Author: Robert Schmad

Bureaucrats at the National Endowment for the Humanities cut checks to fund various liberal research projects as the Trump administration signaled its intention to cut diversity, equity, and inclusion-related grant spending, a Washington Examiner review of public records has found. Many of the grant projects that NEH staffers silently funded weren’t slated to begin until…

Reams of documents, new and old, reveal that the intelligence community worked diligently against the public release of information related to its investigation of Russia’s alleged intervention to assist then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 election. Proponents of the intelligence community argue this was done to preserve national security, but detractors believe the roadblocks were…

Dozens of members of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, which the State Department says was established to “monitor Chinese students and mobilize them against views that dissent from the [Chinese Communist Party],” have found their way into high-level positions at American technology firms, pharmaceutical corporations, academia, and national labs — sparking industrial espionage concerns. …

Last week, the Vapor Technology Association ran ads stating its opposition to illegally imported Chinese vapes, citing the risk they pose to children, despite its leadership and the organization itself having strong financial ties to the manufacturers of those same devices. The VTA, the primary U.S. trade association representing e-cigarette manufacturers and vendors, began a…

Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) faces allegations of stolen valor, domestic abuse, links to a radical Islamic cleric, and is facing a congressional ethics investigation. Despite the deluge of controversy, mainstream corporate donors, high-powered lobbyists, trade associations, and other lawmakers continue to cut checks to the congressman. Leadership at big names such as Toyota, the National…

A website purporting to be a local news outlet operating out of a Long Island village has been taken over by anonymous actors pushing puff pieces about China, and Google promoted its work to users before removing it from its news platform, the Washington Examiner has learned. The Farmingdale Observer’s website claims that it has…

EXCLUSIVE — The Office of Management and Budget on Monday sent a memo to executive department and agency heads directing them to change the way they perform internal audits, citing findings from the Department of Government Efficiency indicating that traditional audits have missed matters ranging from “fund control lapses to procurement irregularities,” according to a…

Chinese state-run outlets that have been implicated in global propaganda schemes are actively paying Meta to promote their content, a Washington Examiner review of advertising records has found. China Global Television Network, China Daily, The People’s Daily, Global Times, China Youth Daily, and China Xinhua News, all of which are controlled by the Chinese Communist…

Google’s flagship news platform indexes content produced by three Chinese state-run outlets that have been accused of disseminating propaganda on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, including downplaying the Uyghur genocide and attempting to sow dissent among U.S. citizens. Google News provides a nearly unending stream of articles published by the People’s Daily, the official…

EXCLUSIVE — An official involved in the Obama-era Internal Revenue Service scandal, which involved IRS officials singling out conservative groups for increased scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status, is now the acting director of the agency’s ethics watchdog department. Elizabeth Kastenberg, the new acting director of the IRS’s Office of Professional Responsibility, was directly…