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Just a few months ago, Larissa Laramee would have encouraged Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to run for president. She admired the man who helped lead the Democratic presidential ticket in 2024 — and who once taught her social studies. But Laramee’s feelings have changed as a years-long welfare fraud probe in Minnesota becomes a national maelstrom. Prosecutors say scammers stole brazenly from safety net programs, taking hundreds of millions of dollars in government funding — potentially billions — for services they never provided while Walz led the state. “I like him as a person. He’s fantastic,” said Laramee, 40, who...

Matthew 5:11-12 (King James Version) Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. The non-verbals were a disaster for Waltz and so was his Texas Two Step. The side by side was devastating without the constant grimace or waiting to pounce like he was having a stroke, but you had the handsome young man against a cross between Nakita Khrushchev and Don...