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Biden's trade agenda is "very, very aggressive," said David Autor, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has extensively documented the effects of trade with China on the U.S. economy, including factory job losses . In his view, there are key distinctions between Biden's and Beijing's trade strategies as both nations seek to lead the clean energy race. China has focused more on sending cheap exports to global markets, Autor said, and on preventing foreign companies from dominating China's domestic markets. Biden, he said, is more focused on blocking imports from China and denying China access to some…

Gazans have been uprooted again and again during the more than seven months of Israel's invasion and bombardment. Faced with the prospect of having to pack their bags and flee once again, some in Rafah are putting off leaving, at least for now. According to the United Nations, more than 800,000 Palestinians have already fled the southern city of Rafah and surrounding areas in the past three weeks as Israel launches a military offensive there. But many continue to resist in what was once considered the safest place in the Gaza Strip, where more than a million people had come…

An Israeli airstrike on a makeshift tent city for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, killed at least 45 people Sunday night and wounded 249, the Gaza Health Ministry said Monday. The Israeli military said the attack was aimed at a Hamas compound.In a statement, the Israeli military said it was examining reports that "several civilians in the area were injured" by the airstrike and subsequent fire. A later statement said two Hamas leaders were killed in the strike.The Palestinian Red Crescent said its ambulance teams took a "large" number of victims to the Tal as Sultan clinic and field hospitals…

The USDA said the fact that inspectors identified the diseased cow and prevented its meat from entering the food chain is proof that its protocols are working. But some infected cows are asymptomatic and may not be detected by such inspection systems. The agency found no viruses in ground beef samples collected from outlets in states where the cows tested positive. So far, the agency's Food Safety and Inspection Service has tested tissue samples from 96 dairy cows that had been condemned for signs of disease. Only samples from one cow tested positive for the H5N1 virus, according to the…

“We shouldn't wait for an official declaration of famine” to flood Gaza with aid, he said. While some of the food arrived in Gaza through three northern crossings, it did not fill the gap left by the two southern crossings, Jens Laerke, spokesman for the United Nations' humanitarian coordination agency, said last week. The United Nations World Food Program said 59 trucks of aid were delivered to warehouses in Gaza from a temporary dock built by the United States on Wednesday and that, to the program's knowledge, all contents arrived intact. However, the Palestinians intercepted and emptied another 11 trucks…