Month: April 2021

NTD News Today Full Broadcast (April 27)

The 2020 Census data is out. The U.S. population shifted to the South and West. What does this mean for Congress? Vice President Kamala Harris is set to send a task force to Guatemala to help secure the country’s border. That’s while GOP senators urge President Joe Biden to address the situation at the U.S….


5 Police Officers Hospitalized After Fleeing Car Plows Into Them

Five police officers were taken to the hospital after a car reportedly rammed into them after being pulled over in Meriden, Connecticut, on Monday. Authorities said that the vehicle description matched that of a car used in a recent shooting, NBC Connecticut reported. When the police officers proceeded towards the car, the driver allegedly crashed into…


UK Fines Airlines for Carrying Passengers With Incorrect COVID-19 Paperwork

The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority has issued 630 fines since Feb. 11 to airlines carrying passengers without the right COVID-19 documents, the Department for Transport (DfT) said on Tuesday. These measures form part of the UK’s border measures intended to protect the country from CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus variants that may reduce the effect…


Crimes of Compassion: Their Toll on Children

Commentary It’s natural and normal to feel sadness and sympathy at the suffering of others and to want to alleviate it. The paradox of compassion in that sense is that it often becomes a rhetorical device for justifying action that harms those it’s supposed to help. If you had compassion, this kind of sanctimonious advocate…


Graphic Shows Oil Tanker’s Last Movements Before Collision Outside Chinese Port

China’s Shandong Maritime Safety Administration said on Tuesday (April 27) that the tanker A Symphony, carrying around 1 million barrels of oil, has spilled oil in the Yellow Sea. The Suezmax tanker was last seen near the Qingdao port, live shipping data on Refinitiv Eikon showed. Managers of the oil tanker Goodwood Ship Management told…


Graphic Shows Oil Tanker A Symphony’s Last Movements Before Collision Outside Chinese Port

China’s Shandong Maritime Safety Administration said on Tuesday (April 27) that the tanker A Symphony, carrying around 1 million barrels of oil, has spilled oil in the Yellow Sea. The Suezmax tanker was last seen near the Qingdao port, live shipping data on Refinitiv Eikon showed. Managers of the oil tanker Goodwood Ship Management told…


Iran Nuclear Talks Resume in Vienna Amid New Complications

BERLIN—World powers were set to resume high-level talks in Vienna on Tuesday focused on bringing the United States back into the nuclear deal with Iran, in their first session since comments surfaced from the Iranian foreign minister alleging that Russia once tried to scupper the pact. The Russian Foreign Ministry has thus far refused to…


Ancient and Lonely Urban Monuments Evoke Today’s Political Division

Commentary PITTSBURGH—The 2.8-mile-long East Street Valley neighborhood, which once flourished here, sure died hard. Drive, walk, or cycle past the remnants of it today, and traces of what used to be are everywhere along the hollow of the rolling Allegheny Mountain neighborhoods that lead out of the city proper from the banks of the Allegheny…


False Alarm: No Space Junk Threat After All to SpaceX Crew

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX’s four astronauts had barely settled into orbit last Friday when they were ordered back into their spacesuits because of a potential collision with orbiting junk. It turns out there was no object and no threat, the U.S. Space Command acknowledged Monday. The false alarm is under review. Lt. Col. Erin Dick, a…


‘Tell Tchaikovsky the News’—the Absurdity of Cultural Appropriation

Commentary On March 8, 2021, the National Post reported that pop star Bruno Mars was being attacked for “cultural appropriation” of black culture and music because he’s neither African, nor African American by descent. This is just one more example of a growing chorus of cultural outrage from the left and from the fellow travelers…