The 2021 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders #RSF shows that journalism, the main vaccine against disinformation, is completely or partly blocked in 73 percent of the 180 countries ranked by the organization.

The Trump Organization is under criminal investigation and a political pig fry may be in store for Congress. At the same time, Republican House minority leader Kevin McCarthy does not want a formal investigation into the January 6 Sedition.

He has skin in the game and a personal stake in not having to testify to such a commission under oath about his phone calls on 1/6/21 with The White House about Trump’s subsequent efforts to get their stories straight.

Get out, now that mask mandates are removed for most individuals who have been vaccinated, and who are enjoying the outdoors.

The Sun is the undisputed star of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy mainly as visible light and infrared radiation. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth.

As a former VOA Division Chief, I am proud to introduce those of you who may not know him to Maestro Willis Clark Conover, Jr.

He was a jazz producer and broadcaster on the Voice of America for over forty years. He produced jazz concerts at the White House, the Newport Jazz Festival, and for movies and television.

Todsy is his anniversary. May 17 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Willis Conover, the Voice of America broadcaster who helped popularize American jazz worldwide.

Neanderthals are believed to be an extinct species or perhaps a subspecies of archaic humans who once lived on earth until about 40K years ago, according to published data from Wikipedia.

They reportedly became extinct due to assimilation into the modern human genome, great climatic change, disease, or perhaps a strange combination of all of the factors listed.

Species: neanderthalensis