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Almost four in five US employees fear losing their job during a potential upcoming recession, pointing to a high level of anxiety among workers amid increasing talk of an economic downturn. That’s according to a recent survey from staffing company Insight Global, which also found that 54% of workers would take a pay cut if it meant staying employed. A similar share don’t think their job is recession-proof. A growing chorus of economists are predicting a US recession within the next 12 months as the Federal Reserve ramps up its fight against decades-high inflation. Price increases are outpacing wage gains...

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e Defense Department watchdog warned on Tuesday that some of the DOD’s and individual services’ practices for tracking and recording the movement of money and aid to Ukraine are hurting the office’s ability to track aid. The DOD Inspector General’s office released an 18-page management advisory Tuesday on the department’s use of $6.5 billion from the Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, which President Biden enacted in March as part of the 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act. This is separate from the $40 billion aid package the president signed in May, which gave the State and U.S. Agency for International Development IG offices...

SpaceX just lit a very big candle — by accident, it would seem.A fireball erupted at the base of Booster 7 — a prototype of Super Heavy, the huge first stage for SpaceX's next-gen Starship deep-space transportation system — during a test Monday (July 11) at the company's Starbase facility in South Texas.The blaze was unintentional, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said via Twitter on Monday evening. "Yeah, actually not good. Team is assessing damage," Musk tweeted (opens in new tab). The fireball resulted when an "engine spin start test" did not go according to plan, he explained in...

Trump slams Elon Musk on Truth Social... Belittles his achievements... Claims Elon would have gotten on his knees and begged for him...

Starbucks is closing 16 locations in cities around the nation after the coffee giant’s employees reported a string of “personal safety” incidents, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Translation: Crime is skyrocketing and our workers are too terrified to even show up at these locations.The company will shutter six stores in both Seattle and Los Angeles, two in Portland, and one each in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. by the end of July. What do all those locations have in common? They’re in deep-blue areas with soft-on-crime district attorneys and past support of the “defund the police” movement. How’d that work...

White House pandemic advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci has returned to public duties following his own bout with COVID-19, and is warning that the country could face a new viral surge due to 'waning immunity.' On Tuesday, two weeks after his last public appearance in late June, Fauci appeared on MSNBC and joined a White House press briefing by videoconference to warn about the spread of the BA.5 variant, a subvariant of the Omicron strain. He called on Americans to get vaccine booster shots, and said health officials are now 'recommending' people return to wearing masks in indoor group settings. Fauci,...

Democrats are facing their worst political environment in over a decade heading into November’s mid-term elections. Republicans lead the generic ballot and hold a solid structural advantage in competing for the House of Representatives. And despite concerns about candidate quality, the GOP is also favored to take control of the Senate.The correlation between presidential approval and their party’s mid-term prospects also can’t be ignored. Joe Biden has hit the lowest poll numbers of his term, with a recent Times/Siena poll showing him at just 33 percent approval with only 13 percent believing the country is on the right track.In response,...

Economist Webinar Earlier today, the Economist had one of their bi-weekly webinars on Ukraine. Here is some of what was covered: ·Taking Kramatorsk & Sloviansk will be problematic for Russia – After taking Lysychansk, the cities of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut are next on Russia’s “list.” Over the past 8 years, Ukraine has built up substantial defense lines in front of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. The Economist’s military expert doesn’t think Russia has sufficient strength to capture any of the 3. It is important to remember that Ukraine has built up similar defense lines around the portions of Luhansk and Donetsk...

EW YORK (AP) — New York City residents are accustomed to warnings about all kinds of potential threats — severe weather, public health, mass shootings. But a new PSA on surviving a nuclear attack has rattled some cages. Released this week by the city’s emergency management agency, the 90-second video advises citizens to stay indoors and wash off any radioactive dust or ash. It opens on a computer-generated street, devoid of life. Damaged skyscrapers can be seen in the background.

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krainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia's military is too cowardly to concede defeat, and touted his own country's military prowess as a counter-offensive is launched in southern Ukraine. Zelensky struck an assured tone in a national speech on Tuesday where he also highlighted Ukraine's growing closeness with the Western-based NATO alliance. The Ukrainian president's remarks come after an infusion of weapons from Western allies and as the country seeks to beat back Russia's territorial gains in Ukraine. Zelensky said in the speech that Russian occupiers "will not have a safe rear anywhere on our land." He said that intercepted...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, detailed his change of heart on abortion laws on Tuesday after GOP members of the committee pointed out his past desire to overturn Roe v. Wade. At the committee’s hearing on legal concerns in a post-Roe America, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) submitted a copy of a letter Durbin wrote in 1989 in which he condemned “abortion on demand” and wrote, “I continue to believe the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade should be reversed.” “The doomsday calls from those on the left are ignoring common sense,” Lee said....

The World Economic Forum (WEF) released a brief video in 2018 telling us about its “predictions” for 2030. Needless to say, these people are predicting planning nothing more than pure Marxism. The estimated arrival time is in eight years. https://twitter.com/i/status/983378870819794945

A cop who responded to the Uvalde school shooting massacre was captured on camera bizarrely using hand sanitizer as officers hung around the school’s hallway for over an hour before taking down the killer. The oddly-timed cowardly act, revealed in the footage first obtained by the Austin-American Statesman, only fueled the anger directed at the cops who responded to the mass shooting that killed 21 people. The 77-minute clip shows officers charge Robb Elementary School minutes after the rampage began, but then they stopped and didn’t confront the gunman for more than an hour even as Salvador Ramos shot and...

White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci conceded that COVID-19 vaccines do not protect "overly well" against infection Tuesday on "Your World." DR. FAUCI: One of the things that's clear from the data [is] that even though vaccines - because of the high degree of transmissibility of this virus - don't protect overly well, as it were, against infection, they protect quite well against severe disease leading to hospitalization and death. And I believe that's the reason, Neil, why at my age, being vaccinated and boosted, even though it didn't protect me against infection, I feel confident that it...

It's Wednesday now in Sri Lanka the day President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was to resign and word is he has left the country in a military plane... Twitter suing Elon Musk to force him to acquire the social media company... In France's National Assemlby tonight a vote to abolish the COVID vaccine passport (health pass) for minors... The Biden Administration out with a "fact sheet" on COVID today stressing a new subvariant BA.5... Another down day on Wall Street... The busiest airport in the UK is capping the number of passengers it handles each day... Dutch Farmers Protest A convoy of...

Like many of his male friends, Serhiy no longer leaves his home in western Ukraine for fear of being sent to the front line to replace soldiers killed or injured in the fight against Russia. The construction worker spends his days hiding from military officials serving call-up papers at bars, beaches, checkpoints, malls and even church services. One woman complained that officials even chased an 18-year-old riding his bicycle to serve his call-up documents. ‘It’s like some kind of wild boar hunt,’ she said. ‘Why do you need to send to war a person who doesn’t want to go there...

Watching the uproar over Lia Thomas play out in his backyard didn’t change Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf‘s mind about transgender athletes in women’s sports. In a widely expected move, the Democratic governor vetoed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which would have barred male-born athletes who identify as female from joining girls’ and women’s scholastic teams. In a statement, Mr. Wolf said the bill’s supporters “should be ashamed of themselves.” “I have been crystal clear during my time in office that hate has no place in Pennsylvania, especially discrimination against already marginalized youth representing less than half of 1 percent...

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