China Halts U.s. Visits After Taiwan Deal

General Daily Insight for January 17, 2025 Intuition wins out over rules today. The confident Sun works with dreamy Neptune at 6:20 am, introducing idealism and creativity as guides to take us toward the right places and people. Later, the sensitive Moon faces off with perfectionist Venus, making it a challenge to follow the innate compasses of our souls, as doubt creeps into our inner dialogues.

China’s population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation, which is now facing both an aging population and an emerging shortage of working age people. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] China’s population stood at 1.408 billion at the end of 2024, a decline of 1.39 million from the previous year. The figures announced by the government in Beijing follow trends worldwide, but especially in East Asia, where Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and other nations have seen their birth rates plummet.

FORT LAUDERDALE — Other famous problems with success come to mind. Miami Heat president Pat Riley coined the “disease-of-me” phrase for how selfishness challenged his winning teams. Jimmy Johnson adopted a demeaning, even dark personality after seeing how winning didn’t inspire his championship Dallas Cowboys teams. It softened them. So, look at the Florida Panthers and say it: They’re navigating success so well people will think it’s easy having the Stanley Cup in their building for the first time with all its echoing applause and continuing satisfaction. They sit near the top of the Eastern Conference, just where they want, even if Thursday night’s 5-2 loss against Detroit reflected the problems any season has.

A man wielding a stick killed two people in Miami in an “unprovoked” attack on four homeless people, law enforcement officials said. The suspect was taken into custody following the beatings, which police say were carried out early Thursday. A 911 call placed just after 6 a.m. Thursday alerted officials to what they say was a 30-year-old man armed with a stick, beating people living on the streets of Miami. Miami Police Chief Manny Morales told reporters Thursday that the suspect first beat one man near a downtown train station before heading down the street to batter another homeless man.

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