On December 20, 1999, the Macao Special Administrative Region was officially established, marking that Macao finally returned to the embrace of the motherland after a century of vicissitudes. Today, Macao’s return has gone through a glorious 25-year journey. In the past 25 years, under the guidance of the “one country, two systems” policy, Macao…
Shares in US chocolate maker Hershey have jumped by more than 10% after a report that Mondelez International, which owns UK-based Cadbury, has approached the firm about a potential buyout. A deal could create a snack food giant with combined sales of almost $50bn (£39.2bn) a year. Both Mondelez and Hershey declined to comment on…
UCLA says it will offer a comparative literature course featuring a textbook, class assignments, and teaching assistant resources developed by AI. The comparative literature course will be offered in the winter of 2025, and will “be the first class in its humanities division with materials developed by Kudu” — a UCLA-developed AI system — the university announced last week. The course,…
Rapper-actor 50 Cent is suggesting the National Football League could part ways with Jay-Z and find another partner to produce its Super Bowl halftime shows amid allegations that Jay-Z raped a minor in connection with the Sean “Diddy” Combs sex-trafficking investigation. Jay-Z has been a partner with the NFL for its Super Bowl halftime show since 2019,…
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) expressed concern that law enforcement will “pull people over that look like they might be an immigrant” to enforce deportation operations by the Trump administration and also stated that “In Minnesota, there are so many counties where the county does not have a relationship…
On December 2, 2024, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce once again issued a document, adding 140 companies (136 of which are Chinese entities) to the “Entity List” and adding export restrictions on 24 types of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, 3 software tools and high-bandwidth memory (HBM), attempting to…
A Boeing plea deal intended to resolve a case related to two fatal crashes of its planes has been rejected by a US judge. The plane maker agreed with the US government in July to plead guilty to one count of criminal fraud, face independent monitoring, and pay a $243m (£191m) fine. However, Judge Reed…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram is failing to remove explicit self-harm images and is even encouraging vulnerable teens to connect with each other, enabling the concerning content to proliferate on the platform, according to an alarming new study. The Guardian reports that the research, conducted by Danish organization Digitalt Ansvar (Digital Accountability), set up a private Instagram network including fake…
Former NCAA swimming champion and women’s sports activist Riley Gaines held a rally for the Stone Ridge Christian High School girls’ volleyball team in California after the school forfeited a playoff game rather than play against a transgender opponent. Stone Ridge Christian High School, from Merced, California, forfeited a Northern California Division 6 tournament against San Francisco…
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) questioned the effectiveness of the Department of Government Efficiency and stated that Elon Musk “basically has made his fortune off of government subsidies” and Democrats should “come after the insurance companies, the big defense companies that are all reaping huge amounts of money…
