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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that the Trump administration has received more than 700 tips through a Treasury Department reporting portal as the department announced new steps aimed at uncovering fraud involving Medicare, Medicaid, and other government healthcare programs. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the administration’s anti-fraud push is expanding rapidly, comparing it to “a suitcase in an airport — if you see something, say something.” Bessent said financial institutions are increasingly serving as “the front line in identifying financial fraud,” noting that suspicious activity reports have risen 20 percent under the leadership of President Donald Trump and Vice President…

The US-Israeli war on Iran risks a region-wide freshwater crisis if desalination infrastructure is compromised Kuwait has accused Iran of carrying out a “heinous attack” on one of its combined power and desalination plants on Sunday. Like much of the Middle East, the nation depends heavily on industrial production to meet its freshwater needs.What happened?The purported Iranian strike killed one worker – an Indian national – and caused extensive damage to a service building, according to Fatima Abbas Jawhar Hayat, spokeswoman for Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity, Water, and Renewable Energy.The authorities have not disclosed which facility was struck or whether…

Pakistan held talks in its capital city of Islamabad on Sunday to “de-escalate” the Iran war, but none of the actual participants in the war attended the meeting. Instead, the talks were held between the foreign ministers of Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. The two-day meeting, hosted by Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, was intended to come up with ways to “de-escalate tension and encourage a negotiating process between Iran and the United States to spare the region comprehensive chaos.” Dar said on Sunday that Pakistan still hopes to provide a venue for “meaningful talks” between the U.S., Iran, and…

On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) responded to a question on what Democrats have gotten out of the DHS shutdown by saying that “the ICE issue is certainly prominent in a way that it wasn’t a few months ago. I think that’s part of the reason Secretary Noem got forced out. I think it’s also part of the reason the White House has stepped forward and said they’ll put some things on the table.” Ivey said, “Republicans are feeling heat, too, when they go back home. Their people want to be able to…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has enabled China to corner the market on GLP-1 obesity drugs to the detriment of the safety of Americans, RX Border Defense’s Patsy Writesman told Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle on Thursday during an event on the threat of China. Writesman discussed how the FDA put many Chinese companies that produce GLP-1 drugs on a “Green List,” which means they are “not being detained at the border.” She contended that the government-created loophole to flood the market with obesity drugs creates an environment where Americans have access to drugs that may have been…

Russia’s IT Olympiad wins stem from strong math, free prep clubs, and team-focused training, says Central University educator Russian school teams have topped recent global contests in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, and one of the people behind the effort says the formula blends strong math, early training, and disciplined preparation. Ekaterina Protsko – a member of the councils of international Olympiads in AI and cybersecurity, and head of admissions and the Olympiad track at Russia’s Central University – outlined how the pipeline works.Central University is a STEM-focused university that centers on IT, data science, business analytics and design. Under its…

The Israeli Police forces and Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the highest-ranking Catholic official in the Holy Land, announced jointly on Monday that they had agreed to an arrangement to allow for Catholic ceremonies at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during Holy Week. Israeli authorities banned Cardinal Pizzaballa from conducting Mass at the church on Sunday – Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week marking the arrival of Jesus to Jerusalem shortly before his crucifixion. The Israeli government had banned mass religious ceremonies at the holy sites of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity in the Old City of Jerusalem in response…

Russia has agreed to extend a contract on gas supplies to Serbia, according to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to extend the gas supply contract with Serbia amid the worsening global energy crisis due to the war in the Middle East, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has announced after his phone call to Putin on Monday.The US-Israeli attack on Iran has sent global gas and oil prices skyrocketing as shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime chokepoint, have dwindled to a trickle in recent weeks.Serbia, which has historically maintained close ties with Russia, has…

A group of gunmen in Mexico fired into a bar in the popular beach resort city of Cancun, injuring five people. The shooting comes just days after a similar shooting in Playa Del Carmen, another popular tourist destination. The shooting took place on Monday, early morning, at a bar called Fusion in the northwest part of Cancun. According to the local news outlet Noticaribe, the gunmen approached the bar and began firing inside. There were only 10 people inside at the time of the shooting. The gunmen managed to escape before authorities arrived. Local police and paramedics tended to five…

You would think that during March Madness, the CBS pre-game show would have enough basketball to talk about that they wouldn’t need to swerve into immigration policy, but you would be wrong. On Sunday, after airing a feature on UCONN star Alex Karaban, a first-generation American of Belarusian immigrants, former NBA great Charles Barkley took that opportunity to launch into a diatribe about his perception of how illegal immigrants are treated in America. “I want to be very careful with my words right now, because this is a really touchy subject for me,” Barkley started by saying. “I love that…