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At a heated town hall meeting in May, Caroline Kim stood in front of city leaders and some of the highest ranking officers at the Dallas Police Department ...

National-security experts say the new Biden administration restrictions are among the toughest the United States has enacted.

The story of a TV protest by the Falun Gong movement, and its painful aftermath, is told through the eyes of exiled Chinese comic-book artist Daxiong
Here is a vivid, troubling documentary that reconstructs how in the northeastern city of Changchun in March 2002. The group were followers of a , labelled an “evil cult” by the ruling Communist party.
Watching archive footage of a Falun Gong gathering, it’s hard to see what all the fuss was about: hundreds of followers in a public square silently practising sequences of gentle movements; it looks like a tai chi class. But Falun Gong’s growing popularity spooked the government, enough to outlaw the group in 1999. On the night of the TV hijacking, followers replaced the teatime news with a pro-Falun Gong message.

With this "radical majority" controlling the U.S. Supreme Court, warns Congresswoman Judy Chu, "Everything we care about is at risk." ...

In today’s newsletter: As China’s president heads into his third consecutive term, the country marches into the unknown. What can we expect next?
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Good morning. Yesterday, Jeremy Hunt enacted what the Guardian’s political correspondent, Peter Walker, described as a . Hunt gutted Liz Truss’s mini-budget, discarding all but two elements of her plan and, in a final blow to her legitimacy, scaled back the energy package that Truss announced in September. The energy price guarantee will only be universal until April – rather than 2024 – making a mockery of at the paucity of the Labour offering. So come April, voters will be facing higher mortgage payments, higher energy bills, and rising inflation all at the same time.
Go to the to read more about Truss’s desperate attempts to keep her job as prime minister. Today’s newsletter will, in contrast, take a close look at a leader who has no problem staying in power.
NHS | The head of the General Medical Council, Charlie Massey, said that has meant that thousands of doctors are being stopped from working in overstretched GP surgeries across the UK.
Russia | At least 13 people have died after a , that took off near the border with Ukraine, crashed into a residential building in the Russian town of Yeysk. The crash happened on the same day that Russia used nearly 30 kamikaze drones to launch a sustained air attack on Kyiv.
China | The UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, is being urged to take action after a pro-democracy protester was reportedly the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester and attacked.
Technology | The rightwing social media network Parler has announced that rapper Kanye West . The move to buy Parler comes after a series of antisemitic outbursts on social media that led to his account being blocked from posting on Instagram and Twitter.
Greece | The shocking discovery of 92 naked refugees, including children, on Greece’s land border with Turkey for an investigation from the United Nations.

Comments by US secretary of state come after Xi told Communist party Congress Taiwan is core to plans for China’s ‘rejuvenation’
China’s government is pursuing its plans to annex Taiwan on a “much faster timeline” under Xi Jinping, the US secretary of state has said, reiterating warnings of global economic disruption if Taiwan was taken over.
The comments by Antony Blinken come as China’s ruling Communist party , the most important meeting of its political cycle. opening the conclaves on Sunday, Xi made clear that his plans for Taiwan remain core to his plans of China’s “rejuvenation”.

As we count down the days to the U.S. midterm elections, races to determine control of Congress are tightening across the country. That’s certainly the ...

This misnomer has its roots partly in the label “Asian American,” a term first coined just 54 years ago as a means of resisting oppression faced in the U.S. and representing cultures, peoples, ...

The success of Yu Ming Charter School shows how our usual ways of thinking about diversity and equity in American schools are becoming outmoded.