CONCORD, N.H.—An autopsy has determined that the death of a man awaiting trial on charges of killing his mother off the coast of New England in a scheme to inherit millions of dollars was not suspicious, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said Wednesday. Nathan Carman, 29, of Vernon, Vermont, was found dead in his…
Man’s Death Awaiting Trial on Charges He Killed His Mother at Sea Was Not Suspicious, Autopsy Says
Virgin Galactic Rocket Plane Carried Aloft for Commercial Launch to Space
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico—A twin-fuselage jet took off carrying Virgin Galactic’s rocket plane with a three-man crew from Italy into the New Mexico sky on Thursday for a high-altitude launch of the company’s first flight of paying customers to the edge of space. The two Italian air force colonels and an aerospace engineer from…
Ottawa’s Payday Loan Crackdown Will Help Canada’s Black Market
Commentary The poor you will always have with you. (Matthew 26:11) Another thing that will always be with us: lenders making high-interest, short-term loans to the poor, who will then struggle to pay them back. This leads to yet another eternal condition: impractical moral judgments about such loans. In this year’s federal budget, the Liberals…
Canadian Cyberspy Agency Says It Disrupted Foreign Extremist Activity
Canada’s cyberspy agency says it conducted operations in the last year to disrupt and remove harmful terrorist content spread online by foreign, ideologically motivated extremists. In its latest annual report, the Communications Security Establishment says the operation fractured the extremists’ cohesion and significantly reduced their online reach and ability to recruit new members. The report…
Daily Pill May Cut Lung Cancer Mortality in Half: Study
A nearly decade-long study revealed that a once-a-day pill can reduce the risk of death from lung cancer by more than half, offering hope for improved patient outcomes and potentially saving millions of lives. Recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), the research involved 682 patients, including those diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC),…
How Censoring Americans Paves the Road to ‘1984’
If you’re on social media, chances are good you’re being watched by “Big Brother,” or what we now call AI. And you may find yourself blocked, shadow-banned, or even suspended. But that’s not the worst part about it. Censorship means it’s likely you’re being deprived of the information you need to make vital decisions that…
Canada, Allies Head to International Court Over Iran’s Downing of Flight PS752
Canada is among four countries turning to international law to ensure Iran is held accountable for shooting down Flight PS752 more than three years ago. The group of nations—which also includes Britain, Sweden and Ukraine—called on Iran six months ago to agree to binding arbitration through a United Nations convention designed to protect commercial aircraft…
US Economic Growth Last Quarter Is Revised Up to 2 Percent Annual Rate
WASHINGTON—Showing surprising resilience in the face of higher interest rates, the U.S. economy grew at a 2 annual pace from January through March as consumers spent at the fastest pace in nearly two years. Thursday’s revised figure from the Commerce Department sharply upgraded its assessment of first-quarter growth from its previous estimate of a 1.3…
Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Admissions at Colleges
The Supreme Court has struck down the use of racially discriminatory admissions policies at U.S. colleges. The decision ends the use of so-called affirmative action in higher education, a longtime goal of conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote (pdf) that for too long universities have “concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is…
Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action Policies at US Colleges
The Supreme Court has struck down the use of racially discriminatory admissions policies at U.S. colleges. The decision ends the use of so-called affirmative action in higher education, a longtime goal of conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that for too long universities have “concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not…
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