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NEW YORK | Xinhua |  Americans overwhelmingly view the cost of child care as a significant issue, and most support initiatives to offer free or low-cost day care and to require employers to provide paid family leave for parents of babies, according to a poll released Thursday. About three-quarters of …

LONDON, UK | Xinhua | Americans are planning to spend less money this summer due to the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs, The Independent has said, citing polling, surveys and media reports. In a survey by personal finance company WalletHub, 45 percent of respondents said tariffs are …

The poll also revealed that, if the elections took place right now, 48% of voters would have picked Donald Trump, 78, while only 42% would have cast their ballots for Joe Biden NEW YORK, USA | TASS | About 70% of Americans believe that 81-year-old Joe Biden is too old …

BEIJING, CHINA | Xinhua | “The rich who buy our elections don’t want democracy,” U.S. journalist Lee Camp has said, describing the U.S. representative democracy as “false, rigged, fake, laughable.” Average Americans have no say in government policies and actions, he said in a video speech Wednesday at the third …

Los Angeles, US | Xinhua | — Cancers among younger Americans under 50 years of age are increasing at an alarming rate, with gastrointestinal cancers climbing at the fastest rates, according to a new study published on Wednesday. In this cohort study of 562,145 people with early-onset cancer in the …

Washington, USA | Xinhua | More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2022, according to data released this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The year of 2022 was the deadliest on record for drug overdoses, which claimed the lives of an estimated 109,680 people, …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | An additional 500 American citizens, including former U.S. President Barack Obama, have been indefinitely barred from entering Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Friday. Among the newly blacklisted are significant figures, officials, lawmakers, experts and heads of military-industrial companies, the ministry said in a statement. …

QAnon conspiracy movement emerged on the internet in late 2017, and the most visible role it has played was in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Seventeen percent of Americans were deemed as believers of the right-wing QAnon conspiracy in October 2021, up from 14 percent in …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The U.S. State Department on Thursday urged Americans currently in Ukraine to leave the country “now,” citing what it said was “increased threats of Russian military action” against Ukraine. “Do not travel to Ukraine due to the increased threats of Russian military action and COVID-19; those …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Thursday urged Americans to leave Afghanistan immediately as the security situation in the country continues to deteriorate. “The U.S. Embassy urges U.S. citizens to leave Afghanistan immediately using available commercial flight options,” the embassy said in a statement. “Given the …