By Naveen Athrappully The IRS announced it was planning on pursuing “high-income individuals evading taxes” and claims to have made millions in recoveries at a time when the agency is increasingly facing heat for targeting a higher percentage of lower-income Americans as part of its tax audits. “The IRS is working to ensure that high-income […]
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Bipartisan Lawmakers Vow Reforms to Government’s Secretive Surveillance Power
By Lawrence Wilson The law authorizing warrantless searches of data on U.S. citizens by the federal government has been so consistently abused that it must be either thoroughly revised or allowed to expire this year, surveillance and privacy advocates say. “A law designed to provide tools to collect foreign intelligence and prevent terrorist attacks has […]
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House-Passed Defense Bill Unwinds Pentagon’s ‘Woke’ Agenda: Freedom Caucus
By John Haughey The House has adopted its version of the proposed $886.3 billion Fiscal Year 2024 defense budget and dispatched it to the Senate, where many of the “culture war” amendments conservatives successfully attached to the must-pass annual appropriations package are likely to be rejected by the Democrat-led chamber. Do so at your own […]
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Elon Musk’s X Corp Sues 4 Entities He Says Are Scraping Twitter Data
By Jana J. Pruet Elon Musk’s X Corp., the California-based company that owns and operates Twitter, has filed a lawsuit against four entities in Texas. The lawsuit accuses the defendants of data scraping from the social media site and causing issues for the platform’s users. The lawsuit was filed in a Dallas County District Court […]
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Biden Official a No-Show for Hearing on $200 Billion in Pandemic Relief Fraud
By Mark Tapscott Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabella Guzman declined to testify at the July 13 House Small Business Committee hearing seeking to understand why her staff found $160 billion less waste and fraud in $1.2 trillion in federal pandemic spending than did the agency’s internal watchdog. Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas), the House panel’s chairman, said […]
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Lawmaker Raises Concerns Over FEMA’s Role in Facilitating Illegal Immigration
By Savannah Hulsey Pointer Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) questioned a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official on the body’s participation in helping the United States cope with the crisis of illegal immigration. In a Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology hearing entitled “The Future of FEMA: Agency Perspectives with Administrator Criswell,” held on July 13, […]
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More Than 100 Million Americans Under Heatwave Alerts as Scorching Weather Set to Intensify
By Katabella Roberts More than 100 million Americans are under heatwave alerts across the south and southwest as experts warn temperatures in some areas are set to soar further in the coming days, possibly reaching triple digits. In a July 12 bulletin, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued excessive heat advisories and warnings for areas […]
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Trump’s Tough ‘Vibes’ Kept More Order on the Border: Journalist
By Nathan Worcester Former President Donald J. Trump was famous for talking tough about illegal immigration. In fact, his reputation as an enforcer appears to have resonated south of the Rio Grande. “Trump’s tough-on-the-border rhetoric makes its way down to Mexico and Central America, and it drives people’s decisions. They know it’s going to be […]
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House Republicans Call for Defunding Mayorkas’s Salary Over Border Crisis
By Savannah Hulsey Pointer House Republicans are contemplating legislation that would eliminate Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s salary in response to mistrust over the failure to enforce the U.S. southern border. Republican legislators are now insisting that Mr. Mayorkas’s salary be part of the impending government funding dispute. Among those Republicans is Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), […]
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DeSantis ‘Desperately Trying to Get Out’ of 2024 Presidential Race: Trump
By Naveen Athrappully Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is trying to exit the 2024 Republican primaries due to falling behind by a big margin, said former president Donald Trump who is enjoying a considerable lead over rivals. “Ron DeSanctimonious is desperately trying to get out of the Presidential race, while at the same time saving face […]
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‘Cluster Bombs’ Headed for Ukraine Pack a Punch, but Leave Lethal ‘Duds’ in Wake
By John Haughey While defined as “dual purpose,” the “hundreds of thousands” of cluster munitions the United States is sending to Ukraine have one but function: Annihilate everything within its 7.5-acre blast spread. Used since at least World War II because of their low-tech efficiency and flexibility—and now banned by 123 countries—they can be launched […]
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Prospect of an Unlikely Trump-RFK Ticket Remains a Hot Topic
By Alice Giordano As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. draws unusual bipartisan support in the race for the White House, there is a swell of sentiment that he should be former President Donald Trump’s running mate. “They would be an unstoppable duo,” Carla Gericke, both a Republican and Libertarian out of New Hampshire, told The Epoch […]
