Watchdogs
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Mexican citizen sentenced for conspiring to import nearly 2,000 kg of cocaine into US
DOJ Assistant Attorney General Andrew Tysen Duva believes this level of Mexican DTO importation is the root of the injection of drugs and violence into American communities.
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Who watches the watchdogs? GAO finds agency that polices Inspectors General breaks its own rules
The ancient Romans asked "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" Inspector General independence and IG firings have been a running accountability fight, and this is the watchdog-over-the-watchdogs failing the timeliness and transparency standards it's supposed to enforce, with Congress not being told.
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Decades of research on transgender procedures for kids riddled with errors: critical review
Biden administration was again found to have politicizing gender-identity research, with emails showing it used speculative "family rejection" theory to justify affirmation mandate in foster care regulation despite scientific pushback
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Bar complaint targets Biden DOJ prosecutor's license for 'illegal conduct' in weaponization report
Days after progressive group targets acting AG Todd Blanche's law license for Kilmar Abrego Garcia prosecution, conservative group targets "hyper-partisan ideologue" behind President Biden's abortion protester prosecutions.
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Southern Poverty Law Center education materials surprisingly common in red states, probe finds
Probe finds vast majority of SPLC resources embedded in state, local and other educational entities are publicly posted on their websites. Smithsonian tells 10-year-olds to fight white privilege.
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Schools use copyright laws to deny parents' access to 'intrusive' surveys; One mom wants to stop it
Parents find themselves in a "jurisdictional shell game" just trying to find out which court will hear their challenges to school districts that invoke copyright law to defeat public records requests, her SCOTUS petition says.
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'Gender affirming care' providers openly advertise their insurance billing fraud: report
Several groups coach gender-confused youth how to deceive insurers, skirt Medicaid restrictions by using the wrong codes for their drugs and procedures, Do No Harm says. DOJ asks appeals courts to reinstate subpoenas on providers.
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Death penalty for free speech? SEC gag orders challenged by its ex-lawyers, First Amendment legend
Courts "repeatedly voided conditions on speech that were not nearly as sweeping, intrusive, and long-lasting," securities group tells SCOTUS. U.S. Chamber compares to death penalty for "defendants who pleaded not guilty or demanded jury trials."
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University of North Carolina vaguely 'retract[s]' threat of punishment for April Fools' Day satire
University still won't clarify whether it ever investigated student-run comedy show, or specify which "portions" of its jawboning statement it's retracting. Student newspaper editors were "browbeaten into submission," FIRE says.
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Labor Department watchdog investigating personal texts secretary's husband, father sent staffers
This is a new angle in the ongoing probe the department watchdog is conducting into Chavez-DeRemer's leadership of the agency sparked by a complaint alleging widespread misconduct.
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'Woke pseudoscience': NIH awards new funding to transgender mice experiments after DOGE cutoff
Funding for UC San Diego study had been reinstated under court order last summer, but budget period ended and NIH was under no legal obligation to issue new award, anti-animal testing watchdog says. FOIA lawsuit filed.
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Trump's science agencies find animal-rights allies amid media attacks, but one remains dogged foe
Long-awaited FDA guidance on "new approach methodologies" for drug development and $150 million NIH commitment draw cheers from RFK Jr. fans at PETA, skepticism from architect of anti-Fauci campaign.
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'Patently absurd': School district demands $1.2M to see contracts before voters consider budget
The taxpayer who asked for the information will have to pay over $440,000 up front just for the district to start compiling it.