ATLANTA—The Milwaukee Bucks suddenly are facing the daunting challenge of possibly having to move forward in their Eastern Conference finals without their two-time MVP. Giannis Antetokounmpo sustained a hyperextension of his left knee and and was forced out of the Bucks’ Eastern Conference finals game against the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday night. “It’s not good,”…
Residential Schools: Canada Confronted With Difficult Past
The difficult past and present of Canada’s indigenous peoples are once again in the spotlight after First Nations groups took it upon themselves to locate unmarked graves at two former residential school sites. The issue of missing children and unrecorded burials was the subject of Volume 4 of the 3,500-page Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report…
Daimler Truck Expects Gradual Ramp-Up of Electric Trucks Due to Cost
BERLIN—Daimler Truck, the world’s largest truck and bus maker, expects only a moderate market ramp-up of its first electric truck model, eActros, due to its high price, the sales head of Daimler’s brand Mercedes-Benz Trucks said. The cost of an electric truck is three times as much as one with a combustion engine, Andreas von…
The Economics and Politics of the Pro-Union Protecting the Right to Organize Act
Commentary For many decades now, the percentage of private-sector American workers who belong to a labor union has been declining. According to a Hoover Institution study by Richard A. Epstein, the percentage of unionized workers in the private sector has fallen from nearly 20 percent in 1983 to 6.2 percent in 2019. Attempts by union…
CCP at 100 Years: A Century of Killing and Deceit
Editor’s Note: Some of the accounts in this article contain graphic and disturbing details of torture and other forms of degrading treatment. Founded in July 1921, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has wreaked death and destruction on the Chinese populace for a century. Armed with the Marxist ideology of “struggle” as its guiding principle, the…
Man Dies After Rare Blood Clot Disorder, Received Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine: Report
A man has died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after receiving a second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, and was determined to have possibly had a rare and severe blood clot condition called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia when he presented to the hospital, according to a report. The case report of the 65-year-old man is detailed in a…
Site of 1944 Bomber Crash in UK Being Dug Up in Effort to Bring US Air Crew Home
A team of American veterans are digging up a field in Sussex, United Kingdom, where a bomber plane crashed during the Second World War in an effort to finally bring their fallen compatriots home. In June 1944—two weeks after Allied troops landed in France on D-Day—a B-24 Liberator was in a group conducting a bombing…
Tech Giants Putting Profit Ahead of Child Safety, Warns Outgoing Police Chief
Social networks can make it much harder for paedophiles to share indecent images but they choose not to invest in such technology, an outgoing senior British police officer will say on his last day. Chief Constable Simon Bailey—the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s lead on child protection and head of Norfolk Constabulary—is expected to point the…
Asda Launches First Full-Range One-Hour Delivery for Groceries
Asda has become the first UK supermarket to offer a full range of grocery products in a one-hour delivery service, as it tries to capture some of the territory held by Amazon. Rivals such as Morrisons, Tesco, and Sainsbury’s already offer one-hour delivery via other providers such as Deliveroo, Uber Eats, and Amazon. However, they…
Brits Ramped Up Savings in 2021 Lockdown, Data Show
Brits squirrelled away their wages, profits, and pandemic handouts during this year’s spring lockdown, taking household savings to near-record levels, according to official figures. The data from the Office for National Statistics also show that GDP contracted during that first quarter of the year by more than expected, dropping by 1.6 percent compared with the previous…
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