1+ hour, 16+ min ago (192+ words) The Free Beacon first reported on the initial USAID inspector general probe in August, when investigators documented evidence that Hamas "commandeered U.N. aid trucks," embedded terrorist operatives in "U.N. agencies or at U.N. facilities," and ensured humanitarian goods were "directly delivered to Hamas officials." The effort will also help reverse Biden-era policies that made it substantially easier for Hamas-linked nonprofits in Gaza to access U.S. taxpayer cash, according to those briefed on the matter. "Investigations like this one are essential to make sure that foreign assistance does not fall into the wrong hands," a USAID official told the Free Beacon. "It's clear that under the Biden administration, Hamas-affiliated UNRWA workers were given a free pass, despite clear warnings from the IG." Former acting USAID chief operating officer Max Primorac testified to Congress in February and explained how the Biden administration ditched strict vetting procedures…...

11+ hour, 11+ min ago (423+ words) The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) lashed out against President Donald Trump's decision to eliminate deportation protections for Somali immigrants in Minnesota, blaming the move on an "Israel first" campaign that it says is also targeting podcasters Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. Hussein condemned an "article" during the press conference, saying CAIR believes it is "based on false information that is being wrongfully connected," without naming the specific story. He told the Washington Free Beacon he was referring to the City Journal piece. The CAIR-Minnesota executive director also said his organization would like "the federal government to monitor funding that is coming directly from Israel into the pockets of social media influencers to do their foreign bidding." Owens and Carlson'whom Hussein referred to as "factual," "clear," and the voices of "the overwhelming majority of young Republicans"'have made news…...

13+ hour, 48+ min ago (274+ words) The Democratic nominee for the special election for Tennessee's deep-red Seventh Congressional District, Aftyn Behn, fumbled over her words as she fielded a question on her since-deleted tweets calling to defund police. Asking about the posts, Behn said, is a "cable news talking point." "I don't remember these tweets," she added. When cohost Catherine Rampell asked her again to clarify her position, Behn replied, "Once again, I'm here to talk about my race, which is in literally nine days." In since-deleted social media posts, Behn wrote in 2020 that she wanted Nashville's police department to be dissolved and supported a teachers' union's call that defunding the police should be a condition for schools reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also appeared to advocate for anti-police violence. "[G]ood morning, especially to the 54% of Americans that believe burning down a police station…...

15+ hour, 16+ min ago (164+ words) The Council on American-Islamic Relations on Sunday eulogized convicted cop-killer Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, who died over the weekend while serving a life sentence in federal prison. "To God we belong and to Him we return. Imam Jamil Al-Amin was a hero of the civil rights movement and a victim of injustice who passed away in a prison, jailed for a crime he did not commit. We pray that God rewards him with paradise for his good deeds and the injustices he suffered," CAIR executive director Nihad Awad said in a statement. " CAIR National (@CAIRNational) November 23, 2025 CAIR claimed in its statement that al-Amin was "wrongly convicted" of the murder. Awad, who issued CAIR's Sunday statement, has garnered controversy himself. He said he was "happy to see" Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel, in which Hamas murdered more than 1,200 civilians and took…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago (521+ words) A founder of Track AIPAC, a group that accuses pro-Israel U.S. politicians of being "foreign agents," is a self-proclaimed Marxist who lives in Germany. "You can't be claim to be America First while pledging allegiance to Israel," Track AIPAC said in an X post in May. Track AIPAC has denied allegations that its leadership has worked from outside the United States in the past, maintaining that it is simply a group of concerned Americans. "We're Americans fed up with AIPAC's stranglehold on our government," the group said in a post on X in May. "This lie that we are operating from outside the US started spreading directly from the Israel lobby's Eyal Yakoby." "I've been an expat for 20 years," she wrote on X in May 2024. "It's a weird life and not without its challenges but I have no regrets " I continue…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago (367+ words) Newsom said'during an interview Wednesday that Williamson's indictment came as a "real surprise and shock" to him. The governor added he does not believe he was the intended target of the FBI's probe. "I don't know anything about that and whatever that assertion is," Newsom said. "That was certainly not reflected in the indictment itself. There's nothing specific in that respect, or at least connects me." Former Activision CEO Robert Kotick cited the settlement as evidence he was defamed in a lawsuit he filed in March against a prominent media company that reported on the allegations. Alleged interference from Newsom's office in the Activision case began long before Williamson became his chief of staff in January 2023, according to'records'Proctor posted to social media. "The Office of the Governor repeatedly demanded advance notice of litigation strategy and of next steps in the…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago (608+ words) "You're killing my family in Palestine!" a protester screamed at Palantir CEO Alex Karp while he was addressing a Silicon Valley conference last April. "The primary source of death in Palestine," Karp, the Jewish, half-black, progressive, tai chi practitioner shot back, without missing a beat, "is the fact that Hamas has realized there are millions and millions of useful idiots." "But your AI technology from Palantir kills Palestinians!" the heckler loudly insisted. "Mostly terrorists, that's true," Karp deadpanned, to applause. "From terrorism to climate change to famine to immigration to human trafficking to financial fraud to the future of warfare," Steinberger observes, "Palantir was at the nexus of the most consequential issues of the twenty-first century." A partial list of the company's clients includes all six branches of the U.S. military, ICE, the FBI, the IRS, the NIH, BP, Airbus, and…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago (239+ words) Academic pariah he may be, but on the big questions Charles Murray is a man of his time. Science, he believed for most of his life, had demolished the traditional notion of God. Consciousness is produced by the brain, nothing more. The Gospels are less history than folklore. I was born three generations after Murray, and on the other side of the Atlantic, but everything about his materialist assumptions is immediately recognizable to me; it has simply been the default setting of any educated person since at least the First World War. All of which just goes to show that history has more unexpected, out-of-the-blue twists than any crime novel. Gradually and then suddenly, the burden of proof has recently shifted, to the point where it is atheist materialists who have begun to stammer and evade the obvious question, and…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago (140+ words) When McCullough tells history, he focuses on the people who drove the stories. He prefers to follow the story chronologically, too. He reminds aspiring writers that "you're writing about people who didn't know how things would work out, any more than we do." Our history is replete with remarkable men and women. McCullough devotes a speech to the "greatest American ever," George Washington. He was a courageous man, a man of character and integrity. He was human. History matters because it tells the stories of people who were very much real. They show us what once was in order to tell us what we can be. History Matters by David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 192 pp., $27 Dalton Swenson is a senior at Dartmouth College and a former Washington Free Beacon intern. Published under: Book reviews , Culture , David McCullough , history...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago (1112+ words) Is there a more purely entertaining British novelist writing today than William Boyd? I doubt it, and I would even go a step further than that. Since his crowning achievement with 2002s whole-life novel Any Human Heart, Boyd has pivoted from the witty, Evelyn Waugh-ish literary books with which he began his career to a series of period-set spy novels that focus on what its like to be an innocent caught up in events beyond their comprehension. From 2006s mega-bestseller Restless to 2012s Waiting for Sunrise, Boyd has consistently proved himself the purveyor of high-class, page-turning espionage fiction. Warmer and funnier than le Carr, less jaded than Mick Herron, his novels are page-turners par excellence. The post Cold War Interlude appeared first on . The great author recently celebrated his 70th birthday, and shortly after that, the first in a projected trilogy of novels about…...