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NFL-backed Human Development Fund shares an address with shell company featured in fraud scandal, among other links Chuck Ross. February 2, 2026 Human Development Fund, an upstart Islamic charity touted by the National Football League and various Muslim influencers, professes to provide "hot meals" to orphans in Gaza. But a Washington Free Beacon investigation found the group’s founders have an array of links to the Feeding Our Future fraud, in which more than 80 people conspired to steal $250 million from a federal program designed to give free meals to poor Minnesota children. HDF founder and CEO Abdirahman Kariye is...

Governments habitually lie. They lie so often that it is peculiar for governments to claim “authority” on anything other than falsehood. Before the Gutenberg press and general literacy, “authorities” announced self-serving lies in the public square. With the arrival of newsprint, “authorities” disseminated State propaganda as daily news. Radio and television revolutionized the mass manipulation of minds. The adoption of the personal computer, the rise of the Internet, the commercialization of pocket computers posing as handheld phones, and the sticky web of an ever-growing social media complex have made it possible for government “authorities” to reach inside every human brain...

Meet the Next Chair of the Harvard History Dept, Who Called Trump 'Narcissist White Supremacist Habitual Liar Lunatic’. Professor Maya Jasanoff brought fruit to anti-Israel encampment, joined lawsuit for Columbia’s Khalil

ulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is under attack again. A so-called “whistleblower” filed a complaint against her alleging wrongdoing so sensitive that its details supposedly could not be disclosed. The complaint was reviewed and closed because it lacked credibility. That determination was made by Tamara Johnson, a career official who served as the acting inspector general of the intelligence community during the Biden administration. That should have been the end of the story. Instead, the secrecy surrounding the complaint has been repackaged as proof that something terrible must have occurred. The absence of evidence is now being marketed...

Mad Men actor Jon Hamm hosted the event, adding a light-hearted tone to the prestigious ceremony with jokes and skits. However, one may have crossed a line. The Hollywood star was interrupted by fellow actor Bob Odenkirk, who was dressed as Pope Leo XIV with a mitre and stole embossed with the Chicago Bears logo and patches. Pope Leo XIV, who became the first ever American Pope when he was elected to serve as head of the Catholic church last year, hails from Chicago and has accepted Bears jerseys as gifts over the past year. While discussing the season, Odenkirk,...

OAK GROVE, Ore. (KATU) — Detectives arrested a 24-year-old man on charges including rape, strangulation and more. On Thursday, Jan. 29, detectives from the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office arrested Jacob Todd Koser of Oak Grove on multiple charges, including rape in the first degree, strangulation, assault in the fourth degree, and menacing.

CHICAGO (WLS) — A pregnant mother was killed when she was stabbed 70 times by a man who was buying a truck from her husband that was listed on Facebook Marketplace, court documents show. Officials identified the victim as Eliza Morales, who was five months pregnant with her second child. Morales and her unborn child both died. Morales leaves behind a 2-year-old daughter.

One day after the Washington Post laid off roughly a third of its newsroom, former staff and supporters gathered outside the paper’s Downtown D.C. headquarters to protest the cuts.Former transportation reporter Rachel Weiner, who spent 15 years at the Post, told the large crowd she was struggling with the loss of her job and what it meant for the community.“Yeah, I’m sad about it obviously,” she said. “It is really disappointing having worked to cover as much as possible in this region because it’s also important. The Post has just decided it doesn’t matter to them.”Weiner said this round of...

Donald Trump did not win the 2024 election because America suddenly became meaningfully more Republican. He won because voters, many of them independents and crossover Democrats, many of them young, had lost trust in the system and believed he was willing to confront it. I’m the head pollster for Rasmussen Reports. In our final 2024 polling, 42% of Trump’s electorate came from independents and Democrats. That is not a MAGA monoculture. It is a fragile coalition built on one thing: accountability...... This can still be fixed, but only if Trump remembers why he was elected. Not to manage the system....

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(2/6/26)[Prayer]A New Study For A New Year: PersonalitiesGenesis 23 23 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. 2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, 4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that...

Trash and rats are piling up as snow stays uncleared, but Mayor Mamdani has more important things to do. Under socialism, New Yorkers are learning the hard way how fast a city can go downhill. Garbage filled streets is providing New Yorkers with the Warmth of Collectivism. https://t.co/hewdZHfJKq — Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 (@RobSchneider) February 3, 2026 In Mayor Mamdani's New York City, they don't actually remove the snow, they just spread it out on the street so that everyone suffers equally. It's called Socialist Snow Plowing. pic.twitter.com/LW7EcOJoKe — Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) February 4, 2026 NYC outdoor death toll rises...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos didn’t really buy the Washington Post to keep democracy out of darkness or whatever, he bought it to build influence and decided that the Resistance branding was poison in the post-woke era of the second Trump administration. His staff doubled down. So he tried bringing in editors and people from conservative British papers and Washington Post staffers worked to sabotage them. The ongoing battle over the Washington Post between its actual owner, Jeff Bezos, the 2nd wealthiest man in the world, who paid $250 million for it, and the staff, show that, at least when it...

U.S. Olympic officials bowed to the protests of pro-illegal migrant activists and dropped the name “Ice House” for its athlete hospitality lounge and renamed it “Winter House.” The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) had advertised the lounge area as an “athlete-first space” where US figure skaters, hockey players, speedskaters, and their guests could gather in their free time to lounge and congregate at the Milano Cortina Winter Games in Italy, according to the New York Post

On January 28, 2025, Harmeet K. Dhillon filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Trump administration, detailing why the Massachusetts handgun roster is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. Harmeet K. Dhillon is Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. The lawsuit timeline began almost 5 years ago.In 2021, a number of Massachusetts residents and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed suit against then AG Maura Healey in Massachusetts, contending the Massachusetts handgun roster violated the rights protected by the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.On May 19, 2022, the District Court granted a motion...

By the time you reach your mid-70s, your financial life often looks very different from what it did a decade earlier. Work is usually behind you, priorities have shifted, and your money is no longer just about growing. It's about sustaining the life you want to live, especially if you're trying to maximize your senior benefits and get the most value out of every dollar you've earned. If you're 74 (or getting close), this is a natural moment to check up on your retirement readiness and see how your own situation compares to other Americans in the same age range....

An examination of the world media’s obsessive coverage of Israel can be found here: “Why global media obsess over Israel and ignore deadlier wars – opinion,” by Samuel J. Hyde, Jerusalem Post , January 13, 2026: 'If news coverage were meant to be a rational analysis, this is not. Even if news were merely supposed to be the coverage of suffering, power, and danger on planet Earth, this would still be indefensible. You cannot plausibly cover Israel more than an entire continent without warping the reader’s sense of reality.This saturation coverage creates the illusion of centrality. It trains audiences to...

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A Maryland man who told federal agents he feared a “fascist takeover” by President Trump has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly showed up at the home of White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought armed with a gun. Colin Demarco, 26, was charged last month with attempted murder, criminal solicitation to commit murder, carrying a concealed weapon and wearing a mask in public to conceal identity, stemming from the Aug 10, 2025, incident, according to the Arlington County Police Department. He is being held without bond and is due to appear in court on...

Last week’s article in this series on color revolutions discussed the Iranian Coup of 1953, code-named Operation Ajax. The 1953 Coup, conducted by the CIA and M16, was successful in overthrowing the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mosaddegh, who was determined to resist British and American exploitation of its oil. That coup strengthened the authority of the Shah of Iran, who was friendly to the West.

(DCNF)—President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the price of Ozempic will fall from more than $1,000 to $199, a dramatic reduction for one of the most expensive and widely used prescription drugs in the country. Pharmacy “cash price” for a single Ozempic pen can exceed $1,300 at some U.S. outlets, according to pricing data. During the launch of Trump RX, Trump said manufacturers agreed to slash prices for popular GLP-1 weight-loss medications, insulin, asthma inhalers, and fertility drugs after sustained pressure from his administration.