University of Wisconsin Axes Chief Diversity Officer, Previously Accused of Plagiarism, for Gross Financial Mismanagement

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LaVar Charleston accused of doling out over $200,000 to staff University of Wisconsin-Madison diversity officer LaVar Charleston (wisc.ed) Before he was stripped of his role as the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chief diversity officer, LaVar Charleston had been accused of assaulting a police officer and engaging in a decades-long pattern of research misconduct. Now he can add financial

Judge finds Musk and DOGE’s shutdown of USAID likely unconstitutional

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Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday found that Elon Musk and the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution when they unilaterally acted to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of a group of more than two dozen unnamed current and

‘They’ve Refused To Call a Terrorist a Terrorist’: Voice of America’s Demise Comes After Years of Liberal Training Sessions, Pro-Iran Bias, and Even Russian Propagandists

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When President Donald Trump moved this weekend to dismantle Voice of America, the government-run news network long denounced by conservatives for liberal bias, MSNBC wrote that the move brought an end to “pro-democracy media outlets” countering “authoritarian propaganda” abroad. But VOA’s liberal staffers have not only faced criticism for running a left-wing broadcaster similar to

IRS agents who investigated Hunter Biden promoted by Trump administration

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has promoted two agents with the Internal Revenue Service who said they faced retaliation after blowing the whistle to Congress and speaking out to CBS News about political interference into their investigation of Hunter Biden’s tax crimes.  IRS special agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler were assigned to Bessent’s office as

DOGE Says ‘Major Cleanup’ of Social Security Records Underway

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‘More work still to be done,’ the Department of Government Efficiency states. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has said the Social Security Administration has undertaken a “major cleanup” of its records of individuals aged 120 or more this month. “For the past two weeks, [the Social Security Administration] has begun a major cleanup of