December 5, 2023
The first Pilgrim colonists who arrived in North America in November of 1620 failed in grand ways. Later generations—especially the Founding generation—learned valuable lessons from those failures. We should be thankful. Death In the Fall of 1621, with help from the local Wampanoag tribe, there was a harvest, which meant food for hungry colonists living
READ MOREAcross the nation, much of the debate around gun rights and restrictions centers on mental health. Many advocates on both sides agree that getting people with serious mental illness into treatment, and then preventing those who are dangerous from accessing guns, is key to preventing mass shootings. Yet in the weeks and months before the
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Nearly 500 people have died and thousands are injured in both Israel and Gaza after Hamas launched a surprise dawn attack on Israel on Saturday during the Jewish high holy day of Simchat Torah. At least 250 Israelis were killed and 1,100 wounded by gunbattles raging in more than 20 locations inside Israel. In Gaza,
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Hamas’s attack on Saturday took Israeli intelligence officials by surprise, particularly the methods the militants used to enter and leave Israel, according to a senior defense official familiar with the information collected about the group. The broad attack, mostly successful from Hamas’s point of view, revealed some significant failures by the Israeli defense establishment. It
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Receive free Trade Secrets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Trade Secrets news every morning. Every 10 years or so, it seems, another industry is nominated to be the new primary combat theatre for trade wars involving China. (This is distinct from eternal wars of attrition such as
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BEIRUT — Amid the search for thousands of people washed away when two storm-swollen dams burst, amid the burials and bewilderment in the Libyan city of Derna, sorrow has given way to rage. More than a week after Storm Daniel punched through the dams made of compacted clay, with the death toll at anywhere from 4,000
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Does Russian President Vladimir Putin have his back against the wall? Or is that just wishful thinking? Putin’s Kremlin isn’t your average dictatorship. It’s run more like a network of mobsters. And Russia analysts say that makes his regime’s resilience to the unfolding fiasco in Ukraine more difficult to determine. “The military defeats have not
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LONDON: A UK gambling company has been fined £3.25 million ($4.14 million) by a UK regulator for social responsibility and anti-money laundering violations. The Gambling Commission said that Done Brothers Ltd., whose Betfred brand operates in 1,750 bookmakers as well as on the Internet, violated the terms of the license for two years until December
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A senior Federal Reserve official criticized proposals to increase bank capital requirements and called for an “independent and impartial” investigation into the rapid failure of US banks earlier this year. Fed chief Michelle Bowman said on Sunday that a recent report on bank failures by US Central Bank Vice Governor for Supervision Michael Barr “was
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BOSTON: In early June, sporadic but severe service outages plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite, including Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps, as well as the cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group has claimed responsibility for this, saying it flooded sites with unwanted traffic in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Initially unwilling to give
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