The leading Republican presidential candidates clashed Wednesday in their third debate of the primary season, trading sharp criticism of each other and host CNBC. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) got some of the night’s biggest cheers when he slammed CNBC for treating the debate like a “cage match” with hostile questions. Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who deftly deflected a jab from one-time mentor Jeb Bush, had strong performances, at times overshadowing frontrunners Ben Carson and Donald Trump.
China’s ruling Communist Party has decided to end the country’s one-child policy, which was imposed in the late 1970s to curb population growth, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday. Now Chinese leaders are concerned that a labor shortage linked to the aging of the…