Report: Chinese Influence on American Education Still Present with the YES Program

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Report: Chinese Influence on American Education Still Present with the YES Program

(Tate Rosentreter, The Center Square) A new report from Defending Education details Chinese influence on American education from kindergarten to college, with programs such as the Young Envoys Scholarship where China invited 50,000 U.S. students to study in the nation in partnership with many U.S. schools.

Director of Higher Education Initiative at Defending Education Reagan Dugan told The Center Square that “American students and families deserve to know if their school is partnering with a CCP operation.”

“Confucius Institutes closed under federal pressure after Congress saw what they were,” Dugan said. “The Young Envoys Scholarship program does the same work under a name most Americans have never heard.

“Its operator’s own charter commits to ‘adhere to the overall leadership of the Communist Party of China’ and to carry out Party activities,” Dugan said.

“These aren’t just cultural trips,” Dugan stated. “They’re an integral part of China’s broader soft power strategy aimed at infiltrating America’s classrooms.”

“Disclosure requirements need to catch up,” Dugan said.

American partnership with China via the Young Envoys Scholarship (YES) began when “in November 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping invited 50,000 U.S. students to study abroad in China over the next five years,” Defending Education’s report says.

The report noted that about 83 American universities and 26 K-12 schools are documented as participating in the YES program.

One school involved in the YES program is Iowa’s Muscatine Community School District. In 2024, Muscatine sent 24 students and four educators to China “as guests of China’s minister of education” on a trip that was “fully funded by the Chinese government,” the report said.

Another example of these Chinese-American partnerships is the University of Chicago, which in 2024 sent a delegation of “33 young student representatives” to Beijing, Defending Education said.

Defending Education’s report said that “the YES program is founded on the principles that international exchanges are a ‘key pillar and powerful enabler to deepen and expand cross-cultural understanding among countries’ that ‘provide a nurturing environment for young people to move and see the world.’”

The YES program is “run by the China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE)” Defending Education’s report said, which is “an organization guided by ‘Marxism-Leninism’ and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism.”

As Dugan mentioned, CEAIE stated its commitment to “always adhere to the leadership of the Party and integrate the Party’s work into the entire process of the association’s operation and development.”

U.S. lawmakers “have identified CEAIE as part of China’s ‘United Front’ system, an international influence operation aimed at neutralizing opposition to CCP policy,” the report said.

Defending Education’s report said that programs like the YES program as well as the now nearly defunct Confucius Institutes are a part of the “Belt and Road Initiative.”

“For decades, the Chinese government and its affiliates have been engaged in a global soft power campaign called the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ designed to advance the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) political and cultural agenda,” Defending Education’s report said.

“This ongoing Initiative includes various forms of programming intentionally aimed at American students from K-12 through university level meant to influence how youth in the United States view China,” the report said.

Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to ‘Largest Healthcare Fraud Case’

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Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to ‘Largest Healthcare Fraud Case’

(David Beasley, The Center Square) An Ohio man pleaded guilty to his involvement to what the U.S. Department of Justice is calling the largest healthcare fraud case ever prosecuted.

Eldar Zarbavel, 45 of Pepper Pike, Ohio, laundered $3.4 million in “illicit healthcare fraud” proceeds through multiple regional banks, the Justice Department said in a news release.

“The healthcare fraud proceeds were particularly susceptible to laundering because they originated from legitimate sources – Medicare and established private insurance carriers – giving the funds the initial appearance of legitimacy,” the Justice Department said.

The fraud scheme was based in Russia and other countries, prosecutors said, and was a multi-billion-dollar scheme. So far, 45 people have been charged.

“As alleged in charging documents, the organization exploited the United States’ financial system by depositing insurance reimbursement checks from the fraud,” the Justice Department said. “To gain access to the United States’ financial system, the organization deployed a range of tactics to circumvent internal controls at multiple banks and in some cases coordinated directly with associates employed at the banks.”

The organization used false sale documentation and corporate registration documents, prosecutors said.

“This documentation falsely reflected that the nominee owners maintained beneficial ownership and control of various fraudulent durable medical equipment  companies,” the Justice Department said. “This disguised the true beneficial ownership and control of the companies and the financial accounts. Upon opening the financial accounts, the organization funneled fraud proceeds from Medicare and other legitimate health care insurers into the accounts as seemingly ‘clean’ money.’”

Zarbavel opened bank accounts in Northeast Ohio for Royce Medical Supply LLC, a Florida-based DME company, the Justice Department said.

Between July 2022 and July 2024, the organization submitted $1.42 billion in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and other health insurers through this company, the Justice Department said.

“While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services suspended reimbursement on nearly all of these claims, some claims were paid,” according to prosecutors. “Between June and July of 2024, Zarbavel, at the direction of members of the organization, facilitated the deposit, transfer, and withdrawal of approximately $3.4 million in fraud proceeds for the benefit of the Organization.”

Zarbavel pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering and is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 16. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, according to prosecutors.

Trump Threatens To ‘Bomb the S**t’ Out of Oman Over Its Talks With Iran

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Trump Threatens To ‘Bomb the S**t’ Out of Oman Over Its Talks With Iran

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to “bomb the shit” out of Oman over the Gulf state’s talks with Iran on the Strait of Hormuz, despite US officials previously backing Muscat’s efforts to reach a deal with Tehran.

Fox News reporter Trey Yingst said he asked the president about the talks between Oman and Iran, and Trump replied, ” If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them.”

Back in May, Trump threatened to “blow up” Oman if the country reached a deal with Iran that would involve joint control with Iran of the Strait of Hormuz, which Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent followed with a threat to “aggressively” target Muscat with sanctions if it was involved in a tolling system for the strait.

Iran has said it reached an understanding with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, but that it didn’t mean the waterway would be fully opened until the US ends the blockade of Iranian ports and fulfills other commitments it agreed to under the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding, which officially expired on Monday.

In his interview with Yingst, Trump also said that Iran should “put up the white flag of surrender” and suggested he was content with the current status quo.

“I have no time schedule,” Trump said. “I’m not in a hurry…the midterms have nothing to do with my thinking.” Trump and other officials in his administration have said that they are now focusing on economic pressure through sanctions and the blockade.

Iranian officials have suggested they will not sit back and allow the US to maintain the current status quo and could go on the offensive. “The enemy should know that it cannot catch us off guard,” Brig. Gen. Yadollah Javani, the political deputy of the IRGC, said on Monday, according to PressTV. “Instead, it is the enemy that must anticipate strategic surprises.”

This article originally appeared at Antiwar.com.  

British Leader Reportedly Exchanged Messages with Impostor of Top White House Official

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British Leader Reportedly Exchanged Messages with Impostor of Top White House Official

(Headline USA) British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with an impostor posing as U.S. President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, according to reports published Monday.

A spokesperson for Burnham declined to comment, saying it was policy not to discuss “national security matters.”

Politico cited four unnamed officials in first reporting that Burnham thought he was messaging with Susie Wiles before he became suspicious and cut off communications.

The White House said the incident had nothing to do with Wiles’ devices being hacked.

Last year, the U.S. government investigated a series of messages that elected officials, business executives and other prominent figures in the U.S. received messages from someone posing as Wiles.

Soon after those incidents, the State Department warned U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using artificial intelligence. The warning followed the discovery that an impostor posing as Rubio had attempted to reach out to at least three foreign ministers, a U.S. senator and a governor.

The FBI had warned of “malicious actors” misusing AI to impersonate senior U.S. government officials.

Burnham, who became prime minister less than a month ago, has tried to forge good ties with the White House. Trump initially warmed to Burnham’s predecessor, Keir Starmer, before souring on him.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press. 

Justice Department Watchdog to Review DEA Tactic that Permitted Deadly Fentanyl to Hit Streets

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Justice Department Watchdog to Review DEA Tactic that Permitted Deadly Fentanyl to Hit Streets

(Headline USA) The U.S. Justice Department’s internal watchdog on Monday announced a review of a controversial tactic in which federal law enforcement allowed fentanyl to hit the streets to build bigger cases against drug traffickers.

The review will examine government policies and wiretap investigations in which the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration may have learned of fentanyl deliveries before they happened but stood down to avoid jeopardizing larger prosecutions.

Current and former agents said that investigative strategy — known as allowing drugs to “walk” — amounts to a gamble with public safety and may have violated Justice Department rules intended to safeguard communities from a synthetic opioid the White House last year designated as a “ weapon of mass destruction.”

The review comes less than two months after an Associated Press investigation found DEA agents repeatedly monitored — but did not seize — major fentanyl shipments in New Mexico between 2023 and 2025. It was disclosed in a news release by Justice Department Inspector General Don Berthiaume, one of his first official actions since being sworn in on Friday.

The DEA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. DEA Administrator Terry Cole requested a narrower inspector general inquiry following AP’s reporting, including a review of his agency’s handling of a whistleblower complaint brought by Agent David Howell.

Cole wrote in an earlier statement that his request for an outside inquiry “should not be interpreted as reflecting any lack of confidence in the professionalism or integrity of DEA personnel.”

Howell told AP that federal authorities “poisoned our community to make cases” in New Mexico. An internal DEA report reviewed by AP detailed how the DEA watched and declined to interdict a fentanyl delivery of 74,000 pills in a mobile home park in Albuquerque.

The fentanyl went unseized amid the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history and as DEA led a public awareness campaign — “One Pill Can Kill” — emphasizing that even a few milligrams of the substance can be lethal.

The inspector general said the review will focus on the Justice Department’s actions over the past two years. It could determine whether the DEA permitted similar drug shipments to occur in other cities.

Howell said he expects the review to show federal authorities “endangered the public through willful inaction.”

The new review comes as New Mexico authorities continue an investigation into whether DEA agents broke state law by allowing hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to reach the streets of Albuquerque. Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Democrat, recently threatened to sue the Justice Department after it refused to provide a list of records he requested. The DEA also has not allowed Howell to be interviewed by state authorities.

“The state is bearing the societal and financial harms of an influx of fentanyl into its communities,” Torrez wrote in a letter to federal authorities earlier this month.

Two additional DEA whistleblowers in New Mexico have come forward in recent weeks, including one who said his colleagues there failed to seize 350,000 fentanyl pills that they learned about during the very first call they intercepted in a 2024 wiretap. That shipment was part of an investigation that resulted in the largest fentanyl seizure in DEA history. Court records show agents had the opportunity to seize thousands of fentanyl pills but allowed trafficking to continue for months as they investigated.

The other whistleblower filed a complaint this month alleging his colleagues monitored — but did not arrest — a drug courier who made repeated deliveries of fentanyl from Phoenix to Albuquerque between 2022 and 2023. Agents estimated each delivery to contain between 50,000 and 100,000 fentanyl pills that went unseized.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

Top-10 Gold Producing Countries in 2025

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Top-10 Gold Producing Countries in 2025

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Where do we get our gold? Last year, mines globally produced 3,672 tonnes of gold, according to the World Gold Council. It was a new record, but only about 11 tonnes higher than the 2025 total.

Between 1970 and 2018, gold production generally increased year after year. There was a drop in production in 2008, but it was something of an anomaly, occurring at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis.

After slowing for several preceding years, gold mine output fell by 1 percent in 2019.

While modest, the increase in mine output over the last two years is encouraging. However, it’s too early to say we have returned to an era of increasing mine output, and some industry insiders believe the plateau in recent years signals that we’re close to peak gold.

Peak gold is the point when the amount of gold dug from the earth begins to shrink every year.

This is because the easier-to-access gold close to the Earth’s surface is quickly running out, leaving deeper veins of gold that are more difficult and expensive to mine. It’s hard to determine when we will hit peak gold due to technological developments that help find new deposits and make extracting gold less difficult.

But as long as gold is valuable, people will be digging it out of the ground.

So, where does all this gold come from?

Here are the top 10 gold producers in 2025

  1. China – 384.3 tonnes: China accounted for roughly 10 percent of global gold production in 2025. Mine output increased modestly by about 4 tonnes. China has led the world in gold production for several years.
  2. Russia – 345 tonnes: Russian gold production increased by about 4.5 percent year-on-year in 2025.  Russia has historically produced much of the gold consumed in Europe, but the Russian government is the biggest buyer of Russian gold. Sanctions in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stopped the flow of Russian gold into Europe. The country has sought alternative markets, particularly in the BRICS bloc.
  3. Australia – 293.2 tonnes: After falling by over 4 percent in 2024, Australian gold production increased by 11 tonnes last year. Australia has the highest level of known gold reserves in the world, estimated at 12,000 tons.
  4. Canada – 213.3 tonnes: In 2021, Canada leapfrogged the U.S. to become the fourth-largest gold producer globally. Last year, mine output increased by another 4.5 percent to hold on to that number-four spot. Gold ranks as the nation’s most valuable mined commodity.
  5. Peru – 208.9 tonnes: Peru gold production surged by over 52 percent last year, moving it from number nine to number five on our list of top gold producers. The official sector reported around 109 tonnes. The World Gold Council revised its estimate much higher to capture production from artisanal and small-scale mining.
  6. Ghana – 187.3 tonnes: Ghana’s gold output also increased significantly by 46.7 percent. That was enough to push it ahead of the U.S. into the number six spot. The country ranks as Africa’s largest gold producer. Notably, South Africa no longer ranks in the top 10 global gold producers. It now sits at number 11 after leading the world in gold output for many years.
  7. United States – 157 tonnes: U.S. gold mine production dipped by 1 tonne. U.S. mine output has fallen consistently since 2017.
  8. Uzbekistan – 125.4 tonnes: Uzbek gold production fell modestly by about 4 tonnes. Even so, it moved up to spots in the rankings. Much of the country’s gold is consumed domestically. The Uzbek central bank buys a substantial amount of domestic gold.
  9. Mexico – 113.5 tonnes: Mexico charted a substantial 19 percent decline in gold mine output, and it dropped from number seven last year to ninth. The decline was due to large mines going offline or producing substantially less gold.
  10. Indonesia – 104.2 tonnes: Indonesian gold production dipped 25.6 percent after a 27 percent increase in 2024. An accident at the Grasberg mine shut down operations there. In 2019, the country mined less than 100 tonnes of gold. Mining is one of the country’s most important economic sectors.

Mike Maharrey is a journalist and market analyst for Money Metals with over a decade of experience in precious metals. He holds a BS in accounting from the University of Kentucky and a BA in journalism from the University of South Florida.

Debt Black Hole: Private Credit Markets Showing Signs of Stress

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Debt Black Hole: Private Credit Markets Showing Signs of Stress

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) According to Wall Street Journal analysts, the private credit market is under increasing stress, with default rates spiking and internal reviews of loan health pointing to “tougher times.”

When we think about this massive Debt Black Hole, the national debt immediately comes to mind. However, there’s more to it than government debt. Consumers are buried under trillions in debt, and corporations are levered up to the hilt. As this Debt Black Hole expands, its “gravitational pull” is having an increasingly significant impact on the broader economy.

Private loans total around $1.4 trillion, representing roughly 10 percent of debt held by non-financial corporations in the U.S., according to Federal Reserve data.

Non-bank lenders make up the private credit market. These entities raise capital through institutional investors, pension funds, endowments, wealthy individuals, and others. These funds then loan money directly to companies or individual projects. This private loan market offers companies and entrepreneurs a source of non-bank financing that is often more flexible and lax in underwriting.

The private credit market grew in both size and importance after the 2008 financial crisis. With banks facing stricter capital and lending regulations, private financing funds stepped in to fill the financing gap.

Meanwhile, investors poured money into the private credit funds hoping for bigger returns than they could earn buying traditional bonds.

While private loans still make up a relatively small share of total corporate debt, a collapse in the market could easily spread into the broader credit markets and lead to a financial crisis.

The dynamics are not unlike the subprime mortgage market in 2005, 2006, and 2007. At the height of the housing bubble, subprime only accounted for about 13 to 15 percent of all mortgages. Nevertheless, the collapse of subprime took the entire housing market down with it and pulled the economy into the Great Recession.

Stress in Private Credit

Up until recently, private-credit funds were one of the “hottest flavors” on Wall Street thanks to their big returns. However, big returns generally involve big risk. Last year, the risk caught up with the industry and things turned sour.

There were several high-profile defaults and allegations of fraud, along with a large number of loans made to software companies at risk of disruption due to AI. In response, investors began asking for their money back.

Facing record withdrawal requests, some funds restricted redemptions and limited withdrawals.

Fund managers claim the problems were overhyped and insist that everything is fine. However, now there is a new source of stress. A review of quarterly reports issued by the biggest players in the private credit market by the WSJ shows “loan health and investor returns are worsening.”

Private credit funds overseen by Ares Management, Blackstone, Blue Owl Capital and Golub Capital reported loan defaults hitting the highest level since 2021, a year into economic chaos caused by the pandemic.

For instance, the default rate at Blue Owl’s fund hit 2.8 percent in Q2, the highest level in at least five years. According to the WSJ, non-performing loans at the other funds also hit five-year highs, exceeding levels seen during the spike when the Federal Reserve was tightening monetary policy and raising interest rates in 2023.

According to Fitch Ratings, the U.S. private credit default rate stood at 6 percent at the end of May.

According to the Wall Street Journal, defaults currently appear to be concentrated in the healthcare sector and businesses most heavily impacted by rising oil prices. For instance, Loparex, a firm that makes plastic film, recently defaulted.

Fitch reported 14 defaults in May alone.

“Issuers in the healthcare providers, industrial and manufacturing, and business services general sectors each accounted for three events, while the food and beverage and tobacco, banking and finance, transportation and distribution, environmental services, and telecommunications sectors each accounted for one event.”

Analysts worry that the default bug could begin to spread into the software sector. In many private credit funds, 20 percent or more of the outstanding debt is owed by software companies.

Private credit funds also report an increase in the number of companies on their “watchlist” showing signs of trouble.

As the WSJ reports, private credit investment firms can’t afford any more write-downs after a rough 2025.

“The performance of their funds is already suffering, and their stock prices have only just started to recover from sharp selloffs that started last year.”

While default rates are rising, they remain below levels seen during high-stress periods such as the pandemic and the oil price crash in 2015. The WSJ noted, “Losses could abate if interest rates decline and economic activity remains robust without pushing inflation higher.”

That’s a lot of ifs.

While the CPI has cooled, other data points point to increasing inflation. And even with the CPI moderating, it remains well above the 2 percent target. That means the Fed needs to keep interest rates higher for longer. There isn’t a lot of hope for rate relief as long as the economy keeps stumbling along and CPI remains stubbornly above the mythical target.

Fund managers insist everything is fine, and Wall Street seems to be buying their narrative. Private credit investment has rebounded modestly over the last few months. But additional defaults could tip the boat. The Wall Street Journal noted that if returns stay stuck or drop, more investors may walk away.

“Fewer investors mean it would be harder for fund managers to raise money, shrinking the supply of capital to refinance existing corporate loans when they come due.”

So, despite assurances from fund managers, warning signs are flashing in the private credit market. It faces a double whammy of contracting liquidity and deteriorating loan portfolios.

That’s a recipe for a private credit meltdown that could spread into the broader financial markets.

Don’t forget that everything was fine in subprime in 2006 and 2007 – until it wasn’t.

Mike Maharrey is a journalist and market analyst for Money Metals with over a decade of experience in precious metals. He holds a BS in accounting from the University of Kentucky and a BA in journalism from the University of South Florida.

Justice Department Creates a New Pathway to Restore Gun Rights for Some Convicted of Felonies

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Justice Department Creates a New Pathway to Restore Gun Rights for Some Convicted of Felonies

(Headline USA) The Justice Department finalized a rule Monday that will pave the way for people who’ve been barred from owning firearms because of criminal convictions to apply to have their gun rights reinstated.

The process launched by newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is a victory for Second Amendment advocates who have long pushed for nonviolent people with felony convictions to be given a pathway to regain their legal right to own firearms.

“The Second Amendment is not a second-class right, and the federal government should not permanently deprive Americans of a constitutional right without regard to whether they pose a danger to public safety,” Blanche said in a statement. The attorney general said the new process will protect “public safety while giving deserving Americans a real path to restoration.”

It’s the latest move by President Donald Trump’s administration to ease firearms restrictions. The Justice Department moved earlier this year to roll back and modify a slate of gun regulations. Separately, the department recently decided against challenging a court ruling that struck down regulations on firearm suppressors and certain guns.

Federal law has long allowed people who’ve had their gun rights stripped because of felony convictions to petition the government for the ability to own firearms again, but Congress since 1992 has effectively barred the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from processing applications.

The Trump administration’s rule aims to circumvent that by establishing a new application system using an online portal.

The Justice Department says restoration will be granted on a case-by-case basis, weighing a person’s record and reputation to determine whether they pose a likely threat to public safety. Officials say people who have been convicted of violent crimes, registered sex offenders, people living in the country illegally and others whom officials believe pose a danger to society will be denied “absent extraordinary circumstances.”

Kris Brown, the president of Brady, which advocates for stronger gun laws, said her group is still reviewing the administration’s final rule but has stressed the need for a “robust and thoughtful system that minimizes the risk to public safety.”

“Yet the Trump administration has consistently shown us they have no such discretion, including by restoring gun rights to convicted domestic abusers and violent January 6 insurrectionists, and by tirelessly rolling back broad policies proven to prevent crime and gun violence,” Brown said in a statement.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press. 

FBI Tried Turning Swalwell’s Lover ‘Fang Fang’ Into an Informant, Records Show

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FBI Tried Turning Swalwell’s Lover ‘Fang Fang’ Into an Informant, Records Show

(José Niño, Headline USA) Newly declassified FBI records show agents gathered proof that Chinese national Fang Fang, known publicly as Christine Fang, used sex, planted interns, and hidden campaign money to gain influence over former Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.m according to a Just the News investigation. 

President Donald Trump ordered the files released Monday through the White House Government Transparency Task Force as part of a push to expose foreign meddling in American politics.

Just the News reports the bureau launched a formal predicated investigation, a designation that let agents use surveillance and informants against a suspected crime already underway. Codenamed “Freshman Fifteen” and opened March 17, 2014, the probe first examined whether Swalwell traded internship slots for donations that Fang funneled through other people. Agents wrote that “Fang used conduits to conceal herself as a prohibited Foreign National source” on multiple occasions in 2013 and 2014, according to the outlet.

Investigators eventually dropped Swalwell as a subject in 2017 and pursued Fang alone for the alleged straw donations. Swalwell, who resigned from Congress in April, told agents in 2015 that he had “physical relations with Fang” repeatedly and later described her showing up unannounced before they “hooked up,” per the interview summaries Just the News reviewed. He also said his office treated her intern referrals as coming from a legitimate Asian American civic group.

Fang once directed an FBI confidential source to give $1,000 toward a Swalwell fundraiser, and a separate financial backer told agents she offered to reimburse him for a donation, both detailed in the released memos. The Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, then under Jack Smith, received regular updates on the case, Just the News notes, though prosecutors ultimately never charged Fang, who fled to China in 2015 as agents searched her home and questioned her circle.

Before the criminal probe began, the bureau had spent months trying to turn Fang into an informant under the code name Rusty Thumbs, hoping she could expose Chinese Ministry of State Security influence efforts. One memo cited by Just the News states investigators believed “RT may be able to report on MSS influence campaigns directed at the U.S. government,” having identified her parents as “known MSS intelligence officers.”

Swalwell’s attorneys tried to block release of the files earlier this year, warning FBI Director Kash Patel in a cease and desist letter that “your actions threaten to expose you, others at the FBI, and the FBI itself to significant legal liability,” according to Just the News. Swalwell has long maintained he cooperated fully once the FBI approached him about the relationship.

The declassified Swalwell files can be read below:

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José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino  

Fauci Was Warned in 2021 of Studies Linking COVID Vaccine to Miscarriages, Texts Show

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Fauci Was Warned in 2021 of Studies Linking COVID Vaccine to Miscarriages, Texts Show

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., have released more internal communications from former Health and Human Services officials, showing their private concerns about the COVID-19 vaccination in early 2021. Publicly, the HHS was touting the vaccine as perfectly safe.

The new internal communications, released Sunday, are from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s COVID-era iPhone. The copy of Fauci’s phone was transferred by the Department of Health and Human Services to Johnson’s subcommittee. Senate investigators have already released dozens of messages, including ones showing that Fauci was aware of miscarriage risks linked to the vaccine. These new messages provide further context.

In one of the newly released messages from Jan. 25, 2021, Dr. John Mascola, the then-Director of the NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center, warned that the COVID vaccine could cause pregnant women to have miscarriages.

“Initial Studies [sic] avoid vaccination in first trimester due to possible fever and higher rates of miscarriage in first trimester,” Mascola said to Fauci in a text message.

Mascola’s message to Fauci came a few minutes before Fauci warned two other doctors that there could be risks with women getting vaccinated in their first trimester.

“Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester,” Fauci texted—a message that Senate investigators already released earlier this month.

Despite raising that concern privately, Fauci would go on to insist that the COVID vaccines were perfectly safe for pregnant women. About a week after those texts, for instance, he said that there were “no red flags … about pregnant women.”

Sen. Johnson said his subcommittee reached out to Mascola to understand what he was saying and what he meant in his text message to Fauci. However, Mascola has retained an attorney and has yet to comment on the matter, Johnson said in a Sunday press release.

Along with the abovementioned texts, Sens. Johnson and Paul also released other internal messages about adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination. Those messages include a May 2021 email from Dr. Janet Woodcock, the then-Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, who told Drs. Fauci and Francis Collins that she was receiving reports of adverse reactions from individuals, including “healthcare professionals.”

Woodcock said at the time that health officials should conduct a study on adverse reactions to the COVID vaccine. However, “I doubt the industry would support, for obvious reasons.

“But my experience is, that if you let a problem fester, then it will come back to bite you later and you are not prepared,” she added.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

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