Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″]  Afghan security forces laid siege to a prison seized by Islamic State fighters in the eastern city of Jalalabad early in the week. The militants’ overnight assault led to a mass jailbreak, leaving at least 29 people dead.  More than 300 prisoners were missing according to a government spokesperson. […]

Madeline Sponsler, FISM News  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Tropical Storm Isaias is expected to regain its hurricane strength on Monday as it moves up the East Coast of the United States and could make landfall in North Carolina or South Carolina by Monday night. According to the National Weather Association, the forecast path showed the storm would […]

Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″]  U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon, landed in the Gulf of Mexico. The two returned after a two-month voyage that was NASA’s first crewed mission from home soil in nine years.  The successful splash-down, the first […]

Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Monday its first 5G-enabled phones, Pixel 4a (5G) and Pixel 5, will be available this fall at a starting price of $499. The company also cut the starting price for its smartphone lineup with a non-5G version of 4a priced at $349, looking to […]

Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a video meeting on Monday with the Taliban’s chief negotiator, Mullah Baradar Akhund, to discuss the state of the Afghanistan peace process, an insurgent spokesman said. The discussions included the issue of Taliban prisoners whose release by the Afghan government the insurgents […]

Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, on Monday said states with high coronavirus case counts should reconsider imposing lockdown restrictions, emphasizing the need to get cases to a low baseline before the fall flu season. In some states with moderate case counts, experts are seeing […]

By Samuel Case [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] American’s view of China has been less than glowing over the last few months and grows dimmer as the days pass. According to a new poll by Pew Research Center 73% of Americans have a negative opinion of China, which is an increase of 26% since 2018. “Since March alone, […]

Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Tax-payer funded Voice of America is in hot water after a story was released of Presidential candidate Joe Biden that was “deemed too favorable” to his campaign, according to a report from Politico. A VOA service for Urdu-speaking people did a video and story about Biden that featured a […]

Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Scientists and researchers have finally figured out a plausible origin of the stones that make up the Stonehenge monument. A research article published in Science Advances details the methods and findings of this study.  Apparently the “bluestones” of the monument have piqued geological interest because they “are clearly not […]

Editorial by Economist and FISM Founder Dan Celia [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] At the end of the Fed’s two-day policy meeting Chairmen Powell said the Fed will keep its interest rate target range until it is confident the economy has weathered the coronavirus pandemic and is on track for maximum employment and price stability goals. I found no […]