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Biden Admin Quietly Spent $15 Mil To Distribute ‘Contraceptives and Condoms’ in Afghanistan—and Said Doing So Would Take ‘Some Coordination’ With Taliban

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The Biden administration quietly awarded $15 million in taxpayer funds to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to help distribute “oral contraceptives and condoms,” a non-public congressional funding notice reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon shows. In doing so, the administration acknowledged that “some coordination” with the Taliban would be “necessary for programmatic purposes.” The United States Agency for

Colombia tariffs on hold after agreement on deported migrants, White House says

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Washington — President Trump will hold off on imposing steep tariffs on Colombia after the country’s government agreed to accept deported migrants being returned on military planes, the White House said Sunday night. Mr. Trump earlier on Sunday vowed swift and punishing retaliation after the Colombian government over the weekend blocked the arrival of deportation

Colombia to Accept All Deported Illegal Immigrants After Trump Tariff Threat: White House

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The U.S. tariffs and sanctions were fully drafted but not yet signed, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said. The United States has reached an agreement with Colombia, which will now accept all Colombian illegal immigrants being deported by the former country, including those on U.S. military planes, according to the White House. “The Government

7 Charged in America’s Biggest COVID Tax Credit Fraud Scheme

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Defendants allegedly used VPNs and shell companies to abuse public schemes and defraud the government. A group of seven who allegedly sought to steal hundreds of millions of dollars in the “largest COVID-19 tax credit scheme” by falsely claiming pandemic-era benefits were charged on Jan. 22, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). An

Federal Agencies Made Over $161 Billion in Improper Payments Last Year: Watchdog

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An improper payment is one made by the government that ’should not have been made or was made in an incorrect amount,’ according to the watchdog. The U.S. government made billions of dollars worth of improper payments in the most recent fiscal year, with several agencies found to be non-compliant with regulations on the matter,

Trump Shakes Up Mideast Diplomacy With Call To Resettle Gazans in Arab Countries

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JERUSALEM—President Donald Trump declared on Saturday that he wants to resettle residents of the Gaza Strip in Arab countries, shaking up Middle East diplomacy in signature style.  The president told reporters on Air Force One that he had asked King Abdullah II of Jordan in a phone call earlier in the day to “take people”