Informing, engaging & connecting the people of the world. JULY 13, 2020

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Small business owners in the United States are wondering how to preserve their companies as the coronavirus pandemic tightens its grip. Reinvention may be the key.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On July 13, 1923, the iconic Hollywood sign is dedicated in Los Angeles, California. Originally an advertisement for a local real estate development, the landmark became a permanent fixture in the Hollywood Hills. The sign originally read “Hollywoodland,” but the four last letters were dropped after a 1949 renovation.

While national polls show U.S. President Donald Trump’s support slipping during the prolonged pandemic and amid racial unrest, the president’s most ardent supporters in bedrock Republican-backing states like Louisiana remain doggedly in his corner.

The continuing coronavirus pandemic is beginning to have a bigger impact on U.S. military missions overseas, some analysts warned Monday, as infections among U.S. service members surge in Japan and South Korea.

VIDEO: Amid the COVID-10 outbreak, a youth conservation corps has expanded its usual duties of planting trees and restoring natural habitats. Organizers say the program, based in Long Beach, California, provides job training, and during this pandemic, offers young people a chance to help.

Discovery of a rare freshwater reserve under one of its landholdings in a widely disputed sea gives China a boost in occupying the islet and offers it a new defense for its sovereignty claims if they land in international court.