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As its fundraising lags, SoftBank’s second Vision Fund could be near-sighted

SoftBank, the technology conglomerate that transformed the venture capital industry and made waves in the technology world with its $100 billion Vision Fund, may not be able to repeat the performance

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Senators attempt to force Twitter to ban Iranian leadership

Four senators, including Ted Cruz (R-TX), have asserted that, as a consequence of sanctions placed on Iran, Twitter must cease providing its services to Ayatollah Khamenei and other leaders in the c

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Truth, the antidote to fear and rumors

Editor's note: Chris Hawke is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. As a journalist, he has reported for over two decades from Beijing, New York, the United Nations, Tokyo, Ban

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Locust outreak or a sign of the times?

Swarms of desert locusts fly up into the air from crops in Katitika village, Kitui county, Kenya Friday, January 24, 2020. /AP photo Locust swarms have overtaken the skies above Kenya's countr

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How Nicki Minaj, Cardi B and other women a breaking rap's old molds

Rappers (L-R) Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj and Cardi B are among the women making waves in the rap world. /AFP Photo Long stereotyped as a boys' club, not least for its braggadocious lyric

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The Democrats' Iowa caucus debacle

Editor's Note: Michael Johns, a former White House speechwriter to U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Heritage Foundation foreign policy analyst, is a national co-founder and leader of the U.S. T

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Governors warn Trump rule could lead to big Medicaid cuts

Governors of both major political parties are warning that a little-noticed regulation proposed by President Donald Trump’s administration could lead to big cuts in Med

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Biden says he is 'not going anywhere' after poor showing in Iowa

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden vowed on Wednesday to go on fighting for the Democratic presidential nomination despite what he called the “gut punch” he took in I

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Advocating reform, activist investor Elliott Management takes a $2.5B stake in SoftBank

The activist investment firm Elliott Management has steadily amassed a $2.5 billion stake in the headline-grabbing, Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank even as a series of missteps battered the

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Google and Facebook turn their backs on undersea cable to China

Google and Facebook seem to have resigned themselves to losing part of the longest and highest profile internet cable they have invested in to date. In a filing with the Federal Communications Commiss

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Scientists identify possible origin of free will

Breathing patterns, and specifically exhaling, could be used to predict when a decision is made - although not what it will be.

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In fight against coronavirus, reputed journals offer free access

As the confirmed cases and deaths caused by novel coronavirus spirals, reputed journals have opened access to research works to help researchers come up with a treatment for the infection.More tha

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U.S. judge: Claim against Ronaldo belongs in arbitration

A legal fight by soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo against a Nevada woman who wants more than the 375,000 U.S. dollars she received in a rape case hush-money settlement in 2010 should be decided by an

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Across China: Chinese doctors racing against time in epidemic battle

Xu Junmei, vice president of the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University in Changsha, is leading a medical team in Wuhan and racing against time to fight t

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Feature: No pet left behind in China's epidemic fight

Humans are not the only species suffering from the novel coronavirus outbreak, as animals have been hit hard as well. The ongoing epidemic has caught many pet owners i

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Morbid views on China won't cure coronavirus patients

Editor's note: CGTN's First Voice provides instant commentary on breaking stories. The daily column clarifies emerging issues and better defines the news agenda, offering a Chinese perspective on

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China Focus: Telemedicine reduces hospital pressure, cross infection amid virus outbreak

Yao Xiujuan, a respiratory physician in east China's Fujian Province, received a patient wondering whether he had been infected with the novel coronavirus since he had