In the U.S., the IRS collects all federal taxes and deposits them in the Treasury. The President submits a proposed annual budget and Congress spends entirely too much time appropriating the money from the Treasury to fund those parts of the budget it approves. There is no way to know what your tax dollars went to specifically because they go into a comingled fund that pays for all federal appropriations.
What national government anywhere in the world specifies the federal programs paid for by taxes on an employee pay stub?
Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah agreed to a permanent ceasefire in cross-border hostilities, following a year-long conflict.
Okay but there were alternatives to coal. There is no alternative to food. We need a better system, but the way to get there isn't everybody starves while we figure it out.
There is no world in which he doesn't know his impact. He's got a number one podcast in terms of listenership. He's an idiot but there's no way he's that far gone.
It's wild that he's become his character from Newsradio, minus the more fun aspects. Quite literally a shell of his former job.
While it's chemistry, there is a bit of an art to it, and you can be off by a bit and still have perfectly good bread.
So you'd replace Garland and the new AG would do what, exactly? Fire Jack Smith?
It's fun that your answer to fascism is fascism but with a guy you prefer.
Would he nice if that attitude persists for a while.
It's because deep frying was not very common in the U.S. Immersion in hot fat was considered a French style of cooking, so they're French style fried potatoes. I think "fries" instead of "frieds" is dialect that caught on nationally in the U.S. in the 70s.
The correct solution for an outlier event is to set up a proper Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The U.S. still thinks it's above that, but it's not. A TRC would have worked after 1/6 because it was an inherently partisan event. You cannot have it be bipartisan for the same reason the Nazis didn't get to be judges at Nuremberg and neither Shining Path nor the former government officials in Peru got to sit on their TRC. The group that perpetrated the violence shouldn't get to adjudicate it.
Why would that change speedy trial? Plenty of defendants with PDs waive speedy trial.
I'm curious where this narrative that the case only began in 2023 came from. Smith was appointed in November 2022 and the investigation doesn't necessarily start when the public finds out or when the prosecutor (special or otherwise) is announced.
To be clear I'm just talking about federal prosecutors. State and local tend to be political and, as a result, that tends to be where you see way more corruption. Ironically, it's also why state AGs will have policies that are entirely different from the governor's: they're a separate political office.
It's a norm because prosecution is both an executive and judicial function. It straddles both branches and you want it to be neutral in exercising prosecutorial discretion. When the chief executive steps in to direct prosecution, it has a strong tendency to become political and lead away from democracy.
Undercover filming shows COP29 chief exec discussing new oil and gas projects ahead of climate summit.
Emails reveal Georgia Election Integrity Coalition, a group of officials and election deniers, coordinating in swing state
The Facebook and Instagram owner said it would bar Russian media outlets including RT, which the U.S. has accused of acting as an intelligence arm.
The Facebook and Instagram owner said it would bar Russian media outlets including RT, which the U.S. has accused of acting as an intelligence arm.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s salvo seeks accountability over conservative supreme court justices’ ethics controversies
The epidemic is concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the virus has now appeared in a dozen other African countries.
Boeing launched its first Starliner flight with astronauts on Wednesday, beginning a crucial final flight test of the long-delayed spacecraft.
Official says final decision has not been made on shipment of thousands of bombs, which was halted amid review of the transfer of weapons
>The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that as Israeli leaders seemed to approach a decision on a Rafah incursion, “we began to carefully review proposed transfers of particular weapons to Israel that might be used in Rafah” beginning in April.
>“As a result of that review, we have paused one shipment of weapons last week. It consists of 1,800 2,000lb bombs and 1,700 500lb bombs,” the official said, according to Reuters. The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse reported similar comments from a senior US official.
Exclusive: Yossi Sariel unmasked as head of Unit 8200 and architect of AI strategy after book written under pen name reveals his Google account
Allegations of up to 20 assassinations since 2020 follow Canada’s accusation of Delhi role in murders of dissidents
UN Security Council passes resolution calling for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza, as US shifts position by abstaining from vote
>UN Security Council passes resolution calling for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza, as US shifts position by abstaining from vote
Researchers say they found "no evidence" that the US government had interactions with aliens.
SAS has been actively deployed in Syria for the past decade, engaged in the fight against Islamic State
>Five members of the SAS have been arrested by British military police on suspicion of allegedly committing war crimes while on operations in Syria.
>The Ministry of Defence said it would not comment directly on the investigation but defence sources indicated that reports of the arrests, which had been circulating in military circles for some time, were accurate.
>An MoD spokesperson said: “We hold our personnel to the highest standards and any allegations of wrongdoing are taken seriously. Where appropriate, any criminal allegations are referred to the service police for investigation.”
>Details around the arrests remain limited but the SAS has been actively deployed in Syria for the past decade, engaged in the fight against Islamic State and supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces.
>It is not certain that any of the arrests will result in a prosecution, and war crimes convictions of British soldiers are exceptionally rare. But the arrests come at a time when the activities of the SAS in Afghanistan are separately coming under scrutiny in a public inquiry examining claims that 80 Afghans were summarily killed by the unit.
>Based in Hereford, the elite force typically operates in absolute secrecy and is ready to conduct risky missions behind the lines and in locations where the UK does not formally acknowledge a military presence.
>Government ministers and officials decline to comment on its activities, even off the record, a practice introduced from the 1980s. Its most senior officer, the director of special forces, is only accountable to the defence secretary and the prime minister.
Steve Marshall, the state’s attorney general, says no staff or personnel injured by explosion in Montgomery on Saturday
>Alabama’s attorney general on Monday said that an explosive device had been detonated outside his offices over the weekend in the state’s capital city of Montgomery.
>“Thankfully, no staff or personnel were injured by the explosion. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency will be leading the investigation, and we are urging anyone with information to contact them immediately,” the attorney general, Steve Marshall, said in a statement.
>The explosion occurred early on Saturday morning.