The coronavirus pandemic chilled real estate markets across the U.S., but it didn’t stop the surging demand for property in Turks and Caicos. As real estate elsewhere has dropped, the Caribbean nation has seen records broken despite the global pandemic, according to Mauricio Umansky, founder and CEO of real estate firm The Agency. “We have definitely seen some extraordinary prices,” he told […] Read more

China has found the trading sections for meat and seafood in Beijing’s wholesale food market to be severely contaminated with the new coronavirus and suspects the area’s low temperature and high humidity may have been contributing factors, officials said on Thursday. Their preliminary report comes as the country’s capital tackles a resurgence of COVID-19 cases […] Read more

Twenty Indian soldiers were killed in clashes with Chinese troops high in the Himalayas, the Indian army said Tuesday, marking the most serious conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbors in decades. The deaths occurred in the mountainous region of Ladakh where India and China share a disputed – but largely peaceful – border. No Indian […] Read more

If you want to understand why China will attack us, the place to start is the old U.S. Department of War film, Know Your Enemy: Japan, made the last time we were attacked by a major Asian power that was transitioning from its feudal past. The Japanese in WWII were driven by their creation myth which says […] Read more

The Ole Miss football team has every intention of filling Vaught-Hemingway Stadium to full capacity this upcoming season, according to a memo sent out to season ticket holders and a social media post on Monday. If capacity is limited, Ole Miss is taking precautions and is making plans on how it will decide to fill […] Read more

Russia and China have started making the case at the United Nations against Washington’s claim that it can trigger a return of all sanctions on Iran at the Security Council, with Moscow invoking a 50-year-old international legal opinion to argue against the move. The United Nations Headquarters is pictured as it will be temporarily closed […] Read more

It had only been two days since Lilliannia Ayers reopened her Queen Hippie Gypsy store in downtown Oakland, California, before her front window was smashed and her storefront was spray painted Friday. On Saturday night, she and neighbors stayed up all night to protect their stores – hopeful the protest movements across the U.S. would […] Read more

In March, as the coronavirus outbreak began to spread rapidly across the U.S., colleges sent students home and transitioned to online instruction for the rest of the semester. Now, as colleges wrap up classes and hold virtual graduation ceremonies, the question remains whether students can safely return to campuses in the fall. Though public-health officials have […] Read more

Proving its word worthless, Beijing is moving to crush Hong Kong’s liberties 27 years ahead of schedule, in blatant violation of the deal that saw Britain hand rule of the city over to the mainland. Specifically, China has ordered the national legislature to pass a new law for Hong Kong, bypassing the island’s Legislative Council. Put […] Read more