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Having lived in Beijing for almost 12 years, I've had plenty of time to travel widely in China.

Bringing the second day of this year's Coachella to a close, K-Pop girl group Blackpink made history Saturday night when they became the first Asian act to ever headline the festival. To a crowd of, reportedly, over 125,000 people, Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé used the ground-breaking moment to pay homage to Korean heritage by arriving onstage in hanboks: a traditional type of dress.

So far this tax season, the IRS has received more than 90 million income tax returns for 2022.

The New Republic reports President Donald Trump is feeling his rage these days, and it appears to be coming from a predictable source.“Judging by Trump’s outbursts of late, he can’t seem to decide whether reopening the Strait of Hormuz is easy or hard. He also can’t seem to decide whether he needs international allies to help with this urgent task or not,” said TNR writer Greg Sargent. “Iran’s blockade on oil shipments exiting the strait — done in response to Trump’s attack — is causing worsening global consequences daily. So it would be useful for Trump to settle these arguments in his own mind alre

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt says he’s been a Republican for nearly 30 years, long enough to see it’s sad “devolution” over the last few.“Yesterday, was the 172nd anniversary of the Republican party being born in 1854,” Schmidt wrote on his Saturday Substack. “Horace Greeley, one of its founders, promised that it would be ‘the greatest party for freedom the world had ever seen.’”The party, he points out, was born in the 1850s “in opposition to the expansion of slavery.”“It was the party of Abraham Lincoln, the party that prosecuted the Am

New York Times columnists Michelle Cottle, Jamelle Bouie and James French could not fathom the disconnect between Republicans who watching their fortunes sink in November and their fealty to the man determined to sink them.The argument on Saturday touched upon the puzzling determination of House and Senate GOP to press for the unpassable SAVE Act — and their willingness to deep-six other legislation in a bid to support it for the favor of President Donald Trump.“This is Trump’s obsession,” said Bouie. “… [Trump] is still incredibly bitter about the 2020 election. He still complains about not winning the popular vote in the 2016 election. It’s like a fundamental injury to his ego that he has lost an election and he blames everything but himself. And so, it’s his personal obsession. And the Republican P

The New York Times rarely resorts to the word “lie” when it comes to U.S. president, but the editorial board did not mince words on Saturday when it accused President Donald Trump of nonstop lying about his war with Iran on Saturday. “From his first announcement of the attack on Iran on Feb. 28, President Trump has issued a stream of falsehoods about the war,” said the Times. “He has said Iran wants to engage in negotiations, though its government shows no sign of it. He has claimed that the United States ‘destroyed 100 percent of Iran’s Military capability’ when Tehran continues to inflict damage throug

The grand jury subpoena earlier this month that led the Arizona Senate to give the U.S. Department of Justice terabytes of data, including images of ballots, related to the legislative chamber’s partisan review of the 2020 election shows that federal investigators sought virtually all of the records from that “audit.”The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona sent the request to Senate President Warren Petersen on March 5, just over two weeks after former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the state, spreading election fraud claims while stumping for Republican voting legislation that would disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Slate Senior Editor Dahlia Lithwick and legal writer Mark Stern say there may be a reckoning underway among the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court.The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with plans to deport roughly 6,000 Syrians and 350,000 Haitians who were granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by Presidents Obama, Biden, and Trump himself in his first administration, which is a contradiction to conservatives’ apparent eagerness to give President Donald Trump his way on the shadow docket while the case plays itself out in court.Stern said it was the right thi

It was an off-the-cuff moment, but the Guardian reports that when President Donald Trump revealed that Rep. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.) would have been “dead by June” if not for White House doctors, many were shocked by his disclosure.The Guardian reports Trump let slip the comments during “a meandering presser” with House speaker Mike Johnson, and Johnson’s response suggested he was taken aback by the reveal.“OK, that wasn’t public,

States were on notice from the U.S. Department of Justice that if they didn’t fall in line, the federal government would force them into compliance.It wasn’t President Donald Trump’s administration applying pressure. It was the early 1990s, and President Bill Clinton had signed the “motor voter” law requiring states to offer voter registration when someone applies for a driver’s license.Idaho, with its fiercely independent streak, didn’t want to participate. So instead of going along with the federal government’s new National Voter Registration Act, state legislators followed the recommendation of Idaho’s top election officials and scrambled for a way out. Because the federal voter law said states with same-day voter registration could be exempt, Idaho lawmaker

White House advisor Stephen Miller is a liar, but he did tell the truth one time. Well, he said something with truth hidden inside it, but you had to squint. Of course, he was projecting.During a recent Oval Office meeting, Miller accused immigrants of theft. Once Donald Trump’s deportation measures were fully in place, “all of this theft” would stop and “it would be enough to balance the budget.” He

When the U.S. sent troops into Iraq, 76 percent of Americans approved, after the President spent a year explaining why: First, Bush/Cheney sold the belief, even if contrived, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. Second, intelligence claimed that Iraq had clo