Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption"Their freedom has been taken away" China has vowed to retaliate after the US ended Hong Kong's preferential trade status and imposed sanctions on officials who crack down on rights.President Donald Trump said he was acting because China had taken away Hong Kong's freedom after it imposed…
Asia Pacific|China Vows to Retaliate After Trump Signs Hong Kong Sanctions BillBeijing accused the United States of “gross interference in Hong Kong affairs” and promised a response. President Trump at the Rose Garden on Tuesday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesJuly 15, 2020Updated 8:55 a.m. ETChina on Wednesday sharply criticized President Trump’s moves to strip Hong Kong…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…