Stocks in Asia shed earlier gains and traded mixed on Wednesday as concerns over U.S.-China tensions weighed on investor sentiment.Mainland Chinese stocks led losses regionally among the region's major markets, with the Shanghai composite down 1.39% by the afternoon while the Shenzhen component shed 1.604%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index also declined 0.55%.In Japan, the Nikkei 225 gained…
Miami Herald senior editor for investigations and enterprise Casey Frank told "The Story" Tuesday that Ghislaine Maxwell's bail hearing may serve as a preview of her trial on charges that she recruited and trafficked minors for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein."The attorneys for Ms. Maxwell pointed out that she should be indemnified by the [2007] non-prosecution agreement ... the…
Donald Trump, in an interview aired Tuesday, pivoted when asked a question about the police killing of George Floyd, a Black American, which has sparked major national protests, to point out that whi…
Media|New York Times Will Move Part of Hong Kong Office to SeoulA sweeping national security law passed by China in June has unsettled news organizations and created uncertainty about the city’s prospects as a hub for journalism in Asia.The New York Times headquarters in New York.Credit...Jeenah Moon for The New York TimesJuly 14, 2020The New…
"The Five" co-host Greg Gutfeld argued Tuesday that Joe Biden's strategy to combat climate change is not based on established science but rather left-wing "hysteria" conjured by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y."Biden, economically, is kind of terrifying because he's all in on the Green New Deal, including this apocalyptic nine-year vision that is not based on any science but rather AOC-led hysteria," The "Greg…
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…