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US life expectancy falls to lowest level in 26 years
Covid, suicide and drug overdoses blamed for decline
American life expectancy has fallen for a second year, and is down by almost three years since the start of the pandemic due to Covid, drug abuse, record suicides and stubborn levels of chronic disease.
In 2019, the average US life expectancy was more than 79 years. In 2020, because of the pandemic, that dropped to 77 years. According to provisional official data released today, Americans born in 2021 will on average now live to 76 years and one month — a level last seen in 1996.
Young Thug: How rap lyrics put a rapper behind bars
Was a Grammy-winning rapper singing about crimes he committed or simply expressing himself as an artist? New legislation in the US sets guardrails on the use of lyrics as evidence in criminal cases.
Under the alias Young Thug, Jeffery Lamar Williams, 31, has sold more than 2.5 million albums and been hailed as “”the 21st century’s most influential rapper”.
But prosecutors in his native Atlanta are not impressed. In May, Mr Williams was arrested on racketeering and gang-related charges and has been in jail since. This month, he was denied bond for a third time.
Prosecutors allege that Young Stoner Life (YSL) Records, the rap label Mr Williams founded, is the front for an organised crime syndicate responsible for “75 to 80% of violent crime” in the city.
Interesting case.
Do ministers need bodyguards? Trudeau says question is tough amid ‘disturbing’ attacks
The question of whether Canadian cabinet ministers need bodyguards amid a worrying rise in harassment of public figures is a challenging one for a country that has long prided itself on a political culture where such measures were not necessary, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
He faced questions from journalists outside of Rideau Hall on Wednesday shortly after a mini shuffle of his cabinet and almost one week after an incident in Alberta last Friday that saw a man hurl profanities at Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland while she was getting into an elevator.
She was heckled not burned at the stake.
FBI Agents Call on Wray to Resign Over Allegations of Political Bias at the Top
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray is under fire as revelations about political bias at the highest level of the FBI have roiled the bureau. Several rank-and-file agents wonder how Wray can survive when it appears that he has lost control of the FBI.
Bronze Ku Klux Klan plaque and relics to Confederate chief Robert E. Lee need to be stripped down from West Point, congressional panel says
A congressional committee has said that a bronze Ku Klux Klan plaque and relics to Confederate chief Robert E. Lee hanging at the prestigious West Point military academy ought to be removed.
The request from the Naming Commission, which is tasked with reviewing and changing military assets that memorialize Confederate figures, was aired in a report published by the agency Monday.
Or you could do the smart thing and use it to teach some history.
German factories shut down as energy costs spiral out of control
Eurozone inflation surged to another record high in August, fuelled by soaring energy prices that are threatening to plunge the region into recession.
Annual inflation across the bloc rose to 9.1pc this month, up from 8.9pc in July, according to the latest figures from Eurostat.
Prices are rising at the fastest rate since records began in 1997, piling pressure on the European Central Bank to continue raising interest rates at its meeting next week.
Unvaccinated cadets ordered off Coast Guard Academy campus
NEW LONDON, Conn. — The Coast Guard Academy is disenrolling seven cadets for failing to comply with the military’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, after their requests for religious exemptions were denied and they were ordered to leave campus.
The academy in New London, Connecticut, confirmed the disenrollments Tuesday, The Day newspaper reported. A lawyer for several of the cadets said they were told on Aug. 18 that they had to leave campus by 4 p.m. the next day.
Justice Department releases photo of top secret docs found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
The Department of Justice published a photo of classified documents on the floor of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort as part of its response to his petition for a special master to review materials seized by federal officials.
The image was included in a filing made just moments before the midnight deadline set by Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida after approving the agency’s request to file up to 40 pages over the 20-page limit to “adequately address the legal and factual issues raised by” Trump’s team.
Feds Pinpoint Nearly 30K Mexican Passport Holders With Middle Eastern Names in Fraud Investigation
Federal law enforcement officials have identified a high number of individuals with Middle Eastern names traveling with Mexican passports, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Since the beginning of 2022, nearly 30,000 Mexican passport holders were flagged as part of the investigation into passport fraud, the memo states, adding that each identified individual will be further evaluated. A senior official at DHS who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the agency will likely investigate whether any of the individuals have traveled to the United States and whether there are any other patterns in their travel.
Don‘t Charge that Electric Vehicle: California Braces for Energy Shortage Thru Labor Day
California will suffer an energy shortage and “Flex Alerts” through Labor Day due to high temperatures, and residents will be asked to conserve electricity during afternoons and evenings, which means refraining from charging electric vehicles, among other uses.
China Is Torturing Critics in Psychiatric Hospitals
China’s regime is torturing and killing critics, petitioners, activists, dissidents, and religious adherents in psychiatric hospitals, thereby bypassing its horribly misdescribed criminal justice system. The “barbaric practice,” as a Madrid-based NGO termed it this month, is still widespread.
Safeguard Defenders, in “Drugged and Detained: China’s Psychiatric Prisons,” details how police and government agents are sending Chinese citizens “for medically unnecessary involuntary hospitalizations” in the police-run ankang system, which was established in the 1980s.
Jackson, Mississippi has ‘no water to drink or flush toilets’
Some 180,000 residents in Jackson, Mississippi have “indefinitely” lost access to reliable running water after excessive rainfall and flooding.
Rising floodwaters over the weekend breached the city’s main water treatment facility, bringing it to the brink of collapse.
A state of emergency has been declared, and schools, restaurants and businesses have temporarily closed.
The city had already been under a boil-water notice for a month.
In Canada fears of ‘dangerous’ politics mounting
Online threats, racist or misogynistic insults, public harassment and outright physical intimidation are just some of the behaviours that officials warn are changing the face of Canadian politics.
The issue was highlighted last weekend, when a man was filmed launching an expletive-laden verbal assault at Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.
The incident – which was posted to social media – shows a man shouting at her as she approached a lift in Grande Prairie’s city hall during a visit to Alberta.
The only “danger” Canadians face is from the Liberal party.
Can Canada handle its coming population boom?
The latest projections from Statistics Canada show that Canada’s population is poised to grow much faster over the next two decades than the federal agency forecast just three years ago, suggesting any downturn in the country’s housing market is likely to be short-lived.
Indeed, the revised Statscan figures released last week underscore the need for policy makers to clear the way for more housing and infrastructure projects now to accommodate a fast-growing national population that is projected to increase by around 10 million people by 2043.
Shouldn’t Canadian citizens have the final word on immigration?