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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Young firebrand activists polled strongly in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy primaries in initial results released on Wednesday, but an election organizer resigned after Beijing warned that the vote could violate a new security law national. FILE PHOTO: Pro-democracy candidate Au Nok-hin (R) celebrates with disqualified legislator Nathan …

MOSCOW – Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky, Russia’s 70th nationalist brand of fire, has long functioned as a safety valve for public discontent, cornering protest votes but then supporting President Vladimir V. Putin at key junctures. Now, he says, the Kremlin treats his party “like idiots.” “Get out there and play,” he …

When Modern (MRNA) reported that its mRrna-1273 vaccine-induced immune response in a phase 1 trial, the stock rose 15% in post-market trade to nearly $ 87.00. Since I first introduced this COVID-19 vaccine developer to readers, the stock more than doubled. As Moderna’s stock peaks at 52 weeks and nears …

Bari Weiss, a writer and editor for the New York Times opinion department, quit the newspaper, citing “bullying by colleagues” and an “illiberal environment.” In a nearly 1,500-word letter to AG Sulzberger, the publisher, Ms. Weiss offered a deep critique of Times employees and company leadership, describing a “hostile work …

With coronavirus numbers on the rise in many states across the country, it is clear that wearing face masks in public and elsewhere will continue to be necessary for the foreseeable future. And while masks and other protective supplies, such as hand sanitizer, were in short supply earlier in the …