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But your child may have something that needs to be diagnosed and treated by a healthcare provider. And sometimes, you need to get them to the emergency room. The deciding factor is often the type of cough—frequent, persistent, dry, wet, barking, whooping, or more. This article explains the most common types of childhood coughs. You’ll also learn how to tell if your child’s cough means you need to make an appointment with their pediatrician or go to the ER....

Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees, Freddy Krueger, Charles Lee Ray, perhaps better known to audiences as Chucky from the Child’s Play movies and the current Chucky series on the Syfy channel. Maybe not what one might expect for a little girl—a little girl with a bright red bow in her hair like Cindy-Lou Who to be exact—to be jumping for joy over when Christmas morning rolls around, but that’s exactly what happened last year....

Reuters, using data from the Treasury Department, found the top 10 states by average monthly payouts in August were Utah, Idaho, South Dakota, Alaska, Nebraska, Wyoming, North Dakota, Iowa, Kansas and Montana. All of those states voted for Donald Trump over Biden in the 2020 election, and all but one, Kansas, is led by a Republican governor. The news organization also found that the policy has broad support among the public: 59 percent of U....

Weibo, China’s largest social media website, was awash with celebrations as state broadcaster CCTV aired images of the Shenzhou-12 liftoff atop the Long March-2F Y12 rocket at 9:22:27 a.m. Beijing time. The launch from China’s Jiuquan site in the Gobi Desert is the country’s first manned mission in five years. The crew of three onboard Shenzhen-12 (“Divine Vessel”) will embark on China’s longest space mission to date, lasting 90 days....

The Chinese economy grew 3.2 percent in the second quarter of this year, following a record contraction in the first quarter as the country grappled with the coronavirus pandemic. Then, the economy was 6.8 percent smaller than the year before, representing the first full-year contraction since at least the early 1990s. The second quarter performance means China has escaped the technical definition of a recession, two consecutive quarters of negative growth....

The nearly 1,500 Zhuanghe University City students were placed in lockdown in their dorms Sunday after several dozen COVID-19 cases were reported in the northeastern city of Dalian. The students are having meals delivered to their rooms as they are not allowed to leave, and are attending class remotely from their dormitories or hotel rooms. On Monday, the National Health Commission announced 32 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, 25 of them in Dalian....

Zhang Zhan, 37, was convicted and given the sentence on Monday at Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court, according to the South China Morning Post. She was found guilty of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” due to her reporting, a charge that Hong Kong-based paper describes as being “often used by police to stifle dissent.” Zhang Zhan had been on a hunger strike prior to the sentencing, causing her to physically deteriorate....

China’s new vaccine mandate comes as parts of the country take new measures to stamp out smaller outbreaks of the virus, and continue to enforce lockdowns, quarantine, and compulsory testing. China is one of the few countries to vaccinate young children, following Cuba who allows vaccinations for children as young as 2 years old. China’s strong vaccine mandates and a zero-tolerance policy toward outbreaks have resulted in 1.07 billion people out of their 1....

China’s Western Theatre Command claimed Monday that Indian forces had illegally crossed the Line of Actual Control—the disputed demarcation line between the two sides—at Pangong Lake in the Himalayas, where deadly hand-to-hand fighting killed dozens of troops in June. The Indian army said Monday it had deployed additional forces that “preempted” Chinese “intentions to unilaterally change facts on ground.” The military said Chinese troops had made “provocative military movements” in the border area overnight from Saturday to Sunday, prompting the action....

The World No. 3 accelerated from a 7-7 tie in the first game to build an 11-7 advantage at the mid-game interval. Sindhu wasn’t troubled much thereafter as she effortlessly pocketed the opener. In the second game, the Indian raced ahead to a 6-1 lead before the Japanese mounted a comeback and kept it just a two-point difference at 9-11. Post-interval, Kawakami even trailed Sindhu by one point at 11-12 only to see a burst of pace and power from the Indian, who eventually closed out the win....

State-affiliated Global Times, which is China’s national English-language newspaper, under the People’s Daily, reported that ahead of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in August, and before the 95th founding anniversary of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, China for the first time revealed a video featuring the launch of what it said was the Dongfeng-17 (DF-17) missile. Reuters reported on August 4 that China launched several Dongfeng ballistic missiles into waters around Taiwan....

Recent polling by the Pew Research Center showed that 57 percent of U.S. adults said the China-Russia partnership was a “very serious” problem, a 5-point decrease since March. But the number rises to 87 percent when it includes those who said the problem was “somewhat serious.” “China’s military power” was a very serious problem for America, according to 50 percent of respondents, up 7 points in the past six months....

There are now 878 billionaires in the country, up 257 from 2019. This further widens the billionaire gap between China and the U.S., which has nearly 700 individuals who qualify for the moniker, according to Hurun Report. Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma retains top spot for the third year, ahead of Pony Ma and Zhang Shanshan. The China Rich List 2020, put out by the Hurun Research Institute and its founder Rupert Hoogewerf, shows a wealth increase of $1....

Beijing’s growing dollar hoard represents the most dangerous imbalance in today’s global economy. The United States is both importing heavily from China and borrowing heavily from the country to finance those purchases, pushing the dollar down and putting the two economic superpowers on a collision course. Washington politicians demand that Beijing raise the value of the yuan against the dollar, and Chinese officials have hinted that if pushed too hard they might shift their near-trillion-dollar reserve out of U....

Asked about a Stop AAPI Hate report that noted some 3,795 hate-related incidents targeting Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders between March 2020 to the end of last month, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters Thursday that “discrimination against Asian Americans, including against the Chinese, has been on the rise in the U.S. over the past period of time,” and said that “the number of violent hate crimes has also been increasing....

The People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command released a cinematic clip on social media site Sina Weibo, bearing the tagline “If war breaks out today, this is our answer,” a reference to the patriotic lyrics of the military score playing in the background. As the song’s words tell of an absolute preparedness for battle, Chinese troops can be seen rushing imagined battlefields and firing missiles. The PLA has regularly shown off its military might online, but the latest message comes at a particularly fraught time as both the Eastern and Southern Theater Commands step up exercises in the contested waters separating the mainland from self-ruling Taiwan....

Two J-20 stealth fighters from China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) appeared in commercial satellite imagery at the Hotan air base, according to evidence first captured by Chinese social media users. The move is the latest this summer as tensions between the two countries continue to escalate over the disputed Himalayan region of Ladakh. The Indian-controlled territory runs along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), a loose demarcation line created by diplomats after the 1962 Sino-Indian War....

The disposal technique was carried out on Saturday at a facility in Guangyuan in southwest China’s Sichuan province, according to state news outlet The Global Times which cited the country’s State Administration of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense. The newspaper added that the technique, performed in the country for the first time, marks a major step forward for China’s nuclear industry. Nuclear power is sometimes seen as a source of green energy due to nuclear power plants not producing greenhouse gasses....

It was all going according to plan: Fan posted the fastest time in the heats, then again in the quarterfinals. But it all went horribly wrong in the semifinals. China had three of the eight racers in the semis, but had the worst possible result. All three were drawn in the same semifinal alongside Great Britain’s Elise Christie – with only two to go through – but Fan caught her blade and crashed out early....

The U.S. death toll tied to fentanyl in 2020 is estimated at a record 90,000. The problem may only be getting worse. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid developed decades ago as an extremely powerful pain reliever. It’s about 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin. It takes only about 2 milligrams of fentanyl to kill an average human being. Nonetheless, fentanyl is being used outside of the medical field to enhance the recreational high of other narcotics, painkillers and prescription drugs....