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BEIJING – The Communist Party of China has long pursued its Hong Kong agenda by working through loyalists among the city’s top officials, lawmakers and tycoons. That behind-the-scenes approach was a key feature in preserving considerable autonomy for the territory. Now, as the party prepares to seize more power in …

Getty Peer review is often the key obstacle between obtaining some data and publishing it in the scientific literature. As such, it is often essential to keep questionable results out of the scientific literature. But for a large number of scientists with solid but unexciting results, it can be an …

Americans are unlikely to be welcomed next week when the European Union begins to reopen its borders to international travel. The reason: an increasing number of coronavirus cases in the United States. On Friday night, the EU European Council agreed on a draft proposal that sets out the criteria for …

A pandemic of the new coronavirus has killed more than 494,000 people worldwide. More than 9.8 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering. The actual numbers …

Astronomers say flashes of light were seen for the first time that could have been created by two colliding black holes. Experts say the findings potentially create a new chapter within astrophysics because the fusion of black holes was not expected to generate light waves. The gravity associated with black …