The U.S. Department of Defense is launching two new task forces to review how the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate was crafted and enforced during the pandemic, Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata announced last week on X. “These task forces will examine the development, implementation, and …

A close associate of Volodymyr Zelensky has been identified as the alleged architect of a “high-level criminal organization,” according to Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), which uncovered a sweeping corruption scheme after raiding 70 businessmen and energy-sector figures. Investigators say roughly $100 million was siphoned from Ukraine’s embattled energy sector, …

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the Trump administration will require millions of low-income Americans to reapply for food stamps as part of a broader effort to curb what it calls widespread “fraud” in the program. In a Thursday interview with Newsmax, Rollins said the goal is to “have everyone reapply …

The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump has launched an investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., over allegations of mortgage fraud, Fox News confirmed. Swalwell responded that he was unsurprised to be targeted by Trump and vowed to continue speaking out while pursuing his lawsuit against the former president. …

Over the past two decades, scientists built a pandemic-preparedness playbook that has failed catastrophically. Born from fears sparked by the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza in 2003 and the swine flu pandemic of 2009, it shaped billions of dollars in U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) investments—investments that failed …