INTERNACIONAL
PETA applauds GOP lawmakers’ demand to halt NIH funding for ‘cruel’ overseas animal testing

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is applauding a letter sent Thursday by Republican lawmakers to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, urging the agency to stop using taxpayer dollars for experiments on animals conducted in foreign laboratories.
The letter, signed by Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., highlights concerns about the lack of oversight and inadequate standards in certain foreign facilities.
The bipartisan Cease Animal Research Grants Overseas (CARGO) Act—led by the Republicans along with Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.—seeks to end NIH funding for animal experiments outside the U.S. and ensure taxpayer dollars are not misused for the unnecessary suffering of animals.
Between 2011 and 2021, the NIH issued more than $2.2 billion in grants for controversial research in 45 countries.
NAVY HALTS DOG AND CAT EXPERIMENTS AFTER PETA WRITES HEGSETH ABOUT US TAXPAYER-FUNDED ANIMAL TESTS
Monkeys confined in allegedly decrepit cages at the Caucaseco Scientific Research Center, which received millions of dollars from NIH. (Image obtained through public records law by PETA)
According to the letter, the «research» included genetically altering cats to be born with deformed legs, infecting bats with diseases that were transmissible and fatal to humans, and force-feeding mice human feces.
NIH CLOSES EXPERIMENTATION LABS ACCUSED OF BRUTALLY KILLING THOUSANDS OF BEAGLES FOR 40+ YEARS
Nehls and Scott noted there are little to no inspections at the facilities where research is conducted or where the animals are housed, and there is inadequate auditing of foreign NIH-funded animal studies, resulting in significant gaps in oversight and accountability of how taxpayer dollars are being used.
«It is deeply concerning that American taxpayer dollars have been used to fund harmful and abusive animal experiments overseas that lack the same oversight and accountability as labs here in the United States,» Nehls and Scott wrote in the letter. «…It is a waste of resources that should be allocated to more ethical and effective research practices that do not involve animals.»
PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo said the organization is grateful to Nehls, Scott, Titus and Booker for serving as the lead sponsors of the CARGO Act.
«This effort represents a significant step in halting cruel and wasteful animal experimentation abroad, and it aligns with the Trump Administration’s broader shift toward more relevant, non-animal research methods,» Guillermo wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital. «We are excited to continue working alongside these dedicated lawmakers to pass the CARGO Act and ensure that taxpayer money is no longer used to support pointless and unethical research.»

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) thanked Republican lawmakers for their work on legislation that would cut wasteful spending on overseas animal research. (iStock)
SCOOP: HOUSE REPUBLICANS REQUEST BAN ON FEDERALLY FUNDED ‘TRANSGENDER ANIMAL’ EXPERIMENTS IN 2026 BUDGET
The CARGO Act was introduced following a PETA investigation into Caucaseco Scientific Research Center, a discredited Colombian laboratory with a history of violating animal care standards.
Caucaseco Scientific Research Center received more than $17 million in U.S. funding, and the Biden administration’s NIH encouraged additional funding, even after it was caught confining monkeys in filthy conditions, leaving them to die from infected wounds, and starving mice to the point of cannibalism, according to PETA.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
The PETA investigation reportedly led to multiple investigations by local authorities, the rescues of 108 monkeys and 180 mice, and the retraction of a research publication.
«The letter’s request for NIH to immediately cease funding animal experiments in foreign labs is a crucial step toward protecting animals and ensuring taxpayer dollars are used responsibly,» Guillermo wrote. «PETA remains committed to advocating for legislative and policy changes that prioritize ethical, practical, and non-animal research.»
INTERNACIONAL
Chatbots de derecha impulsan guerras políticas y culturales en Estados Unidos

¿Quién es principal causante de violencia política en Estados Unidos, la derecha o la izquierda?
Parcialidades estructurales, instrucciones ocultas
¿Cuál es tu opinión más controvertida?
Chatbots con sesgos y el proyecto de la red social de Trump
INTERNACIONAL
Big Paychecks, Bigger Problems: How a bloated bureaucracy exposes Congress’ funding failure

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!
FIRST ON FOX: A new report from a government watchdog group begs the question of why — with nearly 800,000 federal bureaucrats drawing six-figure salaries and the average payroll of the federal workforce far outpacing its size — is Washington still unable to fund the basics of government?
Open The Books, a project of American Transparency, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, nonpartisan charitable organization, closely tracks government spending and released an expansive report Wednesday ahead of a looming agreement between Republicans and Democrats to reopen the government, showing the swamp has gotten bigger, richer and more secretive since 2020.
The report, which analyzed all publicly disclosed federal salaries for fiscal year 2024, found a total of 2.9 million civil service employees with a total payroll of $270 billion, plus an additional 30% for benefits. While the total number of employees rose by 5% since 2020, payroll grew nearly five times as much.
DEPT OF ED SPENDING SOARED 749% DESPITE DOWNSIZING, NEW DOGE-INSPIRED INITIATIVE REVEALS
A graphic from Open The Books’ new report highlights how overlays have expanded at nearly five times the rate of federal bureaucracy. (Open The Books)
The current federal workforce is costing American taxpayers $673,000 per minute, $40.4 million per hour and just under $1 billion per day, according to Open The Books. This includes almost 1,000 workers who are making more than the president’s $400,000 per year salary, 31,452 non-War Department federal employees who made more than every governor of all 50 states and 793,537 people making $100,000 or more. Those making $300,000 or more have seen an 84% increase since 2020, while there has similarly been an 82% increase in those earning $200,000 or more, the report points out.
During Open The Book’s investigation, the fiscal watchdog group also found that the names of 383,000 federal workers across 56 different agencies were redacted, amounting to a total of $38.3 billion in pay. According to Open The Books CEO John Hart, «You can’t have accountability without visibility.»
«The Trump administration has a historic opportunity to bring much-needed transparency to the administrative state. While federal employees don’t add as much to the debt as safety net programs, defense and overall agency spending, they are an indicator of government’s growth,» Hart said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
«Our investigators found far too many redactions and blind spots that DOGE should have already fixed. You can’t have accountability without visibility. Taxpayers need a much clearer picture of the federal workforce than they have today.»
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has been working with Open The Books to fight for greater transparency. In a letter sent in September to Scott Kupor, the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Ernst said she had identified «numerous examples» of full-time federal employees earning two salaries while moonlighting for other agencies or government contractors, something typically prohibited under the law. Ernst pointed out that this was being done without the approval or knowledge of these workers’ managers.
FAR-LEFT FIREBRAND SPENDS EYE-POPPING AMOUNT OF CAMPAIGN CASH ON LUXURY HOTELS, ‘TOP-TIER’ LIMO SERVICES

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, (center) speaks on Capitol Hill alongside senators Shelley Moore Capito, R-WVa.; Steve Daines, R-Mont; and John Thune, R-S.D. (Reuters)
«From 2021 to 2024, a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) employee held multiple other full-time government contractor jobs, frequently billing taxpayers for more than 24 hours of work in a single day,» Ernst chronicled in her letter. «In addition to HUD, she was paid by AmeriCorps and the National Institutes of Health. Since she teleworked in all three positions, she was able to hide her overlapping jobs and get away with billing taxpayers $225,866 for hours she never worked. She claimed she worked 26 hours on 13 of the 21 workdays in a single month.»
Ernst also described a second example of a human resources official at the Peace Corps who was caught falsifying time cards submitted to different agencies, which led to the employee double-billing taxpayers for tens of thousands of dollars. She laid out several other examples in the letter as well.
«Until recently, outside of death and taxes, the expanding Washington bureaucracy was one of the few certainties in life,» said Ernst. «I am proud to have partnered with the Trump administration and DOGE to successfully downsize the bloated bureaucracy, but there is much more work to be done to make Washington more efficient.»
One can «look no further» than the «failed Schumer shutdown,» Ernst said, pointing out that taxpayers will be on the hook for more than $12 billion in back pay for 750,000 non-essential federal employees who did not work for a month and a half.

The U.S. capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
In October, Ernst introduced the Non-Essential Workers Transparency Act, aimed at providing the public with an exact accounting of how much back pay the government will be required to fork over in the case of a shutdown.
The bill would require executive agencies to submit detailed reports to Congress within 30 days of a lapse in appropriations that must include the total number of employees and contractors employed by the agency at the time of the shutdown, the total salaries paid by the agency during the prior fiscal year, the number of furloughed during the lapse and their annual pay, the number of employees not furloughed and the sum of their pay and a requirement that all this information be posted publicly on the agencies’ websites.
budgets,spending,finance economy,economy,politics,budget house of representatives politics,budget senate
INTERNACIONAL
Estados Unidos impuso sanciones contra una red global vinculada al programa de misiles y drones de Irán

El gobierno de Estados Unidos anunció este miércoles la imposición de sanciones financieras contra una red de empresas e individuos en distintos países por su presunta colaboración con el programa de fabricación de misiles balísticos y drones de Irán.
El Departamento del Tesoro estadounidense incluyó en su lista a 32 entidades y personas ubicadas en Irán, China, Hong Kong, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (EAU), Turquía y la India. Esta decisión, explicada por la Administración de Donald Trump como un respaldo a la reciente reimposición de sanciones internacionales, busca aislar aún más a la República Islámica y frenar su desarrollo nuclear y militar.
El anuncio se produce después de que el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU restableciera en septiembre seis resoluciones de sanciones adoptadas entre 2006 y 2010. Según argumentaron los miembros del Consejo, Irán no ha cumplido con los compromisos de control de su programa nuclear asumidos en el acuerdo firmado en 2015. Esta postura internacional es consecuencia directa de una escalada de tensiones: Washington abandonó el acuerdo nuclear con Irán en 2018, durante el primer mandato de Trump, y volvió a imponer sanciones. Ante esto, Teherán aceleró su desarrollo atómico y, tras la ruptura de negociaciones en junio, Estados Unidos también se sumó a los bombardeos israelíes contra instalaciones nucleares iraníes ocurridos ese mismo mes.
En paralelo, el Departamento de Estado estadounidense instó a todos los miembros de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) a cumplir sus obligaciones internacionales. Mediante un comunicado, la institución afirmó: “Estados Unidos continuará utilizando todos los medios disponibles, incluidas las sanciones contra entidades con sede en terceros países, para exponer, interrumpir y contrarrestar la adquisición por parte de Irán de equipos y artículos para sus programas de misiles balísticos y drones, que ponen en peligro la seguridad regional y la estabilidad internacional”.

Las sanciones reimpuestas por las potencias europeas y la ONU congelan activos iraníes en el extranjero, prohíben acuerdos de armas y penalizan cualquier desarrollo relacionado con misiles balísticos, profundizando el aislamiento político y agravando la crisis económica interna en la República Islámica.
De acuerdo con informes recientes, la capacidad de supervisión internacional sobre el programa nuclear iraní se ha visto limitada por el agravamiento del conflicto. Según reveló el miércoles la agencia The Associated Press al acceder a un documento confidencial, el Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA) no ha podido verificar el estado de las reservas de uranio de Irán cercanas al grado armamentístico desde los ataques de Israel y Estados Unidos contra instalaciones nucleares iraníes en junio. El organismo señala que “perdió la continuidad del conocimiento en relación con los inventarios previamente declarados de material nuclear en Irán” en las instalaciones afectadas durante los doce días de enfrentamientos armados. El OIEA subraya la urgencia de resolver este problema.
Según el último informe publicado por el organismo en septiembre, Irán mantiene una reserva de 440,9 kilogramos de uranio enriquecido hasta un 60% de pureza. Técnicamente, este material se encuentra a un paso de los niveles necesarios para la fabricación de armas nucleares, que requieren una pureza del 90%. Rafael Grossi, director general del OIEA, advirtió en una entrevista con The Associated Press que tal reserva podría permitir a Irán construir hasta diez bombas nucleares si así lo decidiera, aunque recalcó que esto no implica que Teherán posea dicho armamento.
Desde Teherán, las autoridades insisten en que su programa nuclear tiene fines exclusivamente pacíficos, pero tanto el OIEA como diversas naciones occidentales sostienen que existió un programa organizado de armas nucleares en Irán hasta el año 2003.
(Con información de AP y EFE)
Corporate Events,North America,Government / Politics
ECONOMIA3 días agoPromociones en YPF, Shell, Axion y Puma: cómo aprovechar los descuentos en combustible
ECONOMIA3 días agoViene un nuevo esquema para el dólar: qué anticipa el mercado tras sorpresiva «confesión» de Caputo
CHIMENTOS2 días agoWada Nara se despidió de sus hijas con un desgarrador mensaje al entregárselas a Mauro Icardi: «Que la pasen hermoso»














