Month: September 2021

Don’t Make These Stir-fry Mistakes

“It has to be done, so it might as well be done by me,” I told myself as I dumped the thawed package of supermarket potstickers into the vegetable stir-fry. I may be crazy, but it’s a lock that my kids will like it. So how crazy could that be? Trying to make a stir-fry…


As Party Division Continues, Democratic Leaders Insist ‘Failure Is Not An Option’

At a press conference Tuesday morning, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Vice Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) discussed House Democrats’ policy priorities. Despite continued division in both chambers of Congress between moderates and progressives, Jeffries and Aguilar expressed confidence about the legislative prospects for President Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda. Two bills—the…


NTD Business Full Broadcast (Sept. 21)

We look at why Shell is selling all of its assets in the Permian Basin, located in the southwestern part of the United States. The buyer has agreed to pay nearly $10 billion in cash. Google spending big on physical office space in New York city, even as many companies embrace a more flexible work…


WHO Repeatedly Ignored Evidence of Possible Earlier Start of Outbreak | Truth Over News

On September 12, 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s database of viral sequences was suddenly taken offline in the middle of the night. The deleted database included a huge collection of bat virus sequences. The database has never been publicly recovered. The database, which contained 22,000 unpublished samples and sequences of bat and rodent viruses,…


FBI Director: Ban Encryption to Counter Domestic Extremism

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Sept. 21 that restrictions on encrypted chat services are needed to combat domestic terrorism—claims that have been disputed by a wide array of tech companies, industry associations and privacy groups, as well as other government agencies. Wray made these remarks during the Senate Committee on Homeland Security’s counterterrorism hearing. “I…


Nuclear Arms Are Now Musts for Taiwan and Japan

Commentary To counter Beijing’s growing belligerence in the South China Sea, Australia last week changed course: It canceled an order with France for conventional submarines that it feared were no longer adequate to protect its national interests, and entered into an alliance with the United States and the UK that involves acquiring a fleet of…


Los Angeles County Defends Emmys, Says Mask Exceptions Are Fine for ‘Television Productions’

Los Angeles County responded to criticism that the Emmy Awards, in which mostly maskless celebrities attended, did not follow proper COVID-19 protocols and didn’t abide by the county’s mask mandate. The Emmys, it said, are a “television production,” which exempts the event from county rules around masks. “The Emmy Award Show is a television production,…


Chileans Respond to COVID-19 Vaccine Use on Children as Young as 6 Years Old

Parents in Chile have expressed mixed feelings about inoculating children as 6 years old with the Chinese developed Sinovac vaccine, despite assurances of the vaccine’s safety from the nation’s Ministry of Health. The Chilean Ministry of Health approved the Chinese vaccine for use in children as young as six years old on Sept. 13. Though immunization is voluntary, Undersecretary of Public…


Supreme Court Sides with State, Stays Retrial Order in Death-Penalty Case

The Supreme Court sided with Ohio in putting on hold an appeals court ruling from June that threw out a conviction and death sentence imposed on prisoner August Cassano, who complained that a trial court denied him his Sixth Amendment right to represent himself. An execution date had not yet been scheduled. Late on Sept….


Canada’s Lag in Business Investment Foreshadows Lower Worker Incomes: Report

Canadian workers may be heading toward a slower rise in income and living standards unless public policy steps in to help, as an analysis of Canada’s business investment per worker since the 1990s shows signs of a “troubling outlook,” suggests a report by the C.D. Howe Institute. “Declining Vital Signs: Canada’s Investment Crisis” examines recent…