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Why hasn’t pandemic aid fraud become a bigger scandal?

The United States government’s historic spending on pandemic aid in 2020 and 2021 was accompanied by a historic amount of fraud and theft, with potentially hundreds of billions of dollars stolen. Yet despite much excellent investigative reporting into Covid relief…

In Venezuela, Maduro-like Christmas toy stirs controversy

CARACAS, Venezuela — Every year, Venezuela’s socialist government hands out thousands of Christmas presents to the nation’s poorest children, including bicycles, Barbie dolls and plastic trucks imported from China. This holiday season, officials added a new item to their list:…

Netanyahu government: West Bank settlements top priority

JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu’s incoming hard-line Israeli government put West Bank settlement expansion at the top of its priority list on Wednesday, vowing to legalize dozens of illegally built outposts and annex the occupied territory as part of its coalition…