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nearly 3,000 delegates filed into Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Tuesday for the opening of China’s annual legislative meeting, none wore face masks. Around them, reporters and diplomats from around the world milled about the cavernous lobby, many invited back for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic four years earlier. But normal in today’s China has a different meaning than before.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

Gail Cornelius, the newly-appointed Regional Director for World Relief Wisconsin, confirmed that 21 people from four different families have arrived in the Chippewa Valley since Feb. 4, 2024. They are from the Congo, Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. World Relief doesn’t know where the remaining 54 refugees will come from until the refugees have been fully vetted, completed all of the security clearances needed and approved by the federal government.
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2 years ago Read more at WEAU

Bezos has a $200 billion fortune thanks to his stake in Amazon, according to data from Bloomberg. Musk has lost $31 billion so far this year as Tesla's stock price has declined 28%. About 84% of Musk's wealth is in his ownership stake in Blue Origin, which was worth $167 billion on Monday.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

Arthur Larson was honored with a party and presented the key to the city as he celebrated his 104th birthday. Arthur said he was proud to reach the milestone, but played it cool on camera. After the war, he went into education and became very active in the Red Cross.
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2 years ago Read more at CBS News

Locals in Papua New Guinea found the SBD Dauntless, a World War II plane, in the jungle last month. The plane went down on Jan. 14, 1944, was reportedly carrying pilot Lt. Billy Ray Ramsey and gunner Sgt. Charlie J. Sciara. U.S. authorities have been made aware of the wreck, SWNS said.
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2 years ago Read more at Fox News

Edward Bond was born in London on July 18, 1934, and his childhood was overshadowed by World War II. His first play, “The Pope’s Wedding,” was staged in 1962 at London's Royal Court Theatre. At the time, plays needed approval from an official known as the Lord Chamberlain. Both “Saved” and “Early Morning” were banned in Britain.
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The exhibition takes its title, World of Yum Yum, from the essay “Glamour Wounds” by Rhonda Lieberman, in which the phrase is given as a moniker to the Chanel boutique where the writer suffers a vivid anxiety attack. At Swiss Institute, Longhi takes up this figure of the commodity’s indifferent and controlling gaze, but instead of resigning the viewer to the cheap illusions that fuel paranoid consumption.
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ANITA DE MONTE LAUGHS LAST, by Xochitl Gonzalez Admirers will encounter in Gonzalez’s follow-up novel, “Olga Dies Dreaming”. Like Olga, they are Latina women of vision and will, who emphatically refuse to be put in a corner. In New York City’s art scene in the 1980s, Anita de Monte’s new heroes occupy overlapping arenas of the art world.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

Lauren Macuga earned two career-best results in this past weekend's Kvitfjell, Norway World Cup. The 21-year-old alpine skier finished seventh then fifth in Saturday and Sunday's super-g races, topping her previous best of 10th. With the results, Macuga also qualifies for the season-ending World Cup Finals. It is her second season on tour, finishing in 122nd last season.
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UN report on sexual violence linked to Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks on Israel released Monday. World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder issued the following statement. No longer can world leaders stay silent about these atrocities.
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2 years ago Read more at World Jewish Congress