As many as 81 people have been killed by a Boko Haram/Islamic State’s West Africa Province terrorist attack in Nigeria. According to the Nigerian Army, “sleeper cell” terrorists were planted in the communities, and today “ambushed and killed innocent women and children” in Gubio, a town in Nigeria’s northeastern state…
Interest Rate Likely to Remain Near Zero til 2022, Fed Chairman Powell Announced Today
June 10, 2020
The Federal Funds Rate or Interest rate, which was lowered to zero in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, will likely remain near a rate of zero through 2022. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made the announcement today, and added that the Federal Reserve will do everything it can “to support…
Five Correctional Officers Plead Guilty to Beating of Inmate in Mental Health Ward
June 10, 2020
Five former correctional officers pleaded guilty “to using unlawful force on an inmate and then conspiring to cover up the incident”. While serving with the Tennessee Department of Correction, correctional officers entered the cell of “an inmate in the mental health unit”, and proceeded “to cover the surveillance camera in…
Robocall Company to Face $225 Million Record Fine Proposed by FCC
June 9, 2020
A telemarketing company will face a $225 million fine brought on by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today. This is the largest proposed fine in FCC history. During the first four-and-a-half months of 2019, this company apparently made “approximately 1 billion illegally spoofed robocalls”. The robocalls claimed to offer health…