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Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.) said Monday that his family went from "cotton to Congress in one lifetime," a testament to America's greatness and potential.

Three people were hurt in a shooting August 24, 2020, in Austin. | Sun-Times file photo

They were on the sidewalk when someone got out of an SUV and fired shots at them, police said.

Raigad building collapse: 1 dead, 7 injured, search still on for 16

Bolivia's San Cristóbal mine, a huge deposit of zinc, lead and silver, has suspended operations for a second time due to the coronavirus outbreak, it said on Monday, as Covid-19 infections continued to spread in the landlocked South American nation. The company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan's Sumitomo, had previously suspended operations in March, before resuming production in May.

Paris St-Germain are on the lookout for a new right-back this transfer window and Arsenal are open to a deal that would see Hector Bellerin leave the Gunners before the end of the summer

ustin Smoak homered and drove in three runs as the Milwaukee Brewers cooled off Trevor Bauer and snapped a four-game skid with a 4-2 victory

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - City and law enforcement leaders in Kenosha, Wisconsin, unanimously endorsed the use of body cameras in 2017 as a way to increase police accountability and collect evidence at scenes of domestic violence, among other benefits.

The government has extended by two months the deadline for placing bids for Air India till October 30 as the Covid-19 fallout has disrupted economic activity globally.

SYDNEY, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Australia's largest city Sydney launched a COVID-19 testing blitz this week in an attempt to "mop up" lingering virus infections, primarily in the city's western suburbs

We are two weeks into a stricter lockdown, which Treasury estimates is costing the country $500 million a week and many jobs, and the Government refuses to take any responsibility, National’s Finance spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “The most ...

U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) stands on stage in an empty Mellon Auditorium while addressing the Republican National Convention at the Mellon Auditorium on August 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. The novel coronavirus pandemic has forced the Republican Party to move away from an in-person convention to a televised format, similar to the Democratic Party’s convention a week earlier. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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If you fear Donald Trump, you should be afraid of what happened at the Republican National Convention on Monday night. Instead of base pandering and fan service (as Trump almost exclusively does at rallies), the focus was on bringing home suburban  Republicans who have become disenchanted by him—something he will probably have to do if he is to be re-elected.  

A six-member task force appointed to end the political conflict between Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and former Maoist leader Prachanda has suggested a formula for the road ahead.

Luis Rubio, Worldcrunch

MEXICO CITY — Resentment, especially of the poor toward the rich, is nothing new. Nor is there any novelty in politicians exploiting grievances, both real and imagined. Isocrates, a great orator of the 4th century BC, deplored hostility but recognized it as a typical emotion in democracy. Jeremy Engels, author of The Politics of Resentment, notes...

Economist

People from weak democracies are increasingly likely to support autocrats.

David Muir, The American Interest

David Stasavage’s new global history of democracy argues that it is neither a Western invention nor as fragile as today’s cynics think.

Ray Burke, Irish Times

Gordon Chang, National Interest

A crisis now simmering in the contested South China Sea, the eventual result of poor decisions in the Obama administration, could tell us a lot about Biden’s China policies.

Clyde Prestowitz, The American Conservative

Beijing was never going to democratize because of open markets. They have merely used them to push their authoritarian designs.

Council on Foreign Relations

For more than two millennia, monarchs who ruled China proper saw their country as one of the dominant actors in the world. The concept of zhongguo—the Middle Kingdom, as China calls itself—is not simply geographic. It implies that China is the cultural, political, and economic center of the world. This Sino-centrist worldview...

Lee Jones, Spectator
It is hard to remember now, but just five years ago David Cameron's No. 10 was declaring a 'golden era' of Sino-British ties. Now the US sees China as a 'strategic rival' and Britain has joined a growing coalition of Western nations attempting to limit Beijing's power. There are certainly good reaso...

C. Sabatini, Chatham House

The recent spate of sanctions limiting US travel to Cuba announced by the White House and the news that the Cuban regime has re-opened US dollar stores have sharpened the question: do sanctions work and when? Central to that question is how would they work?

Guy Sorman, City Journal

Michael Auslin, an historian at the Hoover Institution, argues that the United States has no global strategy to contain China’s overwhelming ambitions. Moreover, he believes, the U.S. does not understand the collective destiny of Asia. Local agreements, whether economic or military, with India, the Philippines, or Japan cannot balance the power of Beijing, which aims to control this part of the world.

Sam Greene, Moscow on Thames

I’m struggling to decide whether the recent events surrounding Aleksei Navalny are more macabre, or more absurd. For the moment, at least, I’m going with macabre. That seems the only reasonable conclusion, when the man is still at death’s door.