The state of infrastructure talks in Congress, explained (VOX)
U.S. Wants New Trade Talks With China, but Will Keep Tariffs (WSJ)
Britain’s Gas Crisis, Explained (NYT)
The age of fossil-fuel abundance is dead (The Economist)
Tech billionaire: Facebook is what's wrong with America (CNN)
Climate change is getting real for investors (FT)
Power Outages Hit China, Threatening the Economy and Christmas (NYT)
The Supreme Court is drunk on its own power (VOX)
Taiwan Battery-Swapping Pioneer Gogoro to Go Public in SPAC Merger (WSJ)
China Evergrande's rising default risks shift focus to possible Beijing rescue (Reuters)
France recalls envoys from US and Australia in protest at submarine deal (FT)
After Merkel (The Economist)
India's got the next big thing in tech, and it could be worth $1 trillion
Supply chain crisis will leave permanent scar, UPS warns
Secret to Apple’s iPhone Sales Boom: Big 5G Deals From Wireless Carriers
The enormous costs and elusive benefits of the war on terror
Match CEO and Bumble create relief funds for employees affected by Texas abortion law (CNBC)
Alpha Condé, the president of Guinea, is ousted in a coup (The Economist)
Alibaba pledges $15.5 billion to help China achieve 'common prosperity' (CNN)
Japan’s PM Yoshihide Suga to resign after failing to control Covid outbreak (FT)
The future of meetings (The Economist)
Google and Apple's next regulatory headaches are looming across the Pacific (CNN)
More Companies Weigh Penalizing Employees Without Covid-19 Vaccinations (WSJ)
Why Amazon is confronting India's richest man Mukesh Ambani (NYT)
China to ban kids from playing online games for more than three hours per week (CNBC)
George Soros: Investors in Xi’s China face a rude awakening (FT)
FTC files fresh antitrust complaint seeking to break up Facebook (CNN)
OnlyFans says it will ban sexually explicit content (CNN)
Taiwanese shrug off China threat and place their trust in ‘Daddy America’ (FT)
How American retailers have adapted to the Amazon effect (The Economist)
Remote Work May Now Last for Two Years, Worrying Some Bosses (WSJ)
U.S. says it is up to Afghans to defend country as Taliban take more territory
Taliban forces pour into Kabul after president flees Afghanistan
How To Lose $20 Billion In Two Days
DoorDash Revenue Rises 83% as Consumers Stick to Food Delivery
America may pay dearly for defeat in Afghanistan
Why will Taiwan compete as Chinese Taipei at the Olympics in Tokyo? (ABC)
Senators confident trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure deal will be introduced Sunday (CNN)
Why retiring at 65 could become a thing of the past (CNBC)
Square Agrees to Acquire Afterpay for $29 Billion in All-Stock Deal (WSJ)
Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over ‘Black Widow’ Streaming Release (WSJ)
What happens if Supreme Court throws out Roe v. Wade? (CNN)
Tech’s Customer Loyalty Is Priceless Until It Isn’t (WSJ)
Neuroscientific research on monkeys is ethically troubling—but vital (The Economist)
France Passes New Bill to Tighten Control of Mosques (WSJ)
2020 election becomes early dividing line for Republicans in crucial 2022 Senate race in Arizona (CNN)
M.B.A. Programs From Stanford to Columbia and NYU Pass on Hybrid Learning (WSJ)
First Covid-19 Infections Among Athletes in Olympic Village Are Confirmed (WSJ)
Doping is still too common (The Economist)
Make Way for the ‘One-Minute City’ (Bloomberg)
India's government says Twitter should be held liable for what users post (CNN)
Haiti on Brink of Anarchy Amid Hunger, Gang Violence and Power Vacuum (WSJ)
Italy’s government basks in the glow of footballing success (The Economist)
After cracking down on Didi, China probes other US-listed tech giants (CNN)
The latest company caught in the U.S.-China crossfire is ride-hailing giant Didi, which proceeded with a New York listing despite Beijing’s cybersecurity concerns (WSJ)
Didi’s removal from China’s app stores marks a growing crackdown
Dream of working remotely from Hawaii? It’s not all palm trees and surfing (WSJ)
China’s Communist Party at 100: the secret of its longevity (TheEconomist)
Key inflation measure climbs to highest level since 1992 (CNN)
10 big ideas to improve life in small and midsize cities (WSJ)
How Japan’s Big Bet on Hydrogen Could Revolutionize the Energy Market (WSJ)
House lawmakers introduce Big Tech bills that could break up Amazon, Google and others (CNN)
Uneven vaccination rates are creating a new economic divide (The Economist)
Food-delivery apps’ ambitions are bigger than your lunch. They’re after a whole new category of logistics, and are increasingly billing their specialty not as food but as speed and convenience. (WSJ)
China allows its citizens to have a third child (The Economist)
India's Covid-19 catastrophe could make global shortages even worse (CNN)
- China lands a rover on Mars (The Economist)
- Florida governor DeSantis signs bill targeting social media platforms (CNN)
- Here’s a look at what happened to the Ryanair flight and why Belarus was paying attention to Roman Protasevich (WSJ)
Israeli warplanes pound Hamas tunnels as conflict enters second week (CNN)
How to thrive in the shadow of giants (The Economist)
Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police have escalated into a full-blown conflict. Here is a primer on what is going on. (WSJ)
After Years of Quiet, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Exploded. Why Now? (The New York Times)
Welcome to the New Casablancas: The World Cities That Stayed Open (WSJ)
Everyone is worried the economy is 'overheating'. But what does that actually mean? (CNN)
North Korea accuses Joe Biden of pursuing hostile policy over its nuclear programme (BBC)
Private equity is targeting sports. Now fans and players are pushing back (CNN)
Colonial Pipeline hack: What we know about the ransomware cyberattack (WSJ)
Why Latin America’s economy has been so badly hurt by covid-19 (The Economist)
America has locked up supplies of COVID vaccines that it does not need (The Economist)
Apple's major privacy change is here. What you need to know (CNN)
The Biden administration is considering whether to require tobacco companies to reduce the nicotine levels of all cigarettes sold in the U.S. to levels at which they are no longer addictive (WSJ)
Jeff Bezos endorsed higher corporate tax rates. But it won't cost him much (CNN)
Ant Group, the financial-technology giant controlled by billionaire Jack Ma, will apply to become a financial holding company (WSJ)
Another species harmed by climate change: Japanese poets (The Economist)
Bhutan vaccinated almost all its adults against covid-19 in a week (The Economist)
Beijing’s building boom inspires awe in even the staunchest U.S. critics but emulating it is a different story (WSJ)
Supreme Court hands Google a victory in a multibillion-dollar case against Oracle (CNN)
Tokyo Olympics: North Korea to skip Games over Covid-19 fears (BBC)
How Will China Vaccinate 560 Million People? Start With Free Ice Cream (The New York Times)
The industry is rerouting ships and forecasting delays and congestion at ports in the longer term (WSJ)
The container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for six days has been freed, opening the critical waterway, as hopes grow that global supply delays will begin to ease (WSJ)
$300 a day for a Kia Rio. Why rental cars prices have gone insane (CNN)
Will countries boycott China’s Olympics in 2022? (The Economist)
Wondering how much your surgery costs? Some hospitals used embedded code to hide pricing data in search results (WSJ)
NYPD investigating attacks on Asian Americans as potential hate or bias crimes (CNN)
America used to be behind on digital payments. Not any more (Economist)
Stimulus payments will start going out this weekend (CNN)
Here's what's in the Covid relief package (CNN)
Big down payments, tight credit restrictions, low supply: The housing boom Covid launched is the opposite of the one that melted the economy a decade ago (WSJ)
Sarah Everard vigil: Hundreds at central London event despite Priti Patel plea (BBC)
Pakistan: How poverty and exploitation drive child marriages (DW)
China’s Plan for Digital Yuan Imperils Bitcoin’s Biggest Markets (Bloomberg)
US and EU agree to suspend tariffs linked to long-running Boeing-Airbus dispute (CNN)
Auto executives and investors buzz about EVs, but many dealers say battery-powered cars, and even hybrid models, remain a tough sell to mainstream car shoppers (WSJ)
Trying to read body language through a screen has become another exhausting part of the workday. But there are ways to decode the nonverbal cues.
Two of the most powerful economic voices in America disagree on a tax for the uber-rich
China charged ahead with a national digital currency
How China is devastating Australia's billion-dollar wine industry
China Deploys Covid-19 Vaccine to Build Influence, With U.S. on Sidelines
Australia Is Right. Facebook Should Pay Up
The World Will Pay More for Meat as Food Inflation Deepens
What savers do with $2.4 trillion will define the recover
Military applications are up in Australia, Canada, South Korea, while service members are staying in longer in the U.S. and Israel
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When the Dalai Lama dies, his reincarnation will be a religious crisis. Here's what could happen
Clubhouse, Silicon Valley’s latest social-media hit, appears to have been blocked in China, after the app attracted thousands of users who used it to discuss taboo topics like Xinjiang and human rights
Malaysia Censors 'Attack On Titan' Manga With Underwear
Bitcoin is going mainstream. Elon Musk isn't the only reason