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Can medical professionals work with the Trump Administration and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Department of Health and Human Services without risking their careers, even if articles of faith in public health fail under the evidence? I's an open question after pediatric cardiologist Kirk Milhoan allegedly lost his practice "solely because" he now chairs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization practices (snip.) ACIP Vice Chairman Robert Malone identified Driscoll Children's Hospital in Teas as having removed Milhoan[.]

Explosive new court documents unsealed Tuesday detail the alleged judicial misconduct of the Wisconsin judge presiding over a politically-driven criminal case targeting the attorneys who represented the 2020 Trump campaign in the battleground Badger State. Dane County Circuit Court Judge John Hyland had outside help from a former judge with a "grudge", according to the court filings. (snip) The defendants face decades in prison on the piled-on charges filed by Democrat state Attorney General Josh Kaul nearly four years after the election.

University of California, Berkeley has settled claims that it discriminated against an Israeli professor by denying her a teaching opportunity due to her national origin. According to the Louis Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, which represented Dr. Yael Nativ, an Israeli dance researcher and sociologist, she will receive $60,000 in monetary damages and a personal apology from chancellor Rich Lyons. (snip) UC Berkeley will also invite her to return to campus.

Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego, once a modest diocesan outpost serving the homeless and hungry, ballooned into a neat $80 million juggernaut through an avalanche of government grants. From 2019 to 2023, the organization's revenue more than sextupled (6x), rocketing from $11.5 million to nearly $80 million (snip.) At the epicenter of the surge? Refugee resettlement, with a spotlight on President Joe Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan which spurred an Afghan "refugee" crisis[.]

A Minnesota welfare worker says the state's public benefits system is riddled with loopholes that enable large-scale fraud and frontline staff are often afraid to question suspicious cases for fear of being labeled racist. (snip) "There are loopholes built into these programs," the worker told Alpha News. "And people have learned exactly how to use them." The worker said they came forward because they believe Minnesotans are unaware of the scale -- and the structure -- of the problem. (snip) "The system is built in a way that people learn how to stay on it forever."

Rep. Glenn Grothman says the National Defense Authorization Act passed Wednesday by the House contains a little-noticed weapon to cut federal spending and bureaucracy. The Wisconsin Republican told Just The News the bill now heading to the Senate cuts up to 19% of civilian jobs inside the War Department saving an estimated $30 billion. "It appears as though the Department of Defense is going to step up, and like other departments, begin to lay off some employees who are really not necessary in today's highly technical world," Grothman said.

Miami's mayoral election has been framed as a political earthquake, but those sweeping claims don't hold water. They do, however, evince the ignorance of all too many, across party lines, about the actual power structure in the city, Miami-Dade County, and Florida. (snip) The "nonpartisan" mayor of Miami holds a largely ceremonial role. Real executive authority rests with the city manager, who can only serve with the approval of the five-member city commission. That "nonpartisan" commission currently has a stable 3-2 Republican majority.

Far too often, when bad public policy fails to deliver, the first reflex in Washington is to throw more money at the problem. This reflex has been destroying American health care for years. This pattern is seen clearly in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as millions of Americans learn their premiums will skyrocket in 2026. Washington has long thrown good money after bad -- and the result has been ever-increasing costs for patients and taxpayers. This pattern can also be seen in Medicare Part D. The stand-alone Part D market is now in active collapse.

An immigration think tank is calling for Congress to consider mandating the use of a citizenship verification for voter registration after the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to make the Systemic Alien Verification for Entitlements more user-friendly for state and local election offices. Last week, the DHS settled a case with four states -- Florida, Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio -- to overhaul the citizenship verification system. (Snip) The new settlement requires the federal government to modernize the citizenship verification tools so that every state and territory -- not just the four litigants -- can more easily prevent noncitizens from voting.

There Isn't a single reason to continue giving Democrats the benefit of the doubt on their destructive, anti-American policies, least of all on immigration, yet the New York Times is here this week to do just that. In an unnecessarily long article our Sunday, Times reporter Christopher Flavelle sought to recast the Joe Biden era's catastrophic mess at the Southern border as a matter of misjudgment and political failure rather than what it really was -- deliberate harm inflicted on the nation.

Remember when Governor Gavin Newsom, who has presided over the exponential growth of hundreds of thousands of homeless drug addicts living on California streets, magically cleaned up San Francisco ahead of the arrival of Xi Jinping and the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit . . .? The streets were suddenly shiny clean, devoid of the usual tents and encampments, piles of trash and filth, human excrement, and drug-addled zombies. The sidewalks and many businesses . . . received a world class cleaning. And then once the APEC Summit was over, the homeless drug addicts and their tent camps moved back in.

The National Defense Authorization Act calls for "declassification" and "transparency" related to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, requiring the Trump Administration's spy agencies to release its intelligence related to the Wuhan lab that the coronavirus is suspected of being released from in 2019. . . . It includes a section calling upon the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to work with the heads of all 18 U.S. spy elements to "perform a declassification review of intelligence" related to "the origins of Coronavirus Disease in 2019, and related to "efforts by . . . the People's Republic of China" to cover up the origins of the pandemic.