Month: January 2023

NTD News Today (Jan. 30): Handling of Classified Docs Causes ‘Grave Concern’; Report: NYC Employees Must Take CRT Training

House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) on Jan. 29 expressed “grave concern” over the contents of classified documents found at the homes of President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence. All New York City employees reportedly have to do mandatory critical race theory training that says that America is systematically racist and…


National Intelligence Chief Expresses Concerns About ‘Overclassification’ of Documents

The Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, has warned that overclassifying too much information can “undermine” national security and “critical democratic objectives.” Haines raised her concerns at a two-day conference titled “America’s Secrets: Classified Information and Our Democracy” which was held at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library (LBJ Library) in Austin, Texas, last week. Her warning…


BC Events Mark One-Year Anniversary of Convoy Protests

Several mini-convoys rolled through communities in British Columbia on Jan. 28 as events were held in Canada, including in Ottawa, to mark the one-year anniversary of the trucker convoy protests against COVID-19 mandates. Sarah Bankert was one of the primary organizers of a convoy in the B.C. Interior, beginning in Kelowna and driving approximately 125 kilometres…


CDC Acknowledges Overcounting COVID-19 Hospitalizations

The U.S. government overcounts COVID-19 hospitalizations, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say, but the agency suggested it does not overcount deaths. COVID-19 hospitalizations listed on the CDC’s data tracker webpage, which is utilized by a wide variety of health officials, journalists, and others, include three types of hospitalizations, the CDC…


CDC Acknowleges Overcounting COVID-19 Hospitalizations

The U.S. government overcounts COVID-19 hospitalizations, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say, but the agency suggested it does not overcount deaths. COVID-19 hospitalizations listed on the CDC’s data tracker webpage, which is utilized by a wide variety of health officials, journalists, and others, include three types of hospitalizations, the CDC…


CDC Acknowleges Overcounting COVID-19 Hospitalizations but Suggests It Doesn’t Overcount Deaths

The U.S. government overcounts COVID-19 hospitalizations, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say, but the agency suggested it does not overcount deaths. COVID-19 hospitalizations listed on the CDC’s data tracker webpage, which is utilized by a wide variety of health officials, journalists, and others, include three types of hospitalizations, the CDC…


Six Last-Minute Tips for Filing Income Taxes

The tax-filing deadline on April 18 is looming. And you might be scrambling to prepare your 2022 tax returns. But you can make the process go smoother and more efficiently. You want to lower your tax burden. It’s still possible, even though Dec. 31, 2022, has come and gone. Here are six tips for filing…


Heart Attacks Rise in Australia

Commentary According to new data from Australia, fatal heart attacks spiked by 17 percent in the country in 2022. Australian media has rushed to explain why, using conventional, politically benign explanations that are considered part of accepted discourse. The Sydney Morning Herald, for example, published an article attempting to definitively explain “why” there was such…


Illegal Crossings Soar 743 Percent at US-Canada Border as Migrant Crisis Worsens

Illegal border crossings have soared more than sevenfold in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Swanton Sector, officials said, with agents apprehending more illegal aliens in New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont in two months than in the previous two years combined. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) said in a statement that, between Oct. 1, 2002,…


Will Congress Really Do Anything About the CCP Threat to the US?

Commentary The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party is the brainchild of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. It sounds like a great start to the new Republican-led Congress for 2023. But a bit of circumspection is advisable and with good reason. All Bark, No Bite First, the…