[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Disney’s release of “Mulan” has provoked a backlash on social media over its star’s support of Hong Kong police and for being partly filmed in a controversial region in China.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A Saudi Arabian court jailed eight unnamed people with sentences between seven and 20 years for the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to state media. The trial was criticized by a U.N. official and human rights campaigners who said the masterminds of the murder remained free.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Creatures of the Amazon, one of the earth’s most biodiverse habitats, face an ever-growing threat as loggers and farms advance further and further into the rainforest. In the dry season, ranchers and land speculators set fires to clear deforested woodland for pasture.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Ill-timed bets on rising demand have Exxon Mobil facing a shortfall of about $48 billion dollars through 2021. Wall Street investors are starting to worry about the seemingly invincible dividend at Exxon.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The world’s number one ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the  U.S. Open after striking a line judge in the throat. Djokovic hit her inadvertently, and he quickly rushed to apologize, but it was a clear breach of Grand Slam rules.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Music from a destroyed church echoed through Beirut this week to mourn those lost in the August 4 port explosion and to pray for those who were wounded.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The United States military announced that it would be reducing its presence in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000 troops this month, formalizing a move that had been long expected.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] New York Attorney General Letitia James moved to form a grand jury to investigate the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after Rochester police officers used a hood and pinned him to the pavement to restrain him.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The U.S. Rockies braced for an extreme swing in weather conditions early this week. Forecasters warned of a winter storm bringing heavy snow and damaging winds, just one day after the region sweltered through mid-90-degree temperatures.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The “Lucy” project “will be the first space mission to study the Trojans” according to NASA, and will begin its journey in October of 2021. The current plan is for the spacecraft to make a twelve-year long journey that will explore and research the diversity of eight different asteroids from the two […]