Month: April 2022

Number of Americans Collecting Jobless Aid Lowest in 50 Years: Labor Department

Applications for jobless claims edged down in the week ending April 9 to their lowest level since 1970, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. “The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending April 9 was 1,417,000, a decrease of 58,000 from the previous week’s unrevised level of 1,475,000. This is…


137 Million Americans Living in Areas With Unhealthy Levels of Air Pollution

More than 137 million Americans, representing over 40 percent of the U.S. population, are living in places with failing grades for unhealthy levels of particle pollution or ozone, according to the “State of the Air” 2022 report from the American Lung Association. There were 2.1 million more people breathing unhealthy air in the 2022 report…


Mars Rover Captures Mars Moon Eclipsing Sun

NASA has recorded video of a Mars moon eclipsing the sun, an effort that helps them determine when the moon might crash into the planet. Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to shoot video of one of Mars’ two moons, Phobos, Wednesday. NASA says it’s the most zoomed-in, highest-frame-rate observation of a Phobos…


Biden in Trouble: Inflation Up, Approval Way Down | Larry Elder

After years of ignoring racial taunts, threats of violence, and racial slurs by the alleged Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James, he was allowed to remain on Twitter. However, former President Donald Trump is still banned because of a supposed risk of incitement to violence. Meanwhile, inflation is up, gas prices are way up, wages are…


Things to Do in Orange County This Weekend, April 22–24

California Wine Festival 2022 A two-day event featuring hundreds of vintage red and white wines, gourmet appetizers, live music, and an ocean view in Dana point. The first day consists of wine tasting at Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel on Friday from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Saturday, an outdoor wine tasting will be held at…


South Africa’s Socialist Government Blamed for Scale of Flood Disaster

As floodwaters recede in South Africa to reveal hundreds of bodies and the remnants of lost lives, a picture is emerging of how mismanagement and corruption by the nation’s socialist government contributed to the gravity and depth of one of the nation’s worst natural disasters. A storm erupted over eastern KwaZulu-Natal province on April 18,…


Netflix Shares Loses $50 Billion After First Subscriber Loss in Over 10 Years

Shares of video streaming platform Netflix plunged on April 20 after it announced it lost subscribers for the first time in over a decade, attracting downgrades from multiple investment firms. Netflix announced on Tuesday that it had lost 200,000 members internationally in the first quarter of the year, the first time there has been a…


Unanimous SCOTUS Overturns 9th Circuit, Rules Against Spanish Museum in Nazi-Looted Painting Case

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a descendant of a German Jewish family whose valuable French Impressionist painting was confiscated by the Nazis during the Holocaust and is now on display at a government-owned art museum in Madrid, Spain. The gist of the unanimous decision made public April 21 is that in property cases,…


Mass Testing: The Fatal Conceit

Afew decades ago, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) robots, DNA sequencers, and high-speed computers fostered and accompanied quite a scientific revolution in virology. Acknowledging this radical change, some illustrious scholars alerted their scientific community on a hazardous drift away from investigating the viral ecology, pathogenesis, and disease potential, along with viral identification by testing. “In summary”,…


China’s GDP Could Drop in 2022: Expert

News Analysis China’s real economic growth rate could be zero percent or even negative this year, according to a Hong Kong-based academic expert on China’s economy. Chinese growth is under pressure from COVID-19 lockdowns, inflationary pressures, depressed trade due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and potential secondary sanctions from the United States and allies…