Yahoo News

The goal of President Donald Trump’s executive memorandum on payroll tax deferral is to get more money into the pockets of Americans this year. But the move also means those same workers will get smaller paychecks for the first four months in 2021, according to new guidance on how to implement the deferral.

On Friday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Treasury Department told employers that they would be liable to pay back what they defer from their employees’ paychecks under the executive memo, so workers won’t face a huge tax bill when they file their 2020 federal returns. Continue reading “Workers will see smaller paychecks next year under Trump’s payroll tax deferral”

Yahoo News

In early May, Shalika Madan, who worked in a law firm in the Indian capital, Delhi, received a call from her office and was told that she was being laid off.

Ms Madan, a 38-year-old single mother of a son with special needs, had spent more than two years with the firm. A grinding lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus had shut down life and business in the capital. Continue reading “India coronavirus: Young bearing the brunt of sweeping job losses”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

It looks like grandstanding NBA stars like LeBron James, who have been pushing for the league to do something “social justice-ey” after failing to shut down the postseason, have finally gotten their wish.

Adam Silver has apparently consented to a new arrangement whereby all the leagues arenas will be transformed into 2020 voting locations. Continue reading “NBA Commits To Transforming Every Arena Into A 2020 Voting Location”

Fox News

A South Carolina college student and her stepfather were shot dead on the front lawn Monday in a road rage-related attack after a minor fender bender in the driveway.

Laura Ashley Anderson, 21, and Charles Nicholas Wall, 45, were killed outside a home in Georgetown, S.C., which was recently purchased by Anderson, where she expected to begin her new adult life. Continue reading “South Carolina college student, stepfather fatally shot in head on front lawn over fender bender: reports”

CoinDesk

A gold-backed digital asset created by Paxos will soon launch for trading on cryptocurrency exchange Binance.

From Aug. 26, Binance customers will be able to trade PAX Gold (PAXG) against the exchange’s own stablecoin BUSD and exchange token Binance coin (BNB), as well as bitcoin (BTC). Continue reading “Binance Exchange to List Paxos’ Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency”

Anchorage Daily News

School bus 105 rumbled through an East Anchorage neighborhood Wednesday morning and lurched to a stop at a street corner where third grader Sidney Riley and her mother, Kristine, stood waiting.

Sidney didn’t hop on the bus to head to school. Instead, Lloyd Palmatier, a gray-haired man wearing a black face mask and a white kerchief tied around his neck, shuffled down the steps to greet the pair.

Continue reading “Thousands of laptops are delivered by school bus to students as Anchorage prepares for online classes”

FrontPageMag – by John Radzilowski

Communism arose in a time of pandemic and war. In 1918, the Bolshevik party led by V. I. Lenin seized control of Russia amid a world numbed by the slaughter of a world war and the seemingly unstoppable spread of influenza. Promising a utopia of equality, the communist message proved seductive to many in Europe and America. In the summer of 1920, having defeated his most serious internal foes, Lenin decided to launch a full-scale invasion of Europe to spread communism all across the continent. Continue reading “Communism’s First Defeat”


Continue reading “For whatever reason, governments across Canada have decided that now — not back in March or April — is the time to make masks mandatory for the general public.”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In an almost unheard of and unprecedented scenario, an Air Force helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in Manassas, Virginia after someone shot at the helicopter from the ground.

The incident happened Monday, and military sources are now revealing the dangerous incident, which actually injured a member of the crew.  Continue reading “Air Force Helicopter Shot At From Ground Over Virginia, Injuring Crew”

Powerline – by John Hinderlaker

Rioting continues nightly in Portland. Criminals are arrested, immediately released, and return to the streets. It is hard to see how Portland has a viable future. Likewise with Seattle. A city that cannot maintain order will soon be vacated by normal people who are able to leave, leaving only criminals and those without the means to get away. Minneapolis, with its days of rioting followed by skyrocketing crime and parks turned into tent encampments, is not far behind. Panic is spreading among people who own houses and (worse) condominiums there. Continue reading “American Cities In Catastrophic Decline”

Wired

__1947: __ A cargo ship explodes at dockside in Texas City, Texas. The blast and the fires that follow kill about 600 people and injure 3,500 more. Six decades later, it remains the deadliest explosion and worst industrial disaster in U.S. history.

The Grandcamp, a World War II Liberty ship that had been converted to a French merchant vessel, was taking on a load of ammonium nitrate fertilizer at a quay next to a complex of Monsanto chemical factories, offices and labs. The ship’s carpenter smelled smoke in the No. 4 hold around 8 a.m. on April 16 and found that a few bags of fertilizer were on fire. He tried dousing it with a few buckets of water, then a fire extinguisher. Continue reading “April 16, 1947: Ship Explosion Ignites 3-Day Rain of Fire and Death”