[aggregation-styles] The Wall Street Journal Subscription When China curtailed political freedoms in Hong Kong this summer, two rival declarations circulated at the United Nations Human Rights Council. One, drafted by Cuba and commending Beijing’s move, won the backing of 53 nations. Another, issued by the U.K. and expressing concern, secured...

[aggregation-styles] Reuters Armenia said on Thursday it had recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations over Israeli arms sales to Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan has acknowledged using Israeli-made weapons in its fighting with ethnic Armenian forces around Nagorno-Karabakh, where heavy clashes this week have drawn international calls for an immediate ceasefire. Protesting...

[aggregation-styles] CBC News It was early on in the coronavirus pandemic that UK British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he had contracted the deadly COVID-19 virus, and the news prompted a wave of sympathy from around the world. Now, just over six months later, as a coronavirus cases are...

[aggregation-styles] CNN The Trump administration has informed Congress it intends to accept only 15,000 refugees this fiscal year, a new historic low for the US. Since coming into office in 2017, the Trump administration has increasingly slashed the annual refugee cap, which determines how many may enter the US, to...

[aggregation-styles] CBS News Virtual learning can be hard, especially with multiple kids at home. Three dads from California saw a problem when their children didn't have a designated space to do virtual learning and were getting distracted. So, they built a solution. Fernando Rivera came up with the idea to...

[aggregation-styles] Yahoo! News The outgoing head of MI6 has said the West “got it wrong” on China. Sir Alex Younger warned that a major mistake was the assumption, held for the past two decades, that the Chinese Communist Party would become more like the West as it “matured”. He said:...

[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Subscription SACRAMENTO — With Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature, California became the first state government in the country on Wednesday to adopt a law to study and develop proposals for potential reparations to descendants of enslaved people and those impacted by slavery. Newsom said the new law...

[aggregation-styles] USA Today Many teachers and families feared a spike in COVID-19 cases when Florida made the controversial push to reopen schools in August with in-person instruction. A USA TODAY analysis shows the state’s positive case count among kids ages 5 to 17 declined through late September after a peak...

[aggregation-styles] CNN A swarm of small earthquakes hit Southern California's Imperial Valley on Wednesday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Dozens of small earthquakes ranging from 2.5 to 4.9 magnitude happened around 4 p.m. Wednesday near the city of Westmorland, southeast of the Salton Sea. Westmorland is...

[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times After more than six months of struggles amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Hollywood issued a dire message about the state of the movie theater industry — the nation’s cinemas “may not survive” without help. Dozens of famous filmmakers, including Judd Apatow, James Cameron, Greta Gerwig, Christopher Nolan,...