China launched a lunar probe on Friday to land on the far side of the Moon, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed the repeal of a Civil War-Era ban on nearly abortions in the state and St. Thomas President Rob Vischer sent an email to all students addressing protests on college campuses. Kevin Strus has today’s News in :90.
Police removed barricades and began dismantling pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, a highway collapse in China killed 36 and new data shows that pregnancy-related deaths have fallen to pre-pandemic levels. Kendall Shostak has today’s News in :90.
The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok if its China-based owner doesn’t sell, as lawmakers acted on concerns that the company’s current ownership structure is a national security threat.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had a “long and meaningful” phone conversation. The Minnesota House is debating a “red flag law” to allow the temporary confiscation of guns from people judged to be an immediate threat to themselves or others. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the case of a 94-year-old woman who lost her one-bedroom condo in minneapolis over 2,300 dollars in unpaid taxes, interest and penalties.
The number of people applying for unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell for third straight week. For the second day in a row, China on Wednesday dismissed U.S. suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic may have been triggered by a virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory. A transgender woman was brutally assaulted near a light rail station in Minneapolis, suffering serious injuries including a rib fracture, collapsed lung and brain bleed.
Russia announced it will cut oil production by 500,000 barrels per day next month, rescuers pulled several people alive from the shattered remnants of buildings in Turkey and Syria and China dismissed a U.S. House of Representatives resolution condemning Beijing over a a suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down above U.S. waters. Owen Larson has today’s News in :90.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The China balloon shot down by the U.S. was equipped to detect and collect intelligence signals as part of a huge, military-linked aerial surveillance program that targeted more than 40 countries, the Biden administration declared Thursday, citing imagery from American U-2 spy planes.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Using underwater drones, warships and inflatable vessels, the Navy is carrying out an extensive operation to gather all of the pieces of the massive Chinese spy balloon a U.S. fighter jet shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday.
The head of NATO expressed his worry that the fighting in Ukraine could spin out of control and become a war between Russia and NATO, according to an interview released Friday. Democratic Sentator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced Friday that she has registered as an independent, a move that could bolster her political brand but won’t upend the Democrats’ narrow senate majority. Sinema says she will not caucus with Republicans. A rash of COVID-19 cases in schools and businesses were reported Friday in areas across China after the ruling Communist party loosened anti-virus rules as it tries to reverse a deepening economic slump. Sam Larson has today’s News in :90.
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday, ensuring Democrats an outright majority in the Senate for the
rest of President Joe Biden’s current term and capping an underwhelming midterm cycle for the GOP in the last major vote of the year. Many international students at St. Thomas are going home for the upcoming J-term break for the first time since being at St. Thomas. Yet, some have felt at home at St. Thomas due to various outreach groups attempting to connect them. China rolled back rules on isolating people with COVID-19 and dropped virus test requirements for some public places Wednesday in a dramatic change to a strategy that confined millions of people to their homes and sparked protests and demands for President Xi Jinping to resign. Cam Kauffman has today’s News in :90.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Concerned relatives raced to hospitals in search of their loved ones Sunday as South Korea mourned the deaths of more than 150 people, mostly in their 20s and 30s, who got trapped and crushed after a huge Halloween party crowd surged into a narrow alley in a nightlife district in Seoul.
The U.S. economy grew at a 2.6% annual rate from July through September, a Spanish-based non-government group Safeguard Defenders published a report accusing China of establishing dozens of “overseas police stations” and an individual was arrested outside Flynn Hall Wednesday afternoon. Adam Mueller has today’s News in :90.
The University of St. Thomas’ St. Paul campus was unintentionally included in a shelter-in-place alert Tuesday morning. The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine. A man who was intoxicated when he drove his SUV into a crowd of protesters in Minneapolis last year, has pleaded guilty to murder and assault just as his trial was set to begin. Mackenna Meyers has today’s News in :90.
Over the past year, the infamous fast fashion brand SHEIN has surpassed other major fast fashion brands, such as H&M and Zara. SHEIN is known for its insanely low prices and variety of clothing options. Although that sounds tempting enough, the issue is majorly in the low labor wages in China, as well as the extremely unsustainable measures to tailor these items. SHEIN is just one of the many fast fashion brands that has gained popularity. It seems as though everyone acknowledges how unsustainable these brands are, yet no one seems to stop buying from them. Reporter Macy Berendsen argues we need to pay more attention to the fast fashion crisis.
The World Press Institute will resume its 57th annual journalism fellowship program on March 18, which will house journalists at St. Thomas for three weeks before the fellows travel around the United States, ending May 21.
