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The Trump administration's new fraud whistleblower program has received thousands of tips in just days, Assistant Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division Colin McDonald revealed Saturday on "My View with Lara Trump," as the Justice Department ramps up its crackdown on fraud. "In the last few days, we've received thousands of tips through this new tip line. This is a novel approach, a novel approach to try new things to combat the fraudsters," he said, adding that fraudsters were "constantly evolving" new tactics while the federal government just did "the same old thing" until now. "We are going...

MAINEVILLE, OHIO — A mosque rising amid rural homes and farmland in southwest Ohio has become a focal point in the community’s growing concerns over an influx of foreign-owned trucking companies and trucking fraud, with a Fox News Digital review revealing significant financial ties between the mosque, trucking companies and the government of Uzbekistan. Roughly one mile north of the main intersection in Maineville, a small Warren County village with about 1,400 residents, sits the Islamic Center of Maineville, which has been under construction for the past four years following its approval by Hamilton Township in April 2022. Fox News...

Explanation: Is our universe haunted? It might look that way on this dark matter map. The gravity of unseen dark matter is the leading explanation for why galaxies rotate so fast, why galaxies orbit clusters so fast, why gravitational lenses so strongly deflect light, and how visible matter is distributed. The featured image from the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium Space Show, Dark Universe, highlights one example of how pervasive dark matter might haunt our universe. In this frame from a detailed computer simulation, complex filaments of dark matter, shown in black, are strewn about the universe like...

Is the news media manipulated? It’s been four years since I wrote that effective altruism is neither effective nor altruistic. The mangy movement, which went into remission when Sam Bankman-Fried went to the big house for fraud, is back. This time it’s placing journalists in newsrooms to tell us how artificial intelligence will kill us all. So much for media’s already fragile credibility. According to Gallup, only a third of Americans have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in media. I’m convinced that started in 1975, when “Saturday Night Live” first appropriated the Walter Cronkite-like news desk, and...

25 October 2026 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Boniface Catholic Church - St. Boniface, MNReadings at MassThis is a preview of Universalis. The Universalis app gives you every day of every year, not just the single week you’re seeing now, and it doesn’t need the Internet. It gives you the official New American Bible version for the readings at Mass. As well as the Mass, it gives you the Liturgy of the Hours. It costs $9.99-12.99 on your phone, or £19.99 (about $26.50) on your computer. Get it now.Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingExodus 22:20-26If you are harsh...

BRONX, N.Y. – Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman is courting disaffected Democrats as he seeks to unseat Gov. Kathy Hochul, betting that frustration over affordability, crime and the party's leftward shift could help him make inroads with traditionally Democratic voters. "They're not Democrats. They're socialists and communists," former Democratic Bronx Assemblyman Stephen Kaufman told Fox News Digital. "They're just not Democrats, they're not moderates." Kaufman delivered the blistering criticism while rallying alongside Blakeman at the Crosstown Diner in the Bronx, where several voters expressed similar frustrations with Democratic leadership and said they were backing the Republican candidate. "Every...

The CIA contractor accused of leaking classified intelligence to his lefty journalist girlfriend could face 10 years in prison — all for posts that appeared to have netted just dozens of likes on her Substack. Ian Brinksman, 42, was accused of exploiting his access to sensitive US intelligence and acquiring reports unrelated to his duties — including sensitive intel on Israel — for the sake of passing them along to his romantic partner to help bolster her career, prosecutors claimed. While officials did not name the girlfriend, the intel involved and dates match up with at least five reports published...

British Columbia has elected a Conservative government for the first time in 98 years in a landslide victory that could be a warning for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. The left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) was ousted in the key federal battleground on Saturday, after nine years in power, following the snap election called two years early by Premier David Eby.

A University of California Merced professor of history and critical race and ethnic studies recently called for the “dezionization” of the UC system. Sean Malloy, who according to his faculty page researches “colonialism, war, white supremacy, and the critical study of Zionism,” writes in the Ethnic Studies Council at UC Substack that Zionism is a “driving force behind many of the external and internal threats to the UC and its faculty, staff, and students.” “Dezionization entails not only ending the UC’s complicity in the genocidal actions of the Israeli state (which would include divestment and the end of formal research...

Former President Barack Obama kept his promise and returned to the campaign trail, rallying in Michigan for Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. As we pointed out previously, the visit was a clear sign El-Sayed knows he's in trouble, if not desperate. El-Sayed spent nearly a decade calling Obama's presidency a failure, and now he needs the man he trashed to rescue his campaign. So it's hardly surprising that, as PJ Media's Tim O'Brien noted, Obama's speech seemed more self-serving than focused on El-Sayed. The former president used the stage to settle scores, and he saved his sharpest jabs for President...

VIDEOIn May 2026 we travelled to Spain and toured the country via trains for two weeks. Our first stop, covered in this video, was Madrid. When we landed in Madrid it was raining and the temperature was below 60 degrees. Quite a change from South Florida. Fortunately, by the end of our first full day in Madrid the sun broke out from the clouds and it quickly became much warmer.To say that we were impressed with Spain in general and with Madrid in particular is quite an understatement. Many of the sights we saw frankly overwhelmed me. Madrid was not...

Two cases of tuberculosis were recently linked to a strip club in San Francisco, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The San Francisco Department of Public Health was notified of two new cases of tuberculosis in early October. While investigating the cases, San Francisco health officials reportedly traced the bacterial infections back to the Crazy Horse Gentlemen’s Club, a longtime adult entertainment venue located along Market Street. People actively infected with tuberculosis can spread the contagious disease to people they spend time with every day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. TB is an airborne disease that spreads...

Stakeholders concerned more people at risk of food insecurity after One Big Beautiful Act took effect Enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) has decreased significantly over the past year in the US following restrictions imposed by the Trump administration, which has forced more people to seek help from food banks or go hungry, stakeholders say.The number of people who receive food stamps has dropped from 41.6 million in July 2025, before the One Big Beautiful Act took effect, to 36.5 million in June 2026, a 13% decrease, according to the latest data from the US Department of Agriculture,...

BREAKING: The Elon Musk hit piece is a box-office flop. Alex Gibney’s “Musk” has made just $588,478 domestically so far and dropped from 472 theaters to 63 in one week, losing 87% of its locations.

Every time you send a paper check in the mail, consumer advocates say, you're putting your bank account at risk. Check fraud is rising, even as the number of checks in circulation is declining. In 2025, federal data shows, Americans lost more money to check fraud than to debit card or gift card scams. Consumers are writing fewer checks these days, but the amounts are larger, and thieves know it. "Criminals know that when they see a check in the mail, it's less likely to be a $10 check and more likely to be a $10,000 check," said Scott Anchin,...

History lovers are outraged after government officials approved the sinking of a historic American flagship that was once hailed as the country's fastest ocean liner. The SS United States first hit the waters in 1952 and carried American icons like former President John F Kennedy, Walt Disney, Debbie Reynolds and Marlon Brando. The ship also appears in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring Marilyn Monroe, and West Side Story. In 1969, the ship was retired to the US Navy, where it sat until 1978. The ocean liner has passed through multiple hands since, but was never given a second act. The SS...

Brazilians are going to the polls on Sunday in a highly unpredictable runoff in which the leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is attempting an unprecedented comeback against the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who won the first-round vote. Bolsonaro’s surprise victory despite not leading most polls made him the favourite three weeks ago, but since then Lula’s campaign has gained ground, and the two go into the contest virtually tied. The gap between them was the narrowest ever recorded in a first round, at less than 2% of the vote, and the 80-year-old president has spent much of the...

The iconic SS United States, once a Philadelphia landmark, begins her final chapter as an artificial reef off Florida's Gulf Coast. The SS United States has been proudly featured in previous AMAC articles, so it is fitting to acknowledge her final chapter. Purchased for $1 million, with over $10 million more needed to ready her, the famed retired ocean liner will soon become an artificial reef off Destin–Fort Walton Beach. The project is expected to attract tourists and divers, help offset its costs, and support a distinctive marine ecosystem. An Iconic Presence on Philadelphia’s WaterfrontThose who visited IKEA in Philadelphia...

Russian drone and missile attacks on multiple Ukrainian regions killed at least four people on Saturday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post to social media on Sunday.Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 153 drones along with an unspecified number of cruise missiles into the country in its latest round of attacks. The air force said that 119 drones were shot down or otherwise suppressed, with impacts reported in 15 locations....snip...Zelenskyy has repeatedly criticized the U.S. for failing to ensure an adequate supply of missiles. The Ukrainian leader told ABC News during an interview in Kyiv last week...

Hundreds of protesters stormed the Roman Colosseum and clashed with police at the historic gates as the demonstrations in France spread to Italy over the weekend. The protesters, many of them young and waving Palestinian flags, were seen cheering and yelling inside the 2,000-year-old arena during the demonstrations in Rome as security forces pushed them out. The tense scene was one of many across the country on Saturday as thousands marched in the streets of Rome, Milan, Turin and other cities to protest the current cost-of-living crisis and the ongoing war in Gaza. The Colosseum had notably upped its security...