#China greenlights first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine

#China greenlights first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine

“#China greenlights first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine” Chinese health regulators said Thursday that they have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm. The two-dose vaccine is the first approved for general use in China. The go-ahead comes as the country has begun to vaccinate 50 million people before the Lunar New Year…

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#2020’s 10 most buried stories and other commentary

#2020’s 10 most buried stories and other commentary

“#2020’s 10 most buried stories and other commentary” Media watch: 2020’s 10 Most Buried Stories At RealClearPolitics, retired editor Frank Miele — who used to help choose AP’s top 10 stories of the year — is so fed up with journalism that he is offering his first annual “Last Chance to Wake Up and Smell…

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#Jack Ma’s Ant Group ordered by China to change its policies

#Jack Ma’s Ant Group ordered by China to change its policies

“#Jack Ma’s Ant Group ordered by China to change its policies” Chinese regulators have ordered Ant Group, the world’s largest financial technology company, to rectify its businesses and comply with regulatory requirements amid increased scrutiny of anti-monopoly practices in the country’s internet sector. The People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, summoned Ant executives…

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#Beware Section 230 repeal and other commentary

#Beware Section 230 repeal and other commentary

“#Beware Section 230 repeal and other commentary” Speech watch: Beware Section 230 Repeal Those on the left and right calling for a complete repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act need to realize it would “return us to the legal no-man’s land” that prohibits even “good Samaritan” censorship, explain Sen. Ron Wyden and…

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#A populist wish-list as we head into 2021

#A populist wish-list as we head into 2021

“#A populist wish-list as we head into 2021” At long last, 2020 is about to end. It was a terrible year, marked by a once-a-lifetime pandemic that brought to heel our economy and put an abrupt halt to hundreds of millions of law-abiding Americans’ way of life. We also endured a once-a-generation national “dialogue” about…

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