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  • Conventional wisdom holds that Trump won the 2016 election by appealing to voters left behind in Obama's economy and may win re-election based on a stronger economy in 2020. But new...
  • Nationalism and cosmopolitanism ought to be defined neither by caricatures nor by extremes. There is a middle course. Lincoln’s nationalism charts it. The post Toward a Lincolnian...

    • Decency lives in the adverbs: how one intends to exercise power, within what constraints, with what underlying attitudes. The right we have now operates with all the wrong adverbs...

  • President Trump announced a new round of tariffs on China today, pledging to levy a 10 percent tariff on $300 billion of Chinese goods on September 1. CEI senior fellow Ryan Young said...
  • This week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it intends to withdraw the Obama Administration's preemptive rejection of the Pebble Mine project in Alaska and...
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  • Boris Johnson is spending an obscene amount on a game of bluff with the EU. Heaven help us if no deal actually happensThe £2.1bn for no-deal planning announced by the government this...
  • The German composer was all in favour of innovation, unlike the operatic conservatives who booed Le Gateau ChocolatPicture this. A black British drag artist, all decked out in a blond...

    • A lifeline for the elderly and disabled people, public toilet provision has dwindled. The cuts must be reversedYou’re running late, you need to pee, but arriving at the toilet turnstiles...

  • Provincial police are investigating a report of two young males resembling the B.C. murder suspects travelling in a suspicious vehicle in a northern Ontario town...
  • The father of a young boy who was bitten on the face by a dog says he’s relieved to learn the animal has been returned to the shelter where it came from, which is in another province...

    • Long-awaited federal legislation to speed up and simplify the process of getting a pardon for simple cannabis possession is now in force.

  • Quoting from the abstract of the study in Nature Astronomy: ‘The planets orbit close to a mean-motion resonant chain, with periods (3.36 days, 5.66 days and 11.38 days, respectively)...
  • Originally posted on polarbearscience: In late June, one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world encountered such extraordinarily thick ice on-route to the North Pole (with...

    • Originally posted on Science Matters: Recently published in Nature is a comment article Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous byShinichiro Asayama, Rob Bellamy, Oliver Geden...
    • The two of Saif Ali Khan's kids love the camera.

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  • The test comes as part of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18950.
  • This GIRF, Jio subscribers in 17 cities can avail Rs 100 off on their first booking fee during the offer period. This is an exclusive benefit for Jio users...

    • At its F8 Developers' Conference in 2017, the company announced its Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) programme -- outlining its goal to build a non-invasive, wearable device that...

  • Government has engaged NABARD Consultancy Services for the preparation of the State Action Plan for Climate Change in Goa.
  • India had announced the creation of a Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) soon after the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, held in New...

    • The programme includes an unmanned mission around the Moon in 2020 and a manned mission that also will orbit the Moon two years later.

  • Guilty of already violating Vienna Convention by the ICJ for thus far not providing consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav, Pakistan's proposal to do so now is filled with riders...
  • Police sources have said that Adeeb may have wanted to seek asylum in the country and are interrogating him for details.

    • A delegation from the Indian Army met Chinese counterparts at Nathu La. Cultural events were held to showcase Indian and Chinese cultures.

  • Tejashwi also alleged that there was investments, new industries and employment opportunities were lacking in the state.
  • The incident took place on July 7 but the 19-year-old was in a state of shock and did not disclose it. When she was admitted to a hospital due to her critical condition, reports revealed...

    • Pakistan FM Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that Pakistan would not let India change the constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir.

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  • WASHINGTON: Mounting support among Democrats in Congress for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump seems unlikely to change House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's caution...
  • RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will allow women to travel abroad without approval from a male "guardian", the government said Thursday (Aug 1), ending a restriction that drew international...

    • WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday (Aug 1) he had "no problem" with North Korea's recent ballistic missile tests amid an outcry from Washington's allies and growing...

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  • WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday (Aug 1) he had "no problem" with North Korea's recent ballistic missile tests amid an outcry from Washington's allies and growing...
  • Chinese officials are not about to bet on the 2020 US presidential election in formulating their strategic response to the trade conflict, says Stephen S Roach...

    • WASHINGTON: North Korea appears to have carried out a new projectile launch, two US officials said on Thursday (Aug 1), adding that initial information indicated it was similar...

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News



  • U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to slap new tariffs on Chinese imports comes on the heels of unexpectedly strong second-quarter results for automakers, consumer products companies...
  • PG&E Corp on Thursday told a U.S. bankruptcy judge that it had reached agreements to cut prices by at least 10per cent on five power contracts, according to court papers...

    • Federal banking regulators had inspected Amazon.com Inc's Virginia facility earlier in April, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter...

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