Category: North America

Last month, snipers from across the U.S. Army gathered to test the new Improved Ghillie System (IGS). The IGS is currently in the development phase. Numerous versions are being evaluated to determine which is the most effective. During this evaluation process, the gathered snipers tested the visual attributes of the ghillie suits. Snipers wearing different […]

The US Treasury yield curve — the graphical representation of the relationship between bond maturities and their yields — is flattening. Some maturities, such as yields on two to five-year bonds, has already inverted. An inversion of the two and the ten-year maturities, recognized in the financial world as a warning sign of coming recession, […]

President Trump delivers remarks with Canadian President Trudeau, and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, at the signing the USMCA trade agreement on November 30, 2018.   State Department photo/ Public Domain   Watch a live stream of all three presidents signing the agreement below:  

For the first since 2005, when the war in Iraq was in dire straits, the U.S. Army has failed to reach its recruiting objective. The Army leadership was seeking to add 76,500 new soldiers during the fiscal year 2018. Instead, it managed to sign up close to 70,000 recruits, thus coming 8.5 percent short of […]

Part one can be read here. The record-keeping requirements of paying taxes in cryptocurrency would therefore be immense. Every time you transfer cryptocurrency, you trigger a gain or a loss on that asset. However, the consequences of failing to account for that gain or loss are more severe when the trigger is payment to a […]

This past week, State Treasurer Josh Mandel partnered with Bitpay to make Ohio the first state to accept cryptocurrency for business taxes. Treasurer Mandel told CNBC the move was designed “to plant the flag in Ohio as a national and international leader in blockchain technology,” adding that it increases “options and ease” for taxpayers and […]

Read Murder in America: How cops may have caught the most prolific serial killer in US history at a homeless shelter (Part 1). A 2012 arrest of Samuel Little on narcotics charges at a homeless shelter in Kentucky resulted in a DNA match for three unsolved Los Angeles murders. Now, Little has claimed to have […]

Back in 2012, police arrived at a Kentucky homeless shelter to arrest a relatively unassuming-looking middle-aged man. Samuel Little was no stranger to run-ins with the law — having been previously arrested for crimes ranging from shoplifting to fraud — so he offered no resistance as local police turned him over to California law enforcement, […]

NASA’s high success rates when it comes to Martian exploration missions might misconstrue just how hard it is to land on the Red Planet. In fact, of the 56 or so total missions mankind has launched toward Mars, thirty of them have been characterized as “partial failures” or worse. Between the United States, Russia, and […]

Col. Thomas Jackman, former head of the Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing, left his post after just one year in command back in 2015. Now, a new report alleges that his rapid dismissal came as a result of the combat veteran’s abuse of his rank and privileges. Namely, Jackman is accused of taking […]

The Pentagon announced on Wednesday that a coordinated criminal investigation across multiple military law enforcement organizations has resulted in a series of arrests tied to a sexual extortion ring that targeted some 442 American service members. “Too many service members from throughout the armed services have fallen victim to this scam, and these actions detract […]

The U.S. Navy’s greatest threat might not be coming from either the Russian or the Chinese fleets. Natural disasters, events suggest, could be more threatening. Extreme weather phenomena, such as rising water levels, unseasonal hurricanes, and excessive rainfall — arguably caused by climate change — are jeopardising critical Navy infrastructure, and thus pose a national security […]