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Perry Carbone, Attorney for the United States, Acting under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515; Charmeka Parker, the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General (“USDA-OIG”); and Christopher G. Raia, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation(“FBI”), announced the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment charging six individuals in connection with a sprawling fraud and bribery scheme that generated over $66 million in unauthorized transactions under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“SNAP”)—colloquially known as food stamps. This is one of the largest food...

Mold painted over, wires dangling and black rusted pipes framing the ceiling were part of everyday reality for Marines, sailors and airmen living in barracks on Guam. The conditions left the Navy’s top admiral in charge of barracks across the service baffled.Photos of the Palau Hall barracks at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, and comments in an email from a senior Navy official were obtained by the Project on Government Oversight and shared with Task & Purpose.“It is baffling to discover sailors living in these conditions,” Vice Adm. Scott Gray, the head of Navy Installations Command, wrote in a May...

The 53-year-old man arrested by police over the Liverpool parade ramming has today been charged with seven offences including multiple counts of grievous bodily harm. Paul Doyle, from West Derby on Merseyside, has been charged with one count of dangerous driving alongside two counts each of causing GBH with intent, wounding with intent to cause GBH and attempting to cause GBH with intent. The former Royal Marine commando is married with three teenage children and lives in a smart £300,000, four-bedroomed detached property on a neat estate.

https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/55549 Israeli media: Prime Minister Netanyahu informed the families of the kidnapped that Israel accepts the new Witkoff outline. ——- in other news (((( following the above announcement )))) https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/55551 Israel has approved the construction of 22 new communities in Judea and Samaria. Exodus 1:12 “But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.”

It's well known that San Francisco is a urban disaster area, what with malls moving out, hotels shutting doors, conventions moving to other cities, thieves looting retailers with impunity, little shops fleeing, and entire districts full of homeless drug addicts looking like Dante's seventh circle of Hell.But has anyone asked what's going on at Fisherman's Wharf, the city's most famous tourist destination?Sure, it's known as a tourist trap. But everyone likes to try its famous Italian and seafood restaurants at least once.Now it's a ghost town:Fisherman’s wharf destroyed … go woke go broke So sad what “progressives” have done to...

The Samaria Regional Council and the community of Bruchin announce with deep sorrow that newborn Ravid Chaim, the son of the late Tze'ela Gez, passed away Thursday morning at the hospital.

I was under the illusion that, with Donald Trump back in charge and the wind at his back, Washington Republicans might actually take off the gloves, say eff-it, and take on the swamp. With the failures inherent in the Big Beautiful Bill, it appears I was wrong. I don’t blame Trump. This abysmal betrayal of the American people was written in the halls of Congress.The Republicans in Congress talk a good game, but when it comes to actually doing what they say they’re going to do, it turns out they’re really snake oil salesmen. Not that this is new. Remember...

NEW YORK, May 23 (C-Fam) The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new guideline on preventing adolescent pregnancies in low and middle-income countries. The proposed framework advances a vision of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for young people that promotes controversial ideas, and norm changes inconsistent with what governments have agreed to. Revised for the first time in over a decade, the guideline focuses almost exclusively on preventing adolescent pregnancies through increased and prolonged contraception use, including “self-administered injectable contraception,” and access to sexuality education. In its recommendations, the WHO frames adolescents’ choice to discontinue “contraceptive use due...

A series of devastating wolf attacks occurred over Memorial Day weekend at the Lost Marbles Ranch, Crystal River Ranch and McCabe Ranch, leaving two calves dead and others injured. A broad daylight attack at the Lost Marbles Ranch, carried out by three wolves from the notorious Copper Creek pack, took place in the heart of the calving grounds, a large meadow where ranchers actively monitor mothers and newborns during the critical calving season. The wolves separated a cow and a calf from the main herd, severely injuring the calf. While many in the public romanticize the idea of seeing a...

A federal judge in Boston on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction to block the Trump administration’s directive to strip Harvard University of its ability to admit international students. Judge Allison Burroughs issued the ruling from the bench after an emergency hearing on the administration’s move, which upended the lives of the 27 percent of Harvard’s student body that is made up of foreign students. “I want to maintain the status quo,” Burroughs said from the bench, according to CNN. Harvard quickly sued the administration last week after the directive was given by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which also...

Former Transportation Secretary and future presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg wants a mulligan on Democrats shutting down schools during the pandemic. Buttigieg was asked what he would say to his past self if he could time travel back to right after he endorsed Joe Biden for president. His answer was “one, for the love of God, figure out a way to get the schools open sooner.” This is part of Buttigieg’s efforts to distance himself from Biden’s presidency as he prepares his 2028 campaign. Biden’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took its direction on school reopenings from teachers unions, which...

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FBI Director Kash Patel slammed former FBI Director James Comey on Fox News Wednesday and accused him of sparking a culture of political grandstanding that has made the agency’s job harder. Comey deleted an Instagram post showing the number “8647” after Republicans and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said he implied a threat against President Donald Trump. They opened an investigation. During an interview on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Patel said Comey’s action has sparked a wave of copycat threats and distracted agents from real threats to national security. “If he wants to come after me, no...

The CEO and public figurehead of Market Basket, one of the region’s most popular grocery store chains, has been put on administrative leave, rekindling memories of a different intra-family squabble in 2014 that shook the company to its core. Arthur T. Demoulas, as well as several other top employees, are being investigated for what the executive committee of the grocery chain’s board of directors is calling “credible allegations” that he was planning “a disruption of the business and operations of Market Basket with a work stoppage.” The company’s board alleges that “Demoulas has also resisted an appropriate succession plan for...

..., Lake Chatuge is more than a scenic retreat. It serves as a crucial source of flood control, hydroelectric power, drinking water for Hiawassee — and, just as importantly, it fuels the local economy. Towns County in Georgia has a population of roughly 12,000, a number that swells each summer as tourists flock to the lake and mountain trails. Since 2021, visitors have spent between $90 million and $100 million annually in the area, generating about $6 million each year in state and local taxes, according to the Georgia Department of Economic Development. “That helps keep our property taxes lower,”...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The agency that governs high school sports in California says the second-place finisher may share the top spot on the podium if a transgender athlete wins at this weekend's track and field championships. Santia Ali of Clayton Valley Charter High School in Contra Costa County competes in the triple jump and come Friday, she'll compete for the California state title. Among the competitors is AB Hernandez, a transgender athlete who has drawn President Trump's scrutiny. "At the end of the day, all I can do is go out there and compete and just do my best...

...“It’s such a victory for the river,” said Elaine Marsh, a watershed resource specialist with Summit Metro Parks. Marsh is one of the founding members of Friends of the Crooked River, a nonprofit organization focused on giving a voice to the Cuyahoga River....

Ukraine says it has handed Russia a “memorandum” on a proposed ceasefire, urging Moscow to do the same in return, as fresh talks next week emerge as a possibility. Russia has proposed a second round of Moscow-Kyiv talks for Monday June second, calling Istanbul “the central location for talks”. The Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergey Shoigu thanked Turkey for its “significant efforts” to support talks, saying on Thursday they had ensured “security and creating favorable conditions for the delegations’ work”. Should these talks materialise, they would come over two weeks after the historic but unproductive first set of...

A Colorado couple who burned a cross in front of a black mayoral candidate’s campaign sign to generate voter sympathy was convicted Friday of conveying false information about a threat. Prosecutors argued that although Ashley Blackcloud, who is indigenous and Black, and Derrick Bernard, who is Black, orchestrated and broadcast the hoax to aid the candidate, their actions still amounted to a criminal threat. The cross burning happened in 2023 during the run-up to the mayoral election in Colorado Springs, the state’s second-largest city. Images and video of the episode were emailed to local news outlets to boost the campaign...

What I learned from debating at Oxford and CambridgeWhen I was growing up, people often said British politics were where America’s would be in five, ten or 20 years. What this meant was that Britain was more to the left of America: more secular, more socially liberal, more environmentalist, more globalized. The assumption was that, over time, the left would always win out, so wherever Britain was now, America would soon be. I traveled to the United Kingdom in May to debate the students and faculty of Cambridge and Oxford Universities in large part because that old assumption is dead...