Nearly 70,000 nonexistent or questionable Social Security Numbers were used to secure the coveted handouts Fraudsters using fake social security numbers may have walked off with $5.4 billion in pandemic loans from two of the US’ Covid-19 relief programs, according to a report published on Monday by watchdog group the Pandemic Response Action Committee. The…

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German efforts to boost the Bundeswehr have been hampered by sluggish recruitment rates German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius is willing to consider enlisting non-nationals into the country’s armed forces in a bid to ease manpower shortages, according to the Rheinische Post newspaper.