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Gen Z flocks to Chinese medicine as trust in US health system plummets: ‘It’s so personalized to being human’ | Health & wellbeing

Gen Z flocks to Chinese medicine as trust in US health system plummets: ‘It’s so personalized to being human’ | Health & wellbeing

Published by Sam Flores

Did you drink ice water today? If you did, that was “not very Chinese of you”, according to Sherry Zhu, a 23-year-old Chinese American creator based in New Jersey. If you were really serious about “becoming Chinese”, you would be sipping hot water every day, she warned in a TikTok video with millions of views. “I really do feel like, digestion-wise, a lot better when I’m drinking hot water,” she later explained to GQ. Zhu’s guidance is taken from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), a health system that dates back 5,000 years and offers a holistic approach to treating symptoms – physically, emotionally and spiritually. Other creators of Chinese descent have their own TCM hacks: keep your feet warm and your periods will be more bearable. Drink tea made with goji berries, jujubes and ginger as a cure-all. Move your body every day to promote the flow of qi, or internal energy. “Do my Chinese baddie routine with me,” they caption their videos in half-authoritative, half-joking tones. “Advice from your Chinese big sister.” Creators of non-Asian …

Melania plummets down US Box Office during its second weekend

Melania plummets down US Box Office during its second weekend

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Hollywood largely yielded to the Super Bowl over a sluggish box office weekend, with the survival thriller Send Help retaining its top spot for ticket sales while the Melania Trump documentary Melania plummeted sharply in its second week. Super Bowl weekend consistently ranks among the quietest periods for cinema attendance, and this year proved particularly slow, marking the lowest for moviegoing. Recognizing this trend, studios instead capitalized on the massive television audience tuning into the NFL broadcast, shifting their focus to advertising upcoming blockbusters. Among the high-profile trailers set to air are The Walt Disney Co.’s Mandalorian and Grogu, Lionsgate’s Michael Jackson biopic Michael, and Universal Pictures’ The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Across North American cinemas, the Disney-20th Century Studios release Send Help, directed by Sam Raimi, led all films with $10 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. With …

Bitcoin plummets, driving US trillion tumble in crypto market value

Bitcoin plummets, driving US$2 trillion tumble in crypto market value

Published by Sam Flores

NEW YORK/SINGAPORE/LONDON: Bitcoin plunged on Thursday (Feb 5), its decline accelerating amid weakening risk sentiment driven in part by volatility in precious metals and a broad selloff in tech shares. The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell to a low of US$63,295.74, its weakest level since October 2024, a month before Republican Donald Trump won the US presidential election, having signalled his intention to support crypto on the campaign trail. It was last down 12.6 per cent at US$63,525, on track for its largest one-day fall since November 2022. Roughly US$1 billion in bitcoin positions have been liquidated in the past 24 hours, according to data from CoinGlass. All told, the global crypto market has lost US$2 trillion in value since hitting a peak of US$4.379 trillion in early October, CoinGecko data showed, with some US$800 billion wiped out in the last month alone. Bitcoin has already fallen 17 per cent for the week, taking its losses for the year so far to 28 per cent. Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalisation, was down …

US Homicide Rate Plummets To 125-Year Low, Group Reports

US Homicide Rate Plummets To 125-Year Low, Group Reports

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Crime rates continued to fall in 2025, with homicide rates expected to drop to about 4.0 per 100,000 residents, “the lowest rate recorded in law enforcement or public health data going back to 1900,” according to a new report published by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) on Jan. 22. Based on an analysis of crime trends in 40 large American cities, homicides are down 21 percent from 2024, and 44 percent from the recent peak of 2021, the CCJ said. Last year’s decline in criminal activity numbers would “mark the largest single-year percentage drop in the homicide rate on record,” the group said. The complete 2025 numbers will be reported by the FBI later this year. “This monumental turnaround is a direct result of President Trump’s unwavering commitment to Make America Safe Again,” said the White House in a statement, touting the numbers as a result of closing the border, deploying a “whole-of-government offensive,” and bringing back order on American streets. Meanwhile, the decline in homicide …

Job Openings Plunge Below Lowest Estimate As Gov’t Openings Crater; Hiring Plummets

Job Openings Plunge Below Lowest Estimate As Gov’t Openings Crater; Hiring Plummets

Published by Jenni Sidey

While today’s ADP report was a solid rebound from the worst monthly report in years (even if it missed expectations due to a sudden plunge in California payrolls), the same could not be said for the JOLTS job opening report that followed less than two hours later, and which was another epic disaster: for the month of November (recall JOLTS lags the payrolls report by a month), the US had only 7.146 million job openings, a huge drop from the 7.670 million in October (which was conveniently revised lower to 7.449 million) and the lowest since September 2024. The November print was also a 3+ sigma miss to expectations and came in below the lowest estimate (that of TD Securities). According to the BLS, the number of job openings decreased in accommodation and food services (-148,000); transportation, warehousing, and utilities (-108,000); and wholesale trade (-63,000). Job openings increased in construction (+90,000). But the most notable drop by far, was that in government, where the number of workers collapsed to the lowest level since early 2021. Meanwhile, after …