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The US has accused China of increased “provocations” in the South China Sea, saying it is only a matter of time before the country’s “aggressive and irresponsible behaviour” leads to a major incident or accident.

Amazon is raising its Prime fees in Europe, the company told customers on Tuesday, days ahead of its second-quarter earnings report. Among other places, the price of a monthly Prime membership will tick up in the United Kingdom from 7.99

While the current monkeypox outbreak appears to mostly affect men who have sex with other men, others are still at risk. History and public health experts say it’s dangerous to suggest otherwise. (Image credit: Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)

The former chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence has testified before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

The Senate has advanced a $280 billion bill designed to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry and to accelerate high tech research that backers say will be critical to the economy in future decades.

The opening of Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man, arriving Aug. 2, invokes Franz Kafka’s Gregor Samsa—but with a metamorphosis fitting for the racially charged era in which we live. “One morning,” Hamid writes, “Anders, a white man, woke up to

The announcement could lead to the end of two decades of post-Cold War cooperation in space between the United States and Russia, which jointly built and operate the station.

It would support domestic manufacturing of semiconductor chips that power the nation’s smartphones, cars, computers and medical equipment. The bill cleared a procedural Senate vote Tuesday. (Image credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

As the CIA’s marks its 75th anniversary, Russia’s war in Ukraine is giving the spy agency a new direction after dark periods during the U.S. conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Image credit: Susan Walsh/AP)

A long-awaited bridge connecting two parts of the Adriatic Sea coastline in Croatia has officially opened on Tuesday, in what has been hailed a “historic day” for generations of people.