[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Months after eliminating a popular challenge to its rule in Hong Kong, China is turning to an even higher-stakes target: self-governing Taiwan. The island has been bracing for conflict with China for decades, and in some respects, that battle has now begun. It’s not the final, titanic clash that Taiwan has long feared, […]

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] China said on Thursday it would revoke visa exemption treatment for U.S. diplomatic passport holders visiting Hong Kong and Macau after the United States imposed financial sanctions and a travel ban on more than a dozen Chinese officials. Beijing will also implement reciprocal sanctions against some U.S. officials, members of Congress, personnel at […]

Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Last week FISM News reported Texas Senator Ted Cruz was pushing for the Supreme Court to hear an emergency appeal challenging the PA election results issued by Pennsylvania Republicans. The appeal alleged that the expansion of absentee voting in the state was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has since denied […]

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is banned from attending the Olympic Games as head of his country’s National Olympic Committee (NOC) as part of provisional sanctions imposed by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC banned two other officials from the NOC, including Lukashenko’s son, Viktor, who is the first vice president of the national […]

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said Congress should pass a U.S. coronavirus relief package without either the business liability protections that Republicans want or the aid to state and local governments that is a Democratic priority. “What I recommend is we set aside liability and set aside state and local, and […]

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Tuesday Britain began mass-vaccinating its people in a global drive that poses one of the biggest logistical challenges in peacetime history. Health workers started inoculating the most vulnerable with the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, with the country a test case for the world as it contends with distributing a compound that […]

Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito rescheduled a deadline for Pennsylvania officials to respond to a lawsuit filed against them by PA Republican lawmakers. The original lawsuit was filed against the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, which denied the Republicans’ challenge to a 2019 law known as Act 77 that allowed […]