Portland police reported in July that except for March, the number of shootings each month has been higher this year than in 2019. The totals in June and July have doubled from the previous year. Fifteen people were killed in Portland last month, the highest number in one month in the city of 655,000 in more than three decades, and 10 of them were fatally shot.
Powell said while the US economy should rebound in the third quarter "it's unlikely that it would bring us quickly all the way back to precrisis levels".
President Xi Jinping meets with Kazakh Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday. WU ZHIYI / CHINA DAILY
Pregnant women eat lunch at a county hospital in Fugu county, Shaanxi province. Basic medical insurance covered more than 95 percent of the Chinese population in 2011, forming the largest basic medical insurance network in the world. [Photo/Xinhua]
Pop singer Sun Nan. [Photo/VCG]
Pompeo said that the US government is working to establish a Middle East Strategic Alliance to confront Iran, which he considered "the region's most serious threat", during a speech on his visit that ended on Monday.
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President Donald Trump's administration is rolling out immigration reform that would penalize legal immigrants living in the US who rely on public assistance programs such as government food stamps or public housing and prevent them from receiving a green card.
President Xi Jinping hosted a grand ceremony at the square in front of the Great Hall of the People to welcome the Latin American president.
President Donald Trump is in Florida.
President Xi Jinping has written to King Felipe of Spain to express his condolences over the terror attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils that killed at least 14 people on Thursday and Friday.