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WATCH House Hearing: Fraud Goes Far Beyond Minnesota
(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) The U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance heard Wednesday from witnesses on the ongoing Minnesota fraud scandal. Republicans and Democrats on the committee sparred over what Democrats consider the politicization of the fraud story, which has dominated headlines in Minnesota and beyond. “Minnesota has lost…
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WATCH: Trump Says He Plans to Send Out $2,000 Tariff Checks Without Congress
(Brett Rolwland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he could bypass Congress to send $2,000 tariff rebate checks to some Americans. This directly contradicts his top economic adviser’s comments last month, making this the first time Trump has proposed issuing tariff-funded checks without congressional approval. “I don’t think we’d have to go…
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Former DEA Agent Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Using Badge to Protect Drug Trafficking Friends
(Headline USA) In two decades of kicking in doors for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Joseph Bongiovanni often took on the risks of being the “lead breacher,” meaning he was the first person into the room. On Wednesday, he felt a familiar uncertainty awaiting sentencing for using his DEA badge to protect childhood friends who…
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House GOP Moving Forward w/ Contempt Proceedings against Clintons
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former President Bill Clinton appeared to make a last-ditch effort to avoid looming contempt of Congress proceedings by pitching a private conversation with House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, where the two would discuss his relationship with deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. The bizarre offer reportedly would have required Comer to fly to New York to…
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Trump Refuses To Rule Out Military Option for Greenland
(Will Porter, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump declined to rule out the use of force to take control of Greenland, soon after several European allies dispatched troops to the territory in an apparent warning to Washington. Asked by NBC News whether he would use military force to seize Greenland during a brief interview on Monday, the…
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Trump Urges Arrests After Church Protest in St. Paul
(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) President Donald Trump called for for protestors to be “thrown in jail” following a protest which disrupted a Sunday morning service in St. Paul. Trump’s words join the national outcry that was sparked by the protest, which quickly captured attention far beyond Minnesota. “Just watched footage of the church raid…
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SCOTUS Declines to Hear Felony Firearm Cases
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up two cases over whether individuals with felony records can be permanently disarmed under the Second Amendment. The court declined to hear Zherka v. Bondi and Duarte v. U.S. Each challenge targets laws banning individuals with felony convictions from possessing firearms.…
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Entitlement Fraud Costs Taxpayers Billions … or Trillions, Dwarfing Minnesota
(Mark Stricherz, The Center Square) Since 2020, fraudsters have scammed at least $36 billion and as much as $3 trillion in tax money from federal entitlement programs, dwarfing the amount federal prosecutors claim was stolen in Minnesota’s federal food aid scandal known as Feeding Our Future, an investigation by The Center Square found. The Center…
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Ex-Obama Official Could be Ousted from Goldman Sachs over Epstein Relationship
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the top legal advisor to Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon could be ousted over her relationship to deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. The advisor, Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, was Obama’s White House counsel from 2011 to 2014 before moving to Goldman Sachs.…
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Reports: Walz, Frey, Ellison Among Those Issued Subpoenas by U.S. Justice
(J.D. Davidson, The Center Square) High-ranking Minnesota elected officials on Tuesday were served subpoenas by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to multiple reports. Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and other officials are required to appear before a federal grand jury investigating conspiracy to…
