USMCA, the replacement of Trump’s NAFTA took effect on July 1, 2020. Trump praised the USMCA and Nancy Pelosi signed the agreement because they both assumed that production would move to the United States. However, instead of moving plants to the United States, auto companies in Japan will triple the …
Read More »UN expert sees US drone attack on Iran’s Soleimani as “illegal” murder
GENEVA (Reuters) – The US drone attack in January in Iraq that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and nine other people represented a violation of international law, a UN human rights investigator said Monday. FILE PHOTO: A supporter of Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah takes photos of the late …
Read More »Phoenix police shot and killed a man in a parked car, sparking further protests.
The video shows police threatening to shoot the man before firing a hail of bullets at the vehicle. Police said the man was armed with a gun, but his sister denies it. The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office has not released the man’s autopsy results and has released no information …
Read More »CHART: Where COVID-19 is spreading faster as cases in the United States increased 27% last week
By Chris Canipe and Lisa Shumaker July 6 (Reuters) – The United States experienced a 27% increase in new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending July 5 compared to the previous seven days, with 24 states reporting positive test rates above the level that the World Health Organization has …
Read More »Two-dimensional semiconductors were found to be an almost ideal fractional quantum Hall platform
A monolayer semiconductor is found to be a near-ideal platform for the fractional quantum Hall state: a quantum liquid emerging under large perpendicular magnetic fields. The image illustrates the WSe2 monolayer that houses “compound fermions,” a quasi-particle that forms due to strong interactions between electrons and is responsible for the …
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