Foxconn’s COVID-Hit China Plant Lifts “Closed-Loop” Management Curbs
LONDON - HONG KONG, Dec 8 - Apple supplier Foxconn's COVID-hit Zhengzhou facility in China has lifted...
NYC Care Receives Tyson Award for Excellence in Pursuit of Healthcare Equity
On Nov. 29 NYC Health + Hospitals’ NYC Care program received the 2022 Bernard J. Tyson National Award...
Investment Firm Vanguard Quits Net Zero Climate Effort Citing ‘Need for Independence’
Global investment firm Vanguard is pulling out of a major investment-industry initiative on tackling...
US Government Blacklists Companies With Ties to Russia
WASHINGTON, United States — The Biden administration on Wednesday, Dec. 7 added 24 companies and other...
NY Democrats to Set Hearing to Determine Fate of Republican Lester Chang’s Bid to Represent NYS’s Assembly District 49
State Assembly Democrats are forging ahead in an attempt to block Lester Chang (R-Brooklyn) from taking his seat in January, alleging that Chang didn’t meet residency requirements when he surprised pundits with a decisive victory...
Germany Detains 25 in Association With Alleged Coup Attempt by ‘Reichsbürger’ Movement
Twenty-five people associated with the right-wing "Reichsbürger" movement have been apprehended by the German federal authorities on suspicion of organizing a violent coup to restore an imperial Germany. The federal German public prosector (Staatsanwaltschaft, StA)...
Warnock Defeats Walker in Georgia’s Runoff Election, Handing Democrats a Slim Majority in Senate
Incumbent Sen. Ralph Warnock has defeated Republican opponent Herschel Walker in the highly contested Georgia Senate runoff election handing the Democratic Party a slim majority, 51-49, in the upper chamber of U.S. Congress. The race...
2022 Taiwan Pastry Festival Held in Flushing, New York
On Dec. 2, the 2022 Taiwan Pastry Festival officially opened at The Shops at Skyview in Flushing, New York. The festival was held from Dec. 2 until Dec. 4. The festival was organized via a...
Yuan Stabilizes as China Continues to Relax ‘Zero-COVID’ Restrictions
China's yuan firmed at a nearly 7:1 ratio versus the American dollar as the communist regime announced measures that marked a sharp change to its tough, three-year-old zero-COVID policy that has battered its economy and...
Iran to Freeze Bank Accounts of Women Who Defy Hijab Rules
Months of protests have rocked Iran, centered around the populous growing tired of more than 40 years of being ruled by a rather draconian interpretation of Islam following the death of a 22-year-old woman. One...
COVID Booster Mandates for University Students ‘Expected to Cause Net Harm’: Study
A new peer reviewed study published in a high profile medical journal has plainly stated that Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) booster injection mandates targeting college and university students are “expected to cause net harm.” The...
Long Queues Forming as Oil Tankers Try to Pass Through Turkish Strait
ISTANBUL, Turkey — At least 20 oil tankers queuing off Turkey face more delays to cross from Russia's Black Sea ports to the Mediterranean as operators race to adhere to new Turkish insurance rules added...