The retail giant Big Lots on Thursday announced it was commencing a company-wide “going out of business” sale at all of its locations, marking another major business that went belly-up during President Joe Biden’s administration.
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U.S. government agencies have awarded sensitive scientific, military and energy grants to dozens of researchers participating in Chinese government programs linked to economic espionage, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.
The DCNF identified 50 federally-funded researchers currently working in U.S. universities and/or national laboratories who are listed as experts of Chinese government talent recruitment schemes, like the Thousand Talents Plan (TTP) and Chang Jiang Scholars program, following a months-long review of the talent plans’ websites, Chinese government documents, university profiles and state-run media reports.
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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs wants the Department of Education to reconsider a new policy that fast-tracks low-dollar spending of Empowerment Scholarship Account funding, but the state’s top public school official asks why she signed it into law.
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The Virginia State Police (VSP) on Thursday confirmed citizens have reported 150 drone sightings throughout the commonwealth during the month of December in a statement that urged the public to notify authorities if they see drones flying over sensitive areas.
A VSP press release shared to the social media platform X confirms the Virginia Fusion Center (VFC), part of the VSP’s Homeland Security Division, “has received more than 150 tips involving drone activity,” since the beginning of the month. It also confirmed these reports were made amid “reports of drones flying in other areas of the country, including New Jersey.”
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by Jeffery Rendall We’ve all heard it: “You can’t make somethin’ out of nothin’.” Or so it would seem, though president elect Donald J. Trump appears destined to try if his plan to create new American cities out of currently mostly barren federal lands ever comes to fruition. You’ve probably heard Trump mention fashioning “Freedom Cities” before but might’ve figured he wasn’t serious about actually doing it especially considering such a massive undertaking as building whole new metropolises out of the wilderness or desert probably isn’t something most down-to-earth pragmatic folks envision doing on a regular basis. For those of us who’ve gone about overseeing the building of a new house realize it isn’t a task that can be done overnight. The old saying “Rome wasn’t built in a day” has real shades of truth to it. Yet, dreaming up “big” things and bringing the ideas to life is what Trump has done since a young age as a real estate developer. Trump seemingly took the attitude that nothing was impossible. I myself have seen a number of his buildings – and he’s designed golf courses (with huge Niagara Falls-like waterfalls), too. There just aren’t many limitations when it…
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The Ohio House of Representatives passed on Wednesday House Bill 8 (HB8). Dubbed “The Parents’ Bill of Rights,” the measure is a significantly strengthens parental control over their children’s education and healthcare. The bill, previously amended and passed by the State Senate received a 57-31 vote.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is complying with ongoing investigations into a supervisor who told employees not to help hurricane victims who had Trump signs in front of their homes in Florida, according to reports.
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