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Grandma says she lost her home and car after being arrested for fraud — police admit they made a mistake based on AI

North Dakota cops admit that they made a mistake when they arrested a Tennessee grandmother for fraud based on a tip from a facial recognition program that uses artificial intelligence.

Angela Lipps, 50, said she was stuck in jail for months and lost her home, her car, and even her dog. She is now living with neighbors and is considering legal action against the police department.

‘We should have done that,’ Zibolski admitted.

Now-retired Fargo Police Chief Dave Zibolski admitted that “mistakes” were made but fell short of apologizing to the woman falsely imprisoned.

Zibolski passed the buck onto the West Fargo Police Department, which he said had purchased an artificial intelligence program without notifying the Fargo police at the executive level.

Investigators were trying to identify a suspect in a bank fraud case when they ran an image from a fake ID through the facial recognition software. The software identified Lipps as a match for the suspect, and they passed the information to Fargo police, which neglected to submit surveillance videos to their approved state-run facial recognition hub.

“We should have done that,” Zibolski admitted.

He said the program used by the West Fargo police has been prohibited from police use, and he has implemented additional restrictions on the use of such software.

Zibolski was asked why he didn’t apologize to Lipps, and he said the investigation was ongoing. He also appeared to imply that she may still be involved in the fraud somehow.

“We do not know definitively who’s involved and who’s not at this juncture,” he said.

Lipps was arrested in Tennessee in July 2025 and was extradited to Cass County, North Dakota, on October 30. She was in jail for a total of five months, released only after she obtained an attorney who produced bank records showing she was in Tennessee at the time of the crimes she was accused of.

The charges were dismissed on Christmas Eve.

West Fargo Chief Pete Nielsen told Flag Family News: “The West Fargo Police Department was involved in the investigation of an unauthorized use of personal identification case. The primary person of interest in this case matched similar incidents that took place in the City of Fargo.”

Nielsen added: “The facial recognition software identified a potential suspect with similar features to Angela Lipps. That intelligence information was then shared with the Fargo Police Department, at their request, in relation to their open cases.”

Zibolski also claimed that Fargo police learned about Lipps’ arrest on December 5. However, Cass County Sheriff Jesse Jahner claimed that Fargo police knew she was in custody much earlier, and emails obtained by Valley News Live revealed that Fargo police may have known about the arrest in July.

Zibolski announced March 11 that he was retiring as police chief after 40 years in law enforcement. His retirement was official on Friday.

RELATED: Former volleyball coach used artificial intelligence to groom teenage girl for sex, police say

Lipps’ predicament has made national headlines and led to a GoFundMe donation page to help her recover her former life. She has since garnered $76,000.

“Once our department knew about her arrest, they immediately addressed it,” Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney said. “We will continue to look at our process.”

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‘The View’ co-host has bizarre response to ‘lifelong progressive’ Whitney Cummings refusing to vote for pedophiles

The co-hosts of “The View” steered into an awkward moment after comedian guest Whitney Cummings joked that she had been forced to lower her voting standards to avoid pedophiles.

The exchange unfolded on the Tuesday episode while the gals were criticizing second lady Usha Vance, who indicated that she and her husband, Vice President JD Vance, do not always “agree” on every political topic.

‘I just mean, like, who doesn’t think kids are hot? I’m voting for that person!’

Cummings jokingly said that her only standard in voting was to support non-pedophiles, and Joy Behar mistakenly took that to mean Cummings was criticizing Republicans.

“I’ve got some blowback before for criticizing — I’m a lifelong progressive. I had blue hair and rescue pit bulls!” Cummings said. “I also think there’s something very patriotic about criticizing your own party and pointing out hypocrisies within your own party.”

Behar then asserted that Democrats criticize their party all the time. Cummings agreed and then continued to weigh in on Mrs. Vance’s comments.

“For her to feel a little bit like doesn’t know where she is, I think there’s a lot of people who do feel like this, and they don’t have the time we necessarily all have to be looking at the news all day and be figuring out what’s right and wrong,” Cummings continued.

“There’s days where I’m just like, ‘I don’t know anymore.’ I’m just literally at the point where my party, the person I’m voting for is anyone not a pedophile, whoever’s not a pedophile!” she added to laughter and applause from the audience. “Is anyone not attracted to children?”

“Which party is that you’re talking about?” a bewildered Behar asked. “The Republican Party?”

“I just mean, like, who doesn’t think kids are hot? I’m voting for that person!” Cummings tried to clarify.

At this point, Whoopi Goldberg steered the conversation away from Behar’s inability to get a joke.

An edited version of the exchange was posted to social media, where it was widely circulated.

RELATED: ‘Kamala was forced on us so hard you’d think she was patented by Pfizer’: Comedian Whitney Cummings roasts DNC live on CNN

The entire segment showing Behar’s stalwart effort to ruin Cummings’ point can be viewed on the show’s YouTube channel.

Cummings has been very open about her journey from a progressive to becoming more friendly to conservative policies after getting engaged and having a baby. She ridiculed the Democratic Party for nominating Kamala Harris, lambasted liberal hypocrisy with Joe Rogan, and mocked the Los Angeles Fire Department for hiring on lesbians.

“You had me at, ‘We’re not racist, everybody’s equal,’ diversity, but then it turns into diversity but not diversity of thought!” she said in Jan. 2026.

“Hold on, you know, we don’t believe in gender, but we need a female president. And you’re like, huh?” she added.

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‘Socialists and geriatrics’: Alex Stein INFILTRATES No Kings

Alex Stein spent the weekend navigating multiple events across Texas, where he had some extremely strange encounters — including one where he claims to have been “sexually assaulted” by a transgender man.

His first stop was the No Kings protest in Dallas, which he tells BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales was full of “socialists” and “geriatrics.”

“If you had to summarize what you saw into two words, what would that be?” Gonzales asks Stein.

“Socialists and geriatrics,” he tells Gonzales. “There was a lot of young people for the Mamdani vibe, and then everybody else was 70. … There was a woman that stopped me that went to school with my dad. My dad’s 71 years old.”

“I kept getting hit by elderly people,” Stein says, showing a clip of him being swarmed by angry protesters.

While Stein didn’t enjoy being attacked by protesters, he wasn’t surprised that he was.

“They’re impulsive. They’re on SSRIs, so they’re out of touch with reality, and they just kind of react. That’s probably how they treat their, you know, caretaker at the retirement home,” Stein says.

Stein also braved a “furry” convention in Dallas, and what he saw there wasn’t much better.

“I had more trepidation at the furry fiesta than I did at the No Kings protest, because everybody knows these people are lunatics, and you and I have gone to all these child drag shows where they’re trying to groom kids,” Stein tells Gonzales.

“It felt like a bunch of adults that are doing this cosplay as an animal, but they were trying to relate to kids. It was very weird. The vibes in there, you know, was something that was kind of indescribable. … Like a gay event but not gay. Even weirder than a gay event,” he continues.

But that wasn’t Stein’s last stop.

“There was another place where they were letting their freak flags fly. … I feel like this was your Super Bowl weekend, Alex,” Gonzales says, referring to a “Trans Day of Visibility” rally in Dallas where Stein was “sexually assaulted” by a transgender “man.”

“That was new and a first for me to get kissed at the trans rally. I’d never seen that in my life. And you know, it really kind of exposes them for being perverts and creeps and making everything about sex,” Stein says.

“They have autogynephilia. They’re doing it because they have some sort of sexual perversion. Like they’re sexually motivated to do this,” he continues. “So honestly, I shouldn’t be surprised that I got sexually assaulted at the ‘Trans Day of Visibility.’”

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Mural of Iryna Zarutska outside gay bar to be removed as Democratic mayor stokes outrage mob

A mural honoring slain Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska will be removed after an outrage mob deluged a gay bar with complaints.

The office of Providence Mayor Brett Smiley, a Democrat, made his opposition to the mural clear on Sunday. Smiley then released a statement Monday morning.

‘All of this political vitriol being kicked up has removed Iryna’s humanity from her story.’

“The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like this across the country is divisive and does not represent Providence,” reads the statement from the mayor’s office. “I continue to encourage our community to support local artists whose work brings us closer together rather than further divides us.”

Artist Ian Gaudreau began painting the mural outside a prominent LGBTQ+ club in downtown Providence last week with the aid of a fund supported by tech billionaire Elon Musk. Gaudreau told WJAR-TV that he didn’t intend it to be political.

“I want everybody to know that my intention with the mural was to lower the temperature,” the artist said.

One resident named Jennifer Cross told WJAR that she supports the mural.

“Here in Rhode Island, in Providence, this is what we’re about,” Cross said. “We should be accepting of everything and take politics aside, honor all of the people who need to be honored, and just stop. I know the divisiveness of today’s politics … but stop. Let it go forward. She needs to be honored.”

Others in Providence, known as the Creative Capital, opposed it.

“Where are the murals for everybody that died from Black Lives Matter? I don’t see any of those,” said one woman who spoke to WJAR. Notably, the words “Black Lives Matter” were painted in bold colors on Washington Street in Providence in 2021.

By Monday afternoon, news broke that the project had been canceled.

“We heard you PVD. We are deeply and sincerely sorry for everything that has taken place over the past week,” reads a statement from the owners of the Dark Lady bar. “After reflecting and learning, we have made the decision to discontinue this project and will move forward with removal as soon as possible. We remain committed to fostering unity, safety, and care for all members of our community, and we will continue to listen, learn, and act with those values at the forefront.”

The decision was excoriated by state Republican Minority Leader Sen. Jessica de la Cruz.

“This isn’t a vulgar or explicit mural. It’s a portrait — a face — memorializing a victim. The First Amendment exists to protect expression like this, even when it’s uncomfortable,” she wrote on social media.

“Ordering it removed isn’t leadership. It’s censorship. Hard to square ‘No Kings’ rhetoric with acting like one. You don’t get to be the Creative Capital if creativity needs permission,” she added.

RELATED: Axios gets obliterated online for unbelievable framing of stabbing death of Ukrainian refugee

Zarutska was 23 years old and returning home from her job at a pizza shop when she was brutally stabbed to death without provocation by a black suspect who was caught on security video. The suspect charged with the murder has a long history of criminal arrests and mental illness. Musk responded by donating $1 million to a fund dedicated to painting murals in her honor across the country.

“All of this political vitriol being kicked up has removed Iryna’s humanity from her story,” Gaudreau said. “And I think we’d all do better to remember that.”

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4 Republicans join Democrat effort to shield 350,000 Haitians from deportation

Four Republican lawmakers joined Democrats’ effort to keep 350,000 Haitians from losing their deportation protections.

Haiti was initially designated as a country with Temporary Protected Status by the Obama administration in 2010, following an earthquake that killed over 200,000 people and injured another 300,000. The administration contended that the 18-month designation was necessary because Haiti’s critical infrastructure had been severely impacted.

‘For more than a year, my bill to extend TPS for Haiti has sat without a vote in the House of Representatives. That’s unacceptable.’

Following that initial designation, Haiti’s TPS status was extended and redesignated many times, with officials citing national disaster recovery, gang violence, and instability.

Under President Donald Trump, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem terminated TPS for Haiti, announcing that the designation would expire in February 2026.

The DHS estimated that roughly 353,000 Haitian nationals and other foreign nationals who last resided in Haiti hold TPS.

Noem’s DHS declared that “there are no extraordinary and temporary conditions in Haiti that prevent Haitian nationals (or aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Haiti) from returning in safety.”

“Moreover, even if the Department found that there existed conditions that were extraordinary and temporary that prevented Haitian nationals … from returning in safety, termination of Temporary Protected Status of Haiti is still required because it is contrary to the national interest of the United States to permit Haitian nationals … to remain temporarily in the United States,” the DHS stated.

RELATED: ‘Vindication’ for Trump administration: Appeals court greenlights end of deportation protections for 90,000

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However, in February, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia stayed the termination, allowing the TPS designation to remain in effect.

Rep. Laura Gillen (D-N.Y.) previously introduced H.R. 1689, a bill that would require DHS to designate Haiti for TPS for 18 months.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) presented a discharge petition in January to compel the House to vote on Gillen’s bill.

On Friday, the discharge petition received exactly the 218 House signatures required to move forward, after four Republicans — Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.), and Don Bacon (Neb.) — joined Democrats in signing it.

RELATED: Noem prepares to deport 500,000 immigrants from one long-troubled island

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“Throughout the nation, Haitians are parents, workers, caregivers, faith leaders, business owners, and children who are deeply rooted in our communities, essential to our economy, and are shamefully at risk of being deported to an island grappling with a devastating humanitarian crisis,” Pressley stated. “Today we are a critical step closer to saving lives and delivering the protections they deserve.”

The House will vote on Pressley’s discharge resolution within the coming weeks. If it passes, lawmakers will hold a vote on H.R. 1689.

Lawler, who co-sponsored H.R. 1689, referred to the bill as “bipartisan legislation,” insisting that the situation in Haiti remains “dire” due to “rampant gang violence, political instability, and a worsening humanitarian crisis.”

“For more than a year, my bill to extend TPS for Haiti has sat without a vote in the House of Representatives. That’s unacceptable,” Lawler stated after signing Pressley’s petition.

Salazar also released a statement in response to her decision to support the discharge petition.

“From Haiti to Venezuela, we have to get this right,” Salazar wrote in a post on social media. “TPS exists for a reason, to protect people who cannot safely return home.”

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Exclusive: Jim Jordan backs ‘America First’ veteran in key swing state primary

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio is weighing in on a high-stakes primary in a key swing state, Blaze News has learned.

Jordan has endorsed Captain Michael Bouchard, an Iraq war veteran, for Michigan’s 10th congressional district, Blaze News can exclusively report. This high-profile endorsement comes as Republican Rep. John James of Michigan wraps up his term in the 10th district and is now running for governor of the state.

‘A strong conservative leader.’

“Captain Michael Bouchard is the America First conservative we need in Congress,” Jordan told Blaze News. “Mike served his country in Iraq, and now he is ready to serve the people of Michigan’s 10th district in Washington.”

“Now, more than ever, we need leaders like Captain Bouchard in Congress.”

RELATED: ‘Warfighter’ son of a popular Michigan sheriff is now gunning for Congress

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The third-generation Michigander embraced the endorsement from Jordan, who made a name for himself chairing the prestigious House Judiciary Committee.

“I’m proud to earn the endorsement of Congressman Jim Jordan,” Bouchard told Blaze News. “Congressman Jordan is a strong conservative leader that has fought to defend our Constitution and the conservative principles important to Michigan families.”

“I will bring that same standard to Washington and stand alongside those putting our people first.”

The crowded Republican primary is currently scheduled for August 4, just a few months before the general election on November 3.

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OnlyFans billionaire dies at 43: What is his soul facing now?

In late March, Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-American billionaire majority owner and director of the global adult-content subscription giant OnlyFans, died at age 43 after a long battle with cancer.

His highly lucrative career in facilitating the distribution of pornography raises a tough spiritual question: What is his soul facing now that he’s passed?

On a recent episode of “Relatable,” Allie Beth Stuckey combed through Radvinsky’s dark career and addressed this difficult question.

Allie begins by pointing to the shady roots of Radvinsky’s early career in the late 1990s, when he ran websites that allegedly used deceptive tactics to draw in users.

“He operated a network of websites that advertised access to hacked passwords of adult websites. … These websites often promised illegal content to attract clicks,” she says.

“Then in 2000, his site Password Universe published a link claiming to offer pedophiles more than 10,000 illegal preteen passwords,” she continues, adding that “one of his sites had a link for the hottest underaged hardcore containing 16-year-olds.”

“This is how he made millions of dollars — not just through technology, not just through your run-of-the-mill depraved pornography — but child sexual exploitation,” she says.

He was able to “[skirt] the law,” however, because “there’s no evidence that these passwords actually gave access to illegal material,” says Allie, highlighting the deceptiveness of Radvinsky’s platforms.

But the porn entrepreneur’s career would take perhaps its darkest turn in 2018 when he purchased OnlyFans — a platform where creators sell exclusive content directly to subscribers. After Radvinsky took the reins, the relatively small company ballooned into the largest and most profitable pornography platform in the world, making him a billionaire.

“He eventually was making $1.9 million a day from people selling their bodies, people buying the bodies — really, just images and videos of the bodies of image-bearers of God,” Allie says. “I mean, what a dirty business.”

But OnlyFans isn’t just morally bankrupt because it facilitates the sale of pornography; it’s also tied to allegations of trafficking and exploitation.

“According to a survey of OnlyFans seekers, 6% of respondents self-disclosed that traffickers helped create and market their OnlyFans account. Eleven percent were aware of minors with accounts. Thirty percent received private messages from suspected traffickers,” Allie says, citing a study from the Avery Center.

Further, “a 2024 Reuters investigation found that over 120-plus police complaints in the U.S. involved explicit content posted without consent. Case files examined by Reuters also cited more than 200 explicit videos and images of kids,” including “explicit sexual rape interactions with children,” she continues.

“[Radvinsky] made his fortune off of this, … trying to tempt people towards accessing child sex abuse material, … sex abuse of adults, [and] the exploitation and the objectification of bodies. That is his legacy.”

But now that death has claimed him, Radvinsky will face the justice of “his maker,” Allie says.

“Just like all of us, … he must stand before the judgment seat of God and give an account for promoting these things, and unless he repented before death, he will pay for his sins forever and ever.”

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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Ex-student’s shocking allegation: Former middle school teacher sexually assaulted him in her car — and in the classroom

A former middle school teacher in New Jersey was arrested after her ex-student claimed to have had a sexual relationship with her in a classroom and her car.

The Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement that 36-year-old Ashley A. Fisler, who formerly went by her maiden name of Ashley Sulla, was arrested Thursday.

‘Scary to think that it could happen so close to home.’

Fisler was charged with six counts of first-degree sexual assault of a minor, one count of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, and one count of second-degree official misconduct.

The prosecutor’s office noted that Fisler faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in state prison for each of the first-degree charges and 10 years for each of the second-degree charges if convicted.

Fisler, of Washington Township, is being held at Salem County Jail.

According to Salem County Jail records, Fisler was denied bail.

On Jan. 23, the alleged victim — who is now an adult — told police he had a sexual relationship with Fisler in 2021 when he was a minor and she was his teacher at Orchard Valley Middle School in Washington Township, according to prosecutors.

“The victim described multiple sexual encounters occurring in 2021 in Fisler’s vehicle and in her classroom,” the prosecutor’s office stated.

The New York Post obtained court documents that said Fisler had sex with the underage student twice and performed a sex act on the boy four times.

Prosecutors said investigators discovered text messages between Fisler and the alleged victim “confirming the unlawful sexual nature of their relationship.”

Court documents said that Fisler sent the boy “multiple nude photographs” of herself, according to the Post.

Citing an online resume, Fox News reported that Fisler taught social studies in the Washington Township school district starting in 2014.

The prosecutor’s office noted that Fisler is “no longer employed as a teacher in Washington Township or anywhere else.”

Eric M. Hibbs, superintendent of Washington Township Public Schools, released the following statement to Patch after Fisler’s arrest:

The district is aware of the charges announced by the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office regarding a former middle school teacher. We take matters involving the safety and well-being of our students extremely seriously. The individual referenced is no longer employed by the district and separated from employment in April 2023. We are fully cooperating with law enforcement and will continue to do so. Because this is an active criminal matter, we are unable to comment further at this time.

RELATED: School employee, 34, allegedly had sex with 13-year-old student, gave him alcohol, weed — and cops believe she’s on the run

The New York Post in a separate story reported that one of Fisler’s students wrote an essay praising Fisler — then going by her maiden name, Ashley Sulla — as a “hero” who “can connect with the students on a personal level.”

The Post noted that any connection between the student who wrote the essay and the alleged victim is unclear.

NJ.com released the text of the essay in July 2019: “Sometimes people’s heroes are an ‘overlooked’ hero, simply because what they do isn’t ‘significant.’ But, my hero, Ms. Sulla, works at school.”

“Ms. Sulla always makes sure that she can connect with the students on a personal level,” the essay read.

The essay added that “Ms. Sulla is also a protector. Every day, Ms. Sulla not only wants to make sure we learn new facts about social studies, she also wants to make sure we feel secure and comfortable at school.”

The essay, titled “My Hero Works at School,” concluded, “She ensures students are comfortable in her classroom and that we have someone relatable. Ms. Sulla should no longer be an ‘overlooked’ hero.”

District Social Studies Supervisor Jeff Snyder told NJ.com in 2019, “Ashley is a great teacher. Not only does she make her lessons interactive and engaging, but she also prides herself in making personal connections with all her students.”

The Post noted that Fisler — who is married — had posted a since-deleted Facebook entry in 2018 “showing her then-boyfriend proposing to her in front of her class, as she reacts with elated shock.”

The stepbrother of Fisler’s husband told the Post on Friday, “He’s a good, upstanding guy. He has morals and everything — he wouldn’t be the type to stay with her if he found out.”

A booking photo shows that Fisler has a tattoo on her inner forearm that reads: “I love you a bushel and a peck.” The saying became popular due to the musical “Guys and Dolls.”

Emily Garber, an Orchard Valley Middle School graduate, said the child sex crime accusations are “scary.”

“Scary to think that it could happen so close to home,” Garber told WCAU-TV. “It made me uncomfortable knowing my brothers both had her as a teacher.”

Rocco Cipparone, Fisler’s attorney, told WCAU on Friday following her virtual court appearance that “she says she is not guilty of these charges. She denied the allegations. And we are going to go forward, wait for the state to present some evidence to me so I can evaluate it, and aggressively defend her.”

Cipparone told the Post on Friday that he believes that Fisler should be granted bail.

“She has no prior criminal record, she has been a lifelong resident of New Jersey, she is a property owner, her entire family is here, she is not a risk of flight,” Cipparone declared.

“These allegations go back five years. You have this five-year gap where now all of a sudden they are going to say she is a danger to the community,” Cipparone argued. “I’m optimistic, and I think I have strong reasons to have her released.”

Fisler is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday for a bail hearing.

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