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The woman behind the massive Minnesota pandemic fraud scandal was sentenced on Thursday to 41.5 years in prison — the longest sentence out of 60 people found guilty so far in connection with the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. Former Feeding Our Future Executive Director Aimee Bock, 45, was accused of being at the center of a scheme to steal nearly $250 million in pandemic-era federal funds meant to pay for a meals program for children, Axios Twin Cities reported. The case, which has become the nation’s largest pandemic fraud case, put the administration of Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) in the…
Most regional leaders have voiced solidarity with the island, while some fear they could be next in Washington’s crosshairs Fears of a US military operation against Cuba – or an outright invasion – have escalated after Washington indicted former Cuban leader Raul Castro, as the US continues to choke the island with an economic blockade.What’s going on around Cuba?On Wednesday, the Justice Department accused the 94-year-old Castro of ordering the 1996 shootdown of two American planes off Cuba’s coast, which killed four anti-Communist activists.Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants who has never concealed his…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday called on the government of Iraq to investigate the drone attack launched against the Barakah nuclear power plant from Iraqi soil and to take all necessary steps to prevent Iranian proxies from using Iraq as the launch pad for further terrorist attacks. Barakah is the only operational nuclear power plant in the Arab world. Constructed with assistance from South Korea at a cost of $20 billion, the first of its four power units came online in 2020. Four units are now operational, supplying about a quarter of the electrical power for the Emirates.…
The Senate is heading home until June without finishing a reconciliation bill, after Republican tensions over the package coincided with President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman posted on X: “BREAKING NEWS: THE SENATE will go home until June, leaving the reconciliation bill unfinished. THUNE just told senators in the room. All because of the DOJ weaponization fund. House is expected to follow suit soon.” Brendan Pedersen, a senior reporter with Punchbowl News, posted on X: “Thune asked if Senate Rs are responding to politics…
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) said that she would like to see a resolution to the Castro regime like what happened in Venezuela but the situation in Cuba isn’t exactly the same “because we’ve got to take into consideration that Raul Castro is 95 years old” and therefore, his family is calling the shots and “I do think that the younger Castros need to be thinking really loud and clear what is it that they’re going to do with their father and themselves. Look what happened with Maduro and his wife. They’re both in…
Thursday on CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said Republican lawmakers are upset President Donald Trump went after “respected senators” Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and John Cornyn (R-TX). Host Kasie Hunt said, “What do you think this anti-weaponization fund, as they are calling it, represents?” Bacon said, “This whole thing smells. You have the president, who is the plaintiff, but he’s also in charge of the defendants. So he’s in a sense negotiating with himself and most people look at that’s not impartial.” Hunt said, “This is something where they seem to be drawing a line. Why this? ” Bacon…
A French public broadcaster sparked widespread condemnation this week after its primetime news programme apparently decided it was necessary to censor classical statues in the background of an interview. A statue sculpted in 1894 by Louis Cosme Demaille was apparently too risqué for France Télévisions flagship France 2 broadcaster. The classical-style sculpture, which depicted a naked couple embracing, was blurred during Tuesday’s instalment of its evening programme “20 Heures”. It came as French constitutional law expert Benjamin Morel was being interviewed in the public garden at Issy-les-Moulineaux square, where the statue is located. The decision made by the programme hosted…
Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) said President Donald Trump should be impeached over the Department of Justice’s so-called anti-weaponization fund. Markey said, “It’s an impeachable offense. What Richard Nixon was impeached for did he did in private, Donald Trump is now doing in public on steroids. This is a complete impeachable offense. That was the very thing our Founding Fathers were concerned about: ensuring that we had a president with checks and balances, not a king who could compromise our government. So this is exactly what the Founding Fathers, what the Constitution was meant to protect…
US-Iran negotiations are framed as a path to peace, yet the terms on the table look more like a setup for a renewed attack than a durable deal The world has entered a holding pattern ahead of what increasingly looks like a second round of confrontation between the United States and Iran. Officially, diplomacy is still alive: public statements continue to reference the possibility of a deal, while intermediaries in Pakistan, Qatar, and Türkiye are attempting to keep both sides engaged in negotiations. But judging by developments over the past several days, it is becoming increasingly clear that this is…
President Donald Trump called to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States as the Energy and Commerce Committee vote on the Sunshine Protection Act. The president issued his call from his Truth Social account on Thursday. “Big Vote today (48-1!) in the Energy and Commerce Committee on a Bill including The Sunshine Protection Act, which will be making Daylight Saving Time Permanent! This is so important in that Hundreds of Millions of Dollars are spent every year by people, Cities, and States, being forced to change their Clocks,” he wrote. “Many of these Clocks are located in Towers, and…