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TOKYO — There’s little doubt that China’s export engine is working its magic to get Asia’s biggest economy across the finish line to 5% growth. Clearly, China blowing past his tariffs in 2025 to rack up a record $1 trillion trade surplus wasn’t on Donald Trump’s bingo card. Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s economy did it in just 11 months. That, while scoring yet another delay in trade deal talks – this one for 12 months. It means that the earliest the US president could hope for a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Xi is early 2027. Yet, Xi’s Communist Party also knows that…

Jeff CarlisleDec 11, 2025, 05:13 PM ETCloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.The city of Vancouver and the Vancouver Whitecaps announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the potential development on a new stadium and entertainment district.The MOU, which will last until the end of 2026, involves a potential stadium site at Hastings Park, and will see the two sides negotiate terms for a ground lease, including the stadium’s design, financial terms and community benefits for the proposed development.Editor’s Picks2 Related”We still have a long ways to go, but I’m incredibly optimistic…

President Donald Trump issued a symbolic pardon for Tina Peters on Thursday, but it alone won’t free the former Colorado elections administrator who was convicted under state laws of orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.Trump’s pardon power does not extend to state crimes like those for which Peters was convicted last year and sentenced to nine years in prison. “Democrats have been relentless in their targeting of TINA PETERS, a Patriot who simply wanted to make sure that our Elections were Fair and Honest,” Trump said in a social media…

Villa went close to making it 3-0 five minutes after the restart as Maya Hijikata struck the outside of the post at the end of an intricate move.Taylor sought to change the flow of the game with a double substitution on the hour, with Ceri Holland and Sofie Lundgaard the players introduced.A spell of pressure on Villa’s goal followed, with Liverpool winning a flurry of corners. From one deep Lily Woodham delivery, Kapocs saw a header blocked by former Red Miri Taylor.But, 13 minutes from time, the home side ended any faint hope of a Liverpool comeback as Daly converted…

Media personality and political commentator Tucker Carlson and his team visited some of the 2,000 Palestinians from Gaza who have been taken in by Qatar – including orphans and child amputees – during his recent trip to Doha.  In a new episode on Thursday of the Tucker Carlson Show, released after the visit, Carlson showcased footage from inside the Qatari facilities hosting the refugees, and issued some of his strongest statements yet about Israel’s genocide in Gaza.  Carlson also expressed his discomfort with filming the refugees who have suffered through so much. “We didn’t want to stick a big camera…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia’s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s most popular social media platforms.California-based Reddit Inc.’s suit filed in the High Court follows a case filed last month by Sydney-based rights group Digital Freedom Project.Both suits claim the law is unconstitutional because it infringes on Australia’s implied freedom of political communication.“We believe there are more effective ways for the Australian government to accomplish our shared goal of protecting youth, and the SMMA (Social Media Minimum Age) law carries…

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to restore billions of dollars in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding, siding with 22 states and the District of Columbia that sued over the canceled grants this summer.President Donald Trump’s administration said in April it was “ending” the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, which helped communities with predisaster projects to harden infrastructure and improve resilience against the increasing threats of climate change. The administration called the program “wasteful and ineffective” and said it would halt $3.6 billion in funding awarded but not yet paid and would not…

A federal appeals court on Thursday backed a ruling that held Apple in civil contempt for brazenly defying an order designed to open its iPhone app store to other payment systems besides its own, but the decision also reopened a door for the company to collect commission from the rival options. The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals mostly validated a scalding contempt order issued in April by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for violating a key part of her September 2021 findings in a legal battle instigated by video game maker…

China will soon start collecting a value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and products for the first time in over three decades, a move aligned with Beijing’s effort to get families to have more children after decades of limiting most to one child. “Contraceptive drugs and products” will not be tax-exempt as of Jan. 1, according to the country’s newest value-added tax law. Products such as condoms will be subject to the usual 13% value-added tax imposed on most products.While state-run news outlets have not widely highlighted the change, it has been trending on Chinese social media, drawing ridicule among people…

Evan Ferguson’s first-half double saw Roma cruise to a 3-0 Europa League win at Celtic as Wilfried Nancy became the first Hoops manager to lose his first two games.The Scottish Premiership champions were booed off at half-time as they trailed 3-0, while Celtic Park had almost emptied by the full-time whistle after a demoralising defeat left the hosts’ hopes of staying in the competition hanging by a thread. The new Celtic boss opted to stick with the same starting line-up that lost Sunday’s top-of-the-table clash to Hearts at Parkhead, only for his side to fall behind after just six minutes…