Author: Frank Allison

Donald Trump is “the single most dangerous threat” the US faces as he seeks a return to the Oval Office, according to Liz Cheney, the moderate Republican whose opposition to her party leader’s presidency had cost her a congressional seat she held for six years. “He cannot be the next president because if he is, all of the things that he attempted to do but was stopped from doing by responsible people … he will do,” Cheney – the daughter of former congressman, defense secretary and vice-president Dick Cheney – said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. “There will…

OTTAWA – Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says fiscal and monetary policy are rowing in opposite directions, making it harder to bring inflation down.Macklem is appearing before MPs on the House of Commons finance committee after the Bank of Canada’s recent rate decision and quarterly economic projections. In response to questioning from Conservative MP Jasraj Singh Hallan, the governor says government spending is working at cross purposes with the central bank’s efforts to bring inflation down. The governor says that according to federal and provincial budgets, government spending aggregate will grow faster than supply in the economy over the…

Richard Wesmoreland says in the beginning, being an airline pilot was great. But the repeated, days-long stretches away from home – commuting back and forth between his home near Houston and regional carrier SkyWest’s crew based in Detroit – began to take a toll on his new marriage and himself. “The lifestyle was wearing on me mentally,” says Westmoreland, now 37. “I was in kind of a dark place.” So the flight attendant-turned-pilot chose to end his career on his terms, in a fear shared by many pilots that getting help for his depression would lead to the Federal Aviation…

Latvian companies, despite the sanctions, continue to supply Russian enterprises of the military-industrial complex with microcircuits, which, in particular, are used for the production of Iskander ballistic missiles, The Insider claims in its investigation. After the start of full-scale Russian aggression in Ukraine, the imposition of sanctions and tightening of export controls from Latvia to Russia, as the publication notes, microcircuits worth millions of euros were imported. As investigators specify, products from the Riga Semiconductor Device Plant (SDP) Alfa were also imported into the Russian Federation. This enterprise in Russia has a branch of Alpha LLC, which, however, did not import Riga microchips. These…

Repairs are complete to a severed fiber optic cable affecting Internet and cellular services to much of Northern and Western Alaska. GCI announced the repairs in an email to customers Monday, 14 weeks after the cable was cut in an ice scouring event in the Arctic Ocean west of Prudhoe Bay. Many people in the affected regions experienced spotty internet and cellular services, and at times, no internet connectivity at all. The company that built and owns the cable, Quintillion, originally anticipated service would be restored in eight weeks, but that timeline slipped several times. When the cable initially broke, GCI switched…

Brussels, Toronto (4/10 – 60) The general air of frustration and resentment wafting up from Washington is a reflection of the mood of the nation – in tune with the eternal and accurate appraisal of the federal government as “out of touch” with the mood and concerns of the people. The electorate expresses its disgust with Congress by giving it an approval rating that any executive in the business world or show biz egomaniac “celebrity” would get them ousted. All through the past year the answer to “Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?”…

Vienna, Brussels (26/9 – 36) David McCallum – the British actor who played as Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard, a pathologist on hit CBS TV program NCIS, has died aged 90 on Monday (25/09/2023). McCallum died on Monday of natural causes, surrounded by his family, at New York Presbyterian Hospital, CBS said in a statement. NCIS executive producers Steven D. Binder and David North shared their memories of working with McCallum. “For over twenty years, David McCallum endeared himself to audiences around the world playing the wise, quirky, and sometimes enigmatic, Dr. Donald ‘Ducky’ Mallard,” they shared in a statement. “But…

Clark’s lawyers claimed the actions he is charged with fall within the scope of his duties as a Trump administration official. Lawyers for former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, a co-defendant in the Georgia election interference case, argued Monday that the case against him should be moved to federal court because he was acting in his official capacity when he urged DOJ brass to intervene in the 2020 election. Prosecutors from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s office countered in the hearing before U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones that the case should remain in state court because elections weren’t…

U.S. dockworkers ratified a six-year contract that improved pay and benefits for 22,000 employees at 29 ports stretching from California to Washington State, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) said on Thursday. Members of the ILWU voted 75% in favor of approving the West Coast port worker agreement that will expire on July 1, 2028. The deal, which is retroactive to July 1, 2022, includes a 32% pay increase over the span of the contract as well as a one-time bonus for working through the early days of the COVID pandemic. Longshore workers covered by the agreement are based at…

Aug. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) — New hospitalizations for Americans with severe COVID are climbing once again. The number of patients being admitted to hospitals has grown for each of the past four weeks, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows. Southeastern states have been hit the hardest. In the week ending Aug. 5, the United States had 10,320 newly hospitalized patients. That’s a 14.3% increase, but it’s still much lower than last summer’s peak of more than 42,800 in a week. The Southeastern region that includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee had nearly…