Federal Agencies
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Former FBI employee and sister plead guilty to fraudulent bidding scheme: DOJ
“Evereklian submitted bids from her own companies to the FBI using the names of her relatives to conceal her control over bidding companies, and she used a random number generator to create the fraudulent bids,” the DOJ said.
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ICE arrests Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr., days after Jake Paul match
DHS accused Chavez of being tied to the Sinaloa drug cartel, and claimed Mexico has an active arrest warrant for the illegal migrant for alleged weapons trafficking. Chavez has allegedly been in the country illegally since January.
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Trump administration approves California's disaster funding relief request over Los Angeles riots
SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler accused Newsom of playing politics by delaying his request for assistance.
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HHS finds Maine guilty of Title IX violations for letting males play in girls' sports
Maine Department of Education, Maine Principals’ Association and Greely High School have 10 days to "voluntarily commit" to a resolution or "risk referral" to the Justice Department, HHS says.
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CDC whistleblower on MMR vaccine-autism study gains new attention after Weldon nomination pulled
"Many people feel big Pharma actually feared me more than they feared Bobby because of my credibility and my knowledge of science," says former congressman Dave Weldon, whose CDC nomination was pulled.
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Rubio announces more than 250 gang members deported to El Salvador from U.S.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele wrote "oopsie" and "too late" on X alongside a news article about a federal judge trying to block President Trump from deporting 5 Venezuelans linked to the Tren de Aragua gang.
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Labor secretary says her agency saved taxpayers $30 million working with DOGE
"These program cancellations included $3M for 'transparency and accountability in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry,'" DOGE wrote.
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Still searching for COVID-19 origins five years after ‘Proximal Origin’ paper tried to end debate
More and more evidence points to the Wuhan lab as the origin of COVID-19, but answers are elusive, and a look at the issue without the filter of politics is rarer yet. The new Trump Administration has a chance to get answers about the pandemic five years after it changed the world — and five years after scientists tried to shut the lab leak debate down.
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Illegal border crossings drop to lowest levels in February in U.S. history
In February, 28,654 encounters and apprehensions of illegal border crossers were reported nationwide – a roughly 90% drop from the number reported in previous Februarys under the Biden administration.
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Social Security no longer accepting bank account changes over phone to combat fraud
"All other SSA telephone services remain unchanged," the agency says
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NASA launches rescue mission for stranded astronauts on International Space Station
The stranded astronauts are expected to return to Earth by next weekend.
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ICE nabs over 200 in Virginia
The operation focused on “transnational organized crime, gangs, and egregious illegal alien offenders” in Northern Virginia between March 1 and 13. The arrests included individuals allegedly connected to “notorious MS-13 and 18th Street gangs.”
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ICE arrests second person who allegedly participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia
The arrest follows the one made Saturday on Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate student who last spring helped lead pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protestes at the New York city school.