Month: June 2022

TikTok an ‘Invasive Tool’ for Beijing: Lawmakers Warn of Threat After Report Shows US Data Accessed in China

The hugely popular short-video app TikTok is but “another invasive tool” for Beijing’s espionage campaign on America, said U.S. lawmakers after news of leaked internal recordings allegedly showing the app’s private U.S. user data being repeatedly accessed in China. Between at least September 2021 and January, engineers in China had access to the app’s U.S….


The Noble Bay Leaf

That single leathery leaf you occasionally find in your soup, it’s called bay. Bay leaf has a unique and complex taste—hints of clove, pepper, and eucalyptus with a pleasant woody bitterness. It is not poisonous, as many believe, just really hard to chew. Once bay imparts its subtle flavor to a recipe, the stiff leaf…


Social Security Benefits Are Not Prorated

Q: It has always puzzled me why Social Security takes back a person’s Social Security check for the month he or she dies. My aunt died in April, and as her executor, I was counting on using her last Social Security check to pay off some of her bills. But the government took that money…


Create A Charcuterie Board The French Way

When it comes to charcuterie boards, the French don’t play games. Charcuterie—an assemblage of meat, cheese, spreads, bread, olives, dried fruit, and nuts all arranged on a wood plank—isn’t just something that can be thrown together at random. Once I moved in the US, I realized how french charcuterie board is, in fact, an art…


Let Brothers Work out Their Conflict

By John Rosemond From Tribune News Service Q: Our 8-year-old, the oldest of three, is often rude to his siblings. I know some sibling conflict is normal, but this seems excessive. I hear him multiple times per day tell his younger brothers how annoying they are. In addition, he often yells at them to stop…


State AGs Seek Biden Injunction After Whistleblower Documents Reveal True Aims of Biden’s Ministry of Truth | Truth Over News

New behind-the-scenes planning documents disclosed by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) contain shocking evidence of the real purpose of President Joe Biden’s Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board—which became known as Biden’s Ministry of Truth. The documents are part of a trove of documents given to the two senators by a whistleblower. Shockingly, the…


Long Waits Outside Montreal Passport Office, Police Called Due to Size of Crowd

The federal minister responsible for Passport Canada is calling the situation at a Montreal passport office unacceptable. Families Minister Karina Gould says senior managers are on the ground in Montreal and 600 additional people have been hired to deal with Canada-wide passport processing delays. Montreal police say they were called to the downtown passport office…


Florida Wildlife Agency Investigating Black Bear Shooting

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is investigating the killing by sheriff’s deputies of a black bear that wandered into a residential neighborhood in Palm Beach County over the weekend. Black bear sightings are not uncommon in parts of Florida, and FWC wants to determine why deputies chose to shoot a young…


A Single Brain Scan to Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease

An algorithm is now able to diagnose Alzheimer’s from a single brain scan, the modeling can even diagnose individuals at an early stage of the disease, normally a difficult task, according to a UK study. “Currently no other simple and widely available methods can predict Alzheimer’s disease with this level of accuracy, so our research…


Tearful Uvalde Parents Demand School Board Fire Top Cop for Botched Response to Mass Shooting

UVALDE, Texas—“We were failed by Pete Arredondo,” Brett Cross, guardian of Uziyah Garcia, a Robb Elementary fourth grader who died in the May 24 mass shooting at the school, told the Uvalde, Texas, Consolidated Independent School District board on June 20. “He killed our kids, teachers, parents, and city, and by keeping him on your…