Major cities across the Western world are ramping up security around Hanukkah events after a terrorist attack killed 16 people and wounded 38 at a Jewish celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach over the weekend. The attack was one of the deadliest terror incidents in Australia in decades and came just days after a Trump administration […]

Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Federal immigration authorities have arrested more than 10,000 illegal immigrants living in Los Angeles since June, the Department of Homeland Security said on Dec. 11. Law enforcement officers shoot non-lethal munitions, as people march as part of the ongoing protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]

Both candidates who reached the second round promised to crack down on crime and immigration. Jara vowed to hire more police, build more prisons, secure borders with advanced technology, and deport foreigners convicted of drug trafficking. This message ultimately proved less persuasive coming from the left than the right—but Kast’s 16-point electoral margin yesterday overstates […]

Authored by Olivier Acuna via CoinDesk.com, Interactive Brokers will now allow retail investors to fund individual brokerage accounts with stablecoins, a step aimed at keeping pace with the increasingly competitive retail trading market, Bloomberg reported Friday. The Greenwich, Connecticut-based brokerage firm competes with rivals including Robinhood Markets Inc. and Charles Schwab Corp. and earlier this year expanded […]

Editorial note: this essay originally appeared at The Giving Review. *** Greg Berman is co-editor of the New York-based Vital City, a leading journal on civic life and urban policy that features thoughtful contributions from scholars, activists, and practitioners with different underlying worldviews. Earlier this year, it devoted an entire issue to “Nonprofits and the City.” In 1996, […]