AMC Theaters has detailed its plans to reopen movie theaters in the US, in addition to a new deadline for its MoviePass-style A-List subscription, sent in an email to customers on Wednesday. Beginning Aug. 20, AMC plans to have more than 100 theaters open, and it says it will continue …
Read More »WeChat ban could increase life for the Chinese diaspora
Cindy Wang’s entire life is on WeChat. Through the Chinese Everything app, the 24-year-old shops for clothes and sends photos and audio messages to her grandparents in Guangzhou. It’s how she planned appointments with her hairstylist and where she found her bao supplier – a local woman who sells the …
Read More »Inside Jimmy Lai’s Apple Daily during Hong Kong’s Media Crackdown
HONG KONG – After more than 200 police officers raided the newsroom of Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy, Apple Daily, a staff reporter reported to the editor – in – chief: Should I still go to work? “You decide,” replied the editor-in-chief, Ryan Law. “This is the biggest news story in …
Read More »Administration proposes to reduce shower head standards after Trump measures the water flow
The proposal aims at the maximum flow rate of 2.5 gallons per minute, introduced by Congress in the 1990s. Under current federal law, each shower in a fixture collectively adds to that limit – but the Department of Energy’s plan would include each shower. can reach the 2.5-gallon-per-minute individually. “Under …
Read More »Consumer prices are rising, Core CPI has jumped the most since 1991
Core CPI up most since January 1991 The BLS CPI report shows another sharp month-over-month rise, but year-over-year is a different matter. CPI month-over month The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.6 percent in July on a seasonally adjusted basis, the same increase as in June. …
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