Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison appeared stunned when protesters interrupted his speech for a far-left candidate for one of the state’s seats in the U.S. Senate.

Ellison was trying to encourage Democrats to show up for Peggy Flanagan when protesters interrupted him and demanded that he answer for shutting down a program looking into wrongful convictions.

The contest will likely be seen as another battle between far-left elements of the Democratic Party trying to seize control.

Flanagan is trying to win the primary for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party from Rep. Angie Craig, a Democrat who has represented Minnesota since 2019.

Ellison seemed angered and rattled by the protesters, and he quickly finished his comments before rushing offstage.

The protesters were angry about Ellison shutting down the Conviction Review Unit, which he blamed on lack of funding from the Trump administration. In five years, the unit overturned three wrongful convictions.

Prior to getting heckled off the stage, Ellison described the contest between Flanagan and Craig as “truly a fight of the money versus the many.”

He might have been referring to the significant cash advantage Craig has over Flanagan, as divulged in financial reports. Flanagan has only $1.56 million in cash on hand, while Craig has more than three times as much — $5 million, for the period ending June 30.

“We are the many, and we will beat the money, and we will prevail against them,” Ellison said at the rally.

Videos of the interruption were widely circulated on YouTube and the X platform.

Craig was the first openly LGBTQ+ member in Congress from Minnesota and is also the first lesbian mother to serve in Congress.

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She has been endorsed by establishment Democrats, including former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. The contest will likely be seen as another battle between far-left elements of the Democratic Party trying to seize control.

The primaries for both parties will be conducted Aug. 11.

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Cory Mills, the scandal-plagued Republican congressman from Florida, is back on the radar of law enforcement, this time, at the Department of Justice.

A source familiar with the matter confirmed to Blaze News on Tuesday evening that Mills is under DOJ investigation. However, the nature and scope of the investigation remain unclear.

‘Strap up cowboy.’

MS NOW, citing three sources, reported that it is a criminal investigation, and ABC News, citing sources, reported that at least part of the investigation relates to Mills’ finances.

Mills’ office did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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For nearly a year and a half, Mills has been plagued by allegations ranging from stolen valor, to a conversion to Islam, to meeting with a Syrian leader once labeled a terrorist, and even to sextortion against a beauty queen.

As Blaze News reported in August, Mills allegedly bombarded Lindsey Langston, then the reigning Miss United States, with threatening messages after she ended their three-year relationship in February 2025.

Screenshots of messages allegedly from Mills and reviewed by Blaze News included:

“You want to date or be with someone else. Be my guest. But they need to know well in advance that if we cross paths, I don’t care this week, this month, or this decade. They better damn well know it’s coming every time.””May want to tell every guy you date that if we run into each other at any point. Strap up cowboy.””I can send him a few videos of you as well.”

At the time, Langston told Blaze News, “Am I gonna wake up one day to videos of us having sex on social media? Because I know he has them, and he’s put it in writing.”

Langston was granted a restraining order against Mills in October.

This is a developing story.

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It seems a lot of people are pretending to do more work than they actually do.

While performance art at work comes in many different forms and happens for different reasons, one generation is actually outperforming the others in its efforts to not work: Gen Z.

‘The average worker fakes about five hours per week.’

Con job

In a survey of full-time American professionals, employees have found remarkable ways to fake productivity.

Shockingly, 66% of employees admitted to faking productivity at work, and 73% of managers said they do it as well.

Gen Z has a particular affinity for it, however, outperforming older generations by 12 points when it comes to slacking off. A whopping 80% of them said they are faking productivity, while Millennials came in at 68% and Gen X at 58%.

The study from Software Finder also revealed some wild tactics employees are taking to make it seem as though they are actually working when they are not.

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Cat and mouse

The top two methods employees are using to fake work are “moving the mouse periodically” and “keeping a doc or browser tab open”; 56% of respondents said they use those tactics.

Another method used by 43% of full-time workers was purposely responding to non-urgent messages at a slower rate, or “slow-responding.”

More than a third of employees said they would log in to a tool they aren’t using, while about a quarter of respondents said they would send a strategic message on work apps like Slack or Teams to make it seem as if they were working.

Another 22% said they scheduled emails for later in the day.

All this fake work adds up to a massive amount of time burned over the course of the year. Specifically, the survey stated that the average worker fakes about five hours per week making it seem as though they are working. Multiplied over a year, that’s 260 hours, and when divided by an eight-hour work day, that’s more than 32 full days of work lost.

However, it may not be the employees’ fault.

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Showing up

More than half of respondents said they finished their work at least an hour before the day actually ends, so the rest is lip service.

Who are they faking it for? More than a third said their direct manager, while another 31% said “no one in particular.”

The latter is indicative of a trend of not working for the sake of it, as 27% of workers said they were faking productivity because of “general workplace culture.”

The next leading reason was due to their managers, who “measure presence over output.”

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The San Antonio Police Department over the weekend released video of an officer-involved shooting that occurred last month.

Police said just after 5 p.m. June 16, four SWAT officers responded to execute an arrest warrant.

‘Strong work; I pray for a speedy recovery of the officer and a speedy trial and conviction of the perp.’

Officers arrived in an unmarked vehicle and located the suspect inside his parked vehicle, police said, adding that officers pulled up in front of the suspect’s vehicle and saw he was holding a gun.

Police said the suspect then began shooting at the officers.

With that, all four officers discharged their firearms numerous times, police said.

The police video of the shootout is below:

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During the shootout, the suspect as well as one officer were struck by gunfire, police said, adding that both the officer and the suspect were taken to a hospital for treatment.

No bystanders were injured, police said.

The 35-year-old suspect — Roman Pena — was charged with four counts of aggravated assault against a peace officer, police said.

The officers involved have eight to nine years of service with the San Antonio Police Department, officials said, adding that the department’s Shooting Team and Internal Affairs Unit are conducting separate, concurrent inquiries.

In addition, police said that as with all officer-involved shootings, the District Attorney’s Office is reviewing this incident.

As you might imagine, a number of observers who viewed the police video had things to say about what went down. The following are a few highlights:

“Strong work; I pray for a speedy recovery of the officer and a speedy trial and conviction of the perp,” one commenter wrote.”Agg[ravated] assault?” another commenter asked. “How about attempted murder. Ridiculous.””We have THE best SWAT team,” another commenter declared. “Great job, men.””GOT ‘EM!!!!” another commenter exclaimed. “F**K HOMICIDAL CRIMINALS!!!”

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Two of the internet’s most notorious manosphere influencers got arrested again this weekend.

On Saturday, U.S. Marshals cuffed Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami, reportedly en route to a bare-knuckle boxing event. Footage of the handcuffing went viral almost instantly, with the internet immediately fixating on the brothers’ rumpled outfits — particularly Andrew’s choice of a tight and revealing purple blouse.

Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, called the extradition attempt a ‘political kidnapping.’

By Monday, the fashion critique gave way to a Miami courtroom, tan jail uniforms, and total silence while their lawyer vowed to fight the latest extradition attempt to the United Kingdom.

Between the two brothers, this round alone adds up to 38 new charges — rape, sexual assault, trafficking for sexual exploitation, and, for Andrew, 19 counts tied to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography, plus an alleged pattern of choking victims, sometimes to unconsciousness, before assaulting them.

These charges add to the 21 original charges by the Crown Prosecution Service from May 2025 — bringing the total to 59 charges, all of a similar nature.

A separate, ongoing Romanian case accuses them of running a coercion scheme — faking relationships with women to trap them into producing pornography that authorities say generated over $2.8 million and nearly $1 million in crypto tokens.

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Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, called the extradition attempt a “political kidnapping.” He’s dangled the idea that Trump might personally intervene to block it — McBride has said the president hates “political persecution and communism,” referring to actions by the U.K. government.

The Justice Department has pushed back on the political persecution framing, directly confirming to the Associated Press that leadership of its Criminal Division approved the arrests — contradicting McBride’s earlier claim that it was greenlit by a “low-level functionary” without leadership’s knowledge.

Because the Tate brothers are dual United States-British citizens, the final call on whether they get shipped overseas ultimately falls to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has the discretion to approve, block, or sit on the extradition order regardless of what the court decides.

McBride’s case that the arrests are a political witch hunt leans hard on the brothers’ Capitol Hill victory lap the week before the arrest. A photo circulated online appeared to show Andrew and Tristan posing with a member of Congress, part of a swing through D.C. that also included a stop at the Ned, an exclusive private club near the White House.

Three days after that trip, they were in handcuffs — a coincidence McBride has seemingly leveraged to argue that the case is politically motivated. He has maintained that the brothers are innocent.

A Miami judge ordered both brothers to be held in federal custody until the next hearing on Monday, and McBride estimates a final decision is around 60 days out.

Blaze News reached out to the White House for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

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Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that concerns over fraud schemes have led him to shut off $1 billion of federal Medicaid spending for California and Minnesota.

Kennedy made the announcement Tuesday after noting the many schemes that had been identified and prosecuted in the two states, both run by Democrats.

‘States that receive federal Medicaid funding must demonstrate that every dollar meets federal requirements.’

“Medicaid exists to serve vulnerable Americans — not to bankroll unsupported claims,” Kennedy said in a press release. “Under President Trump’s leadership, we are restoring accountability across our public programs and protecting taxpayer dollars.”

Kennedy appeared at a media briefing alongside Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz to explain why they halted $867.5 million in spending for California and another $199 million for Minnesota.

“States that receive federal Medicaid funding must demonstrate that every dollar meets federal requirements. When they cannot, we will not release federal funds until they do,” Kennedy added.

HHS is awaiting documentation from both states to justify high-risk Medicaid claims. An analysis from CBS News found that 700 of the approximately 1,800 hospices in Los Angeles County triggered red flags for fraud, using California’s definitions.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a defiant statement about the decision.

“Today’s announcement from Dr. Oz is the same recycled political stunt we’ve seen before. California isn’t being targeted because Trump has evidence of fraud,” he wrote on social media.

‘We are being targeted for political reasons — and because Dr. Oz doesn’t understand that we are *SAVING* taxpayers money by keeping seniors and people with disabilities out of far more expensive nursing homes! We hate fraud. That’s not what this is. And we stand ready to collaborate with CMS in good faith efforts to combat fraud.”

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) also responded in a brief statement to the New York Post accusing the administration of “cutting more money in health care than they’ve prosecuted for fraud.”

HHS said the rate of growth in claims from California’s in-home care programs far outgrew the national average, suggesting some fraud was involved.

The funding paused in Minnesota involved Medicaid claims from “14 high-risk service areas.”

“The Trump administration is committed to rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse across the federal government,” HHS said in its statement. “HHS will continue to aggressively protect taxpayer dollars and hold states accountable for every federal Medicaid dollar they spend.”

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