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[ad_1] President-elect Joe Biden made the historic decision to appoint Janet Yellen, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, as his secretary of the Treasury. You don’t have an easy job ahead of you. What’s Happening: Yellen, who, if confirmed by the Senate, would be the first woman in office, will …

[ad_1] In Brooklyn’s waterfront neighborhood of Red Hook, crews are building what will be one of the tallest warehouses on the East Coast.Credit…Hiroko Masuike / The New York Times Retailers are succumbing to the dominance of e-commerce and struggling to save increasingly irrelevant physical shopping spaces by turning them into …

[ad_1] The document: Early today, China successfully launched the Chang’e-5 spacecraft with a Long March-5 rocket at the Wenchang spacecraft launch site, marking the start of the country’s first mission to recover samples of an extraterrestrial body. Do you have any comments? Zhao Lijian: The impressive image of the Chang’e-5 …

[ad_1] The EU has thanked President-elect Joe Biden for his support after he warned Boris Johnson not to undermine the Good Friday Agreement in pursuit of a favorable Brexit deal. Charles Michel, President of the European Council, “thanked the President-elect for his clear support for the Withdrawal Agreement that the …

[ad_1] One percent of the world’s farms operate 70% of farm fields, ranches and orchards, according to a report highlighting the impact of land inequality on climate and natural crises. Since the 1980s, researchers found that control of land has become much more concentrated both directly through ownership and indirectly …

[ad_1] A view of the webinar. / Photo courtesy of CPAFFC A view of the webinar. / Photo courtesy of CPAFFC The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) and the Ethiopian Embassy in China jointly held an online academic seminar on Monday to mark the 50th anniversary …

[ad_1] Updated at 6:15 pm ET The United States has had 77 Treasury Secretaries in the last 231 years. Until now, they have all been men. That is about to change. President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen to head the Treasury Department, a source …

[ad_1] Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky on December 21. It will be the closest they have appeared in 800 years. The two planets align or conjugate every 20 years. But this year they will be so close that they will look like a “double planet”. The …

[ad_1] In the last few months, the Google Phone app has been available for non-Pixel devices and we’ve also seen testing for a new Caller ID advertisement feature. In the midst of all the changes, Google is apparently working on renaming the app as well. According to a post on …

[ad_1] US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday nominated his former aide, Antony Blinken, as secretary of state. But who is he and what will his relationship with Europe be like? Here are nine things to know about him: 1. Europeanist, multilateralist, internationalist Tony Blinken’s ties to Europe are lifelong, deep …