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The Trump administration has joined a lawsuit attempting to stop a first-of-its-kind reparations plan that would compensate Black residents of a Chicago suburb, arguing that its race-based criteria are unconstitutional. The program, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, offers Black residents and their descendants up to $25,000 for past raced-based housing discrimination. When the city’s …
Just The News reports the case as the largest autism-related fraud enforcement action in U.S. history Investigation centers on Medicaid-funded autism services where billing allegedly expanded from tens of millions into hundreds of millions Claims include billing for services not provided and inflated diagnosis-driven reimbursements Federal authorities describe coordinated misuse of program structures across multiple providers …
Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing. 97% would come from the FHA, with the rest coming from state first-time home buyer programs. Zero money down. Thanks to programs that were supposed to be helping low-income American families buy their own homes. FHA loans to non-permanent …
Once you let the state kill the depressed it’s game over for the vulnerable. Normalize this and watch Canada start clearing hospital beds with body bags next. Toronto woman fights court for MAID over bipolar and PTSD “A Canadian woman who has been fighting for medical assistance in dying (MAID) to be an option for …
🇩🇪🇮🇷 Germany's Chancellor just issued a 3-front ultimatum to Tehran: Stop attacking the UAE, lift the Hormuz blockade, and drop the nuclear program. Merz put it bluntly: "Tehran must return to the negotiating table and stop holding the region and the world hostage." Europe has… https://t.co/SjAx6lHBZK pic.twitter.com/tCKsba6vWG — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 4, 2026
Companies are running ad campaigns glorifying government assisted suicide in Canada This commercial is from a fashion retailer The message is, you just have to be brave enough to see the beauty in death It’s promoting where a doctor helps kill you in Canada’s MAiD program (Medical Assistance in Dying) Companies are running ad campaigns …
President Donald Trump said Iran agreed to suspend its nuclear program indefinitely, and will not receive any frozen funds from the US. Trump said in a phone interview on Friday that a deal to end the war, which the US and Israel began with Iran in late February, is mostly complete. Talks over a lasting …
Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following: $510 million – Grants for farmers and agricultural research $82 million – Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated) $61 million – Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated) $240 million – School meals and food education for …
More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data. That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade. Another 90,000 vets are heading toward …
Rep. Matt Gaetz on what he was told in a classified congressional briefing by a uniformed U.S. Army officer: “I had someone come and brief me who was in a military uniform, worked for the United States Army, that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with …
🚨NEW: California expanded free, state-funded healthcare to undocumented immigrants, covering about 700,000 people ages 26–49 at an estimated $2.6 billion per year.pic.twitter.com/azLq79TdDO — Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) February 9, 2026 California expanded free healthcare to undocumented adults ages 26–49, covering roughly 700,000 people at $2.6 billion per year. This is confirmed policy and real taxpayer money. …
Mark Cuban: “We’ll work with TrumpRX. I mean it’s incredible, it’s stupendous, it’s like the most incredible program ever.”pic.twitter.com/YfHXl0Iwbx — Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) February 7, 2026
🚨Report: Iran has signaled they may shut down or suspend its nuclear program in a major concession to the U.S. Via: The New York Times pic.twitter.com/k6EdT1TVp4 — The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) February 3, 2026 Iran may be willing to suspend or shut down parts of its nuclear programme to reduce tensions with the United …
Governor Gavin Newsom’s $236M program for California’s mentally ill has helped just 22 people in four years: report https://t.co/6MNTcque85 pic.twitter.com/dh0ySpEcAt — California Post (@californiapost) January 27, 2026 California Governor Gavin Newsom’s $236 million program to help those with severe mental illness who bounce between homelessness and jail has helped a measly 22 people since the …
New York Governor Kathy Hochul and newly sworn in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani have just announced their plans to spend billions of dollars on a ‘free’ childcare program. What could possibly go wrong? They are doing this as the state of Minnesota is imploding under the weight of a massive fraud scandal which …
This is the part nobody wants to say out loud. The money wasn’t mismanaged, it was routed exactly where they wanted it to go. Homeless people were just the excuse, the real product was a fat paycheck and a clean paper trail. There is fraud everywhere now, and nobody ever seems to pay for it. …
The Capital One hardship program seems to be one of the hardest ones to get into…but I think I cracked the code!! Here’s what I did: I called them a couple times this month, and just today I got approved for a 60 month payment plan with 7% interest. I owe $4500 on the card. …
🚨Just in: President Trump is terminating the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota. Trump said: “Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and Billions of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s Over!” pic.twitter.com/PrqlaErSkB — The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) November 22, 2025 U.S. …
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. (AP video: Marshall Ritzel)
by Martin Armstrong One in ten Americans receives food stamp benefits through SNAP. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins believes there needs to be an overhaul of the program to ensure only those in desperate need receive these benefits. The first step will be requiring recipients to reapply for benefits to ensure that those “taking a taxpayer-funded …
NEW: Canada announces a $1.7 billion program to recruit top H1B visa holders from America pic.twitter.com/wz94woOad9 — Shashank Mattoo (@MattooShashank) November 12, 2025 Also embedded in Budget 2025 is a headline-grabbing talent-attraction measure: an accelerated permanent-residence pathway for holders of U.S. H-1B specialty-occupation visas. Details released on Nov 4 confirm Ottawa’s intent to build on …
View post on imgur.com “Megyn Kelly asked about highly-skilled immigration. The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay. I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1 B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as …
Dr. George Tidmarsh, the Food and Drug Administration’s top drug regulator, was placed on administrative leave and is considering resigning, citing a “toxic” environment at the FDA. Tidmarsh, who leads the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, was placed on leave Friday “after the Office of the General Counsel and the Office of the …
USA remains 64% of global equity market cap GS pic.twitter.com/rB5LmBjld1 — Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 (@MikeZaccardi) October 20, 2025 SpaceX is essentially the US space program https://t.co/rpYnDnna4z pic.twitter.com/f6B0OOmYiP — Robin (@xdNiBoR) October 19, 2025
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank is nearing a point where it will stop reducing the size of its bond holdings, but gave no long-run indication of where interest rates are heading. Though balance sheet questions are in the weeds for monetary policy, they matter to financial markets. Powell generally stuck to …
JUST IN: President Trump directs tariff revenue to fund WIC program during government shutdown pic.twitter.com/Gpsr5cm2zg — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 7, 2025 Trumps tariffs are not constitutional tariffs. They’re imposed by executive order. The money goes into a presidential fund that he directly controls. Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the president is granted …
BREAKING: Samsung has announced a pilot program to begin showing ads on its smart refrigerators across the United States. pic.twitter.com/kpJ31tHGFK — The General (@GeneralMCNews) October 4, 2025 The pilot program, first reported on by Android Authority (3), runs ads to certain “Cover Screens” — the default displays that appear when the fridge’s touchscreen goes idle. Ads will …
Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the mayor’s race, plans if elected to replace the selective program, which became a symbol of segregation in public schools. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/nyregion/mamdani-schools-gifted-and-talented-program.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU8.kqVv.UKImx9OircVW Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner for mayor of New York City, plans to end the gifted …
Proof that the current H1B program is about cheap labor, not skilled labor? Almost 73% of H1B holders are Indian. Only 1% are Canadian. 0.9% are from South Korea. Companies aren't bringing in people to do the job better, they're bringing in people to do the job cheaper. https://t.co/4el1AkwLRv — Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) September 20, …
🚨 BREAKING: In a major revelation, Senator Chuck Grassley reveals that an FBI whistleblower confirmed a Bureau project named "Arctic Frost" targeted groups such as Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA. pic.twitter.com/xTrNxAwF8y "It was the vehicle by which partisan FBI agents and… — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 16, 2025 A whistleblower has exposed a secret program …