The salmon fishing season in California has been canceled, as salmon populations have collapsed in the past few years. This year, only 170,000 fish are expected to return to the Sacramento River, down from a high of over a million salmon in the 1990s. Other salmon...
Tired of rampant corruption, energy shortages, poor standards of living, and now a partial government bailout of an ineffective energy company, many South Africans are protesting all these problems and demanding that their President, Cyril Ramaphosa, resign. The...
Last week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a small bank focused on investing in tech companies, suddenly collapsed, sending shockwaves through the financial markets. The collapse raises fears that another, bigger collapse is coming, something like what happened in 2008....
Los Angeles, California isn’t commonly a winter wonderland surrounded by snow-capped mountains. All over the western coast of the United States, this has been an unusually cold winter. The cold doesn’t end when you close your front door. Looking at the power bill has...
Recently, there have been talks in Congress about cutting Social Security and Medicare. This would potentially impact over 60 million elderly Americans that depend on these programs for financial support for retirement income and health insurance. These programs are...