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The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated a contract with a nonprofit that was paid millions each month to operate a Texas overflow facility that sat empty, according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In a social media post, DOGE said a former U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021, where they helped the organization secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities. "As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023, the...

The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency announced on Wednesday that it has uncovered evidence of a top Biden aide receiving millions of federal dollars to fuel a facility meant for housing recent migrants but which has remained empty for the duration of the country’s crisis. A Texas nonprofit tied to one of former President Joe Biden’s transition team members was on the receiving end of a government contract for its overflow facility in Pecos. Family Endeavors, which had employed the transition team member since 2021, saw its “cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in...

resident Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) top officials are shaping up a program that would more easily allow young adult border crossers and illegal aliens to live freely in the United States, Breitbart News has learned. The Biden administration is currently seeking bids for a DHS contract that will ensure border crossers and illegal aliens ages 18 to 19 years old — who officials say “pose a low flight risk” — are hardly monitored by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency after their release into the U.S. interior. Whereas existing DHS programs have stricter compliance guidelines, the...

The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated a contract with a nonprofit that was paid millions each month to operate a Texas overflow facility that sat empty, according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In a social media post, DOGE said a former U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021, where they helped the organization secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities. "As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023, the...

USA: One person was killed and four were injured after a freight train hit a truck standing on the tracks in the city of Pecos, Texas. As a result of the impact, the train derailed and hit buildings.

PECOS, N.M. - Nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains outside this village in northern New Mexico, the Pecos Benedictine Monastery has long been considered cut from a different cloth from many other Roman Catholic religious communities. Its chapel is in a structure that, more than 50 years ago, was part of a dude ranch where burnt-out urbanites came to relax. The gift shop is in an old adobe building that was a stop on the Pony Express. Solar panels adorn much of the stucco complex, a well-known location for combining the study of Christian spirituality and Jungian dream analysis....

Slain soldier's daughter offered a bit of solace Stephani Mata's pain is a private affair despite the spotlight shined on the heroic death of her father, Army Chief Warrant Officer Johnny Villareal Mata, last month in Iraq. The 7-year-old's mother, Nancili, asked Nixon Elementary not to disrupt Stephani's classroom routine. The school respected her wish and that of other military parents. Half of Nixon's students come from military families. "Their parents want them to come to school and not have to deal with it," Principal Ginny Hunt said. Thursday, the young girl's tragedy was acknowledged in one simple, loving gesture:...