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From Medi-Cal fraud to a Nigerian chieftain

We always suspected that Medi-Cal fraud was expensive. We didn’t realize it was ridiculous.

Ceuta: Up to 10,000?

There is a suspicion that Morocco is not too unhappy with this state of...

Alaska drops voter misconduct cases against American Samoans who wrongly checked ‘U.S. citizen’ box

Alaska prosecutors are dropping voter misconduct cases against a group of residents born in American Samoa after a state appeals court threw out felony charges against a woman who wrongly checked a box saying she was a U.S. citizen.

Marshall backtracks on support for $5,000 Trump dividend in Kansas Senate debate

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kans.) appeared to shift his opinion on President Trump’s $5,000 dividends announced earlier this week. In a debate at the Kansas State Fair against Democratic opponent Adam Hamilton, a moderator asked both candidates if they supported the dividends, citing the proposal’s $1.2 trillion cost amid the growing national debt. “I’m going to...

Trump’s plan to halve FEMA workforce illegal, judge rules

A federal judge determined Friday that the Trump administration broke the law when it attempted to cut the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) workforce, a ruling which coincided with America's hurricane season. In her order, U.S. ‌District Judge Susan Illston said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “unlawfully usurped the authority” of FEMA “to make...

Discord leaks underline importance and complexity of signals intelligence

The government believes it has caught the person responsible for the intelligence leaks that made their way onto the Discord social media platform. That said, those leaks reemphasize the extraordinary importance of so-called "signals intelligence," or SIGINT, in U.S. intelligence operations.

Russia and North Korea assist China by pressuring US Pacific forces

Beijing secured some assistance from its partners in Russia and North Korea on Friday. Both those nations took actions that force the U.S. military to spread its resources thinner.

Mastriano’s crusades wear thin with Pennsylvanian conservatives

CHAMBERSBURG, Pennsylvania — For a brief moment on Tuesday, it appeared that Doug Mastriano, the Republican politician who represents this historic borough in Franklin County as their state senator, had announced on social media he was seeking the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.

Feminists don’t believe in feminism either

Feminist activist Gloria Steinem may not have coined the phrase, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” but she did popularize it. And Brookings Institution scholar Richard Reeves correctly identifies the sentiment as “the goal of that wave of the women’s movement.” But just how independent of men do most women really want to be?

Feinstein’s absence and impending retirement bring out the worst in power-hungry Democrats

The California Senate race was always going to bring out the worst, most toxic liberal Democrats in the state as they struggled to grab power. Now, national Democrats are throwing themselves into the mix as well.

Arab governments rush to make amends with Assad

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad used to be an international outcast, Syria’s equivalent of Kim Jong Un. The Syrian dictator had few partners and even fewer friends. Shut out from the West, isolated from the international banking system, and ostracized from much of the Arab world, Assad was at the mercy of Iran, Russia, Lebanese Hezbollah, and what was left of the Syrian army to squash the armed opposition against his regime.

Street interviewer in Austin can’t find a single man who would date a ‘trans woman’

This video is amazing — stunning and bold. It's nice to see people tell the truth for a change.

Passport control at Dulles is a national embarrassment

Welcome to America: land of the free, home of the brave, and, in Washington, D.C., the purgatory of passport control lines. At Northern Virginia’s Dulles Airport, thousands of weary travelers these days are greeted with a first impression of a country that's less "amber waves of grain" and more "snaking queues of disdain."

Uncle Joe has a car you can’t refuse

It’s hard to tell what is most preposterous about President Joe Biden’s new mandate that two-thirds of all new cars sold in 2032 must be electric vehicles. The competition is tough.

Russia is weaponizing Christianity in its war on Ukraine

The decision to close Lavra monastery to clergy from the Russian-controlled Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has been seized upon by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church as an attack on Christianity and religious freedom. This could not be further from the truth.

How NYC’s migrant crisis stymies homeless-shelter reform

Strange to say, homelessness declined in the year before Mayor Eric Adams was sworn into office Jan. 1, 2022.

Woke marketing forced on firms is alienating American consumers

Consumers across the country were bewildered last week when Budweiser and Nike waddled into the transgender debate.

Women deserve more than to be lampooned by Bud Light and Nike

Who is Dylan Mulvaney and why does there seem to be no other model up for the job of marketing products from leggings to...

Hochul’s wise push to fix insane criminal-evidence-sharing rules

Gov. Kathy Hochul is now pushing for critical new criminal-justice fixes as part of this year’s budget.

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