Lawmakers heavily pressed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) during a hearing on Wednesday regarding fraud taking place in his state.

The ‘Feeding Our Future’ scandal

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) questioned Walz about taxpayer payments to the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, an organization that has been at the center of a massive COVID-era fraud scandal involving Somali operators. The Minnesota Department of Education suspended those payments in March 2021 but “voluntarily” resumed making them weeks later, according to a 2022 press release from the Minnesota Judicial Branch.

‘He’s here illegally, he can’t read, and he got a license under your provisions!’

“Why didn’t you tell the truth about why you restarted the payments?” Jordan asked.

“The agency believed that the court had required them to make those payments,” Walz responded.

Jordan countered that the claim was false, stating that the judge never ordered the resumption of payments. “So the court’s lying?!” Jordan asked.

“I can’t tell you, Congressman!” Walz said.

“Could it be you were trying to hide behind the court, Governor?” Jordan asked.

After the interaction, Walz struggled to come up with a response.

The press release from the Minnesota courts stated that the judge “never ordered the Department of Education to resume payments to FOF in April 2021, or at any other time.”

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Non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses

Later on in the hearing, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) ripped into Walz on commercial driver’s licenses.

“According to the secretary of transportation, one-third of Minnesota’s non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses were issued illegally,” Perry said.

Perry then presented a clip of a person driving a semi-truck the wrong way on a divided Missouri highway in late February. The video shows that the truck was eventually stopped by a trooper.

Perry claimed that the suspect driving the vehicle was given a Minnesota license despite being unable to pass the driving test because of a law Walz signed that allows applicants to obtain a CDL regardless of immigration status.

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Walz talked about the safety of Minnesota’s roads and claimed that he doesn’t “understand the connection” between driver’s licenses and immigration status.

“He’s here illegally, he can’t read, and he got a license under your provisions!” Perry said. “And he’s driving all across the country, imperiling everybody else! That’s the connection!” Perry concluded.

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Los Angeles officials joined protesters in a demonstration against new policies proposed by the Trump administration to ensure federal housing is used only by U.S. citizens.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an effort to root out illegal immigrants who have been using federally funded housing directly or indirectly though their citizen family members.

‘Your neighbor in public housing is not your enemy. The family using Section 8 is not your enemy. Mixed-status families are not your enemy.’

On Tuesday, activists in Los Angeles spoke out against the policies at a press conference in front of L.A. City Hall.

“This administration is seeking a rule change that would put 1,700 local families with children on the street immediately,” said Pastor Bridie Roberts with Unite Here Local 11.

L.A. City Council member Ysabel Jurado inadvertently indicated that there may be far more illegal immigrants using federal housing.

“Nearly one in five public housing households in our city is mixed status,” said Jurado.

According to the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, as of 2023, there were more than 6,200 units of public housing in Los Angeles. If one in five of those include families with illegal aliens, then that comes to over 1,200 units and perhaps 3,400 families or more.

Council member Hugo Soto-Martinez, who admitted that he had lived in a “mixed status” household, said as many as 6,800 people were at risk of being “ripped” out of their homes.

Some of the members of “mixed families” showed up at the protest and spoke out against the policy change.

“It’s not just my family. It’s thousands of families who are at risk,” said Josefina Estrada in Spanish to KABC-TV.

L.A. City Council member Tim McOsker claimed the policy would decrease public safety, “put families out on the street,” and increase poverty.

“Immigrants are not your enemy. Your neighbor in public housing is not your enemy. The family using Section 8 is not your enemy. Mixed-status families are not your enemy,” said council member Eunisses Hernandez.

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Hernandez also introduced a council resolution to oppose the HUD policy.

“No HUD, we are not going to allow you to break up families,” she added. “Here in L.A., thousands of people could face eviction.”

The illegal alien advocates asked for people to flood the HUD website with comments opposing the policy, but those who support the policy can also comment at this link.

Council member Jurado was mocked in February when she was photographed apparently napping during a council closed session. She said she may have dozed off while reading.

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President Trump carried out one of the most consequential military operations in recent history, killing 40 of Iran’s leaders along with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — but the media and liberals would rather stand with Iran.

“It’s very clear what side the Democrats and the mainstream media stand on. And it’s not America’s side, and it’s not on the side of freedom either,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says.

“I unequivocally oppose this war of choice and everyone should. And the bottom line, when it comes down to it, is that if we want to stop Donald Trump with this random decision that he has arrived at, then Congress must act, and Congress must act immediately,” former Vice President Kamala Harris told Fox following the president’s actions.

“The American people do not want our sons and daughters to go into this unauthorized war of choice, and I unequivocally oppose it,” she added.

“It is so disingenuous from the woman who was the vice president in an administration that was perfectly fine continuing the Russia-Ukraine war. I mean, we funded it. We gave them weapons. We did everything we could to continue that war under her administration,” Gonzales says.

“In fact, remember, there were moments where there could have been a negotiation, and she and Joe Biden or whoever the hell was pulling his puppet strings said, ‘Don’t do it. Don’t negotiate. We will keep funding this forever.’ So I don’t want to hear it from her,” she continues.

But it’s not just Harris that Gonzales takes issue with.

“I don’t want to hear it from the Democrats. I mean, Barack Obama was the king of dropping bombs without getting authorization. So I’m just not going to be lectured to by the likes of Kamala Harris,” Gonzales says, pointing out that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) also publicly sided with Iran.

“You cannot ‘free’ people by killing them and destroying their country,” Tlaib wrote in a post on X.

“A terrorist who is in our country actually serving in Congress sided with the Ayatollah?” Gonzales says, adding, “I’m so shocked.”

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Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow presented U.S. senators with a disturbing map, revealing 338,000 U.S. IP addresses allegedly distributing child sexual abuse material.

Tebow testified on Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, which held a hearing about confronting child trafficking.

‘This is a fight of good vs. evil, and we are losing.’

Tebow, the chairman and founder of the Tim Tebow Foundation, explained to lawmakers that he attended a meeting in Lyons, France, in 2023 alongside experts in victim identification, and they determined that there were more than 57,000 abused and unidentified children who appeared in multiple images.

Just two years later, that number has grown to over 89,000, Tebow stated, citing INTERPOL’s database.

Tebow’s map was blanketed with a sea of red pins, each marking the location of an alleged offender. Also indicated on the map were blue pins, showing the locations of open law enforcement investigations; however, those markings were few and far between.

“There’s a red dot map right over there over my right shoulder,” he told lawmakers. “That’s just a six-month screenshot of the U.S., and every red dot that is on there is someone that is downloading, sharing, or distributing child rape images, almost all under the age of 12.”

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He described the map as showing over 338,000 red pins, adding that an estimated 55% to 85% of those are also alleged “hands-on offenders.”

While pointing to the map, Tebow stated, “If you could also look, there’s blue dots on there. You can’t really see them, but the blue ones are the ones that are under investigation.”

Tebow’s written testimony noted that the map was based on Justice Department and Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program data.

“We have to do a whole lot more, and we have to do it faster because every day we wait, they’re suffering. They’re crying. And I believe right now many of them are praying that we would respond,” Tebow told lawmakers. “The question is, will we actually accept the responsibility of caring for these boys and girls and truly protecting them, or are we just going to continue to talk about it?”

During the hearing, Tebow noted that it is nearly impossible to estimate how many children are being abused and have yet to be identified.

“That’s just one database,” he said. “So, one of the things that we would ask and plead this committee to work on is an international treaty of getting all of the different databases to work together to deconflict so we actually get a ground truth on what the number is.”

He stated that Homeland Security Investigations, the FBI, Canada, Australia, and INTERPOL each maintain separate databases.

RELATED: After years infiltrating child exploitation rings, expert reveals an even DARKER American underworld

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Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) shared data from INTERPOL, which estimated that of the images of unidentified and exploited children, 60% were victims under 12, and 4.3% were infants.

Tebow advocated the passage of the bipartisan Renewed Hope Act of 2026, highlighting that it would allow the Secretary of Homeland Security to hire 200 more victim identification specialists and child exploitation investigators. He pointed out that currently, there are only 10 such specialists.

“Law enforcement needs more resources, more support … a bigger rescue team,” Tebow wrote in a post on social media. “This is a fight of good vs. evil, and we are losing.”

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Former Republican strategist Bill Kristol tried to mock the rationale for the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and was ridiculed by critics pointing out his past contradictory statements.

Kristol weighed in on a statement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio explaining to a reporter that the “intent” of the strike was separate from the “timing” of the attack.

‘Have some self awareness and sit down.’

“Incoherent walk back by Rubio, after he said yesterday the threat was imminent so no time to go to Congress,” responded Kristol. “But to the degree Rubio is now saying, no, the president all along intended a major assault on Iran, there’s no excuse for not having gone to Congress for authorization.”

But only two months prior, Kristol was calling for the administration to help “overthrow” the regime in Iran.

“The Trump administrations should be helping the brave people of Iran overthrow a cruel and terror-sponsoring dictatorship, rather than threatening our democracy ally Denmark,” he posted. “But that would require having an administration that supports American interests and principles.”

And in June 2025, Kristol referred to Iran as “our enemy” when criticizing the president’s statement, saying he was not “happy” with Israel.

“I assume all pro-Israel Trump idolators, supporters, and rationalizers will rush to denounce this horrifying moral equivalence an American president has drawn between our friend Israel and our enemy Iran,” he wrote.

Many demolished Kristol for the seeming contradiction.

“You just keep digging further and further making you the butt of so many jokes. We’re enjoying it though!! So keep it up!!” responded one account.

“Bill, you are rightfully getting crushed on X today. Have some self awareness and sit down,” said one account.

“If you told me 30 years ago that Bill Kristol would be coming to the Iranian Mullahs’ defense I’d have told you that you were crazy,” read another response.

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“Why don’t you just sit this out Bill,” said another.

“You seem to have zero principles. You’re just a never Trumper grifter these days.”

Kristol addressed some of the criticism in a post at the Bulwark, where he noted his past support for regime change in Iran. He argued that the manner in which the administration proceeded without congressional authority is the issue and accused the government of having no transition plan after the strikes are completed.

The political commentator is known for defending the U.S. invasion of Iraq but has declared himself a Democrat after being a vehement opponent of President Donald Trump.

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When a garage pull rope that was shaped like a noose was discovered in Bubba Wallace’s garage at the Talladega Superspeedway in 2020, the media had a field day.

Despite the FBI determining Wallace was not the victim of a hate crime, NASCAR’s reputation was tarnished.

Now, according to BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock, NASCAR is “fixing its popularity problem” with Michael Jordan.

Jordan joined NASCAR in 2020 and is making history in the sport after his 23XI Racing team won its third straight NASCAR race to start the 2026 season.

“There’s nothing that the media, mainstream media, loves more than a racial story, and Michael Jordan and Tyler Reddick are making a lot of history in a sport that has a lot of so-called racial baggage,” Whitlock says.

“Around 2006, 2007, NASCAR fell off a cliff in terms of popularity and visibility and just relevance and traction. Most people attributed that fall-off to the stock market crash in 2007 and that the hundreds of thousands of fans that would go from city to city to city with NASCAR, they lost their economic stability,” he explains.

“And that’s what most people believe gutted NASCAR. I’m going to posit a theory that, yes, the economic collapse played a role, but the economic collapse was about gutting all of the working class. And NASCAR built its reputation on southern rednecks, working-class people, you know, heart of America people,” he says.

“There was one path back, that NASCAR had to place the race card. They had to create ‘Race Jam.’ They tried to do it with Bubba Wallace. Bubba Wallace is a weak, inferior driver. He’s no good. And so, they couldn’t do it with Bubba,” he continues.

But Michael Jordan is different.

“The guy stepped away from basketball 25 years ago, hasn’t lost a bit of relevancy, and it’s Michael Jordan, and they’ve injected him into NASCAR, and they’ve injected that storyline into NASCAR,” Whitlock says. “And I think it’s going to produce results.”

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Three females were caught on video going on a rampage at the drive-thru window of New Jersey Wendy’s fast-food restaurant recently — and now they’re facing criminal charges.

Police in Ewing Township said the incident occurred just before 3 a.m. Feb. 21 at the restaurant in the 1700 block of Olden Avenue. It is open 24 hours a day.

‘Insane.’

Police said they received a report about disorderly customers who broke a drive-thru window.

An investigation revealed that three females damaged property, attempted to assault employees with items, and fled the scene before officers arrived.

However, police said employees recorded video of the incident, and as a result, police were able to identify the suspects: 18-year-old Saniyah Brittingham, 19-year-old Leah Williford Stevens, and 23-year-old Honesty Harrison, all of whom hail from neighboring Trenton.

Police said Brittingham and Williford Stevens are facing charges of burglary, criminal mischief, and unlawful possession of a weapon, while Harrison is facing charges of criminal mischief and burglary.

Brittingham and Harrison turned themselves in Friday, but Williford Stevens was still at large, according to WPVI-TV.

In the station’s video report below, the females are seen chucking drinks and other items at employees as apparent food is splattered around the drive-thru window — as well on the suspects. It appears toward the end of one clip that the trio get a taste of their own medicine as a huge batch of liquid flies in their direction as they take off running.

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WPVI said police didn’t indicate what may have sparked the incident, and a handful of people the station interviewed seemed deflated by the whole thing.

“I kinda get depressed about seeing young people just do that,” Rupert Johnson of neighboring Lawrence, N.J., told WPVI.

“This is not something that should be happening,” Dawn Hemsey of Ewing Township told the station, adding that the actions caught on video are “insane.”

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NBA legend Charles Barkley says “stupid” people “need something to trigger them.”

The Hall of Fame player was referring to the Team USA men’s Olympic hockey team visiting President Donald Trump at the State of the Union address and the White House last month. The event sparked controversy because of the way Trump delivered the invite.

‘I’m not a Trump guy. I want to make that clear.’

The president called the men’s locker room after the team defeated Canada 2-1 in the gold medal game on February 22, but his invite to the White House included a joke about the women’s gold medal team.

“We’re going to have to bring the women’s team,” the president told the team as they laughed. He added that he “probably would be impeached” if he didn’t.

While the call resulted in apologies, condemnations, and struggle sessions with the media, Barkley defended the team’s choice to visit the capital.

“Guys who didn’t want to go shouldn’t have to explain why they didn’t go. I’ve said this before. I’m not a Trump guy. But if I got invited to the White House, I would go,” Barkley told co-host Ernie Johnson on “The Steam Room.”

“I’m not a Trump guy. I want to make that clear,” Barkley reiterated. “But I respect the office. He’s the president of the United States. But if guys don’t want to go, I understand that too. It doesn’t have to be a talking point. It doesn’t have to be … ‘un-American.'”

Earlier in the discussion, the 63-year-old made a point of saying that while he did not agree with everything the government does, he understands that the general public can’t stop themselves from being triggered.

RELATED: Boston Bruins players cave over Trump phone call: ‘Certainly sorry’ — ‘we should have reacted differently’

“Yo, man, why do y’all have to mess up everything?” Barkley said about Trump’s phone call. He then told his fellow Americans to stop “falling for stupidity” like that, while also placing blame on the government for purposely saying things that trigger people.

“I know y’all say stuff to trigger them. Y’all say stuff, and y’all know they going to be fools,” Barkley told the administration.

When co-host Johnson tried to redirect Barkley’s blame to Trump’s call to the hockey team, the former athlete said that people should control themselves and not react to everything, but also that they often react anyway because they are “stupid.”

“We don’t have to fall for stupidity, Ernie,” Barkley argued. “But we do, [and] that’s my point. These people out here are stupid. They need something to trigger them.”

RELATED: Team USA players interrogated by woke Canadian media over Trump call — ‘Why would you laugh?’

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Barkley went on to say he did not like how divisive the phone call had become, and that such division has “screwed up” the United States.

“Everything is not Democrat, Republican, conservative, or liberal,” he argued. “That’s why we got this divided, screwed-up country.”

“Stop it, man,” Barkley soon pleaded, looking directly into the camera. The Alabaman then reinforced his reasoning one more time.

“The public — they’re idiots. They’re fools. They can’t think for themselves.”

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s challenge to incumbent Sen. John Cornyn went unresolved in Tuesday’s heated Republican primary race, as neither candidate proved able to secure 50% of the total vote.

With over 95% of the votes in as of Wednesday afternoon, Cornyn leads Paxton 41.9% to 40.7%, reported the Associated Press.

‘We must win in November.’

Several hours after the Cornyn campaign stated on social media that “Judgement Day is coming for Ken Paxton,” President Donald Trump announced that he would be staging an intervention and handpicking which of the two candidates — each of whom netted the support of approximately 900,000 Texans — he wants to compete against Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) in the general election.

Trump stated that the GOP primary race in Texas “cannot, for the good of the Party, and our Country, itself, be allowed to go on any longer. IT MUST STOP NOW!”

Claiming that his GOP endorsements have “been virtually insurmountable,” Trump said that he will be endorsing one of the two candidates imminently and asking the disfavored candidate “to immediately DROP OUT OF THE RACE!”

“We have an easy to beat, Radical Left Opponent, and we have to TOTALLY FOCUS on putting him away, quickly and decisively!” continued the president, referring to Talarico. “Both John and Ken ran great races, but not good enough. Now, this one, must be PERFECT!”

RELATED: Chip Roy’s political future uncertain after nail-biting Texas AG race

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“We must win in November!” he concluded.

The runoff election will be held on May 26 in the event that both candidates remain in the race.

On Wednesday afternoon, Paxton tweeted, “Last night, in a historic failure for John Cornyn, he failed to get nearly 60% of the GOP vote after spending $100 million. It’s time to finish the job in the runoff.”

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The U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling deciding how persecution claims can be handled in asylum cases.

The unanimous decision in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi found that federal courts must defer to immigration agencies about facts being claimed by asylum seekers.

The unanimous decision says courts must accept findings from the immigration agencies unless they meet a ‘substantial evidence’ standard.

Douglas Humberto Urias-Orellana is an immigrant from El Salvador who fled to the U.S. in 2021 with his wife and his minor child after allegedly facing death threats from a drug cartel. The family’s claims were deemed by an immigration judge not to meet the persecution standard and ordered them to be deported.

Urias-Orellana sued against the deportation and called on the Supreme Court to accept his persecution claims.

Instead, the unanimous decision says courts must accept findings from the immigration agencies unless they meet a “substantial evidence” standard.

The bottom line is that asylum seekers will find it harder to challenge orders of deportation if their persecution claims are denied.

The ruling was written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

RELATED: US Catholic bishops call on SCOTUS to shut down Trump birthright citizenship order and protect ‘human dignity’

The Alliance for Justice issued a statement prior to the ruling supporting the asylum seeker’s cause.

“In Urias-Orellana vs. Bondi, the Court could raise the bar as to how much deference courts of appeals should give to a determination by the Board of Immigration Appeals on whether an asylum seeker has been persecuted in their home country,” their statement read. “A ruling that raises the bar could mean that individuals with credible fears for their safety may be denied refuge simply because they cannot meet a higher procedural threshold.”

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Weeks after Don Lemon and dozens more agitators allegedly stormed a church service in Minnesota, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon made a much-anticipated announcement.

On Wednesday, Dhillon announced that all 39 individuals suspected of disrupting the church service had been arrested as of Monday, adding an intriguing detail about a couple of the arrests.

‘Outstanding work by DOJ. You don’t get to terrorize churchgoers in America.’

“As of Monday, all 39 individuals indicted in the attack on Cities Church in MN had been arrested, two of them while abroad,” Dhillon wrote on X.

“We @CivilRights look forward to bringing justice to the victims of this attack and demonstrating our commitment to justice for all!” she continued.

RELATED: Don Lemon enters plea following January arrest in connection with Minnesota church disruption

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Activists stormed Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18.

Apparently among them was ex-CNN talking head Don Lemon, who previously pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to violate someone’s constitutional rights and violating the FACE Act.

Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) praised the DOJ’s persistence in this case: “Outstanding work by DOJ. You don’t get to terrorize churchgoers in America.”

Likewise, BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre lauded the arrests, noting how easily the case could have disappeared in the news cycle.

“I appreciate the follow-through on this. Many people predicted that the administration would do nothing and with all of the other news it would have been easy to let this quietly drop out of the cycle. But they didn’t, they charged them all,” MacIntyre said.

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