Snippet of Article: "...Federal retirees are facing delays in retirement processing as the backlog swells to end 2025, triple the amount from last year. ...OPM currently has about 48,396 applications awaiting final processing, compared to just 13,844 at the end of November 2024. ...OPM says that 92 percent of the 317,000 departures in the federal workforce so far in 2025 were voluntary. ..."
Source: www.fedmanager.comSnippet of Article: "...New York men were arrested Monday morning after Central Berks Regional police said they fled from the St. Lawrence post office in a car with trash bags full of stolen mail along with a master key to post office drop boxes.
Among the other items found in the car was an altered or “washed” check — the original is believed to have been stolen from a Reading-area mail drop box — belonging to a Catholic parish and made payable to an individual for nearly $14,000, police said.
Police said the driver of the vehicle, Joshua Ramos, 23, ran after causing a multivehicle crash..."
Snippet of Article: "...Biloxi Police Department identified the suspect as 33-year-old Camille Benson, of Texas, who was charged with attempted mayhem, the local station said. She is currently in jail with a bond set at $100,000..."The health and safety of our customers is always a top priority," a Walmart spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. "We have removed and thoroughly inspected all potentially affected products at impacted stores in Biloxi. "
Source: www.foxnews.comOpen Season is Closed and Obamacare Huge Taxpayer Funded Subsidies Expire as House and Senate Bills Fail.
Snippet of Article: "...subsidies that expire Dec. 31...Johnson said members worked on a potential amendment through the weekend, and while “everybody was at the table in good faith,” and “agreement wasn’t made.”...the House GOP health care bill — dubbed the “Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act” — that includes funds to pay for “cost-sharing reductions,” reforms to the pharmacy benefit manager industry, and expansion of association health plans."...
Source: thehill.comSnippet of Article: "...“Where did this actually start?” Nagel said, Townhall reported. “She passed legislation. Her legislation actually started it, and it allowed people to get into Feeding Our Future.” Nagel pointed to the geographic concentration of the fraud. ...Omar introduced the Maintaining Essential Access to Lunch for Students Act, known as the MEALS Act...“This has nothing to do with racism. Somali immigrants stole more than $1 billion and counting from the American taxpayers. Again, proven. That should make every single American’s blood boil,” he added."
Source: conservativebrief.comSnippet of Article: "...review into "serious allegations of misconduct" against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), following his role in a controversial video reminding troops they can disobey orders from their superiors that they feel are "unlawful"—a move the Trump administration slams as undermining military discipline. ..."
Source: redstate.comSnippet of Article: "Taylor Sheridan took a crack at The View in its latest episode, “The Pirate Dinner.”... Sam Elliott‘s T.L. ...T.L. asks, “What’s The View?”...Tommy sums up The View as a “bunch of pissed off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires and Trump and men and you and me and everybody else they got a bee up their ass about.”
“It’s pretty funny,” he says."
Snippet of Article: "...The American Federation of Government Employees will move ahead with a reduction in force that could cut its 355 employees to approximately 150, eliminating organizers, national representatives, support staff and others.
The layoffs will weaken a leading opponent to Trump's dramatic reshaping of the federal government. ..."
Snippet of Article: "...A Wisconsin judge will go on trial on Monday on charges of helping a migrant appearing in her courtroom evade an immigration arrest, a case that will test President Donald Trump’s efforts to punish alleged obstructions of his mass deportation efforts. Opening statements are scheduled on Monday as Hannah Dugan, an elected judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, faces federal charges accusing her of concealing a person from arrest and obstructing federal proceedings. ..."
Source: www.reuters.comSnippet of Article: "...warrants were executed at a property in Campsie and another property in Bonnyrigg. He added that their residential address was in Bonnyrigg, though they were staying in Campsie. ...improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were also found at the scene of one of the homes where search warrants were executed. "
Source: www.foxnews.comSnippet of Article: "...Trump deployed the California National Guard troops to Los Angeles in June against the wishes of Newsom, sparking a monthslong battle in the courts. ..."
Source: www.usatoday.comSnippet of Article: "...An ISIS gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, killing two Iowa National Guard soldiers and an American civilian translator, the official said.
Three additional U.S. soldiers were wounded in the attack. ...Preliminary information suggests the attacker was once affiliated with the Syrian government forces and had been a low-level member of the Syrian Security Forces..."
Snippet of Article: "Treasury Secretary Bessent says retroactive tax provisions in OBBBA will boost refund season. ...American households will see "very large refunds" in the tax filing season early next year following policy changes under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). ...a broader push by the Trump administration to emphasize its efforts to improve the affordability of life for Americans, with tax relief under the OBBBA a key focus. ..."
Source: www.foxbusiness.comSnippet of Article: "...The number of people committing tax fraud jumped by 112 percent from fiscal year 2024, according to a new IRS report.
The IRS Criminal Investigation released its fiscal year 2025 report. ..."
Snippet of Article: "...California has been caught red‑handed, leading the nation in unlawfully issuing commercial driver’s licenses to foreign nationals, with federal regulators blasting Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration for putting politics above public safety and fueling deadly crashes on America’s highways.
California has become ground zero in America’s trucking scandal, with Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration accused of rubber‑stamping thousands of illegal commercial driver’s licenses for foreign nationals in defiance of federal law. ..."
Snippet of Article: "...Lanyon says police located a vehicle in Campbell Parade in Bondi, which they believe has "several improvised explosive devices". Lanyon says a rescue bomb disposal unit is there at the moment working on the vehicle. As we just reported, Lanyon says that the explosive device in the car is "linked to the deceased offender". ...Police say they were aware of one of the suspects..."
Source: www.bbc.comSnippet of Article: "...shooting at Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Saturday afternoon, officials said. The suspect remains at large.
Authorities are searching for a suspect described as "a male dressed in black...Brown authorities said local police advice to shelter in place has ended for the entire campus [NPR]..."
Snippet of Article: "...department isn’t sharing the names of employees receiving these promotions or those who recommended them. ...the State Department eliminated an employee’s contributions to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) goals from the criteria for promotion within the Foreign Service. "
Source: federalnewsnetwork.comSnippet of Article: "...Mamdani is a textbook socialist. He comes from a well-to-do family and has never had a real job, with the possible exception of State Assemblyman. He has lots of grandiose socialist ideas in mind, but no idea how to pay for them. But as he gets closer to the Mayor's Office, the people who helped get him there are afraid he is going to go squishy on them and their causes after Inauguration Day on January 1. ..."
Source: redstate.comSnippet of Article: "...causing over $1.2 billion of false and fraudulent claims to be submitted to Medicare and other health insurance programs for medically unnecessary wound grafts that were ordered as a result of illegal kickbacks and applied to elderly and terminally ill patients. ..."
Source: townhall.comSnippet of Article: "Senate Republican outlines potential charges, including marriage fraud and tax violations...Cruz argued that Omar could have committed federal marriage fraud, which stipulates that it is a felony to knowingly enter into a marriage to evade immigration laws, and could lead to up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and deportation.
Omar was born in Somalia and came to the U.S. in 1995 after her family was granted asylum. She became a citizen in 2000. Omar, who is Muslim, has been married legally three times..."
Snippet of Article: "Ohio attorney Mehek Cooke says that the same sort of theft of public funding seen in Minnesota has been occurring in the Buckeye State...Cooke also accuses Ohio doctors of “rubber stamping” the fraud by failing to do any due diligence on those who are filing for aid.
“They’re just rubberstamping a lot of these...Somali scammers in Ohio are exploiting a loophole in the state’s Medicaid program that has doled out as much as $91,000 a year per individual..."