The Seattle City Council introduced a new proposal Tuesday to tax the largest companies in the city, the latest in a series of attempts to capture some of the wealth generated by Amazon, Expedia, and other big businesses to address critical challenges.
The Seattle Times reported Monday that the latest models from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IMHE) suggest the state will hit "peak resource use" on April 2 and project daily COVID-19 deaths will peak Monday, before dropping to 18 deaths per day during April 7-9 and declining slowly from there.
The Scientific Research Center in the Barzeh neigborhood northeast of Damascus, after Saturday's missile strikes by the US, the UK and France. [Photo/Xinhua]
The Qingjing Mosque in Quanzhou, Fujian, is important to Chinese Muslims. [Photo by Hu Meidong/China Daily]
The President also outlined a new round of practical and effective measures aimed at further opening up China's markets. Against the anti-trade headwind, these measures are a vote in favour of globalisation and a call for the international community to unite in upholding free trade. Opening up has been key to our economic growth, and it will continue to be in future.
The ROK President Moon Jae-in ordered his top security advisor Chung Eui-yong to consult with the US side on the launch of negotiations about the amendment of the ROK-US missile guideline, senior presidential press secretary Yoon Young-chan told a press briefing.
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The Republican National Convention, which starts Monday, will give Trump and his party a chance to reject the Democratic critique, claim success against the virus and its economic consequences, paint the demonstrators as "dangerous radicals" and describe why a second term is warranted, Jillson said.
The Pentagon has a long record of pioneering technologies through its Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. That?agency works on national security?technologies that may (or may not) result in commercial?spin-offs, and it’s provided a model for the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program as well as the Energy Department’s ARPA-E program. In contrast, DIUx will look at practices and technologies that were created by the private sector?and could be quickly?adapted for?national defense.
The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance has announced that by the end of 2022 all of their new vehicles in China will feature its Alliance Connected Cloud.
The Qingdao Haier Co Ltd said its net profit in the first half of the year grew 10 percent to 4.86 billion yuan (2.5 million). [Photo/VCG]