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🚨 Four men have officially pleaded GUILTY to a $550 MILLION USAID fraud scheme And democrats pretended like @elonmusk's exposure of the agency was just a conspiracy theory They used YOUR tax dollars to buy NBA tickets, country club weddings, and laundered MILLIONS in cash through corrupt entities. One defendant "exploited his position at USAID to line his pockets with bribes in exchange for more than $550 million in contracts."

Medicare and Social Security funds are now expected to drain out earlier than previous estimates, according to two new reports released on Wednesday. Social security is made up of two trust funds—old-age and survivors insurance (OASI) and disability insurance (DI). The two are combined for analyzing the overall status of social security funds, referred to as the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. The 2025 OASDI trustees report, published on June 18, said the total cost of the social security program started exceeding its total income in 2021. Currently, the fund is projected to be depleted by 2034, a...

Knee braces, water therapy, and exercise are the most beneficial non-drug therapies, per meta-analysis of more than 100 clinical trials involving nearly 10,000 people. (PeopleImages.com - Yuri A/Shutterstock) In a nutshell Knee braces ranked as the most effective treatment overall for reducing pain, improving joint function, and easing stiffness in people with knee osteoarthritis, according to a large network meta-analysis of nearly 10,000 patients. Hydrotherapy (water-based exercise) and traditional exercise programs also showed strong benefits, particularly for pain at rest and improving mobility, but fell just behind knee braces in overall effectiveness. Commonly used treatments like ultrasound therapy and lateral...

Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan’s trial date has been removed from the calendar as the court reviews her motion to dismiss the case. As you probably recall, Judge Dugan was indicted last month for obstructing an ICE arrest after she tried to hide an illegal aliens from immigration authorities in her courtroom.

This is so incredibly sad. According to police, on June 6, Scott Allen Gardner of Volusia County, Florida, allegedly left his 18-month-old son, Sebastian, in a hot car for three hours while he got a haircut and then drank at a bar, leading to the child's death. It was 96 degrees outside, and when law enforcement arrived to try to save the kid's life, they were unsuccessful. The child's body temperature reportedly reached 111 degrees. What's more, according to police, Gardner gave them several false accounts of the events leading to his son's death. He was arrested on Thursday. The...

Emma De Paz woke up at 2 every morning for 25 years to make soup, roasted chicken and tamales to sell to work crews picking up their day’s supplies at the Home Depot. She joined other immigrant vendors lining the side streets under tents and over grills in a makeshift community that was something of a refuge for Latino immigrants in the Hollywood area. Abelino Perez Alvarez and his wife sold orange juice, soda and water. Day laborers scrolled through their phones as they waited outside the parking lot in hopes of getting work. Around 7:30 a.m. Thursday, the refuge...

The cherished Southern actor was known for his memorable roles in Hee Haw, Mississippi Burning, and Fried Green Tomatoes. The Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma shared the news on Facebook, paying tribute to the late actor with a heartfelt message. 'We are saddened by the loss of Gailard Sartain, an extraordinary actor, artist, and comedian,' the post read. 'His late night visits in the 1970s to the studio after filming Mazeppa are fondly remembered. Gailard's artwork is showcased on the cover of Leon Russell's 1975 album Will O’ the Wisp. Our condolences are with Mary Jo, Gailard's wife and a...

Defying the anti-immigrant trend in the U.S., Spain is reaping economic benefits by granting citizenship to tens of thousands of newly-arrived workers.MADRID — When night falls on the other side of the Atlantic, her 32-year-old cousin, a house cleaner in New York, huddles inside a dim basement apartment, terrified of ICE raids. But in a burgeoning quarter of the Spanish capital, where immigrant-staffed restaurants tempt newcomers with Dominican chicharrones and Venezuelan empanadas, Edith Chimbo sat in the sunlight, musing about the Spanish Dream. “My cousin told me, ‘Go to Spain’” said Chimbo, 22, who landed in Madrid earlier this year...

The Shining and It author Stephen King reacted to last weekend’s targeted shootings in Minnesota via an X post where he claimed the “real culprit” in the attacks was “the gun.” Breitbart News reported that Vance Boelter allegedly killed Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband in their home after shooting and severely wounding state Sen. John Hoffman (D) and his wife in theirs. Boelter allegedly dressed like a police officer and parked a car that resembled a police vehicle in the driveway of both homes as he carried out his attacks. King used an X post to...

Schools say the Trump administration’s cuts to higher education are forcing them to consider extreme cost-cutting measures, even as more students than ever are heading to college this year.Public universities in the Midwest are raising prices for out-of-state students, as Florida schools consider making the same move for the first time since 2012.Cornell and Duke are among the colleges weighing layoffs. The University of Minnesota is cutting hundreds of jobs, even as undergraduate tuition soars as much as 7.5 percent.Just as America’s colleges are preparing to welcome what could be the largest freshman class in the nation’s history, political and...

Internal communications obtained by the Oversight Project show that Department of Justice officials and Hunter Biden’s legal team worked together to manage press inquiries related to the slow-walking of the federal investigation into Hunter Biden, raising new questions about the impartiality of the probe led by Special Counsel David Weiss. The emails, reviewed by Oversight Project attorneys, include a DOJ “summary of call” documenting a coordination meeting between Assistant U.S. Attorney Leslie Wolf, DOJ Tax Prosecutor Mark Daly, and Hunter Biden’s attorneys. The meeting focused on crafting a response to media inquiries, with the DOJ circulating a “proposed statement” originally...

LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Fleeing Iran with her husband and toddler, Amena Namjoyan reached a rocky beach of this eastern Greek island along with hundreds of thousands of others. For months, their arrival overwhelmed Lesbos. Boats fell apart, fishermen dove to save people from drowning, and local grandmothers bottle-fed newly arrived babies.Namjoyan spent months in an overcrowded camp. She learned Greek. She struggled with illness and depression as her marriage collapsed. She tried to make a fresh start in Germany but eventually returned to Lesbos, the island that first embraced her. Today, she works at a restaurant, preparing Iranian dishes...

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa a response to an August 2023 request for a report on the effects of telework on the federal government, showing it increased by more than 500% during the Biden administration, the Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively learned.Ernst sent a letter to 24 government agencies requesting a review of the issues involved with telecommuting in August 2023, with some agencies refusing to send data during the Biden administration. Ernst told the DCNF that when President Donald Trump took office, things changed.“While the Biden administration slow walked releasing the...

An Iranian politician sits on a sofa giving an interview about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “Why should Iran not have a nuclear weapon when France, the UK and the US all have nuclear weapons? What is the difference between our nations?” The politician goes on to lay out Iran’s regional intellectual and cultural superiority, citing an illustrious history going back centuries, explicitly linking Iranian exceptionalism with the issue of nuclear power. You’d be forgiven for thinking that this Iranian politician was an official of the Islamic Republic. It was the Shah and the year was 1973. The desire for a nuclear...

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A federal judge has ordered the city of McKinney to pay almost $60,000 plus interest to 81-year-old Vicki Baker. Why the big payday? Baker’s home was torn apart by a SWAT team during a 2020 police standoff. Baker took the city to court after her house became the battleground for a high-stakes manhunt, reported WFAA. McKinney police unleashed tear gas, explosives, and tactical vehicles on the property while chasing a fugitive who had barricaded himself inside. Insurance plans do not cover “acts of the government” and the city refused to pay for the damage, so Vicki joined forces with the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Friday that he hopes Israel's threats about killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei remain "rhetoric." Putin also stressed that Russia has "always supported" ensuring the safety and security of any country but without damaging that of another country. Earlier, Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called Israel's comments on potentially targeting Khamenei "completely unacceptable."

Multiple people are feared dead after a horrific rockslide at Canada's Banff National Park was triggered while up to 20 hikers were nearby One person has been confirmed dead so far as rescuers continue to search for survivors at the site of the rockfall near Bow Glacier Falls, north of Lake Louise. The deadly landslide took place at around 1:30pm on Thursday and 'multiple hikers' were caught in it, said the Lake Louise Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). An initial joint statement by RCMP and Parks Canada confirmed one person died at the scene, and three others were evacuated to...

Iran said on Friday that it has rejected “several” calls for negotiations from the United States after President Donald Trump gave a two-week deadline for his decision on possibly striking the Islamic Republic, leaving the door open for talks with Tehran.Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in an address on state television, “Americans want to negotiate and have sent messages several times, but we clearly said that as long as this aggression doesn’t stop, there’s no place for talk of dialogue,” the New York Post reported. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, rejected Trump’s call for the country to surrender...

President Trump is weighing powerful arguments from both sides.President Donald Trump is facing a serious dilemma regarding Israel and Iran. He stands for three things that may soon come into direct conflict with each other. He is, above all, America-First, but he is also a self-proclaimed crusader for peace and a transactional, pragmatic chief executive. That first identifying trait suggests Trump will protect American interests at all costs, eschewing the nation-building of previous presidents. The second translates to avoiding another foreign war, this time in Iran. The third calls for a pragmatic, realistic assessment of Iran’s ongoing threat to US...