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1 week ago | 
readlion.com | Hudson Crozier |Elizabeth Mitchell |Thérèse Boudreaux |Fred Lucas
(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The Trump administration announced it is closing an agency that funded and participated in “censorship” of disfavored viewpoints online. The State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) is shutting down almost a decade after its creation due to “free speech” concerns, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a Wednesday press release.
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1 month ago | 
readlion.com | Hudson Crozier |Virginia Page Allen |John Ransom
(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Hamas has promised to free a New Jersey man it captured during its Oct. 7, 2023 attacks in Israel, the terrorist group said Friday. Hamas said it will release 21-year-old Edan Alexander with the bodies of four deceased hostages as part of a series of prisoner exchanges with Israel, Fox News reported, citing a statement from the organization.
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1 month ago | 
readlion.com | John Ransom |Hailey Gomez |Hudson Crozier
Over 80% of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) programs will be scrapped after tens of billions of dollars were spent in opposition to U.S. interests, said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday.
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1 month ago | 
readlion.com | Hailey Gomez |Hudson Crozier |Mariane Angela |John Ransom
(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The U.S. Defense Department confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation Monday evening that military aid to Ukraine has been halted. All current military aid to Ukraine is paused until President Donald Trump can determine a good-faith commitment to peace from Ukrainian leaders, according to Bloomberg.
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1 month ago | 
readlion.com | Tyler O’Neil |John Ransom |Hudson Crozier |Alan Wooten
(The Daily Signal) – The U.S. Agency for International Development funded a pet tracking app, fashion companies, specialty food companies, and firms making designer furniture, according to records reviewed by Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. “USAID was wasting tax dollars like it was going out of style,” Ernst, who chairs the Senate DOGE Caucus focused on rooting out waste and abuse from the federal government, told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday.
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2 months ago | 
readlion.com | Hudson Crozier |Jillian Schneider |Dave Fidlin
(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A Colorado bill could put doctors, government employees or morticians in jail if they accurately record the sex of deceased people who identified as transgender. The Colorado House is scheduled to hold a hearing on Feb. 25 examining legislation that would make it a crime not to abide by the chosen “gender identity” of deceased individuals on their death certificates.
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2 months ago | 
lifenews.com | Steven Ertelt |Hudson Crozier
Abortion supporters claim a Missouri Republican’s plan to create a registry referring pregnant mothers to adoption resources invades their privacy — even if it’s voluntary. Republican Missouri State Rep. Phil Amato’s “Save MO Babies Act” would create a state database that pregnant women may sign up for in order to match with potential adoptive parents who pass screening processes.
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2 months ago | 
readlion.com | Hudson Crozier |John Ransom
(Daily Caller News Foundation) ‚Äď Federal agencies tasked with giving out foreign aid have allocated more than $27 million for activist groups that also support legal defense efforts for leftist protesters in the U.S.The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded the funds to the left-wing Tides Foundation and Tides Center across several presidencies, federal spending records show.
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2 months ago | 
readlion.com | Hudson Crozier |Jarrett Stepman |Tom Joyce
(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) cancelled an upcoming internship program after outgoing Biden officials removed signs of “diversity” elements, according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The FTA changed the name of its “Diversity in Federal Transit” internship program to “BOOST” sometime in 2024 before President Donald Trump returned to office in January, archived webpages show.
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2 months ago | 
readlion.com | Tyler O’Neil |Hudson Crozier |Cole Lauterbach |Jillian Schneider
(The Daily Signal) – Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, slammed the U.S. Agency for International Development after The Daily Signal highlighted its longstanding partnership with the leftist funding network established by Hungarian American billionaire George Soros. “It is no surprise that the woke leftists running USAID had the same priorities as George Soros and his global NGO network,” Cruz told The Daily Signal in an exclusive statement Tuesday.
