The Chiefs are 9-0 this season when Swift comes to their games. President Donald Trump will be in the Superdome, too. It’ll be the first time a sitting president attends a Super Bowl.
Any move that prevents the U.S. from welcoming the smartest people in the world is an “extremely bad idea,” said L. Rafael Reif, a former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who pushed back against anti-China sentiment during President“This administration will be known historically as the one that began the decline of the U.S. by completely failing to understand the importance of science and technology — and the importance of gathering the most talented human capital from the world to work together towards a thriving United States,” Reif said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Erica Zhang, who graduated from George Washington University in December and is awaiting approval of her green card, said the new policy is “horrifying.”“This is racism, any division based on identity and nationality is racism,” Zhang said. “It is just a start, it will expand to a bigger group of Chinese, not just Chinese students.”During his first term, Trump shortened the visas of some Chinese graduate students from five years to one, and he signed an order barring Chinese students from schools with direct links to the People’s Liberation Army.
More recently, the administration has taken sweeping action against international students. Itfor thousands of foreign students in the U.S. this spring before
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from enrolling for students, a move put on hold by a judge.DAMASCO, Siria (AP) — La bandera de Estados Unidos fue izada el jueves ante la residencia del embajador en Damasco, que había estado cerrada durante mucho tiempo, como señal de los crecientes lazos entre Washington y el nuevo gobierno sirio.
El embajador de Estados Unidos en Turquía, Tom Barrack, quien también ha sido nombrado enviado especial a Siria, llegó para inaugurar la residencia, informó la agencia de noticias estatal siria SANA.El diplomático se reunió con el presidente sirio Ahmad al Sharaa y asistió a la firma de un acuerdo para un consorcio de empresas de Qatar, Turquía y Estados Unidos para el desarrollo de un proyecto energético de 5.000 megavatios destinado a revitalizar gran parte de la red eléctrica de Siria, devastada por la guerra.
Según el acuerdo firmado el jueves, un consorcio liderado por UCC Concession Investments de Qatar, junto con Power International USA y las empresas turcas Kalyon GES Enerji Yatirimlari y Cengiz Enerji, desarrollará cuatro turbinas de gas de ciclo combinado con una capacidad total de generación estimada en aproximadamente 4.000 megavatios y una planta de energía solar de 1.000 megavatios.Un comunicado emitido por UCC indicó que “una vez completados, se espera que estos proyectos suministren más del 50% de las necesidades eléctricas del país”.