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Second coming of DOGE

President Trump has signed an executive order creating a task force to crackdown on fraud in government programs. It will be headed by Vice president JD Vance. This is the administration’s second effort to reduce government misspending and overspending following Elon Musk’s effort as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. As we approach another April 15 with a $38 trillion debt (and counting) addressing fraud is something that ought to be a bipartisan goal. The fact that it hasn’t been a priority for politicians is largely because, I suspect, it isn’t their ...

MLB partners with Polymarket, makes integrity pact with federal commission on prediction markets

(AP) — Major League Baseball is entering an official partnership with Polymarket and has an agreement with the federal commission overseeing prediction markets to collaborate on integrity concerns. MLB said in a statement Thursday it has a memorandum of understanding with Michael S. Selig, the chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to “further protect the integrity of baseball by ensuring swift response to incidents and anticipating emerging trends more strongly.” Prediction markets have raised concerns from sports leagues already working to combat issues around ...

Brent crude tops $119 per barrel; stocks sink

NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices climbed again Thursday because of the war with Iran, tightening their grip on the global economy and sending stock markets lower around the world. Brent crude, the international standard, briefly rose above $119 per barrel in the morning before pulling back to $110.90, which is still a 3.2% rise from the prior day. A barrel of benchmark U.S. crude added 2.2% to $98.40 after Iran intensified its attacks on oil and gas facilities around the Persian Gulf in response to an Israeli attack on an important Iranian natural gas field. The attacks added to fears ...

Will US troops be deployed to seize uranium?

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is facing perhaps the most daunting question of the war with Iran, one that could define his time in office: Will he put U.S. troops on the ground in Iran to secure some 970 pounds of enriched uranium that Tehran could potentially use to build nuclear weapons? Trump has offered shifting reasons for launching the war, but he has been consistent in articulating that a primary objective in joining Israel in the military action is ensuring that Iran will “never have a nuclear weapon.” The president has been more circumspect about how far ...

DOJ investigation into Powell could backfire on Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has for months wanted to remove Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve. But instead, an investigation by one of his own officials could end up extending Powell’s time at the top of the central bank even after his term formally ends May 15. Trump has nominated former Fed official Kevin Warsh to succeed Powell. Yet Warsh’s confirmation has been delayed by a Justice Department investigation into brief comments Powell made before the Senate Banking Committee last June about the Fed’s building renovation. Sen. Thom Tillis, a North ...

States seek to unmask federal immigration agents

(AP) — Proposals to prohibit federal immigration agents from masking their faces have gained new life in states — thanks in part to a court ruling that blocked the nation’s first such law, in California. A little over a month after the California law was suspended, Washington state’s Democratic governor, Bob Ferguson, signed a new law Thursday limiting facial coverings on law enforcement officers. It took effect immediately and could soon spread to other states. Similar anti-masking bills won final approval earlier this month from Democratic-led legislatures in Oregon and ...