Month: June 2022

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Boris Johnson Vows to ‘Keep Going’ After Tories Suffer Double By-election Defeat

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to “keep going” after his leadership suffered a double blow as his ruling Conservative Party lost two crunch by-elections. In Tiverton and Honiton, where local Conservative MP Neil Parish resigned after admitting he had watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons, the Liberal Democrats won after…


Growing Number of Companies Rescinding Job Offers as Recession Fears Mount

A growing number of workers are having their job offers rescinded by companies as fears over a recession amount, and many look to cut down on hiring, according to reports. According to LinkedIn, a growing number of its members have reported having their offers to join new employers revoked in recent weeks, including one Columbia Business School graduate…


Student Slapped With ‘No Contact Order’ by University for Speaking Christian Values in Class Discussions

It’s part of the whole college experience. Eager young minds, animated in discussion, engaging in robust classroom debate. It got lively, boisterous — even explosive at times — as bright pupils with great expectations shared, tested, and contested ideas about the world. This was the university, the crucible of learning, the engine of ideas. How…


How to Gamify Your Health

I know people who can spend hours per day playing video games. The activities they do in their virtual world are similar to jobs that exist in the real world. They build cities, solve problems, and hunt for opportunities—all without getting paid or needing external motivation. I’ve wondered what it is about games that make…


Firefighters Wouldn’t Give Up Saving These Dogs

Salute to all the firefighters who do their best to save all lives! (Video courtesy of LUISCALABOR) …


Tax and Retirement Consequences of Biden’s 2023 Budget Proposal

As part of the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2023 budget proposal, aka the Green Book, for the Treasury Department, Janet Yellen testified before the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee in early June 2022. Her first stop was the Senate Finance Committee, where she testified on June 7 at a hearing on‌ “The‌…


Amazon Providing $23 Million for Affordable Housing in Seattle

SEATTLE—Amazon said Thursday it is providing $23 million to help minority-led organizations build or preserve more than 500 new affordable housing units in Seattle—the latest spending by a tech company to ease a severe housing crunch the industry has helped create. The commitment comes from Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund, a $2 billion initiative launched in…


Apple and Android Phones Hacked by Italian Spyware, Google Says

SAN FRANCISCO—An Italian company’s hacking tools were used to spy on Apple Inc. and Android smartphones in Italy and Kazakhstan, Alphabet Inc.’s Google said in a report on Thursday. Milan-based RCS Lab, whose website claims European law enforcement agencies as clients, developed tools to spy on private messages and contacts of the targeted devices, the…


Germany Says It Helped 21,000 People Get out of Afghanistan

BERLIN—The German government has managed to get more than 21,000 former local employees and other endangered people out of Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power almost a year ago, Germany’s foreign minister said Thursday. However, around 10,000 people are still waiting for an opportunity to get out with German help, Annelena Baerbock told reporters in…