Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden announced his administration would be forgiving up to US$20,000 in student loans for low- and middle-income borrowers, reducing the debt load for more than 40 million Americans.
Some student groups, as well as the federal NDP, have called on the federal government to do the same here in Canada, but experts are divided over whether cancelling student debt is the best way to help young Canadians.
Not fair to anyone who has paid it back.
A former NYPD officer and Marine Corps Veteran was give ten years in prison for his role in the January 6 riots on Thursday, marking the longest prison term handed down in the US Capital attack to date.
Thomas Webster, 56, of Goshen, NY, was charged with felony assault on a police officer. Unlike the other 11 people who pled guilty to a similar charge, Webster was the first to opt for a trial by jury.
The West Point military academy has defended a controversial 1965 bronze plaque depicting a Ku Klux Klan member, saying it is part of America’s history.
The plaque was recommended to be removed by the Naming Commission, an agency tasked with reviewing and changing military assets that memorialize Confederate figures.
Good.
By the time the Niagara County Courthouse opened on Wednesday morning, 150 people were lined up to apply for permits that would let them carry concealed handguns. Nearly 100 had camped out overnight, with some staying awake in folding chairs, taking walks at intervals to keep warm.
The permitting office at the county courthouse, located in Lockport, N.Y., has been processing about 150 applications every day this week, officials said, part of a spike in demand before most provisions of New York’s new gun law go into effect on Thursday. Similar lines have formed outside permitting offices around the state ahead of the new rules, which are designed to tightly control firearms after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a century-old law regulating guns that was among the nation’s strongest.
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.
The United States is dangerously close to repeating China’s Cultural Revolution, according to the Asian-American Coalition for Education president and author Mike Zhao.
“The communist playbook, unfortunately, … they used to destroy China during the Cultural Revolution … 50 years ago. Today, the radical left uses the same playbook to destroy America,” Zhao said in a recent interview with NTD News, The Epoch Times’ sister media.
The Solomon Islands has suspended visits from western naval ships less than six months after signing a security pact with Beijing that raised fears that China would establish a military base there.
A US Coast Guard cutter, the Oliver Henry, received no response when it requested permission to refuel in the Pacific nation a week ago.
Manasseh Sogavare, prime minister of the Solomons, confirmed the suspension of visits. He said that HMS Spey, a British offshore patrol vessel on Indo-Pacific duties, had also aborted its planned visit because of “approval delays”.
Hope they enjoy the co-prosperity sphere.
In America, supporters of illegal immigration are finally seeing the reality on their own doorsteps
Other challenges come and go, but migration remains one of the greatest challenges of our age. Never has it been easier for people in the developing world to learn what life is like in the developed world. Never has it been easier or cheaper to travel. And rarely, if ever, have the world’s prosperous nations been so unconcerned about the erosion of their borders.
More than two-fifths of Americans believe civil war is at least somewhat likely in the next 10 years, according to a new survey – a figure that increases to more than half among self-identified “strong Republicans”.
Amid heated rhetoric from supporters of Donald Trump, the findings, in research by YouGov and the Economist, follow similar results in other polls.
On Sunday night, the South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham predicted “riots in the streets” if Trump is indicted over his retention of classified documents after leaving the White House, materials recovered by the FBI at Trump’s home this month.
The Canadian government is invoking for the second time in less than a year a 1977 treaty that will force the American government to negotiate over the fate of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline.
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly announced the invocation of the treaty in a statement on Monday, pointing to the “significant” impact shutting down the pipeline would carry for Canadian jobs and bills.
Though largely unreported by mainstream media, the slow-motion collapse of America’s all-volunteer military is a reality of grave importance to national identity and international security. All branches of service are significantly below their essential recruitment goals and have been for several years. The Army is in the most critical shape. This year, it has recruited only 40 percent of the soldiers needed for minimal force replacement, despite ever-lowering standards and ever-increasing enticements for enlistment.
A march celebrating “straight pride” outside of an abortion clinic in California devolved into violence as participants clashed with more than 200 pro-LGBTQ and pro-choice counter-protesters, according to a report.
The National Straight Pride Coalition, which organized the event, held for the fourth consecutive year in Modesto on Saturday, described its cause as backing heterosexuality, the “natural nuclear family,” Western civilization, Caucasians, Christianity and nationalism.
Leftist counter protestors show up at a Straight Pride Event and clash with police. Antifa are terrorists! Modesto Ca. pic.twitter.com/7PqsSaFSlu
— Lexit (@LexitMovement1) August 27, 2022
Twitter and Meta have removed from their platforms an online propaganda campaign aimed at promoting US interests abroad, researchers say.
This is the first major covert pro-US propaganda operation taken down by the tech giants, says a report by social media analytics firm Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO).
They removed dozens of accounts used in the campaign in July and August.
It is not clear who is behind the propaganda operation.
The U.S. intelligence community will evaluate the potential national security risks stemming from former President Donald Trump’s possession of top-secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told top lawmakers.
In a letter obtained by POLITICO and dated Friday, Haines told House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) that her office will lead an “assessment of the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of the relevant documents.”
The “TDS intelligence community.”
Faced with rising energy prices, manic hours at work, sadistic bosses and the prospect of doing it all again on Monday morning, who has not thought of disappearing into the hills?
The price of land in rural areas of Utah, Idaho, Washington state and Montana shot up during the coronavirus pandemic as the minds of city dwellers, facing lockdowns in their tiny but valuable homes, drifted to dreams of living off the grid.
