State Audit: Star Program Open To Abuse

Ten days before the 2016 election, I was standing in a cinderblock room in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with Cecile Richards and other leaders of prominent women’s groups, all of us out to make the case for Hillary Clinton’s historic run for President. A jubilant crowd packed the town square waiting for the show to start, but Hillary was running late. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] It turned out there was a good reason.

JERUSALEM — Israel’s top general resigned on Tuesday, citing the security and intelligence failures related to Hamas’ surprise attack that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip. Israel meanwhile launched a large military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday that the Palestinian Health Ministry said had killed at least six people and wounded 35. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Lt.

President Donald Trump revealed on his first day that he may be closer to delivering on a campaign promise than skeptics believed. As we show in our new, original economic analysis, Trump has the levers to force Vladimir Putin to end the Russia-Ukraine war promptly if he dispenses with the Biden Administration’s tepid, inconsistent economic pressure. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] On Trump’s first day in office, he publicly addressed his views on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine for the first time in weeks, during his Oval Office press conference.

Within hours of his Inauguration, President Donald Trump set out to fulfill a number of his campaign promises, issuing a spate of presidential actions on everything from the border to federal building architecture. The White House’s website lists 46 presidential actions on Jan. 20. The first four were administration staffing announcements—Trump’s Cabinet and sub-cabinet nominations as well as his designations of acting Cabinet and Cabinet-level leaders and chairs of various commissions.

The newest weight-loss drugs, Wegovy and Zepbound, are incredibly popular. But doctors are still learning about all of the ways they affect the body—both helpful and harmful—beyond reducing weight. In report published in Nature Medicine, Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of research and development at the VA St. Louis Health Care System and clinical epidemiologist at Washington University School of Medicine, and his colleagues performed a comprehensive analysis on the health outcomes associated with the drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U. S. foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with his policy goals. It was not immediately clear how much assistance would initially be affected by the Monday order as funding for many programs has already been appropriated by Congress and is obligated to be spent, if not already spent. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The order, among many Trump signed on his first day back in office, said the “foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values” and “serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries.” Read More: Breaking Down All of Trump’s Day 1 Presidential Actions Consequently, Trump declared that “no further United States foreign assistance shall be disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing last week that “every dollar we spend, every program we fund, and every policy we pursue must be justified with the answer to three simple questions: “Does it make America safer?