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Yves here. This article is deceptively simple in how it sets forth a short list of the Chinese policy measures that have made it an export powerhouse. The authors also use these choices to explain why China’s exports continue to grow and why its dominant position will be hard to reverse or even blunt. This analysis matters for several reasons. First, sustained large trade imbalances are politically and even financially destabilizing. Second, one of the key tools the authors identify is capital controls. Both China’s general commitment to running trade surpluses and its reliance on capital controls as a key…

More than 1,000 registered nurses at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California are owed back wages after an arbitrator ruled that the health system must repay pay lost after a payroll system change it made in early 2021, according to the California Nurses Association (CNA). The union announced the decision on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026.The union estimates the total owed could reach tens of millions of dollars. That figure comes from the union alone. Kaiser has not released its own estimate, and the arbitrator’s written decision has not been made public, so the exact amount each nurse will receive and the…

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US death row inmate Christa Pike is «conscious and speaking» after surviving a failed execution attempt in Tennessee last week, her lawyers say.Pike, 50, continues to receive critical medical care while «handcuffed and shackled to the bed» in hospital, her lawyers said in a statement on Tuesday. An anaesthesiologist advising her team told the BBC that Pike was able to communicate in a «basic way» but did not seem to recall the execution attempt.Pike, who was sentenced to death after murdering Colleen Slemmer with her then-boyfriend in 1995, survived two failed lethal injections on 30 September in Tennessee. Experts and…

Reporting Highlights Agonizing Procedures: Many aging death row prisoners have medical problems that can complicate efforts to kill them, including cancer, blood disorders and heart problems.  Competency Questions: Several states have faced questions about the competence of their execution teams as major medical organizations have opposed participating in the procedures. Shielded by Secrecy: State laws generally hide the names of execution teams and information about the drugs, making it difficult to ensure the procedures are effective and humane. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. Over the course of two hours, witnesses watched…

Bill Paxton starred as a redneck vampire in 1987’s Near Dark, creating one of the most frightening and memorable characters in horror. By Nathan Kamal | Published 8 seconds ago When Bill Paxton unexpectedly passed away in 2017, cinema lost one of its most versatile and endearing talents. Over the course of his career, Bill Paxton starred in films as wildly disparate as the iconic science fiction action of James Cameron’s Aliens, the family-friendly ape adventure Mighty Joe Young, and the intense psychodrama of Nightcrawler. Whatever Bill Paxton was doing in a movie, he always seemed utterly committed to the…

Between the two of them, David Ortiz and Justin Verlander have a combined five World Series rings, 20 All-Star appearances and 3,088 games played in MLB. So, recalling facts about their own illustrious careers shouldn’t be too hard for them, right?Their memories were put to the test in a new game called «Fact Or Splat,» with some help from Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. The rules are simple: If you get the answer right, you get to drop a fruit on a giant cutout of your opponent’s face; if you get it wrong, your opponent gets to drop the fruit.How…

The Santa Monica man who was charged in April with raping a woman near Culver City and kidnapping a female UCLA student has died by suicide shortly before he was due in court, authorities said.Alexander Schecter, 26, was reported by a family member as unconscious and not breathing at his family’s residence in the 800 block of San Vicente Boulevard on Monday evening, according to the Santa Monica Police Department.Schecter was out on bail, with a preliminary court hearing set for Tuesday at the Airport Courthouse, according to court records. He was arrested in March after he allegedly prevented a…

James Rothwell, Joe Barnes and Alexandra SnowOctober 7, 2026 — 12:00pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAABerlin: The former head of Germany’s top intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of espionage and treason, in what could amount to Europe’s gravest postwar spy scandal.August Hanning, 80, is suspected of spending 16 years illegally collecting classified documents and selling some of the information to an undisclosed foreign power.August Hanning, the former president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND).Michael Kappeler/DPA via APHanning – who was president of the Federal Intelligence Service, known…

Politics / October 6, 2026 Talking to Tyler Hack, who leads the nation’s only political action group dedicated solely to getting trans rights supporters elected. Ad Policy Ed Markey, Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks outside the US Supreme Court as justices hear arguments in challenges to state bans on transgender athletes in women’s sports on January 13, 2026..(Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images) Tyler Hack spent the 2024 election watching Republicans villainize transgender Americans, and Democrats distance themselves from trans people, or worse, join in. “I was at fundraisers and meetings with members of Congress for the Democratic Party where…