USA Update

Several suspected members of the bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua (TdA) were busted hiding out in a New York City apartment building located next to a daycare center, a law enforcement source tells Fox News, underlining how the gang has immersed itself among the general population in the sanctuary city.  The New York Post […]

A vehicle drove into a Christmas market in a city in central Germany on Friday evening, wounding several people, according to videos posted online. The driver of the vehicle was arrested, according to local news reports. But there was no immediate information about any charges. The police could not immediately confirm the number of victims […]

NEW YORK — To many Australians, Saturday is more than just Dec. 21. It’s “Gravy Day,” all because of a lyric in one of the most unlikely Christmas songs ever written. “How to Make Gravy,” written by has become a holiday classic in Australia over the past few decades. It was cited this week by […]

PORTLAND, Ore. — Fentanyl fueled a record number of homeless deaths last year in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, according to an annual county report released Friday that officials described as showing the peak of in the area. The report found that 456 homeless people died in the county in 2023 — the highest […]

I have a question about planning for the future in light of the recent presidential election and the prospect of potentially having a dictatorship in America. I’m a 33-year-old woman. For a long time I’ve wanted to start a family. I’m about to start investing substantial money into family planning. In view of climate change, […]

The debt ceiling is the unexpected debate in Washington this week after President-elect Donald Trump threw the annual holiday-season government funding talks into disarray. Trump wants to raise or eliminate the limit on how much the federal government can borrow. Doing so now would mean the much-debated move would happen on President Joe Biden’s watch […]

I thank Paul Gottlieb, an economics professor at Rutgers University, for inspiring today’s newsletter. He wrote to me recently to point out “one of the least-covered stories in economics during the Biden administration.” Namely, that “in mid-2022, the 50-year-old federal program known as Trade Adjustment Assistance was allowed to expire,” leaving it to hobble on […]

California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, which currently is considered a low risk to Americans — though Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” can’t help but feel as though this is all eerily similar to what happened four years ago. “Guys, it’s COVID 2.0,” […]

Three Major banks and Zelle rushed to bring a peer-to-peer payment network to market without first ensuring users would be protected against “widespread” fraud, alleges a lawsuit filed on Friday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo ignored customer complaints related to Zelle, with users losing hundreds of […]

Despite being practicing physicians and medical researchers, we’ve spent about as much time over the course of our careers thinking about fluoride as most Americans—very little. That changed with the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to oversee the federal government’s medical, public health, and research infrastructure. Kennedy has voiced concerns over fluoridation of the […]