By William Yang Taipei, Taiwan —From teaching at a high school in China to his experience serving on a key congressional committee that focuses on relations between Beijing and Washington, Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz has a decades-long connection
By Ken Bredemeier & William Gallo New York —Stock markets across the globe plunged Monday as investors sold stocks on worries that the U.S. economy, the world’s largest, might be slowing and possibly headed to a recession. In afternoon
By VOA News U.S. job growth in July slowed to an unexpected 114,000 jobs added in the wake of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve in 2022 and 2023. Job growth declined from the 179,000 jobs added in
By VOA News The United States on Monday was managing 94 large wildfires that have burned 843,124 hectares, the National Interagency Fire Center said. More than 27,000 firefighters and support personnel have been deployed to combat the fires nationwide,
By Lee Ohanian So Why Won’t Newsom Put His Foot on the Brakes? In 2012, the price of regular-grade gasoline in California was about 30 cents per gallon higher than the national average. This price differential has increased substantially
The resignation comes today from the director, following requests from Republican and Democratic members after her appearance before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee By House Committee on Oversight and Accountability WASHINGTON—The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
By Chen Zifei Frank Dikötter, author of the “People’s Trilogy” about China under of Mao Zedong, has been chair professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong since 2006. He recently published “China After Mao,” in which he
Estimated loss of 9,500 jobs this fall after a $20 increase in the minimum wage, representing a 1.3 percent change from September 2023. By Lee Ohanian Last September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 1287 into law, which
By Lin Yang WASHINGTON —In his short time in the U.S. Senate, J.D. Vance, the newly tapped Republican vice presidential nominee, has been a hawk on China. He has introduced legislation to restrict Chinese access to U.S. financial markets
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