Countries with so-called managed floats, including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and China, allow currency valuations to fluctuate somewhat but hold them in check through central-bank interventions. Those that keep their currencies far below market value—like China—invite high inflation; those that allow the most appreciation undermine export competitiveness even when the local economy has less-than-stellar growth prospects, as in Thailand. Everywhere, too much money is a problem that’s likely to get much worse now that U....

The family denies any wrongdoing. And, in truth, no one knows how much the Riadys have to do with either scandal. What is clear, a NEWSWEEK investigation shows, is that moving cash around the globe in tangled webs of transactions has always been the Riady way. The arrangements involving Hubbell and Huang appear to fit a pattern of questionable Riady financial practices, such as lending their bank depositors’ money to their own deals, or quietly draining out bank capital....

Pence defended his wife, second lady Karen Pence, over her decision to teach art at an anti-LGBTQ Christian school during an event for the Alliance Defending Freedom on Tuesday. “We honestly didn’t see that one coming. Our kids went to this school,” the vice president said, referring to the backlash the second lady received from LGBT advocates and organizations over her decision. The vice president went on to offer some advice for Americans....

The tournament was her first true competition since the match on April 30, 1993, in Hamburg, Germany, when a misguided soul with a nine-inch serrated kitchen knife tried to put an end to her career and her life. For four years she had been the star attraction on the women’s tour, squashing the competition and making headlines with her fashion sense and mercurial personality. When she fell, the popularity of the tour fell with her....

Three monoclonal antibody treatments have received Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and they’re currently being administered free of charge. Monoclonal antibodies help a person’s body fight COVID-19 and when administered early, have shown great promise in helping to keep people from getting significantly ill to the point of needing hospitalization. Just as is the case with any treatment, there are limits to the power of monoclonal antibodies....

MGUS is more common in men than in women, and more common in people of African American descent that people who are white. Around 3% of adults over the age of 50 have MGUS, and this percentage increases with age. Symptoms MGUS is asymptomatic, though people with MGUS may have a somewhat increased risk of infections. Causes To understand MGUS, you’ll need to know a little about your immune system....

The completion of a €740million takeover by a Chinese consortium this month has prompted significant speculation that a big-money overhaul of the squad will take place during the close season. Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas and Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema are among the names to have been linked with San Siro, while talk of a return to the club for Borussia Dortmund star Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has picked up this week....

The record is Monaco’s longest against any club in the top flight and goals from Kamil Glik and Kylian Mbappe ensured it continued. The baffling mystery of Thomas Muller Montpellier pulled one back through Hilton at the start of the second half but they were unable to complete the comeback, a late red card for Jemerson coming too late to give them a way back in. The result stretches Monaco’s lead at the summit to six points ahead of Paris Saint-Germain’s clash with Lille later on Tuesday....

A veteran of 162 appearances in Serie A, the 25-year-old midfielder has signed a two-year loan with an option for a third season. Taider has had three stints with Bologna and also played for clubs including Juventus, Inter and Southampton. He has 42 caps for Algeria, including two appearances at the 2014 World Cup. “We’re very happy to welcome Saphir with our club,” said Impact president Joey Saputo, who also serves as a co-owner at Bologna....

Despite their disappointment in being dumped out of the FA Cup by Pahang, Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT) had no such problem in the Super League after they recorded their seventh consecutive league win to move five points clear at the top of the league. JDT’s 2-1 win over Penang on Wednesday night was achieved after early goals from Gonzalo Cabrera and Azamuddin Akil helped secured all three points despite some shoddy defending to allow the home side to pull a goal back before half time....

Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT) secured an unprecedented fourth consecutive Super League title on Saturday despite a 1-2 defeat to Selangor at Selayang Stadium. The Southern Tigers landed their first league title in 2014 and have not looked back since. Ulisses Morais came in at the halfway mark of the season but in his short time with the club, has managed to guide the team to ensure that the title stays in Johor for at least another year....

The latest flare-up of violence between Israelis and Palestinians is no different. The proximate causes are a thorny combination of an abstruse housing dispute in northeastern Jerusalem, deceitful Palestinian slander about an ostensible threat to Al-Aqsa Mosque, the destabilizing nature of Israel’s current domestic political morass and the contemporaneous American appeasement in Vienna of the Palestinians’ preeminent jihad bankroller, the Islamic Republic of Iran. But the immediate aggressors, as per usual, are clear: Hamas, the internationally recognized Gaza-based terrorist outfit whose founding charter calls for the murder of every Jew worldwide, and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, ruled in profoundly corrupt fashion by serial jihad-inciter Mahmoud Abbas, a Holocaust denialist now in the 16th year of his four-year term....

As Costa looked on from the stands, Alvaro Morata and Eden Hazard led the line brilliantly all evening at the Metropolitano Stadium before Michy Batshuayi came off the bench to net a last-gasp winner that proved beyond all doubt that the Blues no longer needed the Brazil-born Spain international. CFC 11/1 to beat City, Morata 1st goal Just a day after completing his £58 million return to Atletico, Costa witnessed his new side get sunk by his old one....

Jim Glass proves a durable hero. He hasn’t gotten a lot more sophisticated since “Jim the Boy,” so little in fact that you wonder how he spent the time between preschool and senior year. He’s blind to social distinctions and so clueless about racism that he doesn’t understand why anyone would hate Indians. This matters a lot when he falls in love with Chrissie Steppe, a half-Indian girl in his senior class....

A new survey from the Pew Research Center published Tuesday reveals that two-thirds (66 percent) of Americans now have an unfavorable view of China. Meanwhile, only 26 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the country. That’s the highest level of unfavorability since the nonpartisan think tank began polling American sentiments toward China in 2005. That’s also a nearly 20-point rise in unfavorability since President Donald Trump took office in 2017....

According to data from the U.S. Postal Service, in 2020, over 2,200 people filed a permanent address change from Manhattan to Miami-Dade County, Florida, while over 1,700 Manhattanites changed their address to Palm Beach County, Florida. Together, the moves accounted for 9 percent of the out-of-state moves from Manhattan, up from 6 percent in 2016. Aside from its warmer weather, Florida has no state income tax, which makes it attractive to people from other states....

Pence rebuked Trump’s claim that he “could have overturned” the election outcome earlier this month, insisting that he “had no right” to change the result and escalating his recent tensions with Trump. A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found that 72 percent of all Americans, including a 52 percent majority of Republicans, said that Pence’s view on the topic was closer to their “line of thinking.” “Could Pence have overturned the election as ordered by Trump?...

The Business Leaders Against the Death Penalty campaign was launched by Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Group, and the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBIJ) earlier this year. Now, ahead of World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, more than 150 signatories—including Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Arianna Huffington—are backing the campaign aiming to help drive abolition campaigns over the line. The campaign’s declaration decries the death penalty as inhumane, discriminatory, prone to error and ineffective as a deterrent....

Since 2004, there’s been a steady increase in the number of people who cast their ballots before Election Day, and 2020 is shaping up to be no exception. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, states have increased availability for mail-in ballots and extended early voting to give voters more opportunities to cast ballots. As of Sunday, 9.3 million votes had been cast in the 2020 election, compared to 1.4 million in 2016, according to the U....