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5 days ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko
The Trump administration is quietly assembling a centralized data infrastructure on the American population. To build it, they’ve enlisted Palantir, a powerful data-mining company with deep ties to the intelligence world. Co-founded by Peter Thiel — Trump’s longtime ally and megadonor — Palantir was originally seeded by the CIA to help the government make sense of large, fragmented data sets.
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1 week ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko
A federal judge ruled this week that the Trump administration’s effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil is “unprecedented” and “likely” unconstitutional. Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally signed off on Khalil’s removal, arguing the activist’s presence could harm U.S. foreign policy.
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1 week ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko
Elon Musk is stepping away from his role at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). But the technocratic system he helped construct is only gaining momentum.
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2 weeks ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko
At a Senate hearing meant to review the Department of Homeland Security’s budget, Secretary Kristi Noem delivered something far more revealing: a crash course in how not to interpret the Constitution.
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2 weeks ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), released a bombshell interim report on Wednesday exposing how federal health agencies under the Biden administration suppressed early warnings about heart inflammation linked to mRNA Covid vaccines. In a press release, his office stated:The report, which follows Chairman Johnson’s Jan.
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2 weeks ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko
In a newly published editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine, FDA director Dr. Marty Makary and his chief regulatory official, Dr. Vinay Prasad, outlined what they call a “new,” “evidence-based” Covid vaccine philosophy. The agency proposes a three-tiered regulatory model for future booster approvals.
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2 weeks ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko
FBI Director Kash Patel has quietly shuttered the bureau’s Office of Internal Auditing, a unit responsible for monitoring and improving compliance with surveillance laws. The office had been central to policing the FBI’s use of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), an unconstitutional wiretapping authority set to expire in April 2026 unless Congress acts.
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3 weeks ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko
GD Culture Group, a little-known tech firm with deep ties to China, announced plans to acquire $300 million worth of Bitcoin and $TRUMP — the meme cryptocurrency launched by Donald Trump just days before his inauguration. The company claims the deal will strengthen its balance sheet with “high-performance, scalable digital assets.” But the move isn’t just bold — it’s opaque.
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3 weeks ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko
FBI Director Kashyap “Kash” Patel’s appearance before the Senate last week delivered a gut punch to many Americans who believe Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself. When asked point-blank by Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) whether Epstein had been murdered, Patel offered a flat, unconvincing answer: “I believe he hung himself.”During Thursday’s Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Senator Kennedy posed the question millions have asked since 2019.
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3 weeks ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko
In a sweeping internal reform, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched its first agency-wide deployment of artificial intelligence for drug review. Last Friday, Commissioner Dr. Martin Makary announced that all FDA centers must “aggressively” and “immediately” integrate generative AI by June 30, following the agency’s first pilot review using the technology. “I was blown away by the success of our first AI-assisted scientific review pilot,” Makary said in a statement.
