HHS freezes all federal child care payments to Minnesota. The agency typically sends about $185 million a year in child care funding to the state. New rules now apply to all ACF payments nationwide.

Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill @HHS_Jim We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota. You have probably read the serious allegations that the state of Minnesota has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to fraudulent daycares across Minnesota …

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Nigeria will apply to BRICS – FM

Nigeria plans to apply for membership in the BRICS group of emerging countries after the necessary domestic arrangements are complete, Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar has said. The diplomat is in Moscow this week on a three-day working visit from March …

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