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The Federal Reserve’s next interest-rate decision could be a fateful one for many consumers and in turn for debates about the health of the American spender. [...]
Following the trail of the U.S. will require more government intervention in industrial and trade policy. [...]
What lower rates mean for the trillions of dollars in CDs and high-yield savings accounts. [...]
The latest bet is a $1.56 billion Energy Department loan commitment for a Wabash Valley Resources ammonia project in Indiana. [...]
The mortgage lender’s shares surged on their debut, reaffirming growing investor enthusiasm for one of the best-performing stock markets in the world. [...]
Andrea Orcel has teed up UniCredit for a potential takeover of rival Commerzbank. He wants to build something Europe lacks—a banking champion. [...]
Bond investors are suddenly bracing for a downturn, while equity investors appear more sanguine. [...]
With the presidential race in a dead heat, wealthy Americans are calling estate lawyers. [...]
The work environment for journalists in Hong Kong continues to deteriorate. Last month, Stand News editors were convicted of sedition. This week, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) revealed a widespread harassment campaign against the city’s journalists, as announced in a press conference by HKJA [...]
The plight of China’s delivery drivers is front-of-mind for the Chinese public. In August, CDT translated an account of one courier’s death in the summer heat, while a viral photograph of a Meituan driver kneeling before a security guard drew attention to the indignities many [...]
Despite a laudable performance in other sports at this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, China continues to flail in its footballing ambitions. Last Thursday, the men’s national team lost 7-0 to rival Japan in the third round of the World Cup Qualifiers group stage. The [...]
Across China, many women with rural hukou are systematically denied lucrative village land rights. Village assemblies, ostensibly autonomous local political organizations, decide who is a member of the rural collective and thus has access to revenue from collectively-owned lands. These male-dominated bodies routinely vote out [...]
The Chinese government’s recent detentions of two outspoken critics—visual artist Gao Zhen and citizen journalist Zhang Zhan—highlight the continuing suppression of free speech and the shrinking space for artistic expression and principled activism in China. Zhang Zhan, a lawyer-turned-citizen journalist, was imprisoned for four years [...]
A new study has found that more than half of Black and Hispanic infants were born into very low-opportunity neighborhoods, and that babies born into these neighborhoods had a 16-percent greater risk of being born preterm. The study sheds new light on the health consequences [...]
The cumulative adversity index for people quantifies numerous measures of hardship, such as poverty and stress to understand health and longevity over the individual's lifespan. A similar tool could help scientists who study and want to conserve animal populations by identifying the most influential stressors [...]
Researchers used robotics and additive manufacturing to toughen cement-based material with precisely placed hollow tubes. The result is more than 5 times tougher than counterparts. [...]
Renewable energy sources like wind and solar are critical to sustaining our planet, but they come with a big challenge: they don't always generate power when it's needed. To make the most of them, we need efficient and affordable ways to store the energy they [...]
An experiment tested six generative large language models against students in an online introductory biomedical and health informatics course. The models scored higher than as many as three quarters of the real-world students in the class. [...]
Those mesmerizing blue and orange hues in the sky at the start and end of a sunny day might have an essential role in setting humans' internal clocks. A novel LED light that emits alternating wavelengths of orange and blue outpaced two other light devices [...]
Researchers follow the dramatic changes that occur in the brain throughout the course of pregnancy. [...]
Contrary to common perceptions and years of research that autistic people can't describe their emotions or often have muted emotional responses, a new study concludes that many autistic adults are in fact acutely aware of their feelings and can label them in vivid, often colorful [...]
It comes as the UN warns Iranian women still face violent punishment for not wearing the hijab. [...]
Women tell how their posts are being spied on, two years after Mahsa Amini's death rocked Iran. [...]
It is the first time a missile fired by the armed Yemeni group has reached central Israel. [...]
Sigrid Kaag tells the BBC the crisis in Gaza is a “catastrophe” as fighting between Israel and Hamas continues. [...]
US media say the operation included special forces who rappelled down from helicopters. [...]
Israel's military alleges that three Unrwa employees were among nine Hamas fighters killed. [...]
On a visit to Kyiv, the UK foreign secretary said the UK would provide £600m in aid to Ukraine. [...]
The Israeli military says aircraft carried out two strikes during operations in Tubas and Tulkarm. [...]
Mass flooding has affected millions of people across Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Western Africa, and China. [...]
New constitutional amendments will hurt voters, the rule of law, and economic development. [...]
The impact will be felt around the world. [...]
The military alliance’s outgoing chief discusses Moscow’s partnerships with Beijing, Pyongyang, and Tehran. [...]
Revisionist powers like to use international law as a weapon. Now the West is thinking creatively, too—to uphold the order, not break it. [...]
Experimentation is the right strategy—as long as regulators can learn from one another. [...]
U.S. monetary policy has become dangerously addicted to mistaken predictions. [...]
Taylor Swift’s endorsement of the Harris-Walz ticket speaks to an age group that has often not opted into the electoral process. [...]
[allAfrica] Monrovia -- The head of the U.S-Africa Command (Africom) - a unit of the U.S. military responsible for operations on the continent - said the U.S. strategy on the continent will remain "partnership-centric" and led by Africans themselves, whether they are "dealing with violent [...]
[allAfrica] Online victim blaming and efforts to justify intimate partner violence are still prevalent, according to a new report by the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC). [...]
[DW] Unprecendented flooding in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Mali, Ghana and Liberia has triggered humanitarian crises. An estimated four million people -- most of them children -- are caught up in the devastation. [...]
[ISS] Boko Haram factions continually adapt to new counter-terrorism tactics, so strategies must be flexible and systematic. [...]
[VOA] Maiduguri, Nigeria -- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has approved the immediate release of $8 million dollars to support victims in flood ravaged Maiduguri, in Nigeria's Borno state. Severe flooding there last week killed dozens of people and displaced [...]
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), once a powerful party in Ethiopian politics, is now grappling with severe internal divisions that jeopardize the stability of the region and impede its recovery efforts. [...]
[IPS] As heads of state and government fly into New York for the United Nations General Assembly and the Summit of the Future (September 22-30), 2.3 billion mothers, fathers, and children are unsure where their next meal will come from. Millions face the terror of [...]
[New Zimbabwe] A HELICOPTER belonging to the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) crashed shortly after takeoff at Masvingo Airport during a significant day for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was celebrating his 82nd birthday and the launch of Munhumutapa Day. [...]