up for discussion as well. but that same official played down the idea that a broad range of deliverables would come from this trip. the two days that secretary blinken is spending in high stakes talks marks the highest level american to visit china since president biden took office. keep in mind, the visit was already delayed once. that was after the chinese spy craft was detected roaming over the u.s. president biden this weekend called that air space intrusion silly. i don t think the leadership knew where it was and knew what was in it and knew what was going on. i think it was more embarrassing than it was intentioned. so i m hoping that over the next several months i ll be meeting with xi again and talking about legitimate differences we have but also how those areas we can get along. reporter: the taiwan strait is likely not one of those areas at present. the white house recently acknowledged that china secured a spy base in cuba, back in 2019. president biden has
we start in the us where the federal reserve gave financial markets a double boost on wednesday. it says the world s biggest economy will recover much faster than it was predicting a few months ago as vaccines are rolled out and government stimulus cash begins to flow. and it has put to rest for now fears that higher interest rates are around the corner. the fed has promised to keep them close to zero until the recovery is complete. michelle fleury has more. jerome powell was surprisingly forthright. he said he is in no rush to pull support from the economy. with 9.5 million jobs still missing and spending on travel and hospitality still weak, the fed chief said the bank was committed to keeping borrowing rates near zero until the job is done. the job is done. today, interest the job is done. today, interest rates - the job is done. today, interest rates were - the job is done. today, | interest rates were kept the job is done. today, - interest rates were kept near
ROCHESTER HILLS, MI Peering out her kitchen window with concern after noticing the pedestrian across the street, suspicious resident Barbara Hill reportedly told her husband Tuesday that she didn’t recall ever seeing that Black man on this planet before. “Hon, I don’t want to be overly nosy, but I just don’t…
Mosquitoes are the last thing you d associate with the Paris of the West. But it turns out that health authorities there are fumigating vulnerable areas of the city for the first time to kill disease-carrying tiger mosquitoes who have started plaguing parts of northern Europe. Municipal fumigation, whose white smoke is something we in the tropics are familiar with, has led to roads being closed and people told to stay indoors when spraying is on . This is after two people so far have fallen sick with dengue after returning from a foreign trip.
have an extra 450,000 lying around. just the experience of weightlessness will be awesome, to be able to float for a few minutes, will be incredible. they ll see the curvature of the earth, see the planet from space which is cool. hopefully they ll get a perspective that changes for them. for me, one of the things that i noticed, if you look at the edge of the earth you see a thin blue line. it s a really thin line. i came away from space flights thinking there s no planet b, only planet a. i think it s an awesome experience. i think eventually it will be six tourists that go up. real quick, what s the i don t have i don t have 15 minutes for a philosophical revelation, but what did the thin blue line make you realize planet a, no planet b. we have earth and there s no