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A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic. These seven are the first of 70 defendants expected to go to trial in a conspiracy that cost taxpayers $250 million. Eighteen others have pleaded guilty, and authorities said they recovered about $50 million in one of the nation’s largest pandemic-related fraud cases. Prosecutors say just a fraction of the...

A major United Nations donors' conference has raised $US5.3 billion to rebuild Haiti, more than $US1 billion more than hoped for. Donor countries have offered the funds to help rebuild the impoverished Caribbean country following January's earthquake which killed 200,000 people and left 1 million homeless. UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon says more than 100 countries participating in the one-day conference in New York promised to provide Haiti with $US5.3 billion for the next two years, with a total longer-term commitment of around $US9 billion. Both the United States and the European Union pledged more than $US1 billion to the rebuilding...

Mideast envoy George Mitchell has threatened that the U.S. could freeze aid to Israel if the country fails to advance peace talks, YNetNews.com reported

A minimum of 100,000 people recently died in and around Sumatra. They got swept under a massive tidal wave and their bloated bodies are still washing ashore. The world wept and began to raise an effort to provide aid. An idiot UN bureaucrat, Jan Egeland, who gets payed a higher annual salary than the President of The US, and pays no income tax whatsoever on that money, cavalierly announced that the wealthy nations of the world were stingy. He further opined that this was because they paid too paltry an income tax. Perhaps his own personal rate of taxation rendered...