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The self-ruled island boasts rich natural resources and a key position in the Arctic King Frederick of Denmark has introduced a redesigned royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The change came after US President-elect Donald Trump expressed an interest in gaining control over Greenland.In the old design, Greenland and the Faroe Islands in the Northeast Atlantic, the two self-governed parts of the Kingdom of Denmark, shared the same field out of four in the royal coat of arms. The updated version, released last week, shows a polar bear and ram – animals that…
Jobs, jobs, jobs…ADP’s employment report showed a disappointing addition of just 122k jobs in December (worse than the +140k exp) – its lowest since August…Source: BloombergOnly 3 of the 23 forecasters were lower…Source: BloombergManufacturing saw the biggest drop in jobs (the 7th monthly decline in manufacturing jobs in the last 8 months)……as small- and mid-sized firms cut employees (which is odd since NFIB Small Business sentiment literally exploded higher after Trump’s election).The West was the biggest driver of job gains by region.It seems the labor market ”downshifted” right after Trump was elected?”The labor market downshifted to a more modest pace…
Los Angeles County Fire Department’s decision to donate surplus firefighting equipment to Ukraine in 2022 is being met with heavy criticism as California faces a barrage of wildfires in 2024. With thousands of acres scorched, homes lost, and first responders stretched to their limits, the timing of this earlier “humanitarian” gesture has now come back to haunt the state. In March 2022, the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) joined a national effort to collect and donate surplus equipment and gear to support first responders in Ukraine. This initiative involved gathering items such as hoses, nozzles, turnouts, helmets, body armor,…
Washington needs to make sure that bank regulations remain strong.Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Thanks to more than a decade of Dodd-Frank and Basel III regulations, the Trump administration inherits a well-capitalized and liquid banking system. Squandering this gift would be very dangerous to the financial and mental health of Americans. Healthy banks are critical to the U.S. economy — more so than any other sector. Bank supervisors globally have a framework to assess banks’ capital, asset quality, management, earnings, liquidity and sensitivity to market risk. A few highlights below show that presently, the American banking system…
The Islamic Republic of Iran, under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, executed over 1,000 prisoners in 2024 — a shocking record in recent decades amid escalating regime desperation, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Iran’s theocratic regime’s death toll marks an unprecedented surge in executions, according to a new report from the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The executions occurred across 86 prisons and included 34 women, seven juvenile offenders, and 119 Baluch minorities, with four public hangings adding to the chilling trend. Alarmingly, nearly half of these executions were concentrated in the final quarter of…
Two prisoners whose death sentences President Joe Biden (D) commuted do not want to accept his action, NBC News reported on Monday. Biden commuted the sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row in late December, which converted their punishments to life in prison, Breitbart News reported at the time. Biden said, “I’ve dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system.” However, two inmates, identified as Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, recently filed emergency motions in federal court “seeking an injunction to block having their death sentences commuted to life in prison without…
The two employees who died in a shooting attack at a mechanical engineering company in south-western Germany were brothers, police and prosecutors said on Wednesday.One person remains in critical condition following the attack in the town of Bad Friedrichshall, some 100 kilometres south of Frankfurt, on Tuesday.The suspect, a 52-year-old German national who was an employee at the company, was a member of a shooting club and had a permit for the weapon used, police said,Two brothers – aged 49 and 44 – were killed after a masked person entered the company’s premises in the early evening and then fired…
Democratic doctors in Congress said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, would pose a danger to public health if confirmed. Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.), a pediatrician, said the Democratic physicians in the House, who now number six, would form a caucus to elevate their voices in Congress. The lawmakers said Kennedy’s anti-vaccine activism was “beyond irresponsible” and “should disqualify” him to lead HHS in a press conference on Wednesday, suggesting a Kennedy confirmation would cause more to die of preventable diseases, referencing Kennedy longstanding efforts to discourage vaccination. Schrier…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is the consummate Washington insider. Jimmy Carter was anything but.Yet the 46th and 39th U.S. presidents had a decades-long friendship starting when Biden, as a young Delaware lawmaker, became the first sitting senator to endorse Carter’s outsider White House bid in 1976. Their bond will be on display one final time Thursday as Biden eulogizes Carter during his state funeral at Washington National Cathedral.It marks quite a bookend for both men. Carter and Biden each had notable evolutions as the Democratic Party and the country changed over their long public lives. Both were presidents who…