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Chinese official signals changes to Hong Kong election rulesWorld NewsFeb 22, 2021China faces a “critical and urgent” task to overhaul Hong Kong’s electoral system, Beijing’s top official for the city said, in the latest sign that authorities were mulling major changes in the comi... -
Bitcoin falls most in a month on worries prices are excessiveMarketsFeb 22, 2021Bitcoin gave up all its gains from weekend trading as analysts questioned whether the cryptocurrency is overheated. Prices dropped as much as 8.2 percent during the European session, falling back to ... -
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[James Stavridis] Keeping troops in Afghanistan makes US saferViewpointsFeb 18, 2021Over the four years I led the Afghan war effort as supreme allied commander at NATO, I was lucky to have four superb generals working for me as the in-country commanders of the International Security... -
Masayoshi Son just pushed SoftBank shares past dot-com peakWorld BusinessFeb 16, 2021For Masayoshi Son, these days are even better than the dot-com bubble. Shares in the Japanese billionaire’s SoftBank Group surged in Tokyo on Tuesday to the highest close since the company went publ... -
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[Noah Feldman] Impeachment doesn‘t violate Trump’s rightsViewpointsFeb 11, 2021The extended trial brief filed by Donald Trump‘s lawyers advances three defenses: that Trump did not incite the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol; that the Senate can’t try a president who is no longer in... -
Microsoft CEO says big tech needs clearer laws on online speechTechnologyFeb 10, 2021Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said social-media services like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube need clearer laws and rules to govern whether controversial “Unilateral action by i... -
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[Doyle McManus] Joe Biden opted to go bigViewpointsFeb 10, 2021When Joe Biden arrived in the White House, he promised a new dawn of unity and bipartisanship. But when he began to pursue a COVID-19 relief bill, he met with Republican senators for only about two h... -
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[Eli Lake] Biden wants to mend US-Saudi tiesViewpointsFeb 9, 2021Anyone paying attention for the last three years should not be surprised that President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the end to US support for Saudi offensive operations in Yemen, calling the war ... -
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[Andreas Kluth] US-German discord over Russian gasViewpointsFeb 8, 2021The new transatlantic honeymoon isn’t over yet. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, like most European leaders, is still basking in the afterglow of Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president of the... -
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[Noah Smith] Take heart, doomscrollers, America's on the way backViewpointsFeb 5, 2021Last year made it feel as if the US was a nation in steep decline. And in some worrying ways it is. But looking back on 2020, and looking ahead to 2021, there are signs that the country has robust re... -
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[Tyler Cowen] Focus on families, not on wagesViewpointsFeb 2, 2021The Democratic Party has before it a choice between two economic policies: a big increase in the federal minimum wage, to $15 an hour from $7.25; and a per-child cash benefit of several thousand doll... -
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[James Stavridis] Trump got a space force. Biden should get a cyber forceViewpointsFeb 1, 2021Nearly lost in the tumult of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and the excitement of Joe Biden‘s inauguration is the continuing fallout from the massive data breach of SolarWinds Corp. by suspec... -
Short sellers under siege everywhere have it really bad in KoreaMarketsJan 30, 2021Retail investors hell-bent on watching stocks go up have made life miserable for short sellers around the world. In South Korea, the government is piling on too. Lawmakers who oversee the country’s... -
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[Noah Feldman] Congress losing power for a hundred yearsViewpointsJan 27, 2021The storming of the US Capitol on Jan. 6 was a real lowlight for Congress. At least during the sacking of Washington in the war of 1812, the White House burned alongside the Capitol. But on Jan. 6, 2... -
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[Therese Raphael] COVID is traumatizing our doctors and nursesViewpointsJan 25, 2021Hand it to human beings. We have repeatedly defied predictions that we will buckle under the extreme pressure of adverse events. Time and again, whether it was during the eight-month blitz in World W...
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