‘We’ve totally confused residents’: China’s Covid policy flip-flop stokes frustration

Days after the northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang reopened from a Covid-19 lockdown, barista Lu Mengyuan donned her apron, applied her eye glitter and was again whipping up coffee and hot Chinese crepes for the trickle of residents venturing slowly from their homes. Like many others, Lu believed the city’s abrupt reopening in the middle … Read more

How Ted Cruz explains his massive flip-flop on Donald Trump

CNN — Ted Cruz’s relationship with Donald Trump, is, um, complicated. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump suggested without evidence that Cruz’s father had something to do with the assassination of John F. Kennedy and that Cruz’s wife, Heidi, was unattractive. The Texas senator, in turn, called Trump a “sniveling coward” and “utterly amoral,” and … Read more