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The Trump administration is cutting off all childcare payments to Minnesota and demanding a comprehensive audit of the state’s day care centers as a mushrooming billion-dollar fraud scandal engulfs the state’s human services department. “We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota,” Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Jim O’Neill wrote on X Tuesday afternoon, days after a viral video investigating alleged fraud at day care centers in the state drew national attention. O’Neill said Minnesota has “funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to fraudulent daycares across Minnesota over the past decade,” and outlined three actions the...

A citizen journalist followed up on reports of fraud in Minnesota Somali daycare networks by visiting a learning center in Ohio, where he says he uncovered the “first signs of massive potential Somali fraud.”Taking a cue from citizen journalist Nick Shirley – whose bombshell exposed Somali-run daycares in Minnesota suspiciously devoid of children – Muckraker reporter Anthony Rubin descended on a Columbus learning center where neighbors similarly said they’d never seen any children.“We wanted to come out to Columbus, Ohio, and investigate what might be going on in the second largest Somali community in the United States of America,” Rubin...

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is facing calls to resign amid mounting allegations of fraud in federal programs in the state.Republican lawmakers at the state and federal level have called on the governor, who was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee in 2024, to resign.Walz has defended himself, previously telling Newsweek that he has "worked for years to crack down on fraud."Newsweek contacted Walz's office for further comment by an email sent outside normal business hours.Why It MattersProsecutors have alleged that fraud schemes targeting Minnesota-run programs may cost the state billions of dollars. Many of the defendants charged so far have...

excerpt from the letter "Dear Board Members: The Martha Laird Chapter (Chapter) of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) has engaged the Center for American Liberty to evaluate the legality of amending the DAR bylaws to exclude natal men—including natal men who identify as women—from membership eligibility."

We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota. You have probably read the serious allegations that the state of Minnesota has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to fraudulent daycares across Minnesota over the past decade. Today we have taken three actions against the blatant fraud that appears to be rampant in Minnesota and across the country: 1. I have activated our defend the spend system for all ACF payments. Starting today, all ACF payments across America will require a justification and a receipt or photo evidence before we send money to a state. 2. Alex Adams...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday pinned blame on President Trump following the most recent reports of massive fraud in his state.The governor fell under renewed scrutiny late last week after YouTuber and independent journalist Nick Shirley posted a video documenting multiple alleged inactive daycares in Minnesota. One of the daycares has received $4 million in state funds, according to the video.In his first social media post addressing the latest allegations, Gov. Walz defended his administration’s response to fraud and accused Trump of hindering that effort.“We’ve spent years cracking down on fraud – referring cases to law enforcement, shutting down...

With Brown leading an extraordinary pitching staff, the Cubs from 1906 through 1910 put together the greatest five-year record of any team in baseball history. His battles with the Giants’ Christy Mathewson epitomized the bitter rivalry between two teams that just about matched each other man for man.

Somali immigrant living in Minneapolis pushes for Sharia law in the United States, while enjoying American freedoms he fled Somalia to find. Once ICE caught wind of his anti-American agitation, they deported him back to Mogadishu, where Al-Shabaab j1had1sts are now hunting him down.

Federal Medicaid policy creates little incentive for states to stop potential fraudsters. Fixing that should be the priority, not demonizing Somali immigrants.A sprawling welfare scheme that saw fraudsters steal over $9 billion in Minnesota is a damning indictment of a federal and state bureaucracy that failed at some of its most basic responsibilities to taxpayers. That fraud is back at the top of the news this week after YouTuber Nick Shirley went viral with a 42-minute video in which he claims to be "investigating" the fraud scandal. In the video, Shirley knocks on the doors of several day care centers...

Fari-right political commentator Nick Fuentes has stated that he isn’t gay in response to a question put to him by Piers Morgan. The far-right commentator, 27, has made a name for himself thanks to his extreme views and antisemitic and homophobic remarks. Joining Morgan on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Monday (8 December) Fuentes was asked about theories that he wasn’t attracted to women. “I am attracted to women,” the young commentator said before confirming he isn’t gay. He then added: “But I will say women are very difficult to be around. So, there’s that.”

A retired San Francisco schoolteacher is accusing the city of running a “Big Brother” surveillance dragnet that illegally tracks everyday drivers. Michael Moore, a retired public school teacher, filed a federal class-action lawsuit Monday alleging sweeping Fourth Amendment violations. Moore says the city’s Flock license-plate reader system unlawfully monitors his movements as he drives to stores, his sons’ schools and family gatherings — all without a warrant or probable cause. San Francisco has installed roughly 450 to nearly 500 Flock cameras along major roadways, making it “functionally impossible” to drive anywhere in the city without having your license plate photographed,...

KYIV, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday Kyiv was discussing with Washington a possible presence of U.S. troops in Ukraine as part of security guarantees, and also raised what he called a faked attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin's residence. Zelenskiy told the media in a WhatsApp chat that Kyiv was committed to continuing talks on how to end the war triggered by Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion and he was ready to meet Putin in any format.U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he and Zelenskiy were "maybe very close" to an agreement to end...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian just made a stunning admission that reveals the Islamic Republic's desperate strategic position. In an interview posted to Supreme Leader Khamenei's official website, Pezeshkian declared Iran is in a "full-scale war" with the United States, Israel, and Europe—a public acknowledgment of defeat that represents a geopolitical earthquake for the Middle East. This declaration comes six months after Operation Rising Lion, the devastating 12-day June 2025 conflict that killed 1,100 Iranians including Iran's entire military high command. Israeli F-35 stealth fighters and US B-2 bombers systematically destroyed Iran's nuclear facilities at Fordow and Natanz, eliminated IRGC Commander...

The YouTuber claims he is facing serious threats after a viral investigation into alleged Minnesota daycare fraud drew national attention and fierce online backlashIndependent content creator and YouTuber Nick Shirley has declared that he is receiving serious threats as a result of his viral expose into the alleged fraud surrounding childcare and other taxpayer-funded services in Minnesota, USA. Shirley's footage, which accumulated tens of millions of views on social media, shows several licensed daycare centres allegedly receiving large amounts in government subsidies despite showing little or no activity. Viral Expose and Money Claims In a 42-minute video released shortly before...

U.S. Southern Command just announced the latest strike on a Venezuelan drug boat in the Eastern Pacific. In a significant milestone, this marks the 30th strike against a narco-terrorist drug boat. Two were killed in today’s strike. Watch the footage: VIDEO AT LINK.................. Backup here if needed: On Dec. 29, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male...

"Holy (expletive) i did not know all that insane (expletive) Ms. Bardot stood for," Roan wrote Monday in a post on her Instagram Stories.Grammy-winning singer Chappell Roan has backtracked on her praise for Brigitte Bardot after learning about the late French film icon's "very disappointing" far-right political beliefs. "Holy (expletive) i did not know all that insane (expletive) Ms. Bardot stood for," Roan wrote Monday in a post on her Instagram Stories. Bardot, an international sex symbol who starred in Roger Vadim's "And God Created Woman" and Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt," gravitated toward the French far-right in her later years. She...

It sounds broken record-ish to keep saying this, but it's worth repeating all the same that journalists continue to demonstrate that they learned nothing from the 2024 elections. The latest example, of course, is the fallout from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulling a "60 Minutes" segment that sympathetically portrayed deported illegals who had spent time at the CECOT prison in El Salvador, with Weiss wanting to see an on-the-record interview from a high-ranking Trump administration official in the piece before it aired. Though critics of Weiss, including the reporter at the center of the story, Sharyn Alfonsi, accused her...

Over the weekend, Covid-cautious individuals shared clips on social media of Jon Stewart punching down on people who are masking, who are presumably doing so to protect themselves from Covid, the flu, and other infectious diseases that are spreading across the United States. On the December 11 episode of the podcast The Weekly Show With Jon Stewart, guest Tim Miller of The Bulwark said there have to be at least two people at fellow guest Jon Favreau’s workplace wearing masks because it’s a progressive organization. Stewart responded, “There’s always two, and you always say, ‘Oh, are you sick?’ And they...

In this video I investigate Minnesotas billion dollar fraud scandal involving Tim Walz and the Somali population... if this video gets 100K likes I will do a part 2! Video is 43 minutes long may want to bookmark for later but thought you all might want to see this.

Tyler Robinson’s legal team wants to boot Utah prosecutors off the Charlie Kirk murder case because one of their relatives was in the crowd at the time of the deadly shooting, a newly unsealed transcript has revealed. The details of prosecutors’ alleged conflict of interest were first raised during a closed-door hearing on Oct. 24 — but the transcript from the hearing was only made public on Monday. “The Utah County Attorneys have advised us that a family member of one of the attorneys was present at the incident at which Mr. Kirk was shot and killed,” defense attorney Richard...