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Last week, my colleague Ryan Thorpe and I broke a story about widespread fraud committed by Somalis in Minnesota. Members of the state’s Somali community allegedly participated in complex schemes related to autism services, food programs, and housing, which prosecutors estimate have stolen billions of taxpayer dollars. Even worse, some of the cash has ended up in the hands of Al-Shabaab, a terrorist organization in Somalia. The story quickly reached the White House. Within days, President Trump announced that he was revoking the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for all Somali migrants in Minnesota. Progressives have suggested that our reporting and...

In the latest episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, sits down with Mahvash Siddiqui, a U.S. Foreign Service officer, to discuss systemic fraud in the H-1B visa program. Speaking in her private capacity, Ms. Siddiqui shares firsthand experiences from her time as a consular officer in Chennai (Madras), India – one of the world’s largest H-1B visa-processing posts – where U.S. officials adjudicated thousands of nonimmigrant visas, including 220,000 H-1Bs and 140,000 H-4 visas for their family members in 2024 alone. The episode highlights alarming patterns of fraud affecting the H-1B program, including forged degrees,...

A DOJ employee was arrested and booked on terrorism and evidence tampering charges for doxxing a federal agent during a raid in Brownsville, Texas. Karen Olvera De Leon, an employee with the US Attorney’s Office in Brownsville, appeared on a live stream of a federal raid on June 9. A male joined the livestream and issued a death threat against one of the federal agents conducting a raid. Another viewer of the livestream, later identified as Karen Olvera De Leon, doxxed the federal agent and provided his identity to the man issuing the d

A volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in at least 12,000 years on Sunday, sending a cloud of ash and smoke northeast across the Red Sea. Hayli Gubbi, a volcano in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, erupted at around 8:30 a.m. UTC (3:30 a.m. EST) on Nov. 23. By 8 p.m. UTC (3 p.m. EST), the explosive phase of the eruption had stopped, according to the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) in France. This is the first time Hayli Gubbi is known to have erupted in the Holocene — the present geological epoch that began at...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(11/26/25)[Prayer]The Scriptures in Handel’s “Messiah”Isaiah 53:33 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.Holy Bible, The King James Version________________________

For a long time it has been obvious to me, and to any thinking person, that the climate apocalypse scare would sooner or later collapse of its own absurdity. But how? And when? During the past couple of weeks I have noted a few markers. Maybe you have noted others. Here are a few. The latest of the big annual UN climate conferences, known as “COP” (Conference of Parties), this one number 30, took place this year in Belem, Brazil, from November 10 to 21. These COPs are the events where big international compacts have been agreed to that have...

26 November 2025 Wednesday of week 34 in Ordinary Time Cathedral of St. John Berchmans, Shreveport, LAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingDaniel 5:1-6,13-14,16-17,23-28The writing on the wallKing Belshazzar gave a great banquet for his noblemen; a thousand of them attended, and he drank wine in company with this thousand. As he sipped his wine, Belshazzar gave orders for the gold and silver vessels to be brought which his father Nebuchadnezzar had looted from the sanctuary in Jerusalem, so that the king, his noblemen, his wives and his singing women could drink out of them. The gold and...

Pennsylvania has joined 27 other states across the country in officially prohibiting discrimination based on a person's hair type, texture or style. On Tuesday, Nov. 25, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro joined fellow lawmakers at Island Design Natural Hair Studio in West Philadelphia to sign House Bill 439 -- or, Pennsylvania's version of The CROWN Act -- which is legislation intended to ban discrimination in schools and the workplace based on hairstyles. The bill, Shapiro said, would help address an issue that disproportionately impacts Black Pennsylvanians who wear their hair in "protected styles like locks, natural braids or twists

Hollywood legends are eyeing an underrated Texas city as the next booming film industry, but locals have spoken out about the downsides to having their home overtaken by sets. Fort Worth, a suburb outside of Dallas, is quickly becoming a filming destination as Yellowstone creator, Taylor Sheridan, looks to bring his next big hit, Rio Paloma, to his hometown. The slew of high-profile projects filmed in the city has already generated $1 billion in revenue and 50,000 jobs. Local politicians have lobbied for Fort Worth's dominance in the industry, passing $1.5 billion in funding last month to incentivize directors to...

The internet has become the primary battleground for free expression. With ever-expanding funding streams, the German government is building an NGO-driven censorship apparatus that quietly injects the poison of the totalitarian impulse into public discourse. Now, a group called “Liber-Net” has succeeded in illuminating this sprawling, kraken-like suppression network. If you are an active participant in online debates -- especially if you occasionally express views critical of the government -- you’ve likely already encountered one of the countless “fact foxes.” Point to independent research on CO2’s impact on global climate that undermines the logic of the green transition, and suddenly...

“‘But if you had known what this means, “I desire compassion, and not a sacrifice,” you would not have condemned the innocent. For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath’” (Matthew 12:7–8). God has not hesitated to set aside His laws for the sake of mercy toward sinners. Otherwise none of them would be saved or even born, because He would have destroyed them right after they sinned. God’s plan was not to condemn all sinners but to save from its penalty those who believe in His Son. And if a righteous and just God displays that kind...

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(DCNF)—A Hennepin County, Minnesota, judge set aside a jury’s guilty verdict in a $7.2 million Medicaid fraud case Monday, leaving jurors shocked. Hennepin County Judge Sarah West ruled that the jury erred when it found Abdifatah Yusuf guilty on fraud and racketeering charges, KARE 11 reported. Stunned jurors told the Minneapolis-area TV station they didn’t have much difficulty during deliberations. ADVERTISEMENT “It was not a difficult decision whatsoever. The deliberation took probably four hours at most. Based off of the state’s evidence that was presented, it was beyond a reasonable doubt,” Ben Walfoort, the jury’s foreman, said.

As this correspondent considered the Keltec KS7 as a potential hunting shotgun, it became evident that a magazine plug would be required to legally hunt migratory game birds, such as ducks, geese, and mourning doves.KelTec KS7 12 Gauge Pump ShotgunShotguns, which are used to hunt migratory birds, are limited to three shots, including shells in the magazine. As the Keltec KS7 will hold seven 2.75-inch shells in the magazine, a magazine plug is necessary for legally hunting those birds.Three loaded 2.75-inch shells require about 7 inches of magazine space. Two 3-inch loaded shells require about 5.6 inches of magazine space....

Rachel Reeves has acknowledged that voters are "angry at the unfairness in our economy" and "frustrated at the pace of change", but has insisted she will make "fair" choices and deliver "the biggest drive for growth in a generation". She will set out the budget at 12.30pm.

Over a dinner of turkey, ham and mashed potatoes, and after a keynote speech by an actual Abraham Lincoln impersonator, Golden noted that a 2 December special election to fill an open congressional seat has put his state at the centre of the American political universe - Democratic resources are pouring in. Earlier this month, the Democratic Party Chair held a rally in the district. And last Tuesday, former Vice-President Kamala Harris visited campaign workers at a canvassing event. "Why am I in Tennessee?" she asked the crowd. "Because I know the power is in the South." The district at...

In a meeting with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv last week, U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll delivered a grim assessment. Driscoll told his counterparts their troops faced a dire situation on the battlefield and would suffer an imminent defeat against Russian forces, two sources with knowledge of the matter told NBC News. The Russians were ramping up the scale and pace of their aerial attacks, and they had the ability to fight on indefinitely, Driscoll told them, according to the sources. The situation for Ukraine would only get worse over time, he continued, and it was better to negotiate a peace...

A student tourist whose left arm and left leg were severed when she fainted and tumbled in front of a Brooklyn subway train has landed a nearly $82 million jury verdict. Luisa Janssen Harger Da Silva of Brazil was awarded the massive sum last week in Brooklyn federal court over her rail horror in 2016, when she was 21. Da Silva was on a platform with her boyfriend when she fainted and fell onto the Atlantic Avenue tracks, where an oncoming train ran her over. Nearly a decade later, a jury sided with her and her legal team in finding...

Mike Davis Warns James Comey and Letitia James That Their Indictments Were Just Appetizers, ‘The Main Course Will Be Shoved Down Your Throats Soon’ "Those were the appetizer indictments. They were sent back, but are coming back. You are going to have the main course shoved down your throats Comey and Tish in the Southern District of Florida. I will make sure that happens."