Warner introduces bill to require Senate-confirmed acting DNIs in wake of Pulte controversy

Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced a bill Tuesday that would prevent the President from installing an acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), legislation that focuses on President Trump’s controversial selection to lead the intelligence community. Bill Pulte, who also heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), was involved in tapping… Source link

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Hegseth announces new strike on alleged narco-trafficking boat, killing 4

The United States military conducted another strike Wednesday against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific, killing four “narco-terrorists,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced. Hegseth said the ship was operated by a designated terrorist organization and was passing through a “known narco-trafficking route”. It is not clear which designated terrorist organization the Defense Secretary…

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Student loan borrowers face standard plan changes

Johner Images | Johner Images Royalty-free | Getty Images President Donald Trump‘s “big beautiful bill” overhauled the so-called Standard Repayment Plan for federal student loan borrowers. Next year, millions of current borrowers will have access to the changed program. For new borrowers, it will be one of just two options available to pay back their debt. That…

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Congress finally has a blueprint to stop China’s online scams

Last year, Americans Losses exceed $10 billion Sophisticated online scamming operations operate from Southeast Asia. Last week, the Justice Department $15 billion in Bitcoin seized From a Cambodia-based “forced labor scam complex,” Prince Holding Group. These are not opportunistic internet cons. They are factories of industrial fraud – complex complexes run by China-born international crime…

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