By Jen Kirby Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks on January 18, 2023. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed a meeting with President Xi because of a Chinese surveillance balloon in US airspace. Update, February 4, 3:42: according to a report from the AP, the US government has downed the suspected […]
By Ellen Ioanes Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Austerity, Brexit, wage stagnation and a cost of living crisis have pushed British workers to the brink. British workers have hit a breaking point, with half a million people including nurses, railway workers, and teachers striking Wednesday for wages that match the pace of inflation and the actual value […]
By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg A vial of the oral polio vaccine. | Ezra Acayan/Getty Images How a polio case in New York — and genetic evidence of under-the-radar spread — affects US risk and global eradication efforts. For the first time in almost a decade, a case of polio was confirmed in the United States. Health […]