Alejandro Fonseca stood in line for several hours outside a bank in Havana hoping to withdraw Cuban pesos from an ATM‚ but when it was almost his turn‚ the cash ran out. He angrily hopped on his electric tricycle and traveled several kilometers to another branch where he finally managed to withdraw some money after wasting the entire morning. “It shouldn’t be so difficult to get the money you earn by working‚” the 23-year-old told The Associated Press in a recent interview. Fonseca is one...

Dave Duttlinger's first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres of his fields near Wheatfield‚ Indiana‚ are covered in solar panels and related machinery – land that in April 2019 Duttlinger leased to Dunns Bridge Solar LLC‚ for one of the largest solar developments in the Midwest. On that blustery spring afternoon in 2022‚ Duttlinger said‚ his phone rang with questions from...

A San Diego County official has branded the city the “new epicenter” for illegal immigration and claimed that Border Patrol has become “the ‘Uber’ for migrants” entering the county. “San Diego is the new epicenter for migrants and illegal immigration‚” San Diego District 5 Supervisor Jim Desmond posted on the social media platform X on April 25. “The surge in illegal crossings has propelled San Diego to the unfortunate position of leading all nine southern border sectors in April‚ a trend...

UNRWA‚ the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees‚ on which more than 1.7 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip rely‚ has faced existential challenges for months. The embattled organization struggled to address the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip as a cascade of countries suspended funding over allegations that several employees were involved in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks. But most of the key countries that paused funding to UNRWA have since reinstated it‚ citing the acute humanitarian...

Nancy Pelosi‚ the former Speaker of the US House of Representatives‚ has urged protesters on college campuses to protest against Hamas' behaviour as well as Israel's conduct of the Gaza war. Hundreds of people have been arrested on dozens of campuses across the US‚ where protests and encampments have sprung up in support of Palestinians in Gaza. Ms Pelosi‚ who is a close ally of US President Joe Biden‚ told the BBC there was &;quot;complete justification&;quot; for speaking out about the growing...

Since October 7‚ antisemitism has metastasized‚ growing from chants and signs held at rallies to violence and threats against Jews. This is by no means an exhaustive list — sadly‚ the incidents are likely too great in number to catalog — but it is a window into the conditions Jews have faced in America and the West since Hamas attacked Israel and antisemites celebrated. We will update this list as necessary‚ and unfortunately‚ it seems like it will be necessary.

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To try to make central bank digital currencies sound benign‚ proponents repeatedly use the word “financial inclusion.”  They are trying to convince us that the world needs CBDCs so that those who […]