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The General Services Administration (GSA) has uncovered more than $13 billion in suspected fraud involving federal contractors. snip The review covers COVID-19 spending, the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program, contractor eligibility, bid rigging, cybersecurity-related false claims, bribery, and other potential contractor misconduct. The GSA cited two cases to show how procurement fraud affects taxpayers and legitimate federal contractors. One involved $73 million in suspected fraud tied to federal contracts reserved for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses and other eligible small businesses. Broadway Electric Inc., Cornerstone Contracting Inc., CEO John Oehler, and President Christian Blake agreed to pay $21.3 million to resolve...

A ground crew worker at Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport has died after reportedly being struck by an aircraft on the tarmac Monday evening. The flight, operated by French bee, collided with the man while backing up on a runway at around 7:30 p.m., just before its scheduled takeoff to Paris. The man, later identified as 39-year-old Oscar Robayo, was hospitalized with serious injuries. In an update, officials said the injuries were life-threatening. “The employee, acting as a wing walker, fell directly in front of the aircraft’s nose gear,” Breaking Aviation News & Videos wrote. “The aircraft, stranded due to...

The U.S. government is working at full speed to reindustrialize the country. With tax cuts, deregulation, and hard-nosed tariff policy, German companies are also being persuaded to engage in the United States. And when persuasion is not enough, U.S. investors go shopping. For the left and the German media mainstream, Elon Musk is the proverbial “Lord, help us.” An entrepreneur who takes a political stand. For many Germans, the free world ends right there, especially since the voices of entrepreneurs have largely disappeared from public view as soon as things become politically uncomfortable. Despite all the disputes, Elon Musk still...

Hundreds of tourists, including 12 Britons and three Americans, are missing after devastating floods and mudslides swept away buildings and bridges along the Nepal-Tibet border. Houses and roads were swept away in Nepal while officials in China-controlled Tibet said they feared 'major casualties' with some missing in the county of ​Gyirong after a mudslide hit a land crossing between the neighbours this morning. Authorities have so far found the bodies of 31 people following the natural disaster, amid fears that many more will be found as search and rescue operations get underway. Terrifying footage shows a tsunami wave of flood...

An (Black) enraged Amazon delivery driver was filmed punching an elderly (white) man at a gas station after the pair clashed over a parking spot. New surveillance footage released by Elk Grove police shows suspect Terrence Wheeler, 30, allegedly striking a 71-year-old man in the head at an Arco gas station in Northern California back in March. Shocking video showed an irate Wheeler following the elderly man into the store before confronting and shouting at him. As the elderly man strolled past, Wheeler is seen winding up before allegedly slugging him in the head. Wheeler's punch was so forceful that...

13 US servicemen and women were killed on August 26, 2021 by a suicide bomber during Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. – Fox-Grok image =========================================================================================== Today is the five-year anniversary of the Kabul Airport bombing attack that killed 13 US servicemen and women and over 170 civilians. The 13 U.S. service members killed in the ISIS-K suicide bombing at Abbey Gate (Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul) on August 26, 2021, were 11 Marines, one Navy hospital corpsman, and one Army soldier. They are: * Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover (also listed as Darin Taylor Hoover), 31, of...

People need meaning in their lives, and the decline in faith and uptick in socialism mark a very dangerous shift in that search. The West is losing faith in God, individual responsibility, and the institutions that restrain our worst tendencies. In their place, an increasingly secular culture is bending the knee toward collectivist ideas. Collectivism falsely promises to solve problems that neither human beings nor traditional institutions have. In doing so, it completely forgoes history’s lessons. As a belief in God declines, people are not abandoning a desire to believe in something larger than themselves; instead, they are looking to...

Three officials within the U.S. Secret Service’s communications office – including the agency’s top spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi – have been removed from their posts and stripped of their security clearances as investigators examine how classified or sensitive information reached the press, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The three were escorted from Secret Service headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Monday and formally designated “do not admit,” meaning they are barred from entering agency facilities, two sources told RealClearPolitics, which first reported on the suspensions. One of those sources said both the FBI and CIA are participating in the...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (8/26/26)[Prayer]PersonalitiesPsalm 4Psalm 4[a] For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David.1 Answer me when I call to you, my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; have mercy on me and hear my prayer. 2 How long will you people turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods[b]?[c] 3 Know that the Lord has set apart his faithful servant for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him. 4 Tremble and[d] do not sin; when you are on your beds, search...

This video explores Terafab, a massive semiconductor manufacturing project initiated by Elon Musk and his companies (Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI) in Texas (0:00). The project aims to establish a vertical integration strategy for chip production, moving from the current outsourced model to in-house manufacturing. Key aspects of the project include: Extreme Scale: The facility is designed to produce 1 terawatt of AI compute annually (0:23), potentially requiring the equivalent of 25 standard semiconductor fabs and hundreds of EUV lithography machines (4:29-4:40). Strategic Motivation: The project is driven by massive, unmet demand for advanced AI chips in Tesla’s autonomous vehicles and...

The sad news today is that country music legend Dolly Parton has died. I admit that I’m not particularly a fan of country music. It’s not that I don’t like it; I just devote my time to other things. But everybody knew about Dolly Parton, and as far as I can tell there isn’t anyone who did not like and admire her. Mary Katherine Ham summarizes the reaction in a tweet this afternoon: A year of mourning for one of the only people we all agreed on. So sad. What a lady and what a life.Parton lived a life of...

Five years ago today, a suicide bomber killed 13 Marines and 170 civilians in an attack on Kabul airport that came to symbolize the chaotic and ill-conceived withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. But the Abbey Gate bombing was only one part of the heavily flawed August 2021 evacuation. Afghan forces turned their weapons on civilians during the chaos, and local allies who had worked with US forces for decades were left to be slaughtered by the Taliban, according to “The Path to Zero,” a hard-hitting Wall Street Journal documentary out today. The feature is bookended by choppy bodycam footage...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 people in July, the highest single monthly arrest total during the second Trump administration, according to new figures. ...

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s family invested millions of dollars in an energy company positioned to profit from the artificial intelligence industry’s surging demand for electricity, according to a congressional financial disclosure. Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, purchased 15,000 shares of Bloom Energy and 200 call options through accounts he owns, according to a transaction report Nancy Pelosi signed Aug. 21, Barron’s reported. The San Jose, California-based company manufactures fuel-cell systems capable of supplying on-site electricity to data centers and other power-hungry facilities. The disclosure lists a July 24 purchase of 10,000 Bloom shares valued between $1 million and $5 million,...

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) announced Tuesday that Florida state Sen. Bryan Avila (R) will be his running mate in the Sunshine State’s gubernatorial race. Donalds, who won the GOP primary last week, praised Avila as a “proven warrior” and “conservative fighter.” Avila, the former speaker pro tempore of the Florida House, has represented the state’s 39th Senate District since November 2022. “He has fought woke ideology, he’s fought higher taxes, he’s fought higher costs every single day, and I could not be more prouder to have him stand by my side,” Donalds said at an event at the Freedom Tower...

Every single damn time. I have spent a lot of time studying Islamic infrastructure in America and much of it was built by foreign doctors from Pakistan, Iraq and Abdul El-Sayed’s native Egypt who somehow built fortunes by exploiting our health insurance system. Scratch one of these operations and you find certain tells, multiple business names, companies spun off from the practices that contrive to milk Medicare and Medicaid, and focus on lucrative practice areas with populations that are elderly, young or in some way vulnerable. Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was largely built by ‘doctors’ and ‘engineers’ who joined the secret...

The vast Lambeth Palace Library is bleak from the outside: a blank wall facing the Thames opposite Westminster. I still feel that it has a disappointing façade. But inside it is a feast from across several centuries: books, documents, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, and useful research papers. It is staffed by well-informed and interested librarians. There is a small, cozy common room where one can brew tea and store snacks. And it is a proper library, run with traditional rules: in the reading room, there is no chatting and no eating, and they make you rest a book on a cushion...

Driven by the decline of “third spaces” such as youth centres and pubs, an increase in remote working and rising loneliness – 40% of adults aged 16 to 29 feel lonely “always, often or some of the time”, – paid social events are now in vogue. “There hasn’t been anything that feels authentic to helping people meet people,” “The first place people in their 20s and 30s turn to when trying to make friends is Facebook groups, But they’ve ended up becoming a noticeboard for people who’ve, say, lost their dog or want to sell their bed.” Into this gap...

The Muslim Brotherhood has built an extensive network of organizations, financial structures, and influence operations across Canada while maintaining a carefully managed public image, a new report warns, raising concerns over the transnational Islamist organization’s growing reach into politics, civil society, and academia. The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), a US-based research organization focused on antisemitism, extremism, and ideological movements, released a new report on Monday examining Muslim Brotherhood-aligned networks and their growing influence across Canadian politics, civil society, and higher education. Founded in Egypt in 1928 by schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood seeks...