Category: Nations
White House Works to Satisfy Senate Democrats in Fed Vice Chair Search
Wall Street Journal The Biden administration has narrowed its list of candidates and canvassed Latino economists. https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-works-to-satisfy-senate-democrats-in-fed-vice-chair-search-a9a33460
Read MoreHasbro Hires Harley-Davidson CFO and Former Longtime Mattel Executive
Wall Street Journal The entertainment and toy company said it hired Gina Goetter as its CFO and Tim Kilpin as the president of toy, licensing and entertainment. https://www.wsj.com/articles/hasbro-hires-harley-davidson-cfo-and-former-longtime-mattel-executive-5189b65b
Read MoreThreatening letter containing white powder sent to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg
Fox News A threatening letter containing white powder was sent to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Wednesday, Fox News has learned. The letter comes a week after Bragg indicted former President Donald Trump on multiple charges allegedly involving falsifying business records. Trump, the leading Republican in the 2024 race for the White House, pleaded…
Read MoreManhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office receives threatening letter containing white powder
Fox News A threatening letter containing white powder was sent to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office Wednesday, Fox News has learned. The New York Police Department and the city’s Department of Environmental Protection responded to the scene. “NYPD testing determined the powder found in the mailroom to be non-hazardous,” Bragg’s office said in a…
Read MoreEU should avoid China dependency as it builds ‘de-risking’ strategy with US: trade chief
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Path forward is boosting economic security and diversifying supply chains away from Beijing, but not decoupling, says Valdis Dombrovskis. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3216864/eu-should-avoid-china-dependency-it-builds-de-risking-strategy-us-trade-chief?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreAncient Tibetans were consuming milk and other dairy products thousands of years ago, study finds
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Dental evidence suggests pastoralists were relying on milk as a food source on the Tibetan Plateau 3,500 years ago – far earlier than previously thought. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3216834/ancient-tibetans-were-consuming-milk-and-other-dairy-products-thousands-years-ago-study-finds?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreChinese are ‘lying flat’, Americans are on gap years as pessimistic youth take a hard look at traditional jobs
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. A growing number of younger people in China are resenting the idea of struggling against economic problems, while in the US, millions are also leaning more towards the life side of a work-life balance.…
Read MoreWH quietly corrects Jean-Pierre’s claim Biden has taken more press questions than Trump, Obama, Bush combined
Fox News The White House has quietly corrected a claim made Tuesday by press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre that President Biden has taken more questions from the press than Presidents Trump, Obama and Bush combined. Without alerting the public to the changes, the White House corrected the official transcript of Jean-Pierre’s gaggle with reporters aboard Air…
Read More‘Champion’ Review: Terence Blanchard Comes Back to the Met
Wall Street Journal The composer’s second opera at the New York institution is a visceral, jazz-influenced work about the closeted bisexual boxer Emile Griffith, who killed his opponent in a 1962 fight. https://www.wsj.com/articles/champion-review-terence-blanchard-comes-back-to-the-met-e41ba487
Read MoreRialto Pictures’ High-Caliber Film Canon
Wall Street Journal Films by Orson Welles, John Carpenter, Jean-Pierre Melville and others will be shown in the Museum of Modern Art’s ‘Rialto at 25,’ which celebrates the distributor’s quarter-century of sophisticated curation. https://www.wsj.com/articles/rialto-pictures-high-caliber-film-canon-79c0a34e
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