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Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Tuesday that the State Department is set to reinstate funding for a global humanitarian vaccine program after the Trump administration previously paused the program. “It is welcome news that following our recent outreach, the State Department has committed to contributing the full $600 million for GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance,” Collins said in a Tuesday press release. I have worked to ensure that the Department uses this funding Congress appropriated to replenish U.S. funding to GAVI, an organization that plays a critical role in averting the spread of preventable diseases globally and stopping outbreaks before they reach U.S. borders,” she added.

“What is a think tank?” is a question I get asked all the time. The job of a think tank is to generate the ideas that politicians implement in office. If politics were the movie industry, those we elect would be the stars on the big screen; think tanks help write the script. “But don’t politicians have ideas of their own?” I hear you ask. Of course, they do (though having spent twelve years in the UK's House of Commons before running a think tank, I’d suggest they have them less often than you might imagine). Even with a clear goal -- cutting taxes, improving childcare,

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced three separate nationwide drug recalls involving thyroid medication, an injectable antibiotic, and an injectable blood vessel medication because of manufacturing issues that could pose health risks to patients. The recalls involve certain lots of levothyroxine sodium tablets distributed by Major Pharmaceuticals, Cefazolin in Dextrose Injection manufactured by Baxter International, and Papaverine Hydrochloride Injection produced by American Regent Inc. Here’s what patients and healthcare providers should know about each recall.

[T]he pro-Hamas lobby is circulating a mass petition calling for the expulsion of the Israeli Medical Association from the World Medical Association. The petition – which blames the Israeli doctors for alleged bias and omits any mention of Hamas' war crimes – was amplified in June by once-respected UK medical journal The Lancet, clearly crossing the line between professional medical publication and blatant propaganda. Far from providing medical evidence or reflecting professional ethics, the petition, as echoed by The Lancet, recycles political slogans and ancient blood libels, accusing Israel of "genocide" and the destruction of Gaza's health system. Of course,

The [US-Saudi civilian nuclear] agreement threatens to weaken decades of US non-proliferation policy, ignite a regional arms race, embolden America's adversaries, and create security risks that future generations may be powerless to reverse. The most controversial aspect of the proposed agreement is that it reportedly allows Saudi Arabia to develop domestic uranium enrichment capabilities under safeguards that fall short of the stringent standards previously demanded by Washington. While low-enriched uranium is used to fuel civilian nuclear reactors, the same technology can eventually produce highly enriched uranium suitable for nuclear weapons.

Last Friday, Joe Biden gave up the fight and declined to seek further review of an appeals court ruling on the release of 70 hours of conversations with his ghostwriter in 2017. This was years before Democrats pushed Old Joe to run for president and rigged the primary and general elections in his favor. The Oversight Project on Monday afternoon released recordings of Joe Biden’s interviews with his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer. Oversight Project published more than 70 hours of recordings from Biden’s 2016 and 2017 conversations with his “Promise Me, Dad” ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer.

In the wake of a mass shooting in Seattle Sunday, the city’s Socialist Mayor Katie Wilson is facing scrutiny for deactivating surveillance cameras in parts of the city to protect criminals and illegal aliens. A shootout between two thugs at Seattle’s Bite of Seattle food festival Sunday evening left three people dead and four others injured, including a toddler. Seattle Police and SWAT teams responded within seconds, performing emergency aid at the scene and launching a search for suspects. Police reportedly recovered two guns at the scene. Police identified the deceased victims as a 19-year-old man, 44-year-old man, and 56-year-old woman.

The French have done it again. The nation that gave the world the baguette, camembert cheese, and snooty accents crossed a big red line on social media after a U.N. Security Council meeting on Friday. The U.S. envoy, Dan Negrea, a senior delegation official and alternate representative at the General Assembly, slammed France’s “disingenuous grandstanding” and walked out during a Monday meeting What drew the ire of the seasoned diplomat? France compared the United States to… North Korea. No, seriously. Negrea took the French to task over their dishonest smear of the United States.

It is apropos that the same week that former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci will be grilled before the Senate on his COVID deception and falsehoods, Joe Biden's former Health and Human Services Secretary and CA governor candidate Xavier Becerra would also be in the crosshairs. Becerra is already under scrutiny for the 300,000 unaccompanied minors that went missing under his watch, when he served as HHS Secretary. On Monday, a whistleblower came forward and pulled the lid off of just how the sponsors of these children were vetted. Or rather, how they were not vetted.

Do you remember how, during the 2020 campaign, Donald Trump warned voters that China knew things about the Biden family's business dealings that gave Beijing real leverage over Joe Biden? He said Biden was compromised, and the legacy media rolled its eyes, called it a conspiracy theory, and moved on. Well, it turns out Trump was right the whole time. Emmy-winning investigative reporter Catherine Herridge has spent years digging into the Biden family's foreign entanglements, going back to her coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop. While combing through newly declassified material tied to China's 2020 election influence operation, she found something that should be front-page news everywhere:

Electricity output increased by 2.8 percent in 2025, from 4.308 trillion kilowatthours to 4.429 trillion kilowatthours (kWh) in 2024, according to the latest data compiled by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The news comes amid President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign promise to double U.S. electricity generation and bring prices down as demand skyrockets in the age of artificial intelligence and data centers, as well as with renewed high-tech manufacturing in the U.S. For example at a Potterville, Mich. Rally in August 2024, President Trump said, “For us to compete successfully with China and others on AI, we’re going to need twice the electricity that we currently produce. Can you believe that?

Another person has been sentenced to prison related to the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, 37, was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment for attempting to bribe a federal juror during his 2024 fraud trial. He was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Eric C. Tostrud in St. Paul on July 22, 2026. Abdiaziz Farah was previously sentenced on August 6, 2025, for his role in exploiting a federally funded child nutrition program. “Tampering with a juror is an assault on the integrity of the courts and the foundation of our democracy,” said United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen.