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Trump targets disloyal Republicans, Netflix is the biggest winner at the Golden Globes, and 'inferior' women - how China is countering criticism

Former President Donald Trump hinted at a possible presidential run in 2024, attacked President Joe Biden and repeated his fraudulent claims he won the 2020 election in his first major appearance since leaving the White House.

“With your help, we will take back the House, we will win the Senate and then a Republican president will make a triumphant return to the White House. I wonder who will that be?” he said in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Trump’s weeks away from Washington do not appear to have dimmed his anger at Republicans who voted to impeach or convict. He singled out Senators Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey and House lawmakers Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, suggesting he would support candidates who opposed them in Republican primaries.

Meanwhile, Hyatt Hotels called symbols of hate “abhorrent” after the design of a stage at the conference drew comparisons to a Norse rune used by Nazis during World War Two.

Texas’s largest and oldest electric power cooperative has filed for bankruptcy protection in federal court in Houston, citing a disputed $1.8 billion bill from the state’s grid operator.

Drama 'Nomadland' and satire 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' won movie honors at the Golden Globes in a mostly virtual bicoastal ceremony that was marked by impassioned calls for more diversity and the dominance of Netflix. Here are the key winners.

↑ Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, February 28, 2021

WORLD

↑ Protesters take shelter behind shields as they clash with riot police officers during a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, March 1, 2021

Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared at a court hearing via video conferencing, the first time her lawyers had seen her since she was detained in the Feb. 1 military coup. Supporters meanwhile marched in defiance of a crackdown after the bloodiest day so far in the aftermath of the coup.

China, under growing global pressure over its treatment of a Muslim minority in its far west, is mounting an unprecedented and aggressive campaign to push back, including explicit attacks on women who have made claims of abuse.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been transferred to a penal colony outside Moscow to serve his prison sentence, weeks after he returned to Russia after being poisoned. Ruslan Vakhapov, a local activist of the prisoners’ rights group Jailed Russia, described conditions in the colony as particularly severe.

The fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has called for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to be punished after a U.S. intelligence report found he had approved the killing.

Business

Biden defended workers’ rights to form unions and warned against intimidation of workers in a video posted on Twitter, as Amazon.com employees in Alabama vote on whether to unionize.

Pent-up demand is driving a global factory revival, according to new figures, but a slowdown in China underscores the challenges countries face as they seek a sustainable recovery from the pandemic blow.

From U.S. domination to energy transition, we look back at two years that changed oil. Plus, why central banks will happily ignore inflation-mongers.

In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million. Why is so much money being spent on things that don't exist offline?