Month: March 2023

Tornado Slams Little Rock, Smashes Rooftops, Flips Vehicles

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—A tornado plowed through Little Rock and surrounding areas on Friday afternoon, reducing rooftops to splinters, toppling vehicles, and tossing debris on roadways as people raced for shelter. More than 350,000 people were at risk as what the National Weather Service called a “confirmed large and destructive tornado” tore through business districts and…


IRS Says Major Changes Are Coming to Electric Vehicle Tax Credits Next Month

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Friday that it would propose rules that would make it more difficult for a number of new electric vehicles (EVs) to qualify for tax breaks, according to a news release. Starting April 18, the IRS will enforce a domestic sourcing requirement for minerals and components used in EV batteries,…


Manchin Calls Biden Admin’s Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Plan a ‘Pathetic Excuse’

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said a new Biden administration ruling on electric vehicle tax credits provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a significant deviation from what he believed was the intent of the law when he voted for it last summer. A provision of the Inflation Reduction Act allowed for up to…


The Big DEI Gulf on Campus: It’s Much More Than He Said/Ze Said

The fight over academic freedom on campus increasingly comes down to a fight over three letters—DEI—which goes a long way to explaining the fissures now tearing higher education apart. For progressives committed to social justice advocacy, academic freedom must shield the prevailing academic consensus on race and gender from outside political pressure. Nowhere is that…


Is the Counter-University Movement Any Match for the DEI Juggernaut?

A group of intellectual mavericks made splashy headlines in 2021 when they announced plans to launch a new university in Texas called the University of Austin. Backed by a gallery of celebrity intellectuals—its trustees and directors include former Harvard president Larry Summers, Brown University economist Glenn Loury, former ACLU President Nadine Strossen, civil rights leader and…


‘Please Hurry’: 911 Calls Released From Those Inside Nashville School During Massacre

Harrowing recordings of 911 calls paint a disturbing picture of the distress and fear felt by those inside Nashville’s Covenant School on Monday as an attacker went on a killing spree that left six people dead. The audio of about two-dozen emergency calls, released Thursday by the Metro Nashville Police Department, unveiled more details about…


Former Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole to Resign as MP

Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has announced he will not be seeking re-election and will resign as MP at the end of the spring session of Parliament. “It has been the honour of a lifetime to serve my community in Parliament and to also have the privilege to serve the country as a Minister and…


Bill C-11 Returns to Senate for Another Vote After House Rejects Some Amendments

The Liberal government’s controversial bill that will bring digital streaming giants under the authority of a federal agency is returning to the Senate for another vote after the House of Commons voted to reject some amendments previously proposed by senators. MPs debated the proposed amendments for Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, for two days…


Bolsonaro Lands Back in Brazil to Lead Right-Wing Opposition

BRASILIA—Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro returned from three months in the United States on Thursday and was welcomed back by hundreds of chanting supporters at the Brasilia airport before heading straight into meetings with his political party. Bolsonaro, who never formally conceded defeat in last year’s election, has vowed to lead the opposition to President…


Shenzhen Becomes China’s Largest Industrial City as Shanghai Declines

For many years, China’s top three industrial cities were Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Suzhou, in that order. However, as Shanghai implemented Beijing’s draconian zero-COVID policy last year, the city’s GDP by industry fell, and Shenzhen overtook Shanghai to become the No. 1 industrial city in China. According to China’s recently released 2022 GDP ranking of the top…