In this article SHOP-CA In this photo illustration the logo of Canadian e-commerce company Shopify Inc. is displayed on a smartphone. Thomas Trutschel | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Roblox — Shares of the metaverse-focused gaming company plunged more than 25% after Roblox’s latest quarterly report missed Wall Street
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Four days after the bombshell revelation from court filings that connected the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign to spying on Donald Trump’s, ABC, as well as CBS and NBC are still silent. They have buried the explosive allegations entirely. However, in the category of stupid, vapid stories that the networks are covering instead, ABC’s Good Morning
Three “progressive” San Francisco school board members were voted out of office in Tuesday’s special recall election, but the sheer size of the blowout shocked me, a former city resident. In the end, it wasn’t even close for the most progressive members of the school board of America’s most progressive city. It wasn’t even close
Consumer spending surged in January amid soaring inflation, the Commerce Department announced Wednesday. Retail sales grew 3.8% in January, far exceeding the 2.1% Dow Jones estimate, the Commerce Department announced Wednesday. January’s figure represents the largest monthly increase since March 2021 and a significant snapback from December 2021 when sales decreased by 2.5%. Consumers boosted
Walter Williams left a tremendous intellectual legacy built around his belief that free markets and a truly liberal society were best for everyone — black, white, Asian, anything. In this essay, Professor John Sibley Butler of the University of Texas looks at his uncompromising advocacy of freedom. He writes, As an economist, he used the
The Democratic Party faces a walloping in the 2022 midterm elections — indicated by polling and internal data — yet Democrats continue to blame Republicans for their poor standing with moderate voters. What are the details? So-called “battleground voters” — Americans who are politically moderate — offered a brutal assessment of the Democratic Party, according
A middle-aged woman is believed to be the third patient cured of HIV, scientists say. What are the details? A Wednesday report from the Washington Post states that the mixed-race woman received a stem cell transplant harvested from an infant’s umbilical cord blood ahead of her potential curing. The virus, according to the report, has
Adam Silver, the China-loving, social justice-supporting commissioner of the NBA, is realizing that mask mandates within certain cities are illogical. Appearing on NBA’s Get Up show on Wednesday morning, Silver offered his thoughts on the continuing drama surrounding Brooklyn Nets Guard Kyrie Irving, who remains unvaccinated despite enormous pressure to get the jab. He currently
“Appeasement,” “Munich,” and the years of 1938-9 retain immense rhetorical power when invoked by political and media actors in the English-speaking world. In the media landscape, foreign policy pundits often insinuate that to negotiate with rivals is to risk repeating the mistakes of Neville Chamberlain, the pre-World War II British Prime Minister who is said
Hillary Clinton’s attorney who is accused of lying to the FBI is upset with the Durham investigation. In a response to the Durham team, Sussman’s attorneys claim Special Prosecutor Durham’s actions this past weekend were political. Hillary Attorney Michael Sussmann was indicted in September 2021 for lying to the FBI. We noted at the time
Ilya Shapiro gives a talk on judicial abdication for the Acton Institute. ( Acton Institute/via YouTube) The university is implementing the academic analog of a SLAPP suit against Ilya Shapiro. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE H ow do you stifle unpopular speech at a place like Georgetown University whose policy states that students and faculty have “the
As Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invokes emergency powers in an attempt to quell the “Freedom Convoy,” protesters remain in Ottawa, Canada, for the third week in a row. Protesters have stated they will remain in Ottawa until all COVID-19 mandates are lifted. Images from the protests highlight the escalating tensions between the Canadian government,
In this article MRNA Moderna’s CEO Stephane Bancel said it’s “reasonable” to assume that we may be approaching the final stages of the pandemic. “I think that is a reasonable scenario,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” when asked about views that the Covid-19 pandemic may now be in its final stages. “There’s an 80%
A six-year-old girl, missing for two years, has been found in a secret room under a staircase. A New York State Police detective spotted her “tiny feet” in the “cold and wet” hidden space. Paislee Shultis was allegedly abducted by her biological parents after losing custody of her in 2019 – and police believe they
The clandestine battle behind the scenes between CNN, former CNN boss Jeff Zucker, and former CNN host Chris Cuomo continued as two major developments dropped Tuesday night. The first was Zucker’s lover and fellow CNN executive Allison Gollust resigned from the company two weeks after Zucker was forced out. The second was a New York
Major government websites in Ukraine, such as the sites for the Defense, Culture, and Foreign ministries were hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyberattack Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. Privatbank and Oshadbank, which are large government-operated financial institutions, have also been hacked. The Defense Ministry tweeted out a statement indicating that they
The Senate Banking Committee was set to vote on President Joe Biden’s slate of Federal Reserve nominees on Tuesday, but Republicans threatened to boycott the vote, according to a press release. The rift relates to Sarah Bloom Raskin, who Biden nominated to serve as vice chair of supervision of the Federal Reserve System’s Board of
Protestors gather in front of Parliament Hill as truckers and supporters take part in a convoy to protest Covid vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, January 29, 2022. (Patrick Doyle/Reuters) If you were to read the mainstream coverage of the Ottawa trucker convoy — or more specifically, to listen to the
Witnesses said a woman gave birth to a baby boy on the frigid sidewalk in Omaha, Nebraska, and abandoned him to the cold. The alarming incident unfolded on Sunday at about 10 a.m. Latrell Crane told KETV-TV that she witnessed the entire incident and that she tried to help the baby after the mother gave
While many Americans have grown weary of government-imposed mandates amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent poll of District of Columbia residents found that about three quarters supported a mandate requiring patrons to show proof of vaccination to enter establishments like gyms and restaurants. As of Feb. 15, the mandate requiring establishments to check customers’ vaccination
Further proving how everything the leftist media doesn’t like is an “insurrection” or “January 6“, two of the most buffoonish cable news hosts Joy Reid and Don Lemon had a meltdown over Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley selling coffee mugs for his reelection campaign with a picture of him posing triumphantly with his fist in
For weeks, the world has been riveted by a unique populist uprising in one of the most docile nations on earth: Canada. The Freedom Convoy, a cavalcade of semis, pickups, and other vehicles crossed the country and set up camp in the capital to demand that the government lift vaccine mandates, ditch vaccine passports, and
When it comes to polling, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is in very good shape. He is currently beating all of his Democrat challengers by a comfortable margin. The media has tried so hard to take him down but none of it has worked. The Hill reports: TRENDING: HILLARY HEALTH EXCLUSIVE: Witness Reveals in 2016 Presidential
U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Pomona College professor Amanda Hollis-Brusky penned a Washington Post column titled “Biden said he won’t make an ‘ideological’ Supreme Court pick. Republicans do exactly that.” At first glance, this seems to be pro-Democrat propaganda about how Republican justices are ideologues but Democrats, gosh darn it, just reach totally
A Virginia teacher was fired for refusing to call a girl a boy. Now, the state’s Supreme Court has the opportunity to decide whether a local school board violated the teacher’s legal rights. A lawyer for French teacher Peter Vlaming asked Tuesday that the Virginia Supreme Court take up the case, Vlaming v. West Point
Michelle Melton, who is 35 weeks pregnant, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, February 11, 2021. Hannah Beier | Reuters Mothers who get vaccinated against Covid-19 while pregnant likely protect their babies from hospitalization due to the virus when they are born, according to the Centers
The husband of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Alec Baldwin and others on the set of the movie Rust. Hutchins, 42, was shot dead in October last year while filming the western in New Mexico. The lawsuit was expected, but a lawyer for the family has now confirmed that papers
Maybe there isn’t a misinformation crisis after all. Even lefty journalist Matthew Yglesias, a columnist at Bloomberg, wrote on his “Slow Boring” blog that there is no “misinformation crisis” on the internet. Yglesias wrote that while there is “misinformation” on the internet, allegations that there is a crisis of “misinformation” are overblown. “People are often
It’s been a while since I’ve visited the Drudge Report. This primarily text-based news aggregator with the same minimalist design since its inception was once a staple of my daily reading. It somehow managed to find important and consequential stories that were often overlooked by the mainstream media. That is, of course, how it became
The Central Intelligence Agency has secretly been running mass surveillance operations to collect data on Americans, according to a newly published letter written by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.). Wyden and Henrich, both members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote the letter in April 2021, and the letter was partly declassified on