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Santa Monica is putting more cops on the streets after a summer of violence hit the tourist hotspot — including two shootings in just two days. **SNIP** Saturday, a knife-wielding man was shot and killed near the Santa Monica Pier after he allegedly charged toward officers. The following day, a person was shot in the leg during an attempted robbery. The violence comes after a string of deadly incidents that has put the normally tourist-packed city on edge. In mid-July, a man was fatally shot in a parking lot near the Pier. Police responding around midnight found an adult male...

13 US servicemen and women were killed on August 26, 2021 by a suicide bomber during Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. – Fox-Grok image =========================================================================================== Today is the five-year anniversary of the Kabul Airport bombing attack that killed 13 US servicemen and women and over 170 civilians. The 13 U.S. service members killed in the ISIS-K suicide bombing at Abbey Gate (Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul) on August 26, 2021, were 11 Marines, one Navy hospital corpsman, and one Army soldier. They are: * Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover (also listed as Darin Taylor Hoover), 31, of...

The threat of “ghost students” has become so prevalent at Minnesota’s largest community college that administrators now say nearly a third of all applications to the school are potentially fraudulent. That revelation recently came from Dara Hagen, vice president of Student Affairs at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. Enrollment fraud — using stolen identities of real people with the goal of stealing taxpayer-funded student aid — has become a nationwide problem over the last few years. “Since then, we’ve had about 29,000 fraudulent or potentially fraudulent applications that we’ve processed,” Hagen said. “We were seeing probably 42% of our applications...

If you are over the age of fifty, you might hear the words "Gary, Indiana" and instantly think of The Music Man. Gary, Indiana, shall we say, has changed. The Chicagoland suburb has been struck by an electricity blackout that lasted over 12 days. Things have gotten so bad that the dire situation even made the CBS Evening News. The usual suspects took to social media to blame a familiar scapegoat for the blackout: racism. In a now-deleted post, an X user going by the handle @BlvckJxsus wrote (uncensored here): "gary indiana has been w/o power for 11 days. gary...

WOW 🚨 Foreign born man in California caught setting up fraudulent hospice companies and working with mortuaries to get the names of dead people to bill Medicare - He stole $27 MILLION - California didn’t care he misspelled his hospice company names, one was spelled “Holly Trinity" - He bought a Rolls Royce - His patients were dead people - He billed $33,000 per patient per year “Prosecutors are also charging 2 accomplices — the manager of a mortuary, who gave David Shachar names of people who recently passed in exchange for cash” This is the exact type of fraud...

Gov. Gavin Newsom refused to take a position on a raging debate over standardized testing in University of California admissions — dismissing as “anecdotes” the alarming reports from college professors about students who can’t do basic math. The governor was asked at a Wednesday press conference in Hayward about an open letter from more than 1,200 UC professors, including Nobel prize winners and leading scientists, who warned of a “severe” crisis of incoming freshman who are unable to even do fractions, forcing educators to dumb down Calculus and other advanced courses. “Show me the data,” Newsom said. “I have feelings...

WASHINGTON — They’re a shady bunch. A California family that swindled $18 million in COVID-19 relief cash to splurge on various trappings — including a Harley-Davidson, diamonds and luxury homes — inspired a Senate crackdown on so-called “fraudster families.” Two of the family members, Richard Ayvazyan and his wife, Marietta Terabelian, cut off their ankle bracelets and ditched their three children via a goodbye note to flee the US after being convicted on fraud charges, before being caught in Montenegro. Years later, the saga inspired Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who has led the Senate DOGE Caucus, to push for legislation...

Residents in the fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades are taking security into their own hands to protect their properties as they rebuild, blocking streets with barricades and hiring private security. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, eight burglaries were recorded in the area in June alone. The thefts amounted to thousands of dollars in stolen tools and equipment taken from storage containers. “This is the people and the neighbors coming together to solve the problem,” Palisades resident Morgan Goldberg said in a video posted to Instagram after thieves targeted several properties under construction. Like many residents who lost everything in the...

The Montgomery City and County-funded Community Violence Intervention (CVI) program appears to have taken down its website and cleansed its social media page of photos after a second person connected to the program was arrested and charged with a drug-related crime. Patrick O'Neal Perry, 32, of Montgomery, was recently arrested by the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) with 19 pounds of marijuana and $30,000 in cash. 1819 News revealed that Perry has apparent ties to a City-funded Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Program, appearing frequently on the program's social media wearing shirts associated with the group Save our Streets -MGM Records...

A man who was once honored as an "outstanding refugee" by the Minnesota Department of Human Services and has a startup with funding from a Shark Tank star is now facing Medicaid fraud charges in a case that has links to a sex trafficking case. Fraud charges filed What we know: Salman Ahmed Elmi was charged last week with three counts of aiding and abetting by swindle and five counts of aiding and abetting by false representation. He made his first court appearance on Monday. Authorities say some of Elmi's co-conspirators at Reva Health in Golden Valley have connections to...

One of New Yorks’ most notorious pimps was finally caged at the end of July, sentenced to 50 years on charges of human trafficking and ordering the murder of a rival. The trial of Omari “Prince” Scott, 45, opened a window into the seedy world of the “Penn Track” in East New York, Brooklyn, where he ran multiple women. Despite Scott’s conviction, sex workers tell The Post business around Pennsylvania Avenue — also known as “the Blade” — continues as brazenly as usual, with tens of women on the streets selling sex for as little as $85 a time and...

The lavish lifestyle of one of California’s highest-paid nonprofit CEOs has been exposed as whistleblowers claim staff were pressured to funnel vulnerable addicts into taxpayer-funded rehabs to boost his own profits. Albert Senella, president and CEO of Tarzana Treatment Centers, pulls in a whopping $2.36 million a year running the city-supported addiction treatment nonprofit, tax records viewed by the California Post reveal. The organization offers medical detox, residential treatment, mental healthcare and recovery programs, with the work subsidized by California and Los Angeles taxpayers. The Post spotted Senella last week at his sprawling six-bedroom, eight-bathroom Simi Valley home, which is...

A mob of teenage thugs, made up mostly of minorities, caused mayhem at the Wisconsin State Fair over the weekend terrorizing families. The mob also brutally attacked police officers. Watch video of the violence below and click here to get my daily breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox. “Absolute insanity at the Wisconsin State Fair. MULTIPLE police officers were badly beaten, as families with kids were seen RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES as teens began brawling,” one eyewitness wrote on Facebook. “Pretty sure these weren’t the 4H kids from Portage County.” Video shows at least one police officer being punched...

Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon is speaking out about what he calls “outrageous” misconduct at Minneapolis polling sites after a conservative political commenter tried to impersonate Minnesota voters. In the video, Cam Higby, a member of the “Justice League,” is dressed in a burqa and using an accent to try to vouch for others. Higby says he was highlighting the state’s vouching laws. He alleges poll workers would let him vote under a random name; the video shows Higby leaving a polling place after being told he needed to sign an oath. The video also shows a worker explaining...

🚨 BREAKING: Sen. Mike Lee sounds the alarm nationwide after James O'Keefe exposes in Minnesota that election officials let ONE PERSON vouch for 8 VOTERS, NO ID LEE: "Minnesota unintentionally makes a compelling case for the SAVE America Act." O'Keefe straight up walks up in Muslim garb, and the liberal woman says: "You can vouch for them." "She says, YOU ARE the ID." 🤯🤯🤯 SAVE America is existential for the republic, or this is coming to EVERY STATE. 📽️ @JamesOKeefeIII

Condo owners in a section of southeast Minneapolis say they are being held hostage by groups of teens with guns. They say the intersection of Sixth Avenue and Second Street turns into a war zone when darkness falls Thursday through Sunday nights

RFK Jr. revealed the Biden administration gutted anti-fraud oversight at his agency. There used to be 80 people watching over $2.2 trillion in annual payments across 50 states. Xavier Becerra transferred 76 of them out. When RFK Jr. took over, only six were left. He said it was an open invitation for fraudsters. Fake hospices billed for thousands of phantom patients. Durable medical equipment and autism services scams ran into the tens of billions, especially in LA. The old policy was literally “pay and chase.” Send the money first, then try to get it back later. Writer: Sol https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2087350391990050980/video/1

A Baltimore police officer is charged with misconduct and making false entries in a public record that prosecutors said burdened other officers and potentially jeopardized their safety. The indictment alleges that a random audit in December 2025 found Officer Dequwan Houchins made numerous false reports of traffic stops in the electronic reporting system known as CAD for at least four months, prosecutors said. "This was just a lazy cop who didn't want to do anything and wanted to collect a paycheck," Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said during a news conference. According to prosecutors, ethics investigators suspected that Houchins used...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A recent San Francisco Civil Grand Jury report found that weak oversight within the city's homeless services system may be putting residents of supportive housing at risk, raising questions about accountability, safety and the management of taxpayer-funded programs. The report comes as city officials continue addressing concerns surrounding permanent supportive housing, where the Department of Public Health reported that 26% of all unintentional drug overdose deaths in San Francisco in 2024 occurred in such facilities. For Aisha McCain, the issue is deeply personal. [snip] The fire department was called in once the body was discovered. "He...

Arc of Justice—the California-based charity established by Code Pink cofounder Medea Benjamin to dole out millions to Code Pink and other far left activist groups—was recently ordered by the state's attorney general to cease all operations after failing to file taxes for three consecutive years and account for more than $51 million in assets that still remain a mystery, according to documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Since California first revoked the foundation's charitable registration 18 months ago and ordered it to provide a full accounting of $51,445,599 in outstanding assets it held as of 2023, "no public document...