Month: April 2021

Rescuers Find Debris Thought to Be From Sunken Indonesian Submarine

DENPASAR, Indonesia—A missing Indonesian submarine carrying 53 people is believed to have sunk in the Bali Sea after search teams found debris floating around the vessel’s last location, a navy official said. “With the evidence we found believed to be from the submarine, we have now moved from the ‘sub missing’ phase to ‘sub sunk’”,…


British Columbia Wrong to Approve School Owned by Company Based in Communist China

Commentary Come this fall, Richmond, B.C., will have a new independent school. With construction nearing completion, Chaoyin International School (CIS) will welcome its first batch of K–7 students in September. Because CIS is classified as a “Group 4” independent school in B.C., it will receive no government funding. “Group 4 schools mainly provide services to Canadian…


British Columbia Wrong to Approve Chinese-Owned School

Commentary Come this fall, Richmond, B.C., will have a new independent school. With construction nearing completion, Chaoyin International School (CIS) will welcome its first batch of K–7 students in September. Because CIS is classified as a “Group 4” independent school in B.C., it will receive no government funding. “Group 4 schools mainly provide services to Canadian…


B.C. Wrong to Approve Chinese-Owned School

Commentary Come this fall, Richmond, B.C., will have a new independent school. With construction nearing completion, Chaoyin International School (CIS) will welcome its first batch of K–7 students in September. Because CIS is classified as a “Group 4” independent school in B.C., it will receive no government funding. “Group 4 schools mainly provide services to Canadian…


FBI Releases Documents on Probe Into Death of DNC Staffer Seth Rich

The FBI has produced 68 pages relating to a Democratic National Committee (DNC) worker who was shot dead in 2016 in Washington, including an investigative summary that appears to suggest that someone could have paid for his death. Seth Rich, who had been the DNC’s voter expansion data director, was shot dead in the early…


FBI Releases Documents on Investigation Into Death of Democrat National Committee Worker Seth Rich

The FBI has produced 68 pages relating to a Democrat National Committee (DNC) worker who was shot dead in 2016 in Washington, including an investigative summary that appears to say someone may have paid for his death. Seth Rich, the worker, was shot dead in the early morning hours on July 16, 2020, near his…


YouTube Blocks Access to Ukrainian TV Channels Tied to Kremlin Ally, Ukraine Govt Says

KYIV—Three Ukrainian television channels linked to an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin were blocked from broadcasting on Google’s YouTube on Saturday, the Ukrainian government said, following its request to YouTube to have the channels taken down. The YouTube channels of ZiK, 112 Ukraine and NewsOne did not play their content and instead showed a…


Clearing the Smoke: A Former Presidential Adviser’s Fight Against Cannabis

Kevin Sabet has never smoked marijuana, but his life revolves around it. As a teen in Anaheim Hills, California, in the 1990s, Sabet saw problems with marijuana use among his friends. But he felt his community didn’t take it seriously and avoided talking about drugs in general. A friend of his was hit by a…


Time to Outlaw ‘Transplant Tourism’

Commentary The black market in human organs for transplantation is one of the worst ongoing human rights abuses in the world today. But here’s the problem: Many decry organ trafficking, but few do anything about it. Until now. The Canadian Senate committee just passed S 204, a bill that would make traveling overseas to purchase…


At Least 8 Dead in Glacier Avalanche in India’s Himalayan State: Official

NEW DELHI—At least eight people died and 384 were rescued after a glacier broke triggering an avalanche close to the Indo-China border in the Indian state of Uttarakhand on Friday, a government official said. “Eight bodies have been recovered. Rescue operations are in progress,” a defense ministry official told reporters on Saturday, adding that six…