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The White House on Thursday called on Congress to dedicate $1.6 billion toward addressing fraud within coronavirus pandemic relief programs, pushing for money to help victims and strengthen prosecutors targeting fraudsters. President Biden will use his upcoming proposal, expected to be released next week, to ask Congress to allocate the money toward combating fraud, White House officials said. Biden will ask for $600 million to be used to better fund investigations and prosecution of those engaged in “major or systemic pandemic fraud,” targeting offenders who have stolen the largest amount of funds. The money would be used to hire more...

In a heated exchange with Gestapo chief Merrick Garland at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) directly challenged Garland’s viciously corrupt and politicized “Justice” Department, and zeroed in on the once-respected agency’s targeting of traditionalist Roman Catholics. While Garland maintained, in the teeth of the available evidence, that the department is not actually targeting Catholics, he claimed not to know how many spies and informants the feds have in those hotbeds of terrorism, traditional Catholic parishes. In other words, he didn’t say they didn’t have any such spies and informants. So if you’re Catholic, be watchful:...

After adjusting for biases in BMI, a study found people carrying excess weight had far worse mortality outcomes than previously known. ... A new study out this month reveals obesity is far more dangerous than previously reported. According to a new paper published in the journal Population Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder, people who are obese or carry excess weight face a risk of death anywhere from 22 to 91 percent higher than those at a healthy weight. “Existing studies have likely underestimated the mortality consequences of living in a country where cheap, unhealthy food has grown increasingly...

"Men ought always to pray" (Luke 18:1, KJV). Prayer should never be limited to certain times, places, or circumstances. As a child I was taught to pray with my head bowed, eyes closed, and hands folded. Even as a young man I thought that was the only acceptable mode of prayer. In my seminary days I sang in a quartet that traveled to various churches throughout the United States. The first time I traveled with them we had a prayer meeting in the car, and the driver prayed with his eyes open. All of us were glad he did, but...

Florida’s Attorney General, Republican Ashley Moody, is calling on her state to add a frightening new “Frankenstein” opioid that is reportedly 40 times more potent than fentanyl to the list of Schedule 1 controlled substances, a designation that stipulates the drug has no acceptable medical use and carries a high risk for abuse. Other drugs to receive that classification include heroin, ecstasy, and peyote, among others. Officially known as “nitazene compounds,” Moody warns “one pill will kill,” and it’s already spreading across America. “For years, I have been warning about how just one pill laced with fentanyl can kill, but...

Need a cop in San Francisco after a midnight crime spree leaves you splattered onto the sidewalk or showered under a sea of broken glass? Good luck with that one. Police understaffing has reached such levels that in one of San Francisco's largest police precincts, three cops stand between crime, chaos, and ... you. According to a report in the San Francisco Standard, that's what one of the county supervisors found and he's talking about it:On any given night, San Francisco’s largest and most populous police district will only have three or four officers on duty, Sunset Supervisor Joel Engardio...

Paul often refers to himself as “the prisoner of Christ Jesus.” In Ephesians 4:1, he says being a prisoner of the Lord is actually his vocation, his calling! He considered this God’s gift of grace to him (see Ephesians 4:7). Paul wrote to Timothy: “Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God” (2 Timothy 1:8, NKJV). Even into his old age, the apostle rejoiced in having been apprehended by the Lord and taken captive to his...

When emergency personnel arrived to the apartment, they found two deceased and one 'critically ill,' the Syracuse Fire Department said in a press release. While authorities waited for the medical examiner to arrive on scene, police officers began to feel ill within 30 minutes of exposure, citing nausea and accelerated heart rates - both, of which, are symptoms of a tranq overdoses. .... while at the hospital, while the four were being 'decontaminated,' 'several hospital personnel also began feeling ill,' the fire department said. Upon this realization, the ER was shut down for more than two hours to 'manage the...

Back in our early days in the U.S., circa 1964-66, we lived in Wisconsin and traveled to Chicago to visit a Cuban store there. It was a quick drive on I-94 and the sights of Lake Shore Drive and O'Hare Airport were spectacular. My parents always complimented how clean and orderly everything was. I guess that there was something good about Mayor Richard Daley after all. On Tuesday night, Mayor Lightfoot was rejected by the voters. She came in 3rd place and will start packing her bags for a post-political life. My guess is that she'll end up at MSNBC...

International leaders are meeting this week in Geneva to consider a so-called “Zero Draft” of the agreement. Read Also: New Research Points To Potential Effects Of “Lion’s Mane” On Promoting Nerve Growth, Improving Memory As previously covered by The Gateway Pundit, the zero draft gives the WHO the power to declare and manage a global pandemic emergency. Once a health emergency is declared every signatory, including the United States, must submit to the authority of the WHO. This includes caving to them on treatments, lockdowns and vaccine mandates along with government surveillance. Even more chillingly, the Biden regime does not...

The man, who has not been named, used tap water for a sinus rinse which caused him to become infected with a rare amoeba called Naegleria fowleri that can cause a brain infection called amebic meningoencephalitis. In a statement from the Department of Health-Charlotte, they said they are “continuing to investigate how this infection occurred and is working with the local public utilities to identify any potential links and make any necessary corrective actions.” The first symptoms of this disease are headache, vomiting, and nausea. As the disease progresses, the infected individual may suffer from cognitive issues and a stiff...

First Gentleman Douglass Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, criticized “toxic masculinity” in an interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart conducted Tuesday. JONATHAN CAPEHART, MSNBC: A moment ago I asked you about gender roles. I want to dive in even deeper on that. Can we just talk about masculinity for a moment? Has being second gentleman changed your view of perceived gender roles and what it means to be a man? DOUGLAS EMHOFF, SECOND GENTLEMAN OF THE UNITED STATES: Oof. This is something I have thought about a lot, I’ve spoken about a lot. There’s too much of toxicity...

The person was infected with Naegleria fowleri after rinsing their nose with tap water, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Fox 4. The patient died on Feb. 20. “The adult patient reportedly performed nasal rinsing daily with unboiled tap water, which is thought to be the source of the infection,” the CDC said in a statement to the station. The CDC additionally said this was the first case of the deadly infection this year and the first ever reported in the winter months in the US, according to the station. The CDC did not detail where the person...

Kenya’s President William Ruto and opposition leader Raila Odinga have united in their criticism of last week’s Supreme Court ruling which allows the LGBT community to register lobby groups in Kenya. President Ruto has sworn that he will never allow gay marriage in Kenya, which he said "goes against the country’s cultures and religious beliefs". It’s the latest and highest-profile attack on the judgement, which many have wrongly suggested gives the LGBT community freedom to get married in Kenya. Last Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the decision of Kenya’s NGO board to decline the registration of the National Gays...

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This is what Russian peace and liberation looks like. VIDEO https://fb.watch/j0o92iihVw/ VIDEO COMMENT "Who got good with all these games? To the young men who lost their lives in this battle? Some did it while protecting their native land, and others are unknown for what they were away from their homeland. Tens of thousands of peaceful people - children who have just started to live, elderly people who have lived difficult long lives, mothers who have lost children, husbands, brothers? Seas of blood spilled and oceans of unavoidable grief - what's it all for???" Life is given from above, so...

Putin orders his FSB agents to crack down on 'scum' who oppose him and raise their game in tackling Western spies and saboteurs Putin said the FSB had to counter what he said was increasing espionage The Russian despot headed the FSB until 1999, just before he became president Vladimir Putin today ordered his FSB counterintelligence service to crackdown on Russian 'scum' who oppose him. The despot was addressing the security agency's college in Moscow amid the brutal war with Ukraine which has killed hundreds of thousands of people. 'It's necessary to identify and stop the illegal activities of those...

A source told The Ohio Star that her husband, a wildlife biologist and consultant for the federal forestry, received hundreds of calls on both Sunday and Monday from colleagues who say forestry workers have found hundreds of dead animals in Ohio’s parks. Several labs across the country have received specimens of whole minks, deer, elk, worms and livers of such animals and they are finding toxicities that are off the charts, she said.

It appears that DirecTV dubiously dropping Newsmax and One America News within months of each other may be connected to the lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against the two news outlets. AT&T, which holds the majority ownership stake in DirecTV (70 percent), is overseen by its liberal Board Chairman William Kennard, who’s been accused of directly interfering in the decision by DirecTV to drop OAN April 2022. This development happened just under a year after it was reported that Dominion Voting Systems, the voting tech company that was the subject of controversy during the 2020 election, had launched billion-dollar lawsuits...

Former NFL wide receiver Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson has made a series of surprising remarks about money in interviews over the last few weeks, including that he once lived at his former team’s stadium for nearly two years. In an interview with Fox Sports host Shannon Sharpe, Johnson claimed that he saved more than 80% of his career earnings by not buying fancy cars and buying fake jewelry, despite earning nearly $50 million from his playing days. “Fly private?” Johnson said during the interview. “I ain’t flying private. Spirit, put me on Spirit, exit row, window seat. That’s all I need....