Our healthcare system is broken in many ways, but there’s an ugly truth that is less talked about. Private health insurance is failing American workers. The prevalence of high-deductible health plans and ever-increasing out-of-pocket costs means that three-quarters of workers are worried about being able to afford the care they need. It’s making the “valued employees” of thousands of American businesses sicker. And when their health issues can’t be put off any longer, it costs the employee and...
Let’s not blame America’s failed education system on illegals: The Department of Education is perfectly capable of failing on its own (“New estimate says U.S. now has 13.7 million illegal immigrants, up 37% under Biden,” web, March 28).
In three out of the last four Olympics, India’s male wrestlers have returned with at least one medal. This time, they are struggling to even qualify. Owing to a combination of factors – misfortune, luck of draw and sub-par quality talent and limited run-up tournaments – India’s men’s freestyle wrestlers have been unable to win quotas for the Paris Olympics, extending their abysmal run. It leaves them in a major spot of bother with just one more chance left to qualify at the World Qualifiers from...
I fear we are forgetting lessons from that terrible historyI don’t usually talk about my great-uncle Walter. Gen Walter Warlimont, as my grandfather’s brother was formally known, was head of the national defence department in the high command of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany. Only two people were between him and the Führer in the chain of command. Walter worked so closely with Hitler that the failed assassination attempt in July 1944 injured his arm. The orders he signed...
With President Biden on the road for the next few days, the White House press corps had to get their hardballs in while they could on Monday. Fox’s Peter Doocy, as always, had the adversarial questions the rest wouldn’t ask. This time, he went around and around with John Kirby over Iran predictably not being intimidated by President Biden’s simple demand to “don’t” fire missiles and drones at Israel. “John, has President Biden considered maybe beefing up the public Iran posture to be more than...
With President Biden on the road for the next few days, the White House press corps had to get their hardballs in while they could on Monday. Fox’s Peter Doocy, as always, had the adversarial questions the rest wouldn’t ask. This time, he went around and around with John Kirby over Iran predictably not being intimidated by President Biden’s simple demand to “don’t” fire missiles and drones at Israel. “John, has President Biden considered maybe beefing up the public Iran posture to be more than...
NEW DELHI (AP) — The world’s largest democratic election could also be one of its most consequential. With a population of over 1.4 billion people and close to 970 million voters, India’s general election pits Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an avowed Hindu nationalist, against a broad alliance of opposition parties that are struggling to play []
Family of man killed alongside Nicole Brown Simpson says ‘the hope for true accountability has ended’ with OJ Simpson’s deathOJ Simpson’s death did not bring closure to the family of Ronald Goldman, who was killed alongside Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson in Los Angeles in 1994.“The only thing that is important today are the victims, and it’s just a reminder for myself and my family that Ron has been gone all these years – and that we continue to miss him, all these years,” Fred Goldman,...
The book made its way onto The New York Times bestseller list after its publication
The Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee had estimated real gross domestic product growth for the current financial year at 7%.
When Kema Ward-Hopper and her then-fiance Nicholas Hopper, both from the US, decided to get married in Costa Rica, they had no idea that they’d end up relocating there a few years later. But a series of devastating events led the couple and daughter Aaralyn, now 15, to a new life in the Central American country’s very own “blue zone,” one of the regions of the world where people live longest and are the healthiest. Ward-Hopper, a health and life coach, was diagnosed with breast cancer a few...
Tehran has been increasingly public about its air defense capabilities, including showing off models of systems at a recent international defense expo.