Author: Gabe Kaminsky

The Biden administration worked successfully to pressure the fact-checking website Snopes to change its accuracy rating for whether a federal gas stoves ban was under consideration, a watchdog said based on internal emails. Republican lawmakers raised concerns after commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. of the Consumer Product Safety Commission proposed the idea in 2022 of a…

The Biden administration is set to spend between $70,000 and $100,000 on a little-known program teaching religious leaders in Pakistan how to fight climate change, federal funding documents show. The taxpayer-backed initiative is through the State Department and is expected to begin in October 2024 for at least one year, according to the records. It…

EXCLUSIVE — The State Department was “recommended” by the Department of Homeland Security to contact a group it later partnered with on pressuring social media platforms to suppress speech from conservatives before the 2020 election, emails show. On Oct. 14, 2020, hours after the New York Post published a story based on Hunter Biden’s abandoned…

Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb is no longer investigating Arabella Advisors, the $1 billion left-wing dark money network sharing connections to his office, according to a lawyer for Arabella’s funds. The investigation’s end comes months after Schwalb, a Democrat, issued subpoenas last year to Arabella Advisors and the consulting firm’s offshoot nonprofit organizations, which…

A founding member of a powerful network of wealthy Democratic donors that has included George Soros and environmental activist Tom Steyer is sounding the alarm over how the group contributed to “the decline of democracy” and “mounting gridlock and toxic partisanship.” The Democracy Alliance has long kept its operations largely secret as it works to…

A Democratic operative behind a network of left-wing websites often referred to as peddling “fake news” and masquerading as independent is a frequent visitor to President Joe Biden’s White House, records show. Tara McGowan, founder and publisher of Courier Newsroom, which is armed with funding from left-wing billionaires such as George Soros and Reid Hoffman,…

A top Biden administration official shares ties to an anti-Israel think tank that is facing a congressional investigation and was advised by an embattled federal judicial nominee. Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, the officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of Homeland Security, was a faculty affiliate in 2023 at the Rutgers Law School…

EXCLUSIVE — The Biden administration is being accused in court of withholding internal records pertaining to a top Palestinian agency’s widely mocked social media post last year that urged Israel not to retaliate against Hamas, according to a complaint. The State Department-housed Office of Palestinian Affairs came under widespread scrutiny for asking “all sides to…

EXCLUSIVE — A coalition of organizations supporting Israel is requesting the Justice Department prosecute an influential college campus group over its “nationwide campaign of violently harassing, intimidating and silencing” Jewish students, according to a letter. The letter, a copy of which was first obtained by the Washington Examiner, was sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland…

A freshman Democratic congressman has raked in tens of thousands of dollars from political action committees tied to corporations despite pledging to refuse corporate cash, records show. Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) vowed on the campaign trail in 2022 “never to take a dime of corporate PAC money.” “We need to ensure our government is focused…