WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden set out to finally complete the “pivot to Asia,” a long-sought adjustment of U.S. foreign policy to better reflect the rise of America’s most significant military and economic competitor: China.
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 coordinator, Jeff Zients, and his deputy, Natalie Quillian, are leaving the administration next month, the White House announced Thursday. They’ll be replaced by Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.
TOKYO – Residents in Fukushima and Miyagi were cleaning their homes Thursday after a sleepless night from a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck off the northern Japanese coasts, smashing furniture, knocking out power and killing four people.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Former President Juan Orlando Hernández should be extradited to the United States to face drug trafficking and weapons charges, a Honduran judge ruled Wednesday. The country’s Supreme Court said via Twitter that the judge had decided to grant the U.S.
$2.4M to be paid to man shot in eye during Floyd protests MINNEAPOLIS – A Minneapolis man who lost an eye when he was hit by a projectile fired by police during protests that followed George Floyd’s killing will get a $2.4 million settlement. Soren Stevenson, 27, was in a large group of people standing in a grassy area near an interstate on-ramp when he was hit by a 40 mm projectile on May 31, 2020.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – An Emirati-flagged cargo ship, longer than a soccer field, sank in stormy seas off Iran’s southern coast in the Persian Gulf on Thursday, authorities said. Rescuers were trying to account for all of the vessel’s 30 crew members.
The U.S. grew wealthier, better educated, less impoverished and less transient during the second half of the last decade, according to data released Thursday by the U.S.
WASHINGTON – An American man was killed in a Russian attack on the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, where he was seeking medical treatment for his partner. The death of Jim Hill, of Diggs, Idaho, was reported Thursday by his sister.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – When is a potato not a potato? When it’s a tuber of a gourd, according to Guinness World Records. A New Zealand couple who believed they had dug up the world’s largest potato in the garden of their small farm near Hamilton have had their dreams turned to mash after Guinness wrote to say that scientific testing had found it wasn’t, in fact, a potato after all.
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