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National security adviser Robert O'Brien initially focused on China as an ideological threat. FBI Director Christopher Wray next addressed espionage. Attorney General William Barr did the economics piece. And then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo batted cleanup and pulled it all together in a full frontal attack delivered on July 23 at the Nixon Library in California -- providing an uncomfortable bookend to the opening up of US-China relations that President Richard Nixon initiated with his historic visit to China in 1972. … [Read more...] about Opinion: America’s Gang of Four has spoken, but it doesn’t understand US-China reality

Beyond its enormous population, the Golden State’s pandemic troubles can largely be chalked up to two factors: (1) an exceptionally high number of coronavirus cases among Latinos, who are more likely to live in multi-generational homes and to work higher-risk, “essential” jobs, and (2) a surge in cases in Orange County, formerly a bastion of conservatism in deep-blue California and the epicenter of the state’s anti-lockdown protests. Unsurprisingly, resistance, denial and doubt about COVID-19 run deep in the OC, California’s anti-mask hotspot. … [Read more...] about Thanks to red states, the world views America with shock and pity

Buzz Aldrin, lived in a quaint Emerald Bay ocean-view cottage. John Steinbeck rented a room in a small shingled cottage on Park Avenue for $15 a month with his wife before he was a known author. Bette Middler lived in the Norman House that houses the Pirate's Tower of Victoria Beach in the late 1980s. Bette Davis also called the Norman House home in the 1920s. … [Read more...] about Laguna Beach Among Top 30 Charming Beach Towns In America

The Trump administration's donation of 2 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to Brazil -- one of a handful of countries that still recommend the drug for Covid-19 -- has been mostly untouched since arrival, Brazilian officials have told CNN. Vast quantities of the pills are still sitting in storage in the Brazilian megacity of São Paulo, and one former health minister believes they may eventually have to be destroyed. … [Read more...] about The US sent Brazil millions of hydroxychloroquine doses. Months later, they’re still in storage

During a televised press conference immediately after his meeting with Mandetta, Bolsonaro called the departure a "consensual divorce" and part of a "transition." He praised the work Mandetta had done but insisted the economy and health at this moment should be treated like two illnesses. "You can't treat one and ignore the other." … [Read more...] about Brazil President Bolsonaro replaces health minister