• NYC officials defend prepaid debit card program for illegal immigrants: 'There is no free money'

    New York City officials are defending a pilot program that hands out prepaid debit cards to illegal immigrants. The mayor, deputy mayors and other officials have defended the city's trial run of the program, saying that the prepaid cards are intended for use purchasing essential supplies and not frivolous handouts. "There is no free money. These are not ATM cards. You can’t take cash out," said Deputy Mayor Fabien Levy at a press conference, according to Politico. TEXAS BUS COMPANY AGREES TO...

  • Jackie O Henderson reveals the staggering amount she once spent on a single chair for her home: 'The Queen's throne doesn't cost that much'

    he radio queen, 49, told Kyle, 52, she spent a shocking $45,000 for a designer chair for her old home, which she later sold after moving into her $13million Clovelly residence.

  • Victoria’s scrapped 2026 Commonwealth Games cost $589m in ‘significant waste of taxpayer money’, auditor general says

    Report criticises government agencies for not working together and says the estimated $6.9bn cost of the event was ‘overstated’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe scrapped 2026 Commonwealth Games have cost Victoria more than $589m, the state’s auditor general says, in a report that calls the project a “waste of taxpayer money” with “no discernible benefit”.The scathing report investigated the Victorian...

  • Cost of port closure: Staggering

    Cost of port closure: Staggering (First column, 8th story, link) Related stories:Investigators looking into 'dirty fuel' for Baltimore bridge collapse

  • How Illegal Immigration Could Change American Leftists

    Some 8 million to 10 million illegal aliens from all over the world, as expected, have flooded across the border since President Joe Biden took Read More

  • Nigeria: A case for accountability over taxpayers' money

    A team of tax and fiscal policy scholars at Borg Research led by Daniel Olika recently published a report assessing the legal and policy efforts to manage taxpayers' money under President Muhammadu Buhari.

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    Music Streaming Services Are Getting Record Amounts of Money

    Here's where all the recording industry profits are really going.

  • Rising costs fuel money worries for people in Leeds

    Financial worries and stresses are impacting a large proportion of people in Leeds (51 per cent) according to research from Yorkshire Building Society and food redistribution charity, FareShare. According to a survey of 2,000 people across the UK, over half (55 per cent) of respondents from Leeds said they are concerned their outgoings will be higher than their income over the next six months. Rising food prices (75 per cent) and heating bills (69 per cent) are the costs that people were most...

  • Chazz Palminteri on Illegal Immigration: 'This Has Gotta End'

    Hollywood teems with politically active stars, from Rob Reiner to Bette Midler. Actor/director Chazz Palminteri doesn't belong to that group. The film and stage veteran doesn't weigh in on partisan matters. He focuses on his decades-long career, spanning his 1993 film 'A Bronx Tale' to lighter work on ABC's 'Modern Family.' Now, he's had enough following wave after wave of illegal immigration flooding the country. 'I don’t talk politics, but they’re bringing me into this,' Palminteri said on the...

  • Illegal immigrants have 2nd Amendment rights, judge rules

    'Outnumbered' panel discusses whether illegal immigrants should be allowed

  • Lid lifted on deal that could cost taxpayers $4.3b

    Creating private monopolies at the ports bringing almost all overseas goods into NSW homes and businesses left taxpayers on the hook for a payment of up to $4.3 billion. The figures have emerged from a Treasury-commissioned analysis of the previous NSW government’s privatisation of Port Botany, Port Kembla and Port of Newcastle. The first two […]

  • Illegal Immigrant Can Carry Guns: Federal Judge

    Illegal Immigrant Can Carry Guns: Federal Judge Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, An illegal immigrant was wrongly banned from possessing guns, according to a recent ruling. A federal law, Section 922 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, bars illegal immigrants from carrying guns or ammunition. Prosecutors charged Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, the illegal alien, in 2020 after he was found in Chicago carrying a semi-automatic pistol despite “knowing he was an alien illegally...