Watchdogs
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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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Navy infecting 'at-risk' monkeys with lethal pathogens after CDC ordered to stop: watchdog
"The Navy lab spent another $200,000 to buy more monkeys as recently as August 2025," months before RFK Jr. reportedly authorized deputy to end CDC monkey research, White Coat Waste Project investigation finds.
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Youth gender medicine report commissioned by HHS still finds harm after peer review, names authors
Final version, written mostly by "liberals," makes small changes and answers critics including American Psychiatric Association. "It is fair to say that their work has withstood scrutiny," Washington Post editorial board says.
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The cost of transparency: District demands six figures to provide anti-Kirk teacher's curriculum
Rhode Island school district acted quickly to get Benjamin Fillo out of the classroom, investigate his social media conduct, but blames technical limitations and legal obligations for $116,000 cost estimate to parent-activist.
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Emails show evidence gender transition providers for kids hid what they do, misled journalists
University of California San Francisco floats idea of suing Tucker Carlson before he reports anything after asking about its genital surgeries on minors, hides 9-year-old on puberty blockers in correcting New York Times on 8-year-old.
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‘Transgender ideology' violence plan pushes FBI to fight 'eliminationist' rhetoric like against Jews
The FBI's proposed domestic-terrorism category, "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violence and Extremism," would build on frameworks for radical Islam, antisemitism, Oversight Project says. Transgender motivation in examples is muddled.
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Intel watchdog ignored Russiagate whistleblower’s reports of abuses by spy agencies, new memo shows
The treatment of the reports contrasts with the watchdog’s handling of the whistleblower complaint that spurred the 2019 impeachment of President Trump.
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Judicial Watch receives partial manifesto of Nashville transgender shooter Audrey Hale
Judicial Watch claimed the new pages, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, detailed Hale's "violent thoughts, the targeting and planning of the shooting attack on The Covenant School, and transgender-related obsessions."
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Watchdog files misconduct complaint against Biden’s doctor over cancer diagnosis
The group argues the former president’s doctor erred by either failing to administer a cancer test while Biden was in office or by leaving the diagnosis out of his official report.
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Watchdog finds Border Patrol failed to screen possible terror-linked aliens, lacks a uniform policy
The finding comes after suspected terrorists from a sensitive region were arrested last year after successfully crossing the border. The Inspector General overseeing DHS repeatedly warned of failures to vet Afghan refugees, but the Biden administration ignored him.
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Senate panel probes whether federal scientist destroyed COVID records sought by Congress
Senate panel is trying to determine why the feds delayed telling doctors for months about heart-inflammation risks from COVID vaccines.