Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler said Thursday night that her agency has suspended "6,900 Minnesota borrowers” over suspected fraudulent activity regarding COVID-era lending programs. Loeffler said the SBA over the last week reviewed “thousands” of potentially “fraudulent” Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) payouts that were approved in Minnesota. ...
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says he is open to holding talks with the Trump administration over drug trafficking and the country’s oil reserves, but he dodged when asked about the CIA’s recent drone strike inside his South American nation. “The U.S. government knows, because we’ve told many of their spokespeople, that if they want to...
Freshly sworn-in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a number of executive orders on his first day in office Thursday, including one to revoke most executive orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams after he was indicted in September 2024. “We speak about this day as a new era. And in order to fulfill...
Matthew Dowd is a Christian. I know this because he begins many of his social media posts with the words “As a Christian…” or with some other prepositional phrase intended to communicate a strong moral footing and knowledge of Jesus‘ teachings. In 2021, he began a tweet by writing, “As I sat in church today, I was […]
This “terrible and senseless murder” reveals “how divided the US is,” with opposing factions living in “separate realities” fed by different “news ecosystems.”
Charlie Kirk was only 31 years old and a college dropout, but in a little over a decade, he had transformed the nation’s university campuses. A conservative shepherd who managed to galvanize millions of aimless campus conservatives, Kirk’s nonprofit organization, Turning Point USA, transcended his generation. By the time he had helped Donald Trump clinch […]
It should not need to be said, but since Democrats at CNN are so outraged at the concept, it must be: Violent people with mental illnesses need to be locked up, in some form or fashion, because mental illness is not an excuse to allow crime. CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, on which several liberals […]
The State Department has denied Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his approximately 80-member delegation visas to attend the United Nations General Assembly later this month. Abbas, serving as president of the Palestinian National Authority for the 20th year after being elected for four, hoped to make a triumphant appearance in New York as […]
The Democratic-socialist has thus far himself said nothing, zero, nada, bupkis, in his campaign about the imminent anniversary of the single worst day in...
What a difference half a decade makes. This summer’s prevailing ethos, zeitgeist, vibe — call it any fancy name you want — was sharply different from the summer, just five years ago, of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. Such sudden changes in the moral atmosphere seem to occur every so often. The year 1776, the […]
SWANNANOA, North Carolina — When President Donald Trump made his first second-term trip outside of Washington, D.C., to this Buncombe County town, he brought Michael Whatley with him to tour the region devastated by Hurricane Helene. The plan was for Whatley, then chairman of the Republican National Committee, to travel with him to the next […]
