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The Golden Horseshoe is a weekly designation from Just the News intended to highlight egregious examples of wasteful taxpayer spending by the government. The award is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s. This week our award is going to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for granting $1.75 million to a University of Florida associate professor to conduct research the fruits of which he ended up exploiting on behalf of China's communist government and his own undisclosed business interests. In early February this year, a...

Judicial Watch Seeks Release of Sally Yates Records on Her Refusal to Defend President Trump’s Travel Ban Professor Charged with Stealing $1.75 Million in Research for China Judicial Watch Seeks Release of Sally Yates Records on Her Refusal to Defend President Trump’s Travel Ban It should surprise no one that on Joe Biden’s short list for attorney general was former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates , an Obama holdover “who shot to national prominence after President Donald Trump fired her, making her one of the first heroes of the #Resistance.” President Trump fired her after she refused in early...