Month: June 2021

Florida Prosecutors Will Ask Grand Jury To Probe Condo Collapse

Prosecutors in Florida will ask a grand jury to investigate the collapse of the Champlain Towers South, which has left at least 12 people dead and scores more missing. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told reporters at a press briefing that she backs a probe by State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle that would examine factors that…


Beijing Surveillance in Australia Universities Rob Students and Academics of Freedom: HRW Report

Just hours after attending a rally in support of Hong Kong’s freedoms, a student from mainland China studying in Australia received a message from a mainland classmate at 2 a.m. saying: “I’m watching you.” Zhang Xiuyang, a pseudonym used for safety, said she had known the classmate for a long time, was aware of their…


Beijing Surveillance in Australia Universities Rob Students and Academics of Freedom

Just hours after attending a rally in support of Hong Kong’s freedoms, a student from mainland China studying in Australia received a message from a mainland classmate at 2 a.m. saying: “I’m watching you.” Zhang Xiuyang, a pseudonym used for safety, said she had known the classmate for a long time, was aware of their…


Former Journalist at Hong Kong’s Apple Daily Released on Bail

HONG KONG—A former senior journalist at Hong Kong’s now-closed pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily was released from custody on June 29, two days after he was arrested at the airport, media reported. Fung Wai-kong, 57, became the latest person from the media outlet to be targeted after a raid on the newspaper by 500 officers nearly…


Fueling Your Body Is Key to Fueling Your Business

Article by Dr. Jerry Bailey Few entrepreneurs are aware of how their diet affects their mental health along with how the foods they eat mitigate their ability to handle stress. Over the last few years, our collective mental state has declined immensely from isolation in quarantine and the poor choices in foods we have been making….


Police Dog Takes Bullet for Fellow Officers, Making Ultimate Sacrifice—Gets Final Farewell

A Massachusetts police dog was hailed a hero after making the ultimate sacrifice for his fellow officers of the Braintree Police Department during a domestic dispute call. Fallen Belgian Malinois Kitt was transported via motorcade to Gillette Stadium in Foxboro for a private funeral service, where hundreds of the K9 officer’s colleagues bid him farewell…


Australia’s ‘Kneejerk Lockdown Contest’ Will Pummel Businesses, Industry Warns

Australia’s peak industry body has warned that states’ trigger-finger lockdowns have rapidly delivered big financial blows to businesses and the economy—all without providing an effective long-term solution to eradicating the pandemic. A spate of lockdowns permeating throughout the nation have engulfed New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory, and Western Australia, with further restrictions imposed in…


More Deaths Reported in Intense US Northwest Heat Wave

SPOKANE, Wash.—About a dozen deaths in Washington and Oregon may be tied to an intense heat wave that brought scorching temperatures to the Northwest and caused one power utility to impose rolling blackouts amid heavy demand. The dangerous weather that gave Seattle and Portland consecutive days of record high temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.7…


NSA Denies Spying on Fox’s Tucker Carlson

The National Security Agency (NSA) in a statement Tuesday denied allegations made by Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the agency is spying on him “in an attempt to take this show off the air.” “Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has never had any plans to…


Ohio Legislature Passes Bill to Ban COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates at Schools, Universities

Ohio lawmakers approved a bill that would ban public schools and universities from requiring students and staff to receive any COVID-19 vaccine that hasn’t received full approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). House Bill 244, approved on Monday, would also prohibit the institutions from discriminating against an individual who has not received a…