Month: September 2021

2022 Toyota GR 86

GR 86 is a track tested and pro-driver-approved sports car, allowing the 2022 GR 86 to earn Toyota’s Gazoo Racing badge. The 2.4-liter flat-four boxer engine is tuned to hit peak torque at lower RPMs, giving the feel of more linear acceleration. The boxer engine pumps out power through four horizontally-opposed cylinder. For the 2022…


NSW Premier Wants Overseas Travel Restart

Australia’s most populous state, NSW, will in the coming week reveal its roadmap for 80 percent vaccination coverage, with the premier wanting international travel to resume “at the earliest opportunity.” The state recorded nine additional deaths in the 24 hours to 8 p.m. local time on Saturday. None of the nine people, aged from their…


Music Teacher Praises Shen Yun Soprano’s Flawless Technique

HOUSTON, Texas—With the finely honed perception of a music teacher, Sharon Lovell was very impressed by Shen Yun Performing Arts’ bel-canto singers. “The soprano was operatic—she was magnificent. And, the tenor was very, very good. The pitch was perfect, their technique was flawless,” she said of New York-based Shen Yun’s performance on Sept. 25. Lovell, a…


Volcanic Ash Cloud Closes La Palma Airport, New Vent Emerges

MADRID—The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma shut down Saturday because of an ash cloud spewing out of a volcano that has been erupting for a week, and scientists said another volcanic vent opened up, exposing islanders to possible new dangers. The intensity of the eruption that began Sept. 19 has increased in…


Nebraska Billionaire, Philanthropist Walter Scott Dies at 90

OMAHA, Neb.—Billionaire Walter Scott, the past top executive of Peter Kiewit Sons Inc. construction firm who helped oversee Warren Buffett’s conglomerate and donated to various causes, particularly construction projects around Omaha, has died. He was 90. The Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation that Scott founded said Scott died Saturday. The foundation did not mention a cause…


NTSB: Broadcasting Only Boat Size Led to Fatal Towboat Crash

NEW ORLEANS—A fatal head-on crash between barges pushed by two towboats in Louisiana was caused by inadequate communication and failure to broadcast their total sizes, the National Transportation Safety Board says. The RC Creppel overturned and sank after the collision with the Cooperative Spirit about 5:30 a.m. on Jan. 26, 2020. Its pilot, captain and…


Sunday, September 26, 2021: Epoch Crossword

‘Chef, at times’, ‘Met collection’, ‘Bright red’, ‘Mainstay’, ‘Gene material’, and ‘Small bill’ are some of the clues in this crossword puzzle from the April 6, 2020 edition of The Epoch Times newspaper. Weekends and national holidays will have past puzzles since the newspaper does not have new puzzles on these days.


‘The Bigger Threat Is Coming From China’: Anders Corr on the AUKUS Submarine Deal

In this special episode, we sat down with two guests, Dr. Anders Corr, publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and Rick Fisher, senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center. They touch on the AUKUS deal between Australia, the UK, and the United States, the blowback from France, and what it means going…


Sunday, September 26, 2021: Epoch Sudoku

Easy Some benefits of playing Sudoku may include reducing anxiety and stress, and improving concentration, problem-solving skills, logical thinking, and memory.


Make a Run for the Border!

Taco Bell had a classic 1980s ad that prodded us to “make a run for the border.” Images from Del Rio, Texas, depict tens of thousands of immigrants not even running but strolling across the Rio Grande rather easily—across unprotected border—which leaves us asking questions about why the Biden administration is doing nothing about this…