China’s newest, largest and most-advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, took a big step to joining the world’s largest naval fleet on Wednesday as it set out from Shanghai for its first sea trials. The naval assessment is expected to take place in the East China Sea, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) from the Jiangnan Shipyard where the carrier has been ...
In the early days of 2020, as science looked for answers to a mysterious viral outbreak in central China, a prominent Chinese virologist stepped forward to share critical data with the world. Zhang Yongzhen’s disclosure of the genome of the virus that causes Covid-19 was a crucial step in the race to combat the pandemic, helping researchers globally to identify the pathogen and ...
A transitional council responsible for choosing Haiti’s next leadership has named one of its members as council president and proposed a new interim prime minister amid efforts to control the gang violence in the Caribbean nation. The council, which is responsible for paving the way for elections and addressing the country’s deteriorating security situation, on Tuesday named Edgard Leblanc Fils ...
A nearly 300-year-old settlement once submerged beneath a major dam in the Philippines has reemerged as sweltering heat and drought dry up the reservoir. Structures, including part of a church, tombstones and a municipal hall marker, reappeared in the middle of Pantabangan Dam in Nueva Ecija province in March after months of almost no rain, Marlon Paladin, a supervising engineer ...
In this edition of StockCharts TV‘s The Final Bar, Dave welcomes Gina Martin Adams, CMT CFA of Bloomberg Intelligence. David highlights a spike higher in the VIX, and charts names for earnings including AMZN, AMD, SMCI, SBUX, MCD, PYPL, and ETN. Gina shows how rising interest rates continue to put pressure on the relative performance of the technology sector. This video originally ...
What’s a trader to do when the stock market looks indecisive? Sit back and wait for the market to show direction. This week is packed with earnings from big tech companies, jobs reports, and investors anxious to hear what Jerome Powell says about possible interest rate cuts this year. So, while you’re patiently waiting for the stock market to show ...
House conservatives are warily watching their Democratic counterparts after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., led a statement promising to protect Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., from a GOP-led ouster threat. ‘Some people are wondering if this isn’t like a psy-op, where the Dems are saying we’re going to publicly support you because they want, at the end of the day, ...
The Biden administration is considering welcoming certain Palestinians to the U.S. as refugees as they seek to escape war-torn Gaza amid the ongoing war in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas. Senior officials across several federal U.S. agencies have discussed in recent weeks the details of potential options to accept Palestinians from Gaza who have immediate family members who ...
EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak is expected to publicly testify on Wednesday before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. According to congressional lawmakers, EcoHealth – a U.S.-based nonprofit whose mission is to prevent pandemics – used taxpayer dollars ‘to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)’ in China. Committee Chair Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, is ...
The Biden administration has allowed billions in sanctions waivers that benefit Iran, with estimated billions more in unsanctioned oil sales, which allows the Iranian government to continue diverting money to its drone factories and funding proxy groups, an expert told Fox News Digital. ‘What happens when you end up releasing that money is that it goes into the general funds, ...
This might sound like a plot for a thriller – and I am the author of ‘The Year of the Dragon’ – but the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, recently said, at Vanderbilt University’s ‘Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats,’ that Chinese-government-linked hackers have ‘burrowed into critical U.S. infrastructure’ and are waiting for ‘just the right moment to deal ...
House Democratic leaders are vowing to shield House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., forces a vote on her motion to oust him from power. ‘From the very beginning of this Congress, House Democrats have put people over politics and found bipartisan common ground with traditional Republicans in order to deliver real results. At the same ...