Rachel Stevens, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Scottish movie legend and Academy Award winning actor Sean Connery, who shot to international stardom as the suave and sophisticated British agent James Bond and went on to grace the silver screen for four decades, has died aged 90. “His wife Micheline and his two sons Jason and Stephane […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden traded jabs on Monday. They exhorted last-minute voters to turn out as they stumped in battleground states on the final day of a polarizing campaign that has shattered early voting records. Even as the candidates made their final arguments, however, their […]
Rachel Stevens, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Schools across France held a minute’s silence on Monday in memory of Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded by a Chechen teenager who wanted to avenge his use of cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad during a class freedom of expression. With France at its highest security level following further attacks […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The coronavirus pandemic, an unprecedented number of early ballots, uncertainty about how these votes will be counted, and ongoing legal battles have made the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election one of the hardest to predict. As Americans head to polling stations on Tuesday, the question is not […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] More than 100 human-trafficking victims were rescued in a sweeping operation involving state and federal law enforcement agencies in Ohio. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced that 177 arrests of “Johns” and traffickers were made during a what’s been named “Operation Autumn Hope.” More than a dozen of those […]
Editorial by Economist and FISM Founder Dan Celia [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] This week is probably one of the most important weeks since the founding of our nation. It is a week that can only be compared to the week leading up to that late summer day in 1787 at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where delegates from […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The U.S. economy grew at a historic pace in the third quarter as the government injected more than $3 trillion worth of pandemic relief, which fueled consumer spending. The Commerce Department reported a 33.1% annualized growth rate. The economy remains 3.5% below its level at the end of 2019, […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A strong earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on Oct. 30 and was felt in Greece and Turkey, where four people were killed as buildings collapsed in Izmir’s coastal province. Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) put the earthquake’s magnitude at 6.6, while the U.S. Geological Survey said it […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Trials of U.S. citizens and consulate workers in Turkey have been among many discord sources between the NATO allies, whose ties have deteriorated over differences in policy in Syria and Ankara’s purchase of a Russian missile defense system. Concerns over their relationship came into the spotlight in recent weeks […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The World Trade Organization’s bid to elect a new leader was plunged into uncertainty on Wednesday after the United States rejected the Nigerian woman proposed as the global watchdog’s next director-general. Three WTO ambassadors, charged with finding a successor to Brazilian Roberto Azevedo, had decided that Nigerian former finance […]
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