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BREAKING: 4 individuals sentenced to federal prison after carrying out a $12.7 MILLION "Minnesota-Somali-style" Medicaid fraud scheme in North Carolina. The scammers operated a company called "Life Touch," which lured patients into unnecessary treatments and then billed Medicaid with fake claims. This fraud needs to be rooted out EVERYWHERE Image from X post: 4 individuals involved in Medicaid fraud scheme.

The Senate will today debate the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Buried in the sprawling legislation is a section reportedly written by Sen. Elizabeth Warren titled “Homes Are for People, Not Corporations.” It has the backing of the White House and broad support in the Senate. The idea sounds politically appealing. In practice, it could sow the seeds of the next housing crash. The provision targets large institutional investors that own single-family rental homes. It effectively blocks investors that own more than 350 homes from buying additional single-family houses except under narrow circumstances. Even those purchases must generally be...

FBI & DHS CRUSH Antifa As Network Leaders ARRESTED Under RICO & Terror Charges | MASSIVE PANIC Federal authorities have initiated a series of coordinated enforcement actions targeting individuals described as part of a loosely organized extremist network commonly associated with “Antifa.” According to officials, the investigation involves potential conspiracy, organized criminal activity, and other federal charges under statutes that can include racketeering provisions. Operations led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and supported by the Department of Homeland Security have resulted in arrests, asset seizures, and the execution of digital search warrants. Authorities say the actions are part of...

“Big Hoss” needs a big assist from fans! Pawn Stars’ Corey Harrison has launched a GoFundMe to help pay more than $100,000 worth of medical bills after a January motorcycle accident in Mexico left him with only $400 in his bank account. Harrison, 42, suffered life-threatening injuries, including 11 fractured ribs, a concussion, punctured lung, and internal bleeding, all of which required multiple surgeries, according to the GFM page started by his friend Aron Chambers. After spending 14 days in a Playa del Carmen hospital, “the financial pressure became too much, and Corey had no choice but to check himself...

Last Friday’s jobs report from the BLS shocked the market by claiming 92,000-jobs were lost in February, after the economists’ consensus called for +55,000-new jobs. Two-days previously, ADP had reported 63,000 private-sector payroll jobs being created in February – the strongest monthly private payroll gain reported by ADP since last July. ADP chief economist Nela Richardson explained this surge in jobs: “We’ve seen an increase in hiring and pay gains remain solid, especially for job-stayers,” adding this caveat: “But with hiring concentrated in only a few-sectors, our data shows no wide-spread pay benefit from changing jobs. In fact, the pay...

DUMFRIES, Va. - Five people were shot and a teenager was killed when gunfire broke out Monday at a basketball court in Prince William County, according to police.The shooting happened around 5:30 p.m. in the 1800 block of Potomac Shores Parkway. Investigators say several people were playing basketball when another group arrived, a confrontation followed, and shots were exchanged. Officers found one victim at the scene. A second person with gunshot wounds was located at a nearby home on Spring Cress Drive, and three others later showed up at hospitals nearby. Police say the victims are males between 16 and...

It's Primary Day in Republican-dominated Mississippi, where House and Senate nomination contests are being held in the Deep South state. But a special congressional election 200 miles to the east in battleground Georgia to fill a vacant GOP-held congressional seat will likely grab much more national attention Tuesday. The race is to fill the seat in Georgia's solidly red 14th Congressional District — in the northwest part of the state — left vacant when MAGA firebrand Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stepped down at the beginning of January. Greene quit Congress with a year left in her term, after a...

The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland keeps surging ahead. Border control and sane energy policy may be in Europe’s future after all. To the despair of the European establishment, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the most hated political force in Germany, keeps showing robust signs of life, whether in its impressive showing in a state election on Sunday or in a recent courtroom victory. On Sunday, the AfD more than doubled its previous vote share for the parliament of Baden-Württemberg, a key industrial state in western Germany. On February 26, a German court enjoined the country’s domestic spy agency from classifying Germany’s...

'Up to 60 percent of enriched uranium is still stored in tunnels in Isfahan, allowing Iran to produce a nuclear bomb in a short period of time,' says Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Iran’s IRGC warns it will “determine the end of the war" and threatens to halt regional oil exports if US and Israeli attacks continue. Trump: If Iran does anything, we will hit them 20 times harder.

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled Monday to block intervention by District Attorney Fani Willis in the legal battle over paying attorneys fees related to the indictment of President Donald Trump. The president, some of his co-defendants and their attorneys are in the midst of seeking more than $16 million, collectively, in legal fee recovery due to the dismissal of the indictment. In her role as DA, Willis was seeking to prevent the payment of the $16 million citing, among other reasons, how it would impact the office’s budget and subsequent ability to perform...

Gov. Hochul has spent much of her 4 ¹/₂ years in office facing a time bomb left by her predecessor: drastic, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction targets that the state has no practical means of meeting. The 2019 Climate Act requires New York to cut greenhouse gas emissions by about one-quarter from that year’s levels by 2030. The state has made little progress toward this goal, in part because officials shuttered New York’s largest nuclear power plant in 2021. The law remains on the books, and its defenders balk at revision. If Hochul can’t persuade them to change it, Albany’s...

For decades, Iran cultivated a myth of invincibility through terror and proxies—until war exposed the regime as weaker, poorer, and far more fragile than the world had feared. Until last year, for some 46 years, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: always unpredictable, reckless, dangerous, inevitably to be nuclear, self-destructive, and nihilistic. All that said, was it really ever all that formidable? The mullahs came into power after the removal of the Shah and, subsequently, the interim secular socialists. They did so by taking American hostages, murdering opponents, executing former supporters, and transforming...

The FBI revealed on Monday that federal agents were searching a Pennsylvania storage facility in connection with their investigation into the ISIS-inspired botched bombing outside Gracie Mansion. The feds were “conducting a court authorized search” of the storage facility in Langhorne, the same borough where Emir Balat — one of the alleged bomb hurlers — lived with his parents. “The FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force, along with our partners at the NYPD, will continue pursuing all leads and tips,” the FBI’s New York office said in a Monday night X post announcing the search. Investigators reportedly found more...

NPR correspondent Eyder Peralta was amazed during a segment Friday by his recent trip to Venezuela following President Donald Trump's arrest of the country's president Nicolás Maduro. "It is absolutely surreal because you land at the airport and the signs are in Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese, which tells you just where this country was facing a few months ago," Peralta told host Steve Inskeep. "And then you go out on the streets and people here tell you that they feel like a weight has been lifted." He continued, "For the first time in a long time, there are street...

The war with Iran kicked off its second week on Saturday after US and Israeli forces launched attacks that took out Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of senior Iranian officials. Now the US is expanding air operations. During a press conference last Wednesday, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the B-52s would be among the airpower used “controlling the skies, picking targets,” and bringing “death and destruction from the sky all day long.” “As President Trump said, more and larger waves are coming. We are just getting started. We are accelerating, not decelerating,” he added. “Now with complete control...

Several current and former members of Congress are suing to secure retroactive pay raises, drawing scorn from at least one fiscal conservative in the institution. "Corrupt Washington politicians, including Democrat James E. Clyburn are suing for retroactive congressional pay raises that could cost taxpayers MILLIONS of dollars!!" Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., who is running for S.C. governor, wrote on social media last week. "With $38 TRILLION in debt, Congress doesn’t deserve a raise! Enough is enough!" The National Taxpayers Union Foundation wrote a piece elaborating on the details of the effort for retroactive pay hikes. "Represented by former Virginia Attorney...

The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, in an appearance in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state of New Hampshire, reiterated his use of the term "apartheid" to describe Israel and did not correct his chosen interviewer, who falsely claimed "every expert" has described Israel's actions in Gaza as "genocide." Newsom, who has opposed a proposed one-time confiscation of billionaire wealth in California, also spoke positively about a plan by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) for an annual 5 percent wealth tax on billionaires. The plan's supporters claim it would be a $4.4 trillion tax increase...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) doubled down on his party’s opposition to President Donald Trump, vowing on Sunday that Democrats in the U.S. Senate would never “help” Republicans to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. Despite the fact that the bill’s main focus — requiring valid proof of citizenship for voter registration — is popular among voters regardless of party, Schumer shared a post on X referring to the SAVE Act as “Jim Crow 2.0” and claiming that millions of people would be “disenfranchised” if it were to pass. “The SAVE Act is Jim Crow 2.0. It...