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Selwyn Duke It's not surprising that black Americans were once Republicans — the party of Lincoln and the abolition of slavery, after all — but for more than half a century, blacks have voted roughly 90 percent for the Democrats in every election. Moreover, as one black author and lecturer laments, “The Democrats try to guilt us into voting.””Heavy emotions”The man in question, Leron L. Burton, wrote in Newsweek magazine: How many African Americans have heard it before: “If you don't vote, your ancestors' fight is in vain” or “If you don't vote Democrat, you're letting the racists win”? It's…

South Carolina's domestic violence laws are used as a weapon against parents. Once government agencies think you're guilty, they seem to be able to use every tool they have to make your life difficult, provoke you, and take away your rights. Are South Carolina's domestic violence courts a way for government officials to avoid their responsibility to ensure the constitutionally protected rights of the accused and treat them as guilty until proven innocent? Are domestic violence laws, combined with the principles of “opportunity and access,” allowing innocent Americans to be abused by a domestic violence court system that colludes with…

Siarhei Shuntsikau/iStock/Getty Images Plus Recent outbreaks of bird flu, or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), on poultry and dairy farms have raised concerns among health officials about the risks of current methods for culling and destroying infected birds. These concerns focus on the possibility that such processing could further spread the virus to humans and livestock. A July 19 Reuters report highlighted alarming practices such as dumping carcasses in landfills and using methods to kill chickens that expose workers to the virus.Farm management monitoredRecent data seen by Reuters and interviews with officials and disease experts highlight the risks associated with…

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) has issued a listing notice for five new spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) scheduled to begin trading on July 23, confirming reports from earlier this week.The notice states that the funds are awaiting final regulatory approval. The five ETFs are: 21Shares' CETH, Fidelity's FETH, Franklin Templeton's EZET, Invesco's QETH and VanEck's ETHV.Each ETF will be listed on Cboe's BZX Exchange and trade on the SIAC Tape B data feed.Bloomberg ETFs senior analyst Eric Balchunas reported on July 15 that the SEC had instructed issuers to submit final amendments in preparation for trading to begin…

AP Image Josh Hawley Whistleblowers have revealed that security at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally where an assassin tried to kill former President Donald Trump was “lax” and that most of the people guarding Trump were not Secret Service agents.In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri said several whistleblowers had contacted his office.Hawley's information corroborates what former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino told Fox News' Jesse Watters earlier this week, when he said Secret Service sources told him that much of the details about Trump were written by agents with Homeland Security Investigations.If…

Foxielto/iStock/Getty Images Plus Asian Americans have long enjoyed significantly higher incomes than their white counterparts, and Asian Americans continue to earn more than their white counterparts.Are both, neither, or just one of these wage disparities considered a “problem that needs to be solved”?If you answered “only one” and you know which it is, then you may be familiar with a fashionable modern form of discrimination that involves treating some groups of people more equally than others.Nobel Prize WinnersA good example is Claudia Goldin, who will become the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2023. As Scientific…

MicroStockHub/iStock/Getty Images Plus Austin Private Wealth LLC (APW), an investment firm based in Austin, Texas, is facing intense scrutiny after it purchased “put options” on 12 million shares of Trump Media & Technology Group (NASDAQ: DJT) the day before the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate President Donald Trump. DJT is the parent company of Truth Social, Trump's own social media space that was founded in 2021 after he was booted from what was then known as Twitter.”Put options” are closely related to short selling strategies, where you buy a stock and have the option to sell it later at…

AP Image Democrats believe that not only will former President Donald Trump defeat President Joe Biden in November, but that Republicans will take control of Congress, so pressure is growing on President Joe Biden to not seek reelection.But this morning, after multiple reports that Biden was heading for withdrawal, a campaign spokesman said on MSNBC's Morning Joe that the 81-year-old president will never step down.The president is currently recovering in Delaware after contracting COVID-19, despite having been vaccinated, as he ponders whether to heed calls from members of his own party for him to step down before it's too late.…

D. Michael DeRidder / The New American More than 60 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies from 24 states and Washington, D.C., have deployed more than 4,000 officers to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this week in support of the Republican National Convention. Deployed personnel range from U.S. Coast Guard Defender-class boats to mounted patrols.D. Michael DeRidder / The New AmericanD. Michael DeRidder / The New AmericanD. Michael DeRidder / The New AmericanD. Michael DeRidder / The New AmericanD. Michael DeRidder / The New AmericanD. Michael DeRidder / The New AmericanD. Michael DeRidder / The New AmericanD. Michael DeRidder / The New…

TU IS/iStock/Getty Images Plus Businesses across the globe have suffered, and some are still suffering, from major IT outages with many Windows machines experiencing the infamous “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD).According to Wired, the disruptions began in Australia early Friday morning and quickly spread to the UK, India, Germany, the Netherlands and the US. Affected organisations include banks, airports, television stations, medical facilities, hotels and many other businesses.Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike identified misconfigurations and corrupted updates as the root cause of these widespread outages, a discovery that has sparked debate about the resiliency of cloud services and the critical role of…