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Pras Michel reported to federal prison in Safford, Arizona, on April 30 to begin his 14-year sentence. The Fugees rapper was convicted of funnelling roughly $100M in illegal foreign money from Jho Low into the 2012 Obama campaign and later lobbying the Trump administration to drop the investigation. Pras Michel turns himself in to begin …
Scientists observed electrons in graphene flowing like a nearly frictionless liquid in new studies. The discovery breaks the classic Ohmic and Wiedemann-Franz principles on electrical resistance and heat flow. This breakthrough could lead to chips that barely overheat and power grids with almost zero energy loss. Physics folks are calling it a shock because they’re …
The Trump administration is quietly authorizing millions of dollars in refugee resettlement funding, including to organizations operating at the center of the illegal immigration crisis. According to Federal Register notices published on September 22, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement intends to award nearly seven million dollars in replacement …
The three tankers had different owners, different operators and different clients. But they shared one thing: a small insurer headquartered in New Zealand, backstopped by some of the world’s biggest reinsurance firms. The company, Maritime Mutual, is run by 75-year-old Briton Paul Rankin and family members. For more than two decades, it has insured everything …
Most Americans still do not understand what has happened since Donald Trump left the White House. The presidency was supposed to end in January of 2021, but in reality the office never ended. It was converted. It became a machine. A mechanism designed to take foreign interest, family loyalty, and political fame and spin them …
🚨 TED CRUZ: “USAID was flowing money to Gaza, that was going straight to Hamas and they were doing everything they could to hide that.” pic.twitter.com/nan0F5NPpe — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) February 7, 2025 President Trump and Elon are right to halt funding to USAID. Under Biden, USAID was weaponized to advance leftwing causes globally, boost …
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US Senator Graham calls Ukraine’s incursion into Russia, ‘bold’, ‘brilliant’ and ‘beautiful’!! U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham called Ukraine’s shock cross-border operation into Russia’s Kursk region “brilliant” and “bold” in a visit to Kyiv on Monday, and he urged the Biden administration to provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs. With Russia still struggling to …
“Chinese stocks rebounded on Monday morning after Beijing unveiled a raft of measures meant to halt their nearly monthlong slide. But the rally proved to be short-lived as foreign investors used it as an opportunity to unload $1.1 billion of mainland Chinese equities, according to Bloomberg data. ” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billions-dollars-flowing-chinese-markets-213851348.html
Assets in money market funds have hit a record $5.5 trillion. With yields above 5%, this trend should continue. pic.twitter.com/gpRrtgBjoL — Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) August 3, 2023 Bear Stearns Collapse March 16, 2008Lehman Brothers Collapse September 15, 2008 Silicon Valley Bank Collapse March 10, 2023******************* Collapse September 15, 2023 🤫pic.twitter.com/kfdPWKxt1dhttps://t.co/qBMYgTkITR https://t.co/VqtC8XyGSu — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) August …
“ICYMI: New lawsuit expected to soon produce evidence that 60% of illegal election funding flowing into Democratic Party funding group @actblue is secretly from China. From OMG Media – https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1673658581017669633?s=20” ICYMI: New lawsuit expected to soon produce evidence that 60% of illegal election funding flowing into Democratic Party funding group @actblue is secretly from China. …