Month: April 2022

Boozman, Cotton Lead Senate Effort to Stop Biden’s New ‘Firearms’ Parts Registry

Arkansas Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton, both Republicans, joined a group of 20 other GOP senators sponsoring a Congressional Review Act Joint Resolution of Disapproval (CRA) to stop President Joe Biden’s bid to create a national firearms registry. “While crime spikes across our nation and especially within our major cities, President Biden’s administration continues to…


Locked-Down Residents Complain About Spoiled Food Distributed By Authorities in Shanghai

Shanghai, the megacity of 26 million people, has been under lockdown for more than a month. Recently, many Shanghai residents have complained online that some of the food distributed by the local authorities has deteriorated and is not edible at all, and have questioned the legitimacy of the authorities’ food supply process. On Chinese social…


Affidavits Allege Widespread Discrimination Against Florida’s Unvaccinated, Despite Law

Floridians worried about discrimination against people not vaccinated for COVID-19 say they’ve collected more than 1,000 affidavits describing activity they believe to be unlawful in their state. A coalition of groups plans to collect more affidavits through an online portal. They intend to drop off boxes of these complaints at the offices of Florida lawmakers….


Laguna Hills Sued for Failure to Meet State Housing Element Deadline

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.—A nonprofit housing group sponsored by the California Association of Realtors filed lawsuits against the City of Laguna Hills and five other Southern California cities that failed to meet state housing planning requirements. Californians for Homeownership, a nonprofit organization calling for public interest groups to “fight local anti-housing policies,” according to its website….


Durham’s Treatment of Clinton Camp Contrasts with Mueller’s Treatment of Trump Camp

The way special counsel John Durham is treating people associated with the 2016 Clinton campaign while investigating them is far cry from how special counsel Robert Mueller treated people associated with the 2016 Trump campaign while investigating them. After Durham last year indicted lawyer Michael Sussmann for lying to the FBI, court documents revealed that…


China’s UnionPay Reportedly Suspends Cooperation With Russian Banks Over Fear of Western Sanctions

China’s largest credit card brand UnionPay has reportedly suspended its negotiations with Russian banks on issuing new bank cards for their customers over fear of Western sanctions. According to The Moscow Times, the Chinese credit processor has recently halted talks with some major Russian lenders, including Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank by assets, due to concerns…


Pair Who Allegedly Took Over USC Lectures to Remove YouTube Video Postings

LOS ANGELE—Two men who were already barred from the University of Southern California (USC) for allegedly barging into classrooms during live lectures and creating disturbances they posted on YouTube have agreed to take down the social media posts and stop disparaging the university, according to new court documents. The accord between the university, Ernest Kanevsky,…


Hamilton Sticking to Plan to Fire Unvaccinated Employees Amid Calls for a Halt to Vaccination Policy

The City of Hamilton, Ont., will proceed with its plan to fire unvaccinated municipal employees at the end of May despite calls from a city councillor to halt its COVID-19 vaccination policy. In August 2021, Hamilton’s city council approved a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination verification policy, requiring all city employees to provide proof of vaccination by…


Hamilton Moves to Fire Unvaccinated Employees Amid Calls for a Halt to Vaccination Policy

Ontario’s City of Hamilton will proceed with its plan to fire unvaccinated municipal employees at the end of May despite calls from a city councillor to halt its COVID-19 vaccination policy. In August 2021, Hamilton’s city council approved a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination verification policy, requiring all city employees to provide proof of vaccination by May…


Explosions in Northern Afghanistan Kill at Least 9, Wound 13

KABUL, Afghanistan—Two explosions, within minutes of each other, killed at least nine people and wounded 13 in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, a spokesman for a Taliban-appointed police chief said. The blasts targeted two separate vehicles in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, according to Mohammad Asif Waziri, the spokesman. The source of the blasts was…