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China’s Minister of Commerce held a video conference with the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission. China and the European Union are due to hold talks on the EU’s investigation into Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs) after the interim tariffs are announced. On June 22, China’s Minister of Commerce, Wang Wentao, was invited to a video conference with European Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis. According to a brief statement posted on China’s Ministry of Commerce website, the two sides agreed to begin consultations on the EU’s anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese-made EVs. On June 12, the European Commission announced in advance the…

From Software If you watch a lot of video game showcases like I do, you start to notice some patterns in the chat. Casual requests for certain games tend to snowball into memes. If you were watching any streams in June, you probably noticed requests like these: Hollow Knight: Silk Song The news, even when it doesn’t make much sense. Grand Theft Auto 6 remains the king of fan begging, but has recently noticed a rival emerge. Bloodborne. Fans of FromSoftware’s 2015 PlayStation 4 classic have been clamoring for any and every bit of news about the game for years.…

ATLANTA — It’s one thing to experience Caitlin Clark as an internet sensation, but quite another to experience her playing basketball in real life. While the social media site has made her a perfect canvas for bad actors to impose their views and stomp on discord, she is in fact doing what online sports fans around the world seem to hate most. She strives to get more people to enjoy watching sports.How dare you do such a thing? What happened here on Friday night, Clark’s first visit to Atlanta with the Indiana Fever, was nothing new for her WNBA debut:…

Former Union Minister Dilip Ray He filed an election suit in the Orissa High Court. Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidate Sarada Prasad Nayak As the MLA from Rourkela constituency, he has stopped campaigning for filing false affidavits and nomination papers.Ray, who served as coal minister, was convicted in 2020 and sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the coal scam linked to irregularities in the allocation of mining blocks in Jharkhand in 1999.In April this year, the Delhi High Court suspended his conviction and granted him partial relief to enable him to contest the 2024 Odisha Assembly…

Image caption, Evgeny Prigozhin led Wagner’s army into the Russian city of Rostov with little resistance.Article informationauthor, Matt Murphyrole, BBC News London1 hour agoRussia has effectively dismantled the Wagner Group and created a new organisation a year after the mercenary group shocked the world with an uprising against President Vladimir Putin’s government, experts have told the BBC. The late paramilitary leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, crossed the border from Ukraine on June 23, 2023, and seized the southern city of Rostov after months of rising tensions with military leaders in Moscow.His troops then launched a short charge towards the capital but encountered…

Chase Elliott will be looking to extend his newly acquired lead in the NASCAR standings when the NASCAR Cup Series heads to Northern New England on Sunday for the USA TODAY 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.Elliott, who placed runner-up at New Hampshire in 2022, finished third in last week’s Iowa race and is considered one of the favorites to win Sunday at the “Magic Mile,” a fixture on NASCAR’s schedule since 1993.Following the conclusion of the USA TODAY 301, there are only eight races remaining on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule, and drivers will undoubtedly be battling for position…

In an era when political polarization dominates the conversation, expressing nuanced opinions may seem like a bridge-building strategy. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology We provide evidence that people who express ambiguous attitudes on political issues may pay a social price for their nuanced opinions: those who express their positions in an ambiguous manner are often perceived as less likeable, less warm, and less competent. This finding appears across a range of policy topics.Previous research has shown that people often expect that expressing ambivalence will be socially valued, especially in controversial situations. This expectation makes intuitive sense: when people see that…

This essay is based on conversations with Dahlia Rose, a 27-year-old lawyer who worked as an intern at Ray Dalio’s hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, in 2017 and 2018. Her employment has been confirmed, and the following has been edited for length and clarity.When I first watched the Black Mirror episode “Nosedive,” a show that depicts a world in which people are constantly judging each other, I thought to myself, “Is this really the kind of thing we do? Wait, I’ve worked in places like this before..During the summers after my sophomore and junior years at Harvard, I interned at Bridgewater…

We all have our own ways of getting through the journey, whether that be reading a book, watching a movie or just sleeping through.But there’s a new travel trend taking social media by storm, and it’s all about abstinence.For many of us, the prospect of taking a long-distance flight accompanied only by our thoughts is nightmarish, to say the least.And yet people willingly subject themselves to such tests of mental strength by cutting themselves off from all entertainment and distractions.To some people, especially those who consult Urban Dictionary, “raw-dogging” is a blatantly vulgar term that specifically refers to risky unprotected…

SEATTLE (AP) — Jordan Morris scored two goals late in the second half and the Seattle Sounders rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat FC Dallas 3-2 in a hard-fought game on Saturday night. What you need to know Neither team was able to score, but rookies Logan Farrington and Patrickson Delgado combined for a goal in the 66th minute to give Dallas (5-9-5) a 1-0 lead. Delgado recorded his third assist of the season on a goal by rookie Petar Musa four minutes later to put the team ahead 2-0. Dallas had been winless in six straight games when…