October 2, 2023
President Rodrigo Chaves of Costa Rica has declared a state of emergency, but not due to anything happening in his nation per say. People across the globe are passing through Costa Rica en route for the USA as the borders are open to all. Our president is not concerned, but other nations see the threat
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Syrian Kurdish fighters and American forces have captured a senior member of the Islamic State group, a militant described as one of its “key facilitators,” the force said Friday. Mahmdouh Ibrahim al-Haji, also known as Abu Youssef, was taken into custody on Thursday in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, according to the U.S.-backed Syrian
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The US Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide the legality of Republican-backed state laws in Texas and Florida that constrain the ability of social media companies to curb content on their platforms that these businesses deem objectionable. The justices took up two cases involving challenges by technology industry groups who argued that these 2021
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Torrential rain in New York triggered flash flooding in Brooklyn on Friday, September 29, as a state of emergency was declared. Emergency management officials reported up to five inches of rainfall in parts of New York, including Brooklyn, and said several more inches are expected. Footage posted to X by user @Jeffwalden16 shows a flooded
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Friday it will rule on how the 1st Amendment applies to social media and decide whether Texas and Florida can impose heavy fines on Facebook, YouTube and other popular sites for allegedly discriminating against conservatives. The justices said they would review the new and never-enforced laws from the two largest
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Poverty in the U.S. is a choice directly reflecting federal, state, and local policies. The expansion of safety net programs in response to the pandemic-driven recession reduced poverty rates nationally in 2021 to below pre-pandemic levels. However, because policymakers ended many of these programs—including expanded unemployment insurance, the expanded Child Tax Credit, and economic impact/stimulus
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Even though yours truly is not an antitrust expert, one thing that expert commentators have discussed over the years is the way case law has made it increasingly difficult to pursue antitrust cases against parties who commonsensically have abused their market power. A if not the reason for appointing Lena Kahn as the head of
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Five people, including one child, were killed when two private planes crashed Monday morning in the Mexican northern state of Durango, state authorities said. The crash occurred on a small dirt airstrip in the town of La Galancita, in western Durango. Two planes, both Cessna light aircraft, collided while one was taking off and the
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Chinese hackers who breached Microsoft‘s email platform this year managed to steal tens of thousands of emails from U.S. State Department accounts, a Senate staffer told Reuters on Wednesday. The staffer, who attended a briefing by State Department IT officials, said the officials told lawmakers that 60,000 emails were stolen from 10 State Department accounts.
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An attorney for Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker said Monday the school has no cause to fire him because he did not “engage in unprofessional or unethical behavior” when he had phone sex with an activist and rape survivor. Brenda Tracy made the allegations that Tucker sexually harassed her during a phone call in
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