A Dallas nonprofit organization is under fire after a local news investigation found evidence that they were taking money while failing to provide the meals they promised to students.

The board of the Hunger Busters organization called for the resignation of CEO Latame Phillips after KTVT-TV reports documented that many schools hadn’t even heard of the group.

‘I look at the kids that we serve, and they remind me of myself.’

Hunger Busters has been in operation for 25 years in West Dallas and said its mission was to provide meals for “food-insecure” students in the Dallas Independent School District.

The organization has had many notable figures on its board and ran numerous charity events to raise money for the cause. The trouble appeared to begin in 2023 when Phillips became the CEO after starting as a delivery driver at the nonprofit.

He said at the time that they fed about 3,500 students on a daily basis.

“I look at the kids that we serve, and they remind me of myself,” Phillips claimed.

In 2024, he applied for a grant through the Tyler Street Foundation to buy a van for the nonprofit. The foundation president said the organization was thrilled to help, when it was bombarded with another request claiming the nonprofit needed emergency funds to purchase the property it operated from.

The foundation gave Hunger Busters $116,200 to make both purchases.

When they took a photo with the new van, the foundation president got suspicious.

“There was just a magnetic sign stuck on it that said ‘Tyler Street Foundation supports Hunger Busters.’ We really began to be curious. There was just something about that day that seemed off,” Vivian Skinner said.

She said they found out the van was a rental and the group had provided fake documentation. Then they found that Hunger Busters had not purchased the property either.

The Tyler Street Foundation has filed a lawsuit against Hunger Busters.

The investigative team found that there was little to no activity at the group’s property related to the mission and that none of the schools it served had received any food for a year. Some of the schools reported their last delivery to have been longer than a year ago.

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Phillips denied the allegations and said the organization had changed its mission to support “churches, community-based organizations, and partner nonprofits,” but refused to provide names of those organizations.

The board has since said that it has “unanimously approved an independent forensic accounting investigation” and plans on “restructuring the organization to strengthen financial oversight, operation, and internal controls.”

The organization’s website has been shut down, as well as its Instagram and Facebook accounts.

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Former President Bill Clinton excoriated Republicans’ demands to have him and Hillary Clinton testify about Jeffrey Epstein and called for a public hearing instead.

Clinton wrote in an angry screed on social media Wednesday that Republican Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky asked them to appear at a closed-door hearing.

‘Who benefits from this arrangement? It’s not Epstein’s victims, who deserve justice. Not the public, who deserve the truth.’

“I have called for the full release of the Epstein files. I have provided a sworn statement of what I know. And just this week, I’ve agreed to appear in person before the committee. But it’s still not enough for Republicans on the House Oversight Committee,” Clinton wrote.

The Clintons agreed to testify after Congress found them both in contempt for refusing to produce documents related to the billionaire pedophile.

“Now, Chairman Comer says he wants cameras, but only behind closed doors. Who benefits from this arrangement? It’s not Epstein’s victims, who deserve justice. Not the public, who deserve the truth. It serves only partisan interests. This is not fact-finding, it’s pure politics,” he added.

“I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court by a Republican Party running scared,” Clinton concluded. “If they want answers, let’s stop the games & do this the right way: in a public hearing, where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about.”

Hillary Clinton made a similar statement on Thursday.

“For six months, we engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good faith. We told them what we know, under oath. They ignored all of it. They moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an exercise in distraction,” she wrote.

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“You love to talk about transparency. There’s nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on. We will be there,” she added.

While the feud between the Clintons and Republicans escalated, millions of pages from the Epstein files were released by the government at the end of January, including thousands of images and video recordings.

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While BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales wonders whether or not steps will be taken to address the alleged widespread Somali fraud, one congressman is taking action to stop future abuse.

“While we are talking about whether or not Somalians who committed unprecedented amounts of fraud will ever actually be held accountable, there is a warrior in Congress taking action to prevent more of it from happening,” Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

That warrior is Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas), who is introducing legislation that would set a 25-year moratorium on Somalis migrating to the United States.

“He has been warning for a while about number one, the fact that they refuse to assimilate, which like, you cannot have a cohesive country when you are importing a bunch of immigrants from a third-world country who refuse to assimilate to your first-world values,” Gonzales explains.

“That can’t happen. You can’t have that. That’s not a country that you want, because that’s not a country that functions … he’s also been warning about the abuse of our welfare benefits because as it turns out, you guys are going to be shocked to hear this,” she continues.

“As it turns out, when you import people from the third world who have absolutely no marketable skills, no education. … They don’t know how to do anything that pays good money or contributes to our economy. All they do is siphon out more of your taxpayer dollars by way of welfare benefits,” she adds.

And in a recent House Oversight Hearing on the Minnesota fraud, Gill brought this concern up.

“Does large-scale Somali immigration make Minnesota stronger or weaker?” Gill asked Democrats’ witness Brendan Ballou, former special counsel at the DOJ.

“Certainly stronger,” Ballou replied.

“Certainly stronger,” Gill repeated, before asking, “Do you know what percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on food stamps?”

“No,” Ballou replied.

“54%,” Gill explained. “Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households?”

When Ballou tried to deflect without answering, Gill cut him off and said, “It’s 7%.”

Gill went down the list, telling Ballou that the amount of Somali-headed households on Medicaid is 73%, while native Minnesota households were 18% — and even more concerning, the amount of Somali-headed households on welfare in general is 81%.

“Somalians are contributing nothing to our society except fraud and abuse and siphoning off your taxpayer dollars,” Gonzales comments. “And I don’t recall voting to bring a bunch of third worlders into my country to use my tax dollars to go out there and create fake day cares and siphon in the millions.”

“I didn’t actually vote for that. I don’t think you did either,” she continues, asking, “So why should we continue to allow this?”

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Mariah Carey and a tribute to disco are hardly controversial.

For the 2026 Winter Games, the Olympics kept political messaging to a minimum, save for a couple of small segments.

‘Harmony between beauty and creativity.’

The games, which are taking place in Milan and Cortina, Italy, held two parades for the opening ceremonies. Athletes came from the mountains, where they will compete in Cortina, down to the town square to celebrate, while fans packed the San Siro Olympic Stadium in Milan to watch the ceremonial performances.

The ceremony opened with a montage video featuring skiers, a woman making a bowl of pasta, cappuccinos, families on a mountain, Italian sports cars, and more.

According to NBC’s commentary team, the ceremony that followed was meant to represent “harmony between beauty and creativity.”

This featured dancers dressed as angels performing a lot of interpretive movements, which was a recurring theme throughout the near-hour-long event. There were mascots serving as an ode to Italian composers, giant paint tubes, and even a segment dedicated to disco dancing.

After Mariah Carey sang in Italian, a few of the more contentious elements of the ceremony appeared.

First, a very diverse cast of fans arrived at the stadium on a train before Armani-clad models in Italian colors delivered the Italian flag to the podium. Then, an “all-female honor guard,” which NBC noted was the first of its kind for the Olympics, raised the flag.

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What seemingly caused the most disagreement was the Olympic committee using giant rings to represent harmony between dueling ideals, which then turned into the Olympic rings. Fans pointed out on X that this was similar to London‘s use of the rings in 2012.

“Bit of a London copy of 2012,” one viewer wrote.

“Copying the [Brits] I see! Nothing will top 2012 opening and closing ceremonies,” another person reacted.

Overall, the general lack of divisive messaging in the ceremony was appreciated by viewers, with one applauding the organizers. “Italy. No woke garbage.”

The 2024 Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony sparked worldwide controversy, however, particularly with Christians. The ceremony mocked the Bible’s Last Supper with a “drag queen Last Supper,” replacing Jesus and his apostles with a cast of disturbing characters, including an obese woman in the place of Jesus.

A nearly nude male, painted blue, appeared as Dionysus, the god of winemaking, vegetation, fertility, and ecstasy.

The strange events were also coupled with a drag queen carrying the Olympic torch before the games started.

RELATED: Russell Brand explores what was revealed by the Olympics’ symbolic attack on Christianity

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In 2026, rapper Snoop Dogg, who is a part of the NBC Olympics crew, wore a special Italian Olympic chain. This is noteworthy because in 2024, the musician was accused of wearing a chain that some alleged was a representation of Baphomet. Baphomet is a pagan god adopted as a symbol for the Satanic Temple.

Snoop rejected the idea, saying he had it made because “somebody told me I was the GOAT, so I wanted to make me a goat chain.”

This time around, Snoop focused on celebrating the Jamaican bobsled team, which is drawing comparisons to the 1993 film “Cool Runnings.”

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A 16-year-old girl said in a video interview that that she fought the adult male with a MAGA hat at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest in Texas earlier this week, calling him “old” and “racist” while excusing fellow teen brawlers.

“I didn’t think it was going to escalate this far,” Alissa, a student at Moe & Gene Johnson High School in Buda, told KEYE-TV. “I didn’t think that he was going to be capable to even think to hit a minor. I didn’t think he was actually going to get out of his vehicle. So in the moment I reacted.”

‘I’m not gonna let, like, [an] old man, a racist man, like, say something to a minor.’

Alissa told the station she saw another female juvenile kick the man’s truck amid a verbal argument between them Monday afternoon.

“She kicks the truck. She just kicks the truck one time, and that’s it,” Alissa added to KEYE. “That’s the moment that he got mad. He reached for his door. He decides to get off the vehicle and starts to come straight to the girl and starts to attack her.”

She also told the station that “he should have known better. He’s an adult. He could have just easily let the girl hit the car, park to the side, call the police, and call it a day. He decided to get out of the car and do what he did.”

Alissa added to KEYE that cellphone video another student recorded shows the moment she intervened.

“He kind of got on top of her and started to hit the girl. In that moment, I reacted. I went and I pulled the guy off, and that’s when I hit him,” she recalled to the station. “Everybody comes and attacks him, and it escalates from there.”

Alissa in her interview with KEYE excused the actions of her fellow teens.

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“It’s teenagers,” she argued to the station. “How was he not going to expect teenagers to act like teenagers? Like, if they have the moment to attack a guy, and they’re doing a protest … like, obviously those kids are gonna take the time out of their day to come defend the girls.”

Alissa added to KEYE, “Like, it’s a girl. Like, he should have known better, like, not to put his hands on girls, first of all, and he should have known that it’s a minor; he should have known that these are kids doing a protest.”

She also told the station, “I’m not gonna let, like, [an] old man, a racist man, like, say something to a minor.” The reporter interviewing Alissa didn’t ask her to clarify why she called the man a racist.

Alissa’s father told KEYE he was furious when Alissa told him the man grabbed her by her hair.

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“I was really, really mad,” Jose Loredo told the station. “We are grown-ups, you know; we’re not little kids. And him hitting girls, females, you’re not supposed to do that. He could have just left. No reason to pull over and get off his car.”

Buda Police said 45-year-old Chad Michael Watts of Kyle was charged Tuesday with two counts of assault causing bodily injury, which are Class A misdemeanors.

Hays County Jail records indicate Watts was booked into jail Tuesday and released Wednesday on two surety bonds of $2,500 each. Police told KEYE in a separate story that Watts has no previous record of violent offenses.

While police determined that Watts was the primary aggressor, Officer Matt Schima with the Buda Police Department told KEYE in a video interview that police also are looking into possible charges against the juveniles involved in the brawl and that “we want to be thorough in this investigation to make sure that everybody is held accountable that needs to be held accountable.”

KEYE claimed that it had attempted to reach out to Watts for comment but those attempts were unsuccessful.

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