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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is now targeting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sparking concerns that the Trump administration may be considering dismantling the federal agency. On Tuesday, staffers with DOGE unexpectedly entered the headquarters of NOAA located in Silver Spring, Maryland, and demanded access to confidential systems, according to a former NOAA official. Andrew Rosenberg, who worked at NOAA under the first Bush administration and Clinton administration, told the Washington Examiner that the staffers “blew past security like it didn’t apply to them, and then wandered around for a while and asked…to have access to the IT...

With over $130 Million from USAID, IRI has been involved in contentious "Governmental Overhauls" around the world: Ukraine's Orange Revolution (2004): IRI supported the pro-Western opposition, contributing to the revolution that led to a significant political shift, ensuring Viktor Yushchenko's presidency after a contentious election. Ukraine's Euromaidan Protests (2014): IRI was active in supporting activists and political groups, which led to the ousting of President Yanukovych. This upheaval set the stage for Volodymyr Zelensky's election in 2019. Venezuela: Supported opposition groups amidst political turmoil. Georgia (2003 Rose Revolution): Played a role in the change of government. Belarus: Engaged in programs...

Valerie Jarrett (born November 14, 1956, Shīrāz, Iran) is an American lawyer, businesswoman, and politician who was a senior adviser (2009–17) to U.S. Pres. Barack Obama.

Responding to threatened tariffs by President Trump, Canada has unveiled a security plan aimed at tackling the trafficking of fentanyl, which is also killing many Canadians. Fentanyl has flooded North America’s drug supply over the last decade, killing tens of thousands in Canada and the United States, and generating enormous profits for criminal organizations using basic chemistry skills, improvised equipment and home laboratories to produce millions of doses. Mr. Trump has repeatedly talked about fentanyl as a major public health threat to Americans and holds Mexico and Canada responsible for allowing the drug to enter the United States. But last...

The Trump administration has filed suit against the state of Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago, arguing their sanctuary laws “interfere” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ability to arrest and deport illegal migrants — the first of many such lawsuits to come, Justice Department officials told The Post. The suit singles out several state and local laws that the Justice Department identifies as inhibiting the federal government’s ability to enforce US immigration law. “We’ve identified Illinois, the city of Chicago and Cook County as all having laws and ordinances on the books that impede federal immigration enforcement, in...

Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Fox News, Republican lawmakers, and countless prominent right-wing commentators across social media are pushing a ridiculous lie about the Biden administration funding the media. It started on Tuesday when staff at Politico reportedly didn’t receive their paychecks on time because of technical glitch. The right began speculating that the delay was related to Musk taking a blowtorch to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with many pointing out that the government had ferried $8.2 million to Politico over the past year.

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick—no food, no sack, no money in their belts. Mark 6:7–8Why would Jesus instruct the Twelve to go forth to preach with authority but to take nothing with them on the journey? Most people who set out on a journey prepare ahead and make sure to pack what they need. Jesus’ instruction was not so much a lesson in relying upon others for basic...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- For the second year in a row, independent auditors verified that the Marine Corps’ financial records are materially accurate, complete, and compliant with federal regulations and issued an unmodified opinion for Fiscal Year 2024. This repeat achievement reinforces the service’s reputation for accountability, discipline, and leadership; and this is only the second time such success has been achieved for a military service in Department of Defense history and twice attributed to the Marines. The findings produced by the audit help the service to more efficiently and accurately plan, program, budget, and spend funds appropriated by Congress. The...

A conservative group has published a list of government workers who they say are earning huge sums for 'abusing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion' roles. The American Accountability Foundation works to 'expose the left's efforts to obstruct, subvert and sabotage the America First conservative agenda'. They launched a website - 'DEI watchlist' - where they shared the profiles and tax-funded pay of federal staffers who they say exploit their DEI jobs. It includes donating to Democratic candidates and causes and working in DEI and other health equity operations. One of the federal workers named on the site told NBC News they...

Back about a million years ago, long before I got with the hot wife, I was dating this very nice girl who asked me, shyly and with some hesitation, if I would take her to Outback Steakhouse. I was planning on taking her someplace very expensive, but Outback Steakhouse? Cool – when I was a kid, the Outback Steakhouse of the ‘70s, Sizzler, was a family treat. I could get a blooming onion and save a few bucks – a win-win! So, I took her to Outback Steakhouse and she loved it. She was in heaven. She was a lot...

AMMAN/JERUSALEM (Worthy News) – Jordan is reportedly preparing for war with Israel if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempts to expel Palestinians into its territory. The Middle East Eye (MEE) publication’s warning comes after U.S. President Donald J. Trump said he would like to see Jordan and Egypt take in Palestinians to “clean out” the Gaza Strip. Officials in Amman and Jerusalem told MEE that “the last thing Jordan wants is war,” adding that the kingdom is “eager” for a peaceful solution.......

6 February 2025 Saints Paul Miki and his Companions, Martyrs on Thursday of week 4 in Ordinary TimeTwenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument in NagasakiReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 12:18-19,21-24You have come to Mount Zion and the city of the living GodWhat you have come to is nothing known to the senses: not a blazing fire, or a gloom turning to total darkness, or a storm; or trumpeting thunder or the great voice speaking which made everyone that heard it beg that no more should...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week said that if the U.S. cannot guarantee a quick path toward NATO membership, then there are alternative security options Kyiv would accept: nuclear weapons. But don't think the United States is eager to agree to those terms. "The chance of them getting their nuclear weapons back is somewhere between slim and none," retired Lt. General Keith Kellogg, special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, told Fox News Digital. "Let's be honest about it, we both know that's not going to happen."

Taxpayer-funded radio stations are barred from ‘airing commercials or other promotional announcements on behalf of for-profit entities’ National Public Radio on Monday ran a so-called "sponsor message" promoting pharma giant Procter & Gamble’s nerve-relief drug Nervive, "designed to reduce occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort." The message, effectively a commercial, is tied to one of hundreds of advertiser deals that are far more important to NPR than government funding. NPR brought in $100 million from corporate sponsors in 2023, compared to only $7 million in federal funding. The thinly disguised commercials such as the "sponsor message" from Procter & Gamble—aimed...

Universities occupy a uniquely privileged position in American life. They enjoy tremendous prestige and billions in public subsidies, even as their costs have exploded, saddling the country with $1.7 trillion in outstanding student debt. Do universities deserve their status? A growing number of Americans don’t think so. Far from delivering on their promises, most universities have devolved into left-wing propaganda factories. Nearly 60 percent of Republicans say that universities have a negative effect on the country, and only one in three independents has “quite a lot” of trust in higher education institutions. The trendlines suggest that the disillusionment has yet...

Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a remarkable story headlined, “DOGE broadens sweep of federal agencies, gains access to health payment systems.” In other words, after exposing the Deep State’s regime-change operation, DOGE is sprinting into the Swampy engine room: the CDC and Medicare / Medicaid Services, the domestic versions of USAID, how the Blob effectuates its aims here at home. It’s impossible to overestimate the revolutionary significance of the abolition of USAID and its poisonous children. Emerging from the fog of bureaucratic and political war, we see dimly the rough outlines of the Golden Era that Candidate Trump promised, a...

A young man has passed away in agony after the price of his inhaler suddenly rose from $66 to $540. The pharmacist had informed him that his medication would now cost $539.19 - a shocking increase from his usual cost of $66.86.

US president Donald Trump will try to force Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to agree to a ceasefire with Russia by Easter under a peace plan, according to a report. -snip- will include a ceasefire by April 20 that would freeze Russia's steady advance, a ban on Ukraine from joining NATO, and a demand for Kyiv to accept Russian sovereignty on annexed land. On top of this, Ukrainian troops will be made to leave Russia's Kursk region, where it launched a counteroffensive in August, while a contingent of European soldiers, which could include British troops, would be asked to police a...

We Found the Grants... Federal Grants Promoting Woke Gender Ideology At least 341 grants issued by the Biden administration were identified as promoting woke gender ideology, worth over $128 million in obligated federal funds. The grants were compiled through keyword searches entered into the USA Spending database and narrowed manually. Source: USA Spending Agency Amount Grants Department of Health and Human Services $83,731,895.39 60 Agency for International Development $17,983,753.00 8 Department of State $14,396,374.99 209 National Endowment for the Humanities $2,628,557.00 20 Department of Justice $1,944,620.00 3 Institute of Museum and Library Services $1,876,413.47 13 Department of Education $1,671,422.00 2...

USAID materials were found among weapons used by Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, according to a newly-released photograph.Asher Fredman, a conservative policy analyst and peace advocate who also served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as a reservist during the recent conflict in Lebanon, posted a photo Wednesday of a USAID box he had found in a Hezbollah weapons cache:The photograph, which has since gone viral, reinforces evidence published by Breitbart News in October 2024 that shows USAID materials among anti-tank missiles found by IDF soldiers after they defeated Hezbollah terrorists.