Amtrak’s top executives received six-figure incentive bonuses in 2021, their biggest payouts in years, despite the service’s lackluster financial …
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U.S. Seeks to Reassure Asian Allies as China’s Military Grows Bolder
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Just a few hours after five Chinese missiles blasted into Japanese waters near Taiwan, the foreign ministers of China and …
Continue readingAs Missiles Fall, Generations Split on Taiwan’s Relationship With China
KINMEN COUNTY, Taiwan — The San Jiao Fort cafe on Kinmen Island may well be the best place in Taiwan to watch for the threat of invasion by China …
Continue readingWelcome to Soccer’s Strangest Season
Gian Piero Ventrone surveyed his handiwork with just the hint of a smile. A few minutes earlier, Ventrone, Tottenham Hotspur’s fitness coach, had …
Continue readingGloomy about the economy and inflation, Americans remain upbeat about jobs.
Americans are worried about inflation, pessimistic about the economy overall and upset about the way their leaders are handling it. But they …
Continue readingA job market slowdown is expected as the Federal Reserve taps the brakes.
For months, as inflation has risen and the Federal Reserve has acted aggressively to tamp it down, a question has hovered over the monthly …
Continue reading‘Captain Condom’ Turned the Tide in Thailand’s War on AIDS and Overpopulation
BANGKOK — Mechai Viravaidya twice saw Thailand in desperate trouble — first from a ruinous population explosion and then from the AIDS epidemic …
Continue readingIn ‘A League of Their Own,’ Abbi Jacobson Makes the Team
Abbi Jacobson really can play baseball, she insisted. Just not when the cameras are rolling. “I fully get the yips when someone is watching me …
Continue readingHow Republicans Are ‘Weaponizing’ Public Office Against Climate Action
Nearly two dozen Republican state treasurers around the country are working to thwart climate action on state and federal levels, fighting …
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