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© Reuters. Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a “Commit to Caucus” event for his supporters in Coralville, Iowa, U.S., December 13, 2023. REUTERS/Vincent Alban By Nathan Layne CORALVILLE, Iowa (Reuters) – Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, said on Wednesday that if elected he would renege on a $3 billion U.S. pledge to a global fund meant to help developing countries cut emissions and adapt to climate change. The pledge was announced by Vice President Kamala Harris this month in Dubai at the U.N. COP28 climate summit, although it is subject…
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First lady Jill Biden was blasted Wednesday night after posting a video to X showing dancers tapping around the holiday-decorated White House, whose theme this year is “Magic, Wonder and Joy.”In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, the first lady shared the video from the official @FLOTUS account, along with the caption. “A bit of magic, wonder, and joy brought to you by the talented tappers of Dorrance Dance, performing their playful interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite. Enjoy!” the first lady’s post read.But social media observers didn’t seem to be enjoying the musical content.SUPPORT FOR BIDEN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY GROWS…
Critics of Harvard’s president Claudine Gay have deployed billboard trucks asking her to resign.Bill Ackman has slammed the move, though he thinks the trucks could offer Gay a lesson in empathy.Ackman said the trucks could let Gay understand what it was like to be Jewish on campus. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app Bill Ackman may have slammed the doxxing trucks at Harvard, but the billionaire investor also appears to think there could be a silver lining to them.”Perhaps the doxxing trucks…
Booming western demand for fast fashion and ecommerce goods sold by Chinese online brands such as Temu and Shein is buoying air freight rates and creating fierce competition among logistics companies shipping from Asia.Consumers in the US and Europe began buying more from Chinese ecommerce platforms during the pandemic, with some orders being delivered within a week. That demand has continued and sustained air freight rates, supporting logistics companies in an otherwise weak cargo market.Some ecommerce platforms have been willing to pay close to double what general cargo customers are charged in some cases, in order to secure sufficient capacity…
© Reuters. A man walks past an electric monitor displaying Japan’s Nikkei share average and recent movements, outside a bank in Tokyo, Japan, June 5, 2023. REUTERS/Issei Kato/file photo By Xie Yu HONG KONG (Reuters) – Asian stocks broadly rallied on Thursday morning, after the U.S. Federal Reserve flagged the end of its tightening cycle and struck a dovish tone for the year ahead. U.S. Treasury yields slid to fresh four-month trough, while the dollar continued to slide. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added 1.6%. Mainland Chinese bluechips edged up by 0.65%, while Hong Kong’s benchmark advanced…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of German automaker BMW is seen in Brussels, Belgium June 1, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman BEIJING (Reuters) – BMW (ETR:) Group has received a test license for L3 autonomous driving on high-speed roads in Shanghai, the German automaker said on Thursday.
5/5 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An undated file photo shows Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major United States military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean leased from Britain in 1966. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo 2/5 By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) – Every day, nearly 60 fully loaded very large crude-oil carriers sail between the Persian Gulf and Chinese ports, carrying about half of the oil that powers the world’s second-largest economy. As the vessels enter the South China Sea, they ply waters increasingly controlled by China’s growing military, from the missile…
syahrir maulana Vir Biotechnology (NASDAQ:VIR) plans to cuts its workforce by around 12% and close two of its R&D facilities as part of an effort to refocus the company on its hepatitis and antibody programs. The company said in a statement that it intends to prioritize its chronic hepatitis delta and chronic hepatitis B development programs, along with broadening its monoclonal antibody platform beyond infectious diseases and into autoimmune diseases and oncology. As part of the restructuring, Vir will be closing its R&D facilities in St. Louis, Missouri, and Portland, Oregon, in 2024. It will also be eliminating around 75…
Former President Donald J. Trump kicked off a flurry of campaign activity on Wednesday with an eye toward a decisive victory in Iowa that would crush his Republican rivals’ hopes of emerging with any kind of momentum in the presidential primary.He’ll have a little help from his friends.Mr. Trump gave a speech in Coralville, a small city in eastern Iowa, on Wednesday, before planned stops in New Hampshire, the second nominating state, and Nevada, third on the primary calendar, over the weekend. Mr. Trump will return to Iowa on Tuesday for a speech in Waterloo, a city in the northeastern…