Taipei, Taiwan U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday during a high-level visit by a U.S. Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic ties between Washington and Taipei in 1979, when the US recognized China. Beijing has protested Azar’s …
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‘He better choose a black woman’: Biden looks at Whitmer’s backwardness
“A lot of Black people are crazy about her [Whitmer] in this state, ”Rollins told POLITICO, citing her record of Flint’s leading water crisis and education policy, particularly in Detroit. While Biden is preparing to announce his choice this week, Black women activists and operations have launched an eleven-hour campaign …
Read More »Sources: Mountain West Cancels Fall Football Season
The Mountain West conference has canceled its football season this fall due to players’ health and safety concerns regarding COVID-19, sources told Stadium. In a vote of league presidents Monday, Mountain West became the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS)’s second conference to cancel all of its fall sports, sources said. The …
Read More »Jessie is so excited (again) in Reboot – / Film
Saved By the Bell, the teen sitcom of the 1980s and 1990s, is getting a fresh start at Peacock – and the new streaming service seems to be taking a side out of the Brady Bunch Movie playbook and turning this into a self-confident, meta-show that explicitly comments on its …
Read More »How I applied to my city after giving me six weeks to repair and register my fleet of broken cars
Illustration: Jason Torchisnky Back in June, the City of Troy, Michigan sent out a letter to my landlord stating that, if I did not fix and register the 11 cars on my property on July 31st, bad things would happen. Over the next six weeks, I rubbed myself as hard …
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