Corruption scandal in Ukraine's leadership amid grinding conflict

In a Jan. 9 post to X, a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolas Maduro gives a chilling account of how just 20 American soldiers with technologically advanced weapons took out hundreds of Venezuelan security forces and then launched what he described as a "sonic" weapon which knocked the Venezuelan troops to the ground and rendered them unable to move.

Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst said she found that Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar earmarked $1 million in a federal spending bill for a "substance abuse clinic" in Minnesota that was anything but legitimate.

There’s a lot of talk nowadays about the U.S. government attacking Mexican drug cartels in Mexico.

The Minnesota fraud scandal isn't an isolated incident, it's systemic in a federal government that has lost the capacity to police itself. When inspectors general get fired for doing their jobs, when whistleblowers are ignored, and when career bureaucrats water down fraud statistics to protect their political interests, the system becomes an open invitation for theft.