Month: May 2022

Jan. 6 Panel Drops Bid to Get RNC Records for Public Hearings

The House of Representatives panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol has stopped trying to get the courts to order the Republican National Committee (RNC) and its vendor to hand over documents before a round of upcoming public hearings. “The Select Committee recognizes that the Salesforce documentation will not be available…


Ignoring the Noise and Running on Good Governing Are the Biggest Lessons of Georgia

Commentary Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said his decisive win on Tuesday had everything to do with focusing on the concerns of Georgia voters and not getting stuck on past grievances, no matter whether they came from former President Donald Trump, Stacey Abrams, or the corporations that sought to punish Georgia last year over the state’s…


High Court Judge Grants Welsh Parents Judicial Review Over Mandatory Relationships and Sexuality Education

Parents that have been fighting Wales’ compulsory sex education—which the government says will “gradually empower learners” from a young age in subjects such as equity, sex, gender, and sexuality—have been granted a judicial review. Representing 5,000 parents and grandparents, child protection advocates Public Child Protection Wales has been granted its first step in a legal…


Celtics Reach NBA Finals, Hold Off Heat 100–96 in Game 7

MIAMI—Not this time. After being thwarted on the doorstep of the NBA Finals three other times in the previous five seasons, the Boston Celtics have broken through. The beasts of the East, again. And now a chance at an NBA title awaits. Eastern Conference finals MVP Jayson Tatum led the way with 26 points, Jaylen…


The Difficult Search for Answers After Uvalde

Commentary I find myself more shaken and stricken after last week’s latest mass shooting, the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, that saw 19 children and two teachers slain in cold blood, than I did after other mass shootings in recent years. Part of that is biographical: As an ex-Texan, the son of an elementary…


2 Die in Aircraft Crash in Central Texas: Officials

Federal authorities confirmed two people died in a light aircraft crash in central Texas on Sunday. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement that two were on board the Airborne Windsports Edge 912 weight-shift control aircraft when it crashed about 60 miles northwest of Austin, the capital, in the town of Granite Shoals. The…


US Knocks Japan Off Top Spot in Race for World’s Fastest Supercomputer

The United States has reclaimed the top spot from Japan in the race to create the world’s fastest supercomputer. Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) massive Frontier supercomputer was declared the world’s fastest computer on May 30 on the TOP500 ranking, and is the first to achieve the exascale threshold of one quintillion calculations per second, the laboratory said in a…


Rocker Ronnie Hawkins, Dies at 87, Patron of Canadian Rock

Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of the Canadian music scene after moving north and recruiting a handful of local musicians later known as the Band, has died. His wife Wanda confirmed to The Canadian Press that Hawkins died Sunday morning after an illness. He was 87. “He went…


Arbitrary Fines Have Troubled Low-Speed E-Vehicle Drivers in China for Years

China, a nation of bike riders, is now becoming a nation of e-bike and low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) drivers. Since these light e-vehicles became a popular form of transportation, many owners complain they are given indiscriminate fines by the authorities. Starting in March, various Chinese media reported that many local governments started a so-called special…


Florida 5th-Grader Arrested for Alleged Mass Shooting Threat: ‘Behavior Is Sickening’

Authorities in Florida have arrested and charged a 10-year-old student on May 28 after the boy sent a text message threatening to carry out a mass shooting, police said. The fifth-grade pupil at Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral has been charged with making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting, Lee County Sheriff’s…