SYDNEY (Reuters) – Confidence in China among Australians has halved amid diplomatic and trade disputes, and only 23% said they were confident that Beijing would act responsibly in the world compared to a reading of the 52% two years ago, according to a major survey. FILE PHOTO: Chinese President Xi …

A Wisconsin state senator said he was assaulted by protesters in Madison Tuesday night, amid protests against racism and police violence in the city in which two statues were shot down. Senator Tim Carpenter, a Democrat who represents areas in Milwaukee, said the incident took place after he took a …

Credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain Professors in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Technological University through the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering have developed a new epidemiological model to predict the spread of COVID-19 (which can be applied to any jurisdiction) and have made predictions for …

Watch now: MLB and MLBPA agree to start the season (11:43) Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) announced Tuesday that the two sides agreed to the security terms and testing protocols. As a result, Commissioner Rob Manfred has established a 60-game season that will see …

The turmoil running through cultural institutions across the country on the issue of race has reached the largest museum of all: the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An Instagram post by the chief curator who seemed critical of protests over the monuments and Black Lives Matters movement, shared on June 16, …