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Rabbi Moshe Kurtz shares the prayer he delivered before a recent Allentown City Council meeting.

Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents late Thursday night, and the reaction from the media class has been far more revealing than the arrest itself. The post Don Lemon Getting Himself Arrested Proves Traditional ‘Journalism’ Is Just an Echo Chamber of Weirdos appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Thimble, Skye, Ping and Ophelia are looking for a home. Could it be yours?

A publisher kindly offered me an opportunity to interview Eyck Freymann, a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University, and to review his new book, Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China. I think I must decline. I am sure he is a great scholar and thinker but I already have too many unread books on the shelves demanding my attention, a constant accusing presence reminding me what a slow and lazy reader I am. And Taiwan? I don’t think I want to waste time engaging with the indoctrinating...

As dwindling domestic profits push more Chinese firms onto the global stage, industry titans – forerunners who know what such a shift entails – are offering crucial advice for navigating challenges abroad. “The most important thing is to become a local company,” said Zhu Lei, chief marketing officer for air conditioner giant Gree Electric Appliances, which was among the first Chinese companies to enter the Latin American market. The advice comes as Chinese firms are expected to ramp up their...

As of January, Zambia has begun collecting taxes and royalties from Chinese mining firms in yuan, and will cycle the currency directly back to Beijing to fund imports and service loans. Experts said the shift reflected the southern African country’s urgent need to ease a US dollar shortage and manage debt, rather than geopolitical alignment, but also a quiet advance for China’s long-term strategy to internationalise its currency. It had also created a tangible blueprint for other resource-rich,...

Javi Gracia resigns as Watford manager after just over three months in job.

Cambodia has carried out a massive raid on scammer gangs, detaining more than 2,000 people amid pressure from China to crack down on its online fraud industry. Nearly 1,800 Chinese nationals were among those held, according to the Cambodian interior ministry. A ministry statement said that Cambodian police had conducted a large-scale enforcement operation on Saturday morning at an online fraud compound in Bavet, the largest city in the southeastern province of Svay Rieng, which borders...

A second round of talks between Russian, Ukrainian and US officials on a US-drafted plan to end the nearly four-year Ukraine war will begin on Wednesday, instead of on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

The partial government shutdown that started Saturday is vastly different from the record closure in the fall.

Watch the moment Carlos Alcaraz beats Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open final to claim his seventh major title, becoming the youngest man to win a career Grand Slam.

Watch the moment Carlos Alcaraz beats Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open final to claim his seventh major title, becoming the youngest man to win a career Grand Slam.