The wife of an American detained in Afghanistan is deeply concerned about her husband’s well-being, and pleading for the chance to tell President Joe Biden about the urgency of his case. Ryan Corbett, who has been detained by the Taliban since August 2022, was able to call his wife Anna…

Shōgun’s sixth episode is appropriately titled, “Ladies Of The Willow World” and is focused heavily on the cast’s female characters, including the important backstory of Mariko (Anna Sawai) and her once-friend Ruri—now Ochiba No Kata (Fumi Nikaido)—the mother of the heir to the Taikō. We already learned bits and pieces…

Food prices, both “at home” (think grocery stores) and “away from home” (think restaurants), are up 25% during the Covid period from January 2020. This high cost change of a consumer necessity is cause for recessionary actions. Reuters just published this timely article that explains the food inflation’s reality effects:…

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The Office of Management and Budget on Thursday announced changes to how the federal government asks about people’s race and ethnicity, including in the US census. Under the new standards, scheduled to publish Friday, the government will collect race and ethnicity information using a single question and will include a new Middle Eastern and North African category as a choice, the Office of Management and Budget said. The question measuring a respondent’s race or ethnicity will now include seven broad categories: White, Hispanic or Latino, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian or Alaska Native, Middle Eastern or North African,…

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