Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Authorities in a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia issued a warning on Sunday, one day after a hospital reported a case of suspected bubonic plague. The health committee of the city of Bayan Nur issued the third-level alert, the second-lowest in a four-level system. The alert […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] American rapper Kanye West, a vocal supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, announced on Saturday that he would run for president in 2020 in an apparent challenge to Trump and his presumptive Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. It was not immediately clear if West was serious about […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messaging service said on Monday it had “paused” processing law enforcement requests for user data in Hong Kong. WhatsApp is “pausing” such reviews “pending further assessment of the impact of the National Security Law, including formal human rights due diligence and consultations with human rights experts,” […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A U.S. Army private who according to federal prosecutors confessed to his role in plotting a deadly attack on his own military unit pleaded not guilty to charges he shared secret information about the unit with a neo-Nazi group. Ethan Melzer, 22, entered his plea on Monday before U.S. […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] U.S. services industry activity rebounded sharply in June, almost returning to its pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, but a resurgence in coronavirus cases that has forced some restaurants and bars to close again threatens the emerging recovery. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said its non-manufacturing activity index jumped to a […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Trump administration on Monday said it was releasing the names of hundreds of thousands of businesses that took money from a high-profile $660 billion pandemic aid program, letting the public see for the first time how the majority of the cash was spent and whether it helped save […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The U.S. Supreme Court refused to free “faithless electors” in the complex Electoral College system that decides the outcome of presidential elections from state laws that force them to support the candidate who wins the state’s popular vote. The justices unanimously rejected the idea that electors, who act on […]
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Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] On Tuesday Beijing’s top legislature officially passed new national security legislation for Hong Kong in a unanimous vote. At the time of its passage not many official details were known, besides claims from the mainland government that the new law would deal with issues of subversion, terrorism, separatism and […]
Ian Patrick and Madeline Sponsler for FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Russians opened the door to Vladimir Putin staying in power until 2036 by voting overwhelmingly for constitutional changes that will allow him to run again for president twice, but critics said the outcome was falsified on an industrial scale. Official results published on Thursday, after […]
