State Department’s Global Engagement Center — accused of pushing censorship to combat online ‘disinformation’ — shuts down
The State Department's controversial Global Engagement Center (GEC) was shut down this week after members of Congress voted not to reauthorize it in a spending bill to keep the government functioning. . “The Global Engagement Center has closed on December 23, 2024,” a message on the agency's website said. The GEC comes after journalist Matt […]
State Department’s ‘Global Engagement Center’ accused of censoring Americans shuts its doors
The State Department's Foreign Disinformation Center, which has been accused by conservatives of censoring American citizens, was shut down this week, citing lack of funding. Elon Musk has labeled the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which he founded in 2016, as “the worst offender in U.S. government censorship and media manipulation,” and said its funding is […]
Spending Bill Subsidizes State Department’s Conservative Censorship Slush Fund
The government funding bill includes a one-year extension of the State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC), which funds organizations that censor conservative media such as Breitbart News. Provisions extending funding for the program are included on page 139 of a 1,537-page continuing resolution released Tuesday night, hours before the House votes on the short-term spending […]
SEC athletic departments following diversity missions even as DEI offices are eliminated
Many SEC schools have closed their DEI offices in recent years. The University of Texas, which will play in the SEC Championship Game against Georgia on Saturday, is based in a state with a law outlawing DEI. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the law in January, closing DEI offices at all universities in the state. […]
Illinois cop Allan Reddins killed by violent career criminal — marking department’s first on-duty death in 86 years: police
On Friday, an Illinois State Police detective was shot and killed by a violent career criminal, marking the first on-duty death in the sleepy village of Oak Park in 86 years. Oak Park Police Detective Alan Reddins, 40, responded with other officers to a call about an armed man coming out of a bank where […]
Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments | NHS
Emergency doctors are sounding the alarm that a winter crisis is approaching, putting patients in already overburdened emergency departments at risk. A Snapshot survey of 83 emergency department doctors from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) found that almost all doctors (94%) agree that conditions in A&E departments across the UK cause patients to […]
Trump Has Legal and Historical Authority to Direct Justice Department’s Agenda
Mark Paoletta said Thursday that the president is responsible for overseeing and directing the operations of the Department of Justice (DOJ), and has historically done so. Paoletta, a former Trump administration official and senior fellow at the Center for American Renewal, responded to comments by a CNN personality on election night, saying that left-wingers say […]
Kennedy Jr. Says He Would Clear Out Entire Departments at the FDA
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an interview Wednesday that he would wipe out “an entire division” of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to preview his plans for the incoming Trump administration. “There are whole divisions like the nutrition division of the FDA that have to go and are not doing their jobs,” he […]
RFK Jr. wants to clear out ‘entire departments’ in the FDA: ‘They have to go’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested that the second Trump administration could eliminate entire departments within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) due to “corruption.” The former independent presidential candidate spoke on MSNBC Wednesday about President-elect Donald Trump's 2024 election victory. Kennedy, who has been a key figure in the Trump campaign since endorsing President […]
‘Not Doing Their Job’: RFK Jr. Says ‘Entire Departments’ At FDA Could Get The Ax
Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that “entire departments” at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are failing to protect children and those departments could be cut. . Kennedy suspended his presidential campaign on August 23 and endorsed former President and now President-elect Donald Trump. President Kennedy said he would target […]