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The U.S. Department of Justice has reported that its newly established anti-fraud unit has secured guilty pleas and sentences exceeding $500 million in fraud cases. Acting Director Todd Blanche confirmed the unit is not delaying action, noting it has already initiated significant prosecutions. The department also revealed over 8,000 active investigations are currently underway. Additionally,…

Most of us have heard about the scores (or more) of “genders” social engineers have conjured up. Thanks to the Trump administration, school officials will no longer be required to identify as a particular one: “pandergender.” This is because the Department of Education is terminating coercive agreements from the Obama and Biden eras that compelled…

A major University of Oxford observational study confirms that myocarditis and pericarditis occurred exclusively among children and adolescents who received Covid-19 vaccines, with no documented cases in unvaccinated peers during the research period. Published as a preprint in May 2024 on medRxiv through the OpenSAFELY platform, the analysis reviewed health records of approximately 1.7 million…

On Monday, President Trump joked that he would “quickly” learn Spanish and run for president of Venezuela, claiming his polling numbers in the country are already higher than anyone has ever polled there. “I’m polling higher than anybody has ever polled in Venezuela. So after I’m finished with this, I can go to Venezuela. I…

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools,” warned 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer. Would he say today that this principle has led to a criminal-justice system in the United States? In January 2025, North Carolina Judge Teresa Stokes released Decarlos Brown Jr., a deranged…

President Donald Trump warned that “the entire country” could be “taken out” by overnight airstrikes, following his latest threat on Truth Social targeting Iran’s power plants and bridges. The president made this statement during a news conference where he described an operation to rescue a downed F-15 pilot after it was shot down by Iran…

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Tuesday that a Colorado law prohibiting licensed counselors from helping minors shed unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion violates the First Amendment. Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch observed: “Colorado may regard its policy as essential to public health and safety. Certainly, censorious governments throughout history have believed the…