The anger across the streets of Israel has reached a new crescendo, with tens of thousands joining protests billed as a “week of disruption.” Anti-government demonstrators have blocked major highways, staged walkouts, and called for a general strike. The protesters have not one but several demands: a hostage deal, new elections, military conscription for ultra-Orthodox […]
Major failures by Minnesota’s education department allowed the rampant misuse of a federal program meant to feed children during the pandemic, according to a state audit report released Thursday. The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) did not properly oversee Feeding Our Future, the nonprofit at the center of an alleged $250 million Covid relief scheme […]
(Bloomberg) — Pacific Investment Management Co. expects more regional bank failures in the US because of a “very high” concentration of troubled commercial real estate loans on their books. Most Read from Bloomberg “The real wave of distress is just starting” for lenders to everything from malls to offices, John Murray, Pimco’s head of global […]
A B-52 bomber crew received an award for fighting through “catastrophic” aircraft failures. The crew faced a string of problems while flying to Barksdale Air Force Base. Air Force Global Strike Command gave the bomber crew the General Curtis E. LeMay Award. A US Air Force B-52 bomber crew received an award for pulling off an […]
LONDON (AP) — British authorities and the country’s public health service committed a “catalogue of failures” and knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, an inquiry into the U.K.’s infected blood scandal found Monday. An estimated 3,000 people in the United Kingdom are believed to have […]
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a News ConferenceReuters The Fed risks “breaking” something in the economy if it delays rate cuts, according to Moody’s Mark Zandi. Higher interest rates raise the odds of recession or bank failures, the economist warned. “If I were king for the day, I would really be cutting rates at […]
What is going on at today’s universities in terms of the campus protests tells you that we have abandoned the single most important function of higher education. And that is higher education. People have forgotten that civilization is not self-executing. It has to be nurtured, protected and taught. VIRTUES OF COURAGE, COMPASSION, WORK, FRIENDSHIP — […]
President Joe Biden had a succinct message to Arizona voters who, in a few weeks, will be forced to live under a near-total abortion ban enacted in 1864: “Elect me, I’m from the 21st century.” It sounds simple, but Democrats would do well to drive that point home with voters if they truly hope to […]
An investment fund wants a reckoning at three major companies after a litany of serious fraud, sexual harassment and racial discrimination allegations against them in recent years. The New York State pension fund, with $260 billion in assets, has hit Chipotle, Tesla, and Wells Fargo with shareholder proposals that would require them to disclose how […]
Police made “many failures” when responding to a gunman who killed 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school in 2022, an investigator said. Jesse Prado, a former police detective who compiled a report for Uvalde City Council, described rippling failures at the scene: failures of communication, poor training for live shooting situations, […]
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Department of Justice took a “minute-by-minute” approach in its investigation of law enforcement’s response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde. Its nearly 600-page report describes chaos, confusion and ignorance — all aspects that the Texas House of Representatives found within their own investigation released just weeks after the 2022 […]
Am investigation by a government commission into a fire that killed 20 children at an Indigenous boarding school in Guyana found multiple errors and systematic failures. Calling for reforms to avoid a repeat of the May 2023 fire, the report presented to President Irfaan Ali on Friday found there was a delay in seeking help […]