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Scammers on Twitter made over 100-thousand dollars' worth of Bitcoin in an hour. And they did it by hacking the accounts of politicians and celebrities, and tricking people into sending them thousands in digital money.

International students can remain at U.S. universities, without fear of being deported. The Trump administration threatened to ban students whose college courses are taught only online during the pandemic. Colleges had to decide whether to re-open classrooms at the height of a pandemic. Instead, they sued the government.

"Please Tax us!" That's the demand coming from 83 millionaires this week. They include the heirs to the Disney fortune, and a co-founder of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.

A Chinese human rights research group has lashed out at the United States over its immigration policies. A new article by the China Society for Human Rights Studies says the US government's violent treatment of immigrants in the border areas have exposed the hypocrisy of US-style human rights.

People in China enjoy the highest level of happiness when they make an annual income of somewhere between 120-thousand and 200-thousand yuan, according to a national survey.

States should continue to punish or remove members of the Electoral College for going rogue. That's according to a unanimous ruling by the United States Supreme Court this week. The decision comes within four months of the presidential election race between incumbent Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden. Many states enforce what are known as "faithless elector" laws, which punish those officials who break a pledge to vote for their state's nominee in a presidential election.

A transgender employee who has won a labor contract lawsuit is drawing support from Chinese internet users.

A transgender employee who has won a labor contract lawsuit is drawing support from Chinese internet users.

Chinese celebrity vlogger Li Ziqi tops social media platform Weibo's trending topics again. This time, not because of her famous cooking videos, but because many of those well known videos are being plagiarized or stolen by some vloggers on platforms include Facebook and YouTube, leading to confusion about Li's nationality.

More companies and brands are refusing to advertise on the world's biggest social-media platform. Facebook publishes content that many advertisers say spreads hate speech and misinformation. The mass boycott, led by the Stop Hate for Profit campaign, has forced Facebook to announce changes to its policies concerning hate speech ahead of the U.S. presidential election — including certain posts by President Donald Trump.