Author: Robert Schmad
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States turn to China-friendly investment firms to manage public pension funds
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Mississippi and Connecticut retain investment advisers friendly to Chinese military-linked holdings to manage international assets in their public pension funds, public records show. The exact holdings of public pension funds are not always disclosed. In…
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Top IRS division appears packed with anti-Trump officials
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save EXCLUSIVE — Top officials in a key division of the IRS appear to have a strong bias against President Donald Trump, with some officials going so far as to boost content accusing the president of treason…
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Anti-ICE group funded by CCP-linked sources
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Chinese-American Planning Council, which coached illegal immigrants on how to evade authorities, has received up to $445,969 in funding from sources linked to the Chinese government since 2018, according to records reviewed by the Daily Caller News…
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Conservative media targeted by Qatari foreign influence operations
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, foreign agents working on behalf of the Qatari government appear to have shifted their focus to right-wing media, fueling speculation that the terror-linked Gulf state is…
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Publicly defiant, elite universities privately line up to hire lobbyists close to Trump
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Five elite universities that have publicly criticized President Donald Trump are paying top-tier MAGA-friendly lobbyists to butter up the White House privately, federal lobbying disclosures show. Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, Northwestern University, the University…
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JFK files provide inside look at CIA’s shadowy Cold War history
In May 1958, the CIA’s Far East Division hatched a plan: recruit an attractive white woman to extract information from the president of Indonesia by engaging in an “intimate relationship” with him. The operation was dubbed Project Harpstar. The plan ultimately fell through but it, alongside the tens of thousands of pages of other previously…
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Politically-connected Somali nonprofit group pulled in taxpayer dollars after mishandling millions
As COVID-19 roared on in October 2020, Somali community leaders in Columbus, Ohio, formed a small nonprofit organization aimed at assisting their community through the pandemic. Two years later, it managed to secure well over $2 million from the Biden administration to assist in the distribution of relief funding, a mission that an unreported independent…
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How ActBlue makes money off disruptive protest politics
The Democratic Party’s premier fundraising machine faces an uncertain future amid investigations, staff departures, and political headwinds. ActBlue stands accused by Republicans of illegally collecting money for Democrats during the 2024 election by using deceptive methods. But its brushes with controversy go back further than the last cycle, and its next chapter could be consequential…
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Newsom says he never supported anti-police ‘lunacy.’ Grant records tell a different story
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) denounced the anti-police movement of 2020 as “lunacy” in a March 6 podcast interview with conservative activist Charlie Kirk. A Washington Examiner review of California grant records, however, found that Newsom’s administration was actively funding millions of dollars in grants intended to reduce the use of police officers at the time…
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Chaos and fraud: A look at the allegations facing ActBlue
The Democratic Party’s premier fundraising machine is facing an uncertain future amid investigations, staff departures, and political headwinds. ActBlue stands accused by Republicans of illegally collecting money for Democrats during the 2024 election by using deceptive methods. But its brushes with controversy go back further than the last cycle. And its next chapter could be…




