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The Singapore Police Force (SPF) announced on Friday, September 19, that three more people had been arrested for allegedly participating in fraudulent bulk order schemes where scammers…
Here again, with this edit, CBS didn’t do anything wrong, and many lawyers had predicted CBS would have won in court if it had litigated. But executives at CBS parent company Paramount…
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but email scams are getting surprisingly sophisticated. We’ve had a handful of instances here at The Intelligence International Headquarters where we’ve had…
WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts that were “linked to criminal scam centers” targeting people online around the world, its parent company Meta said this week. The account…
A new online scam is exploiting fears surrounding immigration raids. If your “For You” page on TikTok has recently shown videos of alleged former Target or Walmart employees claiming they…
Krugman: Yeah. It’s going to hurt all of us a little bit, but Trump voters are particularly in the class of people who are hurt by what amounts to a sales tax, basically. And they’re not…
You’ve probably heard that President Trump and the European Union have reached a big trade deal. This is being widely portrayed as a “win” for Trump and a big humiliation for the EU. But…
So you’re right in that it’s not just Trump. Sometimes we in the media shorthand this. And of course we want to know what’s in there about Trump. But we want to know who’s in it, whoever…
A 23-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday, July 9, for his suspected involvement in several cases of government official impersonation scam ("GOIS"). The Singapore Police Force (SPF)…
Sargent: I think Trump knows that he’s got a problem here as well with the ICE morale issue and with the unpopularity of what we’re talking about here. Trump’s been spending a lot of time…
Stephen Miller recently berated ICE officials in a private meeting, demanding that they hit supercharged new arrest quotas and steamrolling anyone who balked, reportsThe Atlantic. Yet in a…
Noah: Right. They don’t actually give a damn whether anybody actually gets a job. They just want to get people off the rolls, and throwing sand in the gears is a time-honored way to do it,…
North Carolina’s senator pledges not to vote for any budget unless it allows his state to keep fleecing you. Source link
President Trump is raging at GOP Senator Thom Tillis for telling the truth about the Senate version of his budget bill, which could knock 10 million people off Medicaid. Trump threatened…
Sargent: OK, so let’s talk about Trump’s eruption at Canada. On Truth Social, he suddenly ranted that Canada is putting a digital tax on American technology. He then said, “e are hereby…
Big Lots has been through a wild ride since the home discount retail chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last September. In December 2024, the company announced that it would…
Forget “Make America Great Again”—Donald Trump won’t even manufacture his own phone in the United States. The Trump-branded cell phone, which launched mere days ago, has already scrubbed…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 26 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and…
President Donald Trump and his top advisers have worked themselves up into a fury about the leaked intelligence assessment casting doubt on the success of Trump’s bombing of Iran. Defense…
The US government said on Wednesday it recovered US$225 million in the largest seizure yet of money stolen in a cryptocurrency confidence scam. The FBI and the US Secret Service…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 18 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and…
President Trump appears dead set on joining Israel’s war with Iran. After a period of negotiations, Trump has now tweeted that he wants Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” The New York Times…
Sargent: Yeah. Speaking of that, we should clarify that Trump is just lying in saying they’ll only cut waste, fraud, and abuse. The bill would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from…
President Trump has been tweeting wildly and angrily over the fate of his “big, beautiful bill.” He’s been lashing out furiously at Democrats and at GOP Senators alike over their…
