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Having lived in Beijing for almost 12 years, I've had plenty of time to travel widely in China.

Bringing the second day of this year's Coachella to a close, K-Pop girl group Blackpink made history Saturday night when they became the first Asian act to ever headline the festival. To a crowd of, reportedly, over 125,000 people, Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé used the ground-breaking moment to pay homage to Korean heritage by arriving onstage in hanboks: a traditional type of dress.

So far this tax season, the IRS has received more than 90 million income tax returns for 2022.

I’ve always been at odds with sleep. Starting around adolescence, morning became a special form of hell. Long school commutes meant rising in 6am darkness, then huddling miserably near the bathroom heating vent as I struggled to wrest myself from near-paralysis. The sight of eggs turned my not-yet-wakened stomach, so I scuttled off without breakfast. In fourth grade, my mother noticed that instead of playing outside after school with the other kids, I lay zonked in front of the TV, dozing until dinner. “Lethargy of unknown cause,” pronounced the doctor.High school trigonometry commenced at 7:50am. I flunked, stupefied with sleepiness. Only when college allowed me to schedule courses in the afternoon did the joy of learning return. My decision to opt for grad school was partly tra

The West Coast’s rainy season has arrived in force, as an atmospheric river carrying moisture from the tropics joins a bomb cyclone off the Pacific Northwest coast. Heavy, wet snow began falling in the mountains on Nov. 19, 2024, and bursts of rain have been blasting the Oregon and Northern California coasts. These storms are forecast to last for days, hitting up and down the West Coast. Parts of Washington have seen more than 70 mph winds from the bomb cyclone. When these two phenomen

Bomb threats sent to Maricopa and Pima counties on Election Day contained identical language, according to copies of the threats obtained through public records requests. Arizona was one of several states where polling places or election facilities were subject to bomb threats on Election Day. Ten of the state’s 15 counties received bomb threats that day, according to Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes. Officials deemed the threats “non-credible” and during Election Day they stressed that no voters were in immediate danger or were kept from voting because of the threat

The mainstream media is baffled: Why would Trump promote candidates to oversee critical agencies with millions of employees and multi-billion-dollar budgets who have little to no management experience and have openly expressed hostility toward the institutions they’ll oversee?I’ve seen legendary reporter Bob Woodward, who wrote several books about Trump, on three different TV shows this week asking to the effect of, “What could Trump possibly gain from these incompetent appointments?If he just wanted loyalty, there’s no shortage of rational, competent members of the military and intelligence community who’re loyal to Trump.So why is he selecting people like Hegseth, Gaetz, and Gabbard to run agencies

Dr. Mehmet Oz, whose unsuccessful 2022 Pennsylvania Senate bid included pitching voters on a plan to expand the privatized Medicare Advantage program, is now in a position to potentially actualize that plan. President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Oz, also known by his TV personality name Dr. Oz, is his pick to lead the

It takes time for things to stick properly, so please bear with me while I say again that Kamala Harris did not lose the election because of things she said. She lost because of things Donald Trump said she said.So Democratic Party critics are basing their criticism not on what Harris said but on what Trump said she said, as they are accepting as true the allegations of the president-elect against the vice president. By focusing on things that Trump said she said, rather than on things she said, these critics are missing the real lesson from the 2024 election – that her policies were not the determining factor in her defeat. It was the ear-splitting volume of the accusations against her and the absenc

As Democrats fight to confirm President Joe Biden's judicial nominees before President-Elect Donald Trump takes the White House in January, GOP lawmakers have been fighting to halt the process. According to a Wednesday International Business Times report, "Republican senators warned that Donald Trump was hurting their progress by taking some members of Congress to watch the SpaceX launch, causing them to miss votes."IBT notes that in addition to Senators JD Vance (R-OH) — who is exiting the Senate to serve as Trump's vice president, and Marco Rubio (R-FL) — who Trump selected for the role of Secretary of State, missing "the opportunity to cast their votes Tuesday," other lawmakers were absent as well.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has been one of the most outspoken lawmakers after Sarah McBride — who became the first openly transgender person elected to Congress — secured her win earlier this month. Mace's and other GOP lawmakers' complaints resulted in Speaker Mike Johnson announcing that "single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House office buildings would be available only to those of that biological sex," according to the New York Times. In an op-ed published by MSNBC, independent journalist Brad Polumbo called out Mace's recent about-face on LGBTQ issues. READ MORE: 'I�

After the House Ethics Committee decided not to release its report into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) sex trafficking allegations, former federal prosecutor Mary McCord explained why the Department of Justice's decision not to prosecute the attorney general nominee doesn't mean he's off the hook. Speaking with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace Wednesday, McCord said, "I think one of the things here that people may be confused about is, what does it mean that the department of justice declined to bring charges? Does that mean they concluded he was not guilty of committing any crime. And the answer is no. There are many reasons that the Department of Justice, sometimes at the end of an investigation, decides not to prosecute. And it could be that on any particular element of the crime, they didn't feel they were rock solid on being able to

A report on Attorney General-designate Matt Gaetz will remain under wraps until at least next month, after the latest meeting by the Republican-controlled House Committee on Ethics. Legal experts, political commentators and journalists are all condemning the decision to suppress the report.On Wednesday afternoon, The Hill reported that the committee — which is evenly divided with both five Republicans and five Democrats — failed to reach a conclusion on whether to release the report to the public. Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), who chairs the committee, would only say there was "not an agreement" between Democrats and Republicans after more than two hours of deliberations. In response to Guest's comment, Rep. Susan Wild