Trade ties between Australia and China worsened over the past year as the two countries became mired in a diplomatic dispute. Now it appears those problems, and the pandemic, are also hitting investment. Chinese investment in Australia plunged to just over 1 billion Australian dollars ($775 million) in 2020, down 62% from the previous year,
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The Cooper County Public Health Center says it plans to vaccinate 2,000 total Missouri residents on Monday and Tuesday.
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Almost one year after the first known US coronavirus death, activists and community groups are calling on officials to memorialize the more than half a million Americans who died with an official Covid Memorial Day. More than a hundred events will take place across the United States on Monday, March 1, to remember those who
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When your phone goes off in the middle of the night, it isn’t usually good news. At best, it signals a call into action, albeit with a foggy head and a scrambled mind. At worst, the incessant ringing or buzzing represents news of a dreadful event, or an impending one. As the British rower Jasmine
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A major Chinese oil company that has traded on Wall Street for decades has become the latest casualty of tensions between Washington and Beijing. The New York Stock Exchange announced Friday that it will delist CNOOC, China’s third largest oil company and its largest offshore oil producer. Shares in the firm will stop trading from
Continue Reading Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi was hit with another charge Monday, as protesters returned to the streets in a show of defiance following the deadliest day since the military seized power in a coup in early February. Suu Kyi appeared in a court hearing via video conference where she was charged under
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Five is your new lucky number. That’s how many servings of fruits and vegetables you need to eat each day to live the longest, according to a new study released by the American Heart Association (AHA) that analyzed data representing nearly 2 million adults worldwide. Two of those five servings should be fruit — the
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MONDAY: Clouds have cleared the area overnight and look to stay out for much of the day. Temperatures will top out in the low 50’s this afternoon. TONIGHT: With mostly clear skies sticking around, lows will fall back into the upper 20’s. EXTENDED: We get a little further up the mountain tomorrow with highs reaching
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Donald Trump has no remorse about the deadly violence he incited with his lies about a stolen election in his uprising against the US Congress. This much was clear when the ex-President put the Republican Party on notice on Sunday that he intends to use his hold on its grassroots to try to suppress the
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Over half a million Texans are still under boil water notices more than a week after a winter storm brutalized large swaths of the South, leaving millions without water and power for days. A total of 509,206 people were still impacted by boil water notices as of Sunday night, with 458 boil water notices in
Continue Reading March is National Women’s History Month, but since women are pretty historic year-round, it begs the question: Why March? Is this month significant to women’s history, or is it just an arbitrary month on the calendar? The answer involves a little bit of history and a little bit of coincidence. From day to week to
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Golfers wore red shirts and black pants during the WGC-Workday Championship on Sunday in honor of golf legend Tiger Woods, who is hospitalized after a serious car accident last week. Woods responded on Twitter to the gesture made by many in the golf community, including Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Thomas and Cameron Champ, who wore Woods’
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Former President Donald Trump turned the Conservative Political Action Conference into his first post-presidential rally Sunday evening, pledging in a speech riddled with falsehoods to purge his enemies from the Republican Party and hinting repeatedly at another run for the White House in 2024. But before Trump closed out the annual conservative gathering, held in
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Chloé Zhao has made Golden Globes history. Zhao, who directed “Nomadland,” is the first woman of Asian descent and second woman ever to win the best director award in the Golden Globes’ 78-year history. “This award belongs to the whole ‘Nomadland’ team,” Zhao said. “Thank you, everyone who made it possible for me to do
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The 78th Golden Globe Awards underwent a rocky evening technically while fleetingly seeking to address the controversy rocking the organization behind the ceremony, in a pandemic-dictated format that saw streaming dominate the movie awards and an emotional posthumous win by actor Chadwick Boseman. “Nomadland,” the understated tale acquired by Hulu, was named best drama, while
Continue Reading The mostly virtual Golden Globes has come to an end. But our memories of it will last…until next year. For now, we honor those who captured the weird spirit of this year’s ceremony. Jason Sudeikis, fashion realist “Ha” and “ha” to all the celebrities who coughed up thousands of dollars to glam themselves up to
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