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TAIPEI – On the walls of Protection Umbrella, a restaurant in Taipei, the posters show protesters in gas masks and helmets fighting the police in Hong Kong. The restaurant opened in April to provide jobs for protesters who fled to Taiwan to escape arrest during protests last year in the …

(Reuters) – The United States on Thursday reported more than 55,000 new cases of COVID-19, a new daily world record for the coronavirus pandemic, as infections increased in most states. A spike in coronavirus cases over the past week put President Donald Trump’s handling of the crisis under the microscope …

Zion Williamson is doing his best to make sure we see the best of him when the NBA restarts its season. The Pelicans posted on Twitter a photo of a ripped-down, reduced version of their great rookie man on Twitter as New Orleans prepares to reopen its season against the …

Pop Smoke’s new posthumous album Shoot the stars Aim for the moon has been released. It comes almost five months after the rapper’s death at age 20 in an invasion of his home in Los Angeles. The record features appearances by Quavo, 50 Cent, DaBaby, Future, Lil Baby, Swae Lee, …

BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing has named an official who became prominent during a crackdown on protests in a Chinese village as director of its new national security office in Hong Kong, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday. Zheng Yanxiong, 56, recently served as secretary general of the committee …