2019

Asian shares retreat after Trump approval of Hong Kong bill

Asian shares retreat after Trump approval of Hong Kong bill By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer November 28, 2019, 3:56 AM 4 min read Asian shares were mostly lower on Thursday after President Donald Trump signed a bill expressing support for human rights in Hong Kong. China reacted with indignation to the legislation, which Congress […]

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Toni Collette’s ‘Knives Out’ Character Will Make You Think Of Gwyneth Paltrow

“Knives Out” is a murder mystery with a twist. It borrows classic whodunit tropes — an eccentric detective investigating an A-list ensemble wherein everyone is a suspect — but dares to tackle contemporary political concerns like immigration, class, the alt-right and Gwyneth Paltrow.  That last one might sound like a stretch until Toni Collette opens

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Trump Keeps Losing in Court. But His Legal Strategy Is Winning Anyway.

His claim that he is blocking aides from disclosing what they know because he wants to strengthen the institution of the presidency over the long term echoes justifications of other presidents in previous disputes, like the George W. Bush administration’s range of efforts to expand presidential power. The men who drove that Bush agenda —

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TikTok Reverses Ban on Teen Who Slammed China’s Muslim Crackdown

SHANGHAI — The video app TikTok on Wednesday reversed its decision to block an American teenager who posted a clip in which she discussed the mass internment of minority Muslims in China, and acknowledged that its moderation system had overreached in shutting her out of her account. The incident raised fresh concerns about whether TikTok,

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Trump Lawyers, Skeptical of Engaging on Impeachment, Weigh Hearing Strategy

WASHINGTON — The White House is reviewing an invitation from House Democrats for President Trump’s legal team to participate in the first Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing next week, even as his lawyers privately question whether to engage with a proceeding his administration branded “an illegitimate sham partisan process” to drive Mr. Trump from office. Representative

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