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...
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France, like the United States, faces a mounting debt crisis. Public debt outstanding is now around 114% of France’s GDP. In the United States the ratio is about 100%. Curiously, sovereign borrowing costs for France are substantially lower than interest payments for the U.S. France is a member of the European Union, the EU. The rules of the EU state that […]
Blue states stand as the final frontier for universal school choice, and Republicans can break through by wielding parental rights as a political juggernaut. Victory won’t come from moral suasion alone. The people must make support for parental rights politically irresistible, even for Democrats. Republicans must lean hard into education as a wedge issue, exposing […]
Too often, policymakers are stuck fighting the last war. That’s what is happening in today’s debates over Medicaid. With states facing difficult budget decisions, Medicaid inevitably draws attention because it is the single largest line item in most, if not all, state budgets. But how lawmakers choose to address these pressures will determine whether patients are […]
I served in the Army National Guard for four decades, enlisting as a private and retiring as a two-star major general. During my service, I deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Africa, and our southern border. Honor. Integrity. Service. Those aren’t just words — they’re a way of life. When you wear the uniform of the […]
The Supreme Court has been forced, once again, to step in and overturn an injunction issued by a Biden-appointed lower-court judge, this time in Los Angeles, where open-borders activists sought to ban virtually all immigration enforcement in Southern California. Justice Brett Kavanaugh took the unusual step of offering a concurrence shedding light on the majority’s […]
Last week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced the closest a Senate hearing can look like a firing squad. Kennedy’s firing of Centers for Disease Control Director Susan Monarez, a month after the Senate had confirmed her, rightly caused some to point out that continuous organizational drama is not the […]
Here’s one more reason to detest teachers-unions and other special interests who prioritize everything but getting the kids to learn: US high-school seniors in...
For nearly two years, Hamas’ external brass directed a genocidal war from Qatar’s luxury bubble. Now, terror’s leadership carries the danger it has earned.
