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The year-end tax fight could be shaped by a 'nonpartisan' Yale lab founded by ex-Biden officials
When Congress comes back after the midterms to deal with the Dec. 11 funding deadline and a possible year-end tax package, lawmakers may lean on the Yale lab’s estimates to argue that pouring billions more into the IRS will pay for itself, even though other analysts put the return at a fraction of that.
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USAID watchdog's latest cases: explicit material on government phones, fake invoices
USAID's growing debarment list shows how foreign-aid money was misused even as the agency is being dismantled.
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Death with indignity? Authorities probe alleged deception, coercion in Canadian assisted suicides
A self-described "Devout Christian" explicitly rejected "medical assistance in dying," but her long-term care facility ran bad-faith assessments, shut out of her family, didn't require verbal confirmation, her granddaughter has alleged to authorities.
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Taxpayers fund 450 million 'free' school meals in Minnesota
The program was passed and funded by the Democrat-held legislative trifecta in 2023.
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'Pretending to be stupid': Public college claims Warren campaign blasts aren't public records
Progressive senator's fundraising pitch after Trump's State of the Union showed up in public records search of professor's emails, but her college calls it a "trade secret" protected from release by federal copyright law.
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DOJ probe of science journals' lab-leak quid pro quo, misrepresentation broader than thought
Then-interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ed Martin sent the letters, which said journals were "conceding that they are partisans in various scientific debates," to a dozen publications, public records show. He recently left DOJ for midterm push.
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CIA notes show FDA chief-turned-Pfizer board member saw race between herd immunity, COVID vaccine
Scott Gottlieb estimated 20-25% infected and three transmissions per infected person in May 2020, yet kept lowballing infection rate in public for months. "According to their own math," herd immunity would beat vaccine, watchdog says.
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From 'measles-associated' deaths to new COVID vaccines, doubts mount based on absence of evidence
Pennsylvania governor criticized across the poltical spectrum for overstating certainty, hiding information about deaths he attributes to being unvaccinated. FDA lets Pfizer off the hook from its commitments from last COVID vaccine approval.
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Tax-deductible 'charities' served as pipelines to Democrat voter registration: report
Hundreds of millions of dollars in tax-deductible donations, subsidized by every other taxpayer, were effectively underwriting partisan election work that the tax code says charities can't do.
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Watchdog wants Jack Smith team clearances pulled over alleged security lapses
The group raises the question of whether the same Justice Department officials who prosecuted Trump for mishandling classified information may have committed similar security lapses themselves, going to the heart of whether the law was applied evenhandedly.
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Watchdog says as much as 74% of federal grant spending in 2024 was untraceable to local levels
The report released Tuesday revealed that many federal assistance programs didn't accurately track their spending, explain specific uses of funds or report location data in 2024.
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GAO warns VA still faces major hurdles as agency looks to use AI in disability claims process
The VA administered more than $195 billion in disability compensation to more than 6.9 million veterans and their families during fiscal year 2025, making it one of the federal government’s largest benefit programs
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Social Security mistakenly reported more than 12,000 Americans as dead in 2025, and fumbled fixes
In at least one percent of the errant cases, the agency didn’t even restore Social Security benefits to the still-living living citizens.