President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his administration will require employees at nursing homes to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of the facilities participating in the Medicare and Medicaid government healthcare programs.
A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, who had been detained in mainland China after trying to flee the city by boat, was found guilty on Thursday of conspiracy to commit collusion with a foreign country in a national security case.
The federal appeals court in New York on Monday extended police powers during street and traffic stops in an extraordinary opinion permeated with issues of race, although the majority took great pains to point out that their decision did not mention race at all.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio urged President Joe Biden on Tuesday to block short-form video app TikTok in the United States after China took an ownership stake in a key subsidiary of ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of TikTok.
Brazilian prosecutors asked a bankruptcy court on Wednesday to compel miners Vale SA (VALE3.SA) and BHP Group Ltd (BHP.AX) to fully pay offtheir Samarco joint venture's 50.7 billion reais ($9.47 billion) debt, according to a court document reviewed by Reuters.