WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese government hackers are busily targeting water treatment plants, the electrical grid, transportation systems and other critical infrastructure inside the United States, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray will tell House lawmakers on Wednesday in a fresh warning from Washington about Beijing’s global ambitions. Wray will say that there’s been “far too little […]
KUTZTOWN, Pa. | The spotlight will be on Gobbler’s Knob in western Pennsylvania early Friday, when handlers of a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil will announce whether he saw his own shadow and predicts six more weeks of winter or an early spring. Thousands are expected to attend the annual event that exploded in popularity after […]
Gaza’s Health Ministry says 150 people have been killed in the territory in the last 24 hours and another 313 were wounded as Israeli forces continue to battle militants, even in the northern part of the territory. The north, where entire neighborhoods have been flattened, was the initial target of Israel‘s ground offensive in late […]
This week, three American soldiers died at the hands of an Iranian proxy group that used a drone to strike an American base in Jordan. The Biden administration immediately leapt into action by issuing a strongly worded statement, while simultaneously proclaiming that they wanted to avoid escalation. Which, of course, is precisely the wrong […]
Argentina actually elected a libertarian president. Javier Milei campaigned with a chainsaw, promising to cut the size of government. Argentina’s leftists had so clogged the country’s economic arteries with regulations that what once was one of the world’s richest countries is now one of the poorest. Inflation is more […]
This could only happen in Washington DC, with today’s schizophrenic Republican Party – at the same time Senate “Republicans” (using that party identification loosely) led by Oklahoma Uniparty Senator James Lankford are negotiating a border bill that would give all kinds of new authority to Department of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, House Republicans are impeaching […]
Minneapolis Public Schools have seen enrollment drop like a rock in recent years, as students flee to better school districts or simply drop off the map. As a result the school district is likely to become insolvent when the extra pandemic funding runs out later this year. The drop is driven by a larger and […]
A recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 69% of Likely U.S. Voters support Texas erecting barriers at the border to prevent illegal immigrants from crossing, including 53% who Strongly Support the action. Only 27% oppose Texas taking action to prevent illegal immigration, including 15% who Strongly Oppose the state’s action. After […]
“I tell ya, you’re forgetting one thing — you don’t have a [blanking] choice.” Such was the one-line conclusion to a brief exchange between a good natured but evil drug lord (Brad) and his unwilling “mule” appointee (David) in the cryptic comedy “We’re the Millers”, (caution, very salty language) the latter to run a mission […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced on Wednesday to 14 years in prison each for corruption, his lawyer and prison officials said, a day after another special court convicted Khan of leaking state secrets and gave him a 10-year prison sentence. The latest conviction and sentencing were […]
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