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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton avoided directly answering whether she supported Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner when asked on Monday. “I feel about him the way I feel about any candidate,” Clinton said at 92NY. “I want to see what kind of candidate he actually turns out to be.” During her answer, she also appeared to downplay Platner’s ongoing scandals as “bumps on the road” for his character. “The bumps on the road that he has experienced and some of the things he has said…” Clinton said. “Bumps on the road?” The New Yorker editor David Remnick asked...

Members of Congress are calling for increased oversight and reform after a Haitian national in Florida was convicted in a healthcare fraud conspiracy that prosecutors said involved more than $58 million in false claims targeting Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers using a federal drug discount program. Prosecutors accused Jean Jethro Alexandre and his co-conspirators in 2025 of recruiting fake patients and offering them financial kickbacks if they accepted fraudulent prescriptions — primarily for HIV and AIDS medication — written by nurse practitioners involved in the operation, according to court documents reviewed by Fox News Digital. Alexandre would then cash in...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison lashed out when asked about his handling of the Minnesota fraud scandal following Vice President JD Vance's threat to refer him to the Justice Department, while pushing back on a widely cited $8 billion figure as only mentioned by those "aligned with the Trump Administration." "That is a false number," Ellison said. "The fact is, is that fraud is always wrong." "Why don't you give me a break, man?" he continued. The comments come as Vance, the head of the Trump administration’s new anti-fraud task force, threatened to press the Justice Department to open an...

Scandal-scarred Rep. Ilhan Omar and her hubby have gone from the penthouse to the poorhouse. The husband of the Minnesota “Squad” firebrand — who once valued his venture capital and wine empire at up to $30 million — now claims to be pocketing as little as $200 a year. The embattled socialist claimed hubby Tim Mynett made no income last year from his main business, Rose Lake Capital, according to her newly released 2025 financial disclosure report. The only money Mynett — who has nearly two decades of experience in DC — earned last year is a meager $200 to...

The famous atheist Richard Dawkins has confessed a rather unusual new faith, after becoming convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) is conscious. The biologist was converted to this new belief after just 72 hours of speaking with Claude, an AI chatbot created by Anthropic. Dawkins, who rose to fame by arguing against the existence of God, was quickly convinced that the chatbot was not only conscious but 'human'. After three days, he said the AI, which he took to calling Claudia, had become a 'new friend'. His experience even led the expert to question whether bots could be the 'next phase...

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An 'exhausted' NHS consultant died of drug and alcohol overdose in a hospital on-call room after his ninth 13-hour night shift in a row, an inquest has heard. Dr Naeem Ahmed was discovered slumped in a chair at Poole Hospital, Dorset, with two syringes and a half-empty bottle of Jameson whiskey nearby. During his final night shift, on June 21 2025, the 50-year-old consultant's clinical decision making was 'faultless' and concerns were only raised after his shift had finished and a doctor could not find him for the handover. The doctor, who had finished his ninth of 11 shifts in...

@EricLDaugh NOW: Mark Levin fumes and demands the Trump administration "stop trashing, smearing, bullying the little state of Israel!" "Stop cozying up to and telling us that the enemy regime in Iran is now more rational, more moderate, and a regime that we can deal with!" "I don't know what's going on. But if people think they can bully a little country and people who've existed 4,000 years...into surrendering their defense...they got another thing coming. I think it's outrageous!" "We used to see SecWar and Joint Chiefs Chairman tell of the fantastic marriage between our militaries in defeating the enemy....

The union representing city school principals is ordering its members to keep quiet if investigators ask about school procurement practices, in the wake of The Post’s bombshell exposé on Chancellor Kamar Samuels’ alleged involvement in shady, no-bid contracts.The missive, signed by Laurelton School Principal and CSA District 29 chair Estelle Moore, warns that the probe by the Special Commissioner of Investigation, the independent Department of Education watchdog, is ongoing.

Freddy, the World Cup tourist from Germany, has been having the road trip of a lifetime as he and his crew drive across America. He's been to the Johnson Space Center, met astronauts, and got to sit in the commander's seat of the Orion trainer capsule. He was invited to country singer Ella Langley's concert and got to meet her after posting about admiring her music as they drove. In fact, he got so many gifts that he was having trouble getting them on the plane as he tried to travel to Toronto to go to the next game between...

(The Daily Caller)—Career staff at the Food and Drug Administration spun the autopsy results of dead children to reduce the number of children suspected of dying from the COVID vaccine, according to internal FDA emails released by Sen. Ron Johnson, two former FDA officials, and a forensic pathologist who investigated two of the deaths. Even after downplaying some of the previously suspected deaths, the FDA’s Division of Pharmacovigilance recommended a change to the label of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines to warn the public about the risk of “myocarditis with fatal outcomes” — heart inflammation and death — but that...

President Trump on Saturday said the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool will likely have to be drained to make the necessary repairs after vandals took a knife and put a 250 foot long gash into the pool and poured corrosive chemicals in the water. Many people have been arrested for vandalizing the reflecting pool and peeling off the paint from the bottom of the pool. Former Olympian David Hearn was arrested and charged with misdemeanor for destruction of property for vandalizing the Lincoln Reflecting Pool. According to independent journalist Emily Miller, a man was arrested after jumping into the pool on...

More arrests were made on Saturday at the Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, as law enforcement cracks down on vandals destroying the new renovations. At least two, including former Olympian David Hearn, were arrested on Saturday after destroying the rubber sealant at the bottom of the pool and attempting to stop workers from clearing algae. "The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nations magnificent Reflecting Pool. Who would do such a thing? These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of National Monuments. Years in jail! Work will begin immediately on its...

From the show: "Be honest y'all and don't be scared. Why do y'all think they cancelled this? I mean, what would be the reason why they would abruptly cancel a celebration of the World Cup stuff in Atlanta at this park? Tell. Just don't be scared." "The city shuts down a free festival celebrating the World Cup and the Father's Day celebration cuz don't nobody care about no daddies. Nobody care about no daddies they're shutting it down because they do not care about daddies, man. You know why, folks?"

CONTENT NOTICE: This article contains disturbing details regarding the sexual abuse and sexualization of very young children. Reader discretion is appreciated. A male politician credited as being the first openly transgender person elected to a state legislature has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for child sexual exploitation. Stacie Marie Laughton, born Barry Charles Laughton Jr., requested and received child sexual abuse material from a former romantic partner who worked at a Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, daycare. Laughton was first charged in 2023 after the police department in Nashua, New Hampshire, received a report that he had sent child sexual abuse...

Results to dye for! (Too much? Hir-suit yourself.) As far as scientific innovation and breakthroughs have brought us in medicine, there are some problems that remain stubbornly out of reach. Take hair loss, for example: it affects almost half of us, with the majority of men and more than one in three women going thin on top by age 65 – and yet effective, approved treatment options are currently almost non-existent. Fairly soon, however, the number of available treatments may grow. Veradermics, a biopharmaceutical company with a focus on hair loss, has been developing a new drug for both women...

A study found that videos promoting misinformation about sunscreen got more engagement on the platform, despite making up a fraction of the most popular posts on the topic. Sunscreen videos are all over TikTok — but the ones that go the most viral are the ones that are packed with misinformation, a study published Thursday in the journal PLOS Digital Health found. Researchers from the University of Alberta in Canada analyzed TikTok videos with the highest views across the five most popular sunscreen-related hashtags. Although the vast majority — 87% of the nearly 1,000 videos — promoted sunscreen use, the...

A multi-agency manhunt is underway for a 22-year-old suspect accused of a violent cross-state crime spree, which included a string of highway shootings near the FIFA World Cup at Arrowhead Stadium and a fiery standoff with police. The FBI’s Kansas City field office announced a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Oscar Sanchez-Munoz, who is described as a White and Hispanic man weighing about 184 pounds. He is 5 feet 8 inches tall, has brown hair, brown eyes and a tattoo on his right forearm. Authorities are issuing a stern warning to...

We can either renew the spirit of liberty that made America exceptional, or watch her collapse under policies that pull toward perdition. President Donald J. Trump marked the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta this month, a momentous occasion which went virtually unnoticed. That is a true pity. In Magna Carta, we find the timeless principles that shaped our nation’s foundation. Signed on June 15, 1215, at England’s Runnymede, this charter stood as one of the first bold limits on unchecked government power. The text came to pass when feudal barons, the forerunners of modern elected representatives, demanded limits upon King...