a 21st century rerun of Tiananmen Square.
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Timothy Mclaughlin, The Atlantic
With a far-reaching national-security law, overlords in a distant capital are again making decisions on the city’s behalf.
Dominique Moisi, Worldcrunch
Beijing seems to be abandoning the very strategy that allowed it to not only survive the collapse of the USSR, but also prosper.
U.S. says it is closely monitoring the current situation in Ladakh and supports its peaceful resolution.
Ukraine's central bank governor handed in his resignation on Wednesday (1 July) prompting worried responses from Western partners and casting a shadow on the country's new IMF loan program.
Born on February 26, 1925, Weekes had featured in a total of 48 Tests and amassed 4,455 runs at an average of 58.61 from 1948 to 1958.
Many Americans are enhancing their homes to get a break from the monotony of a summer with fewer options for fun.
The South Delhi district administration requested Reliance Jio to augment data connectivity at the 10,000-bed Sardar Patel Covid-19 Centre in Radha Soami Satsang Beas campus in Chattarpur area here.
The NIA said Mohammad Iqbal Rather had facilitated the movement of Muhammad Umar Farooq, a JeM terrorist and a key conspirator in the Pulwama terror attack case, to south Kashmir after he infiltrated into the Indian territory in Jammu region in April, 2018.
"Everyone has due process rights, and part of that is access to counsel," the attorney said.
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By Rupam Jain MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's coronavirus infections surpassed 600,000 on Thursday, with 17,834 deaths, as authorities battled to contain the pandemic while easing lockdown rules, officials