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After President Donald Trump on Wednesday voiced his support for more stimulus and potentially a second round of checks, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin also said he could back direct payments. “We are going to seriously consider whether we need to make more direct payments,” Mnuchin said at a White House …

Image copyright fake pictures Screenshot State media said Kim warned against a hasty relaxation of the restrictions North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has praised his country’s “brilliant success” in dealing with Covid-19, according to state news agency KCNA. Speaking at a politburo meeting, Kim said the country had “prevented the …

Other universities have been more open to letting teachers decide for themselves what to do. “Due to these extraordinary circumstances, the university is temporarily suspending the normal requirement that teaching take place in person,” the University of Chicago said in a message to instructors June 26. Yale said Wednesday that …

About a year ago, Sangita Gaikwad’s teenage daughter Mona introduced her to TikTok. Like many new users of the quirky video-sharing app, Gaikwad, a housewife in a farming village in western India, was baffled. What would she want with an endless sequence of 15-second clips showing strangers dancing, lip syncing, …

More than 14,000 cases of dengue have been reported in the city-state since the beginning of the year, according to the National Environment Agency (NEA). The total number for the full year is expected to exceed 22,170 cases reported in 2013, the largest dengue outbreak in Singapore’s history, the agency …