Minnesota Republican state Rep. Kristin Robbins is sounding the alarm after discovering that individuals connected to the state’s largest fraud scandal — including a defendant awaiting trial — are still receiving millions of dollars in taxpayer funds through other government programs. Federal prosecutors have charged dozens of individuals with stealing more than $300 million from the federal Child Nutrition Program through the Minnesota-based nonprofit Feeding Our Future. One defendant in the case continues to receive millions in public funds through the state’s assisted living program, according to Robbins, who chairs the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy…
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President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington on Dec. 17, 2025. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s Dec. 17 primetime speech touting his economic record landed with an added tailwind after fresh inflation data on Dec. 18 showed a sharp slowdown.Affordability has been top of mind for Americans as prices remain persistently high. A recent NPR–PBS News–Marist poll found that 70 percent of respondents said the cost of living is not very affordable or not affordable at all.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser.…
The GOAT might want to work on those recall skills a little more.PublishedDecember 18, 2025 4:50 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 18, 2025 3:53 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkAs the College Football Playoffs draws closer, the rhetoric surrounding the tournament and its games is starting to ramp up.Talking heads are giving out their last takes before we dispense with the words and get to the actual games being played, though some of said heads are more qualified than others.One such qualified individual is former college head coach and seven-time national champion, Nick Saban, who was on The Pat McAfee Show earlier today to chop it…
Greg Biffle in the #16 3M Ford leads Brad Keselowski in the #2 Miller Lite Dodge and Kasey Kahne in the #5 Farmers Insurance Chevrolet on the final restart during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pure Michigan 400. Wesley Hitt/Getty Images for NASCARNASCAR legend and hall of fame nominee Greg Biffle was on a private jet that crashed while landing Thursday morning in Statesville, North Carolina, the state highway patrol has confirmed.Seven people onboard the Cessna Citation C550 business jet died, Iredell County Chief Deputy Sheriff Bill Hamby told The Epoch Times. Staff at the airport told authorities Biffle was…
Qatar launched a diplomatic push with the Trump administration this week as senior officials from both nations met in Washington and Doha. Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani traveled to the U.S. capital for back-to-back meetings with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday and Thursday. Al-Thani and Vance discussed “the strong, strategic bilateral relations between the State of Qatar and the US, as well as the means to enhance them,” Qatar’s foreign ministry said. The meeting also covered “several topics of joint interest.” (RELATED: Here’s What Could Come Of Trump’s Whirlwind Middle Eastern…
The maniacal, Machiavellian, murderous monstrosities of the Trump White House fall upon the world like a monsoon. Small private boats continue to be bombed by Pete Hegseth and the new Department of War Crimes. The Trump-backed gangsters in Tel Aviv continue to slaughter innocent people in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. The Trump-backed ISIS head choppers continue to murder Christians and Alawites. And now, in an act of brazen piracy, Trump seizes a Venezuelan oil tanker in international waters.Under the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), piracy and murder are punishable by life in prison or death. And…
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and law enforcement partners continue to arrest MS-13 Salvatrucha Salvadoran transnational gang members and violent illegal foreign nationals in Nebraska.The latest MS-13 arrest this month was of a man known internationally as “Fantasma” (ghost), an alleged member of an MS-13 assassination squad in Honduras. He was wanted by Honduran authorities for a quadruple homicide after he escaped from prison and illegally entered the U.S. through the southwest border during the Biden administration. He evaded capture in Honduras and in the U.S. until a multiagency investigation located him and ICE arrested…
The fraud in Minnesota’s welfare system is so astronomical that, after years of looking, they are still tallying up the damages. But the number runs upwards of $10 billion, and counting. To put that in perspective, that is the yearly GDP of Somalia, to pick a country at random. Advertisement I would say “unbelievable,” but this is Walz’s Minnesota.US Attorney’s Office: ‘Half or more’ of $18B billed through state programs tied to fraud https://t.co/ZQhtLwcoCF— David Strom (@DavidStrom) December 18, 2025“The magnitude of fraud in Minnesota cannot be overstated.” Gee, I wonder why. As the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced a new batch of…
Revolting European farmers in front of the EU headquarters. European farmers are battling EU suicidal ‘green’ policies. Many people see the European farmers as pampered agriculturalists addicted to a good subsidy – but the reality is not that simple. Under the EU draconian ‘green’ laws, they are subjected to impossible conditions and restrictions to produce food – only to, then, watch politicians turn around and make trade agreements with the South American bloc Mercosur, where farmers grow unexpensive food without any of Brussels’ limitations. Time and time again, in the last couple of year, we’ve seen the furious farmers march…
Democratic California candidate Esther Kim Varet was asked to explain why her campaign website used a photo of a random black woman to tout an alleged endorsement from Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett. Kim Varet, an art dealer turned congressional candidate, has frequently levied racist attacks at Republicans during her campaign to unseat California Rep. Young Kim. Business Insider first reported Thursday that Kim Varet’s website used a photo of a black woman who is not Crockett to highlight the alleged endorsement. The campaign has since scrubbed the endorsement from its website, claiming that the picture was published by accident.…
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The State Department on Wednesday approved a series of arms deals for Taiwan worth more than $11 billion, including multiple types of missile systems and munitions, an announcement that China has strongly condemned. If the sales aren’t blocked by Congress, which is unlikely to happen since there’s virtually no opposition to arming Taiwan in Washington, they would exceed the $8.4 billion in arms sold to Taiwan during the Biden administration, according to The New York Times. According to the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the arms deals include a total of eight sales, which include: High…
ESPN college football analyst questions Oregon’s championship hopes while liking Texas A&M’s pathPublishedDecember 18, 2025 4:30 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 18, 2025 4:01 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkThe College Football Playoff kicks off on Friday, and if one prominent college football analyst is to be believed, the outcome has already been determined. This 12-team field has big name programs left and right, surprising upstarts with dominant regular-season performances, like the Texas Tech Red Raiders. The defending champion Ohio State Buckeyes; The Oregon Ducks, with just one loss to an undefeated Indiana team; The Georgia Bulldogs, who dominated Alabama in the SEC Championship Exhibition Game. Texas…
An investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice found South Carolina had institutionalized some 2,000 adults with serious mental illnesses by failing to transition them into less restrictive housing.CHARLESTON, S.C. (CN) — Federal authorities reached a settlement Thursday with South Carolina to address problems in the state’s mental health care system.State authorities agreed to bring the state’s community residential care facilities into compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court 1999 ruling in Olmstead v. L.C., which found that the Americans with Disabilities Act requires that people with disabilities be provided community-based services in the “least restrictive setting” possible.Unnecessary segregation created the…
(Headline USA) A business jet with six people aboard crashed Thursday at a regional airport in North Carolina used by NASCAR teams and Fortune 500 companies, erupting in a large fire and killing multiple people, authorities said. Flight records show the plane was registered to a company run by retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle. There were six people on the Cessna C550 that crashed while landing at Statesville Regional Airport, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Charlotte, the Federal Aviation Administration said. “I can confirm there were fatalities,” Iredell County Sheriff Darren Campbell said. Golfers playing next to the…
Police are now investigating a possible link between the Brown University shooting in Rhode Island and the murder of an MIT professor approximately 50 miles away in Brookline, Massachusetts. An MIT professor was fatally shot in his Brookline home on Monday night. 47-year-old Nuno Loureiro, a nuclear science and engineering professor, was shot multiple times, according to police. Loureiro was transported to a Boston hospital and died Tuesday morning. A neighbor told CBS News that they heard three loud bangs on Monday night. A suspect was not immediately taken into custody. Loureiro’s murder came just two days after a gunman…
The new GM logo on the facade of the General Motors facility in Detroit on March 16, 2021. Rebecca Cook/ReutersNine months of strong sales helped buoy the U.S. auto industry for much of 2025, but headwinds from swirling tariff policies and the expiration of a substantial federal tax credit for new electric vehicles (EVs) at the end of September led to a slump in sales in the fourth quarter.Automakers will sell a projected 16.3 million vehicles in 2025, the best sales year since 2019; however, manufacturers are expected to see a 2.4 percent overall decline to approximately 15.8 million new…
NewsNation political contributor Chris Cillizza said during a Thursday live stream on his YouTube channel that he thinks Vice President JD Vance is a formidable potential 2028 presidential candidate, whom “Democrats underestimate at their own peril.” An Emerson poll published on Thursday found Vance leading over several prominent Republicans and Democrats — including potential 2028 contenders — with a 46% favorability rating. Reacting to the poll on X, Cillizza wrote that the numbers reinforced his view that Democrats fail to grasp “Vance’s appeal,” a point he reiterated during his YouTube channel live stream. (RELATED: How JD Vance Emerged Unscathed From Elon…
Former NASCAR Cup Series driver Greg Biffle reportedly died in a plane crash Thursday at Statesville Regional Airport. It hasn’t officially been confirmed by NASCAR or local officials, but reputable sources have confirmed he was on a plane that went down shortly after 10 a.m.Tragically, Biffle’s wife, Cristina, and two kids were also on board. YouTube racing sensation Cleetus McFarland said in a Facebook post that the family was en route to spend the day with him. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., confirmed the Biffles were on the flight in a social media post Thursday afternoon. “I am devastated by the loss of…
A friend confirmed in a post that NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family were onboard a small plane that crashed in Statesville, North Carolina.STATESVILLE, N.C. (CN) — A small plane presumed to be carrying former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family crashed Thursday morning at a regional airport north of Charlotte, North Carolina.A Cessna C550 with ownership records matching Biffle’s address crashed around 10:20 a.m. as it was attempting to land, the Statesville Regional Airport confirmed. It had only been in the air for a short amount of time before attempting to return to the airport, according to…
Amid an escalating global assault on home education & parental rights, the “newspaper of record” just published a piece demanding draconian government control & oversight of homeschooling nationwide. The December 14 New York Times piece, headlined Home-Schooled Kids Are Not All Right, calls for massive new government controls over homeschool families. It comes just weeks after the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a report demanding such regulation worldwide under the guise of “human rights.” The Times opinion essay was written by Stefan Merrill Block, who was promoting his forthcoming memoir “Homeschooled.” It uses an emotionally charged…
Lucic is about eat more haggis than he ever has in his entire life…PublishedDecember 18, 2025 4:20 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 18, 2025 4:11 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkMilan Lucic hasn’t played a game in the National Hockey League since 2023, following some off-ice issues, including a domestic violence charge, which was eventually dropped. While a recent stint in the AHL didn’t work out, Lucic is still looking to continue his hockey career in, of all places, Scotland.And not like Scotland, Ontario, or something like that. I mean the real deal, kilt-wearing Scotland.On Thursday, it was announced that Lucic has signed a deal to…
Gettysburg College’s “radical” chaplain allegedly threatened a conservative student for bringing an anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) speaker to campus. Michael Bright, who apparently goes simply by Bright, allegedly put his hands on a student while telling him to “find something else to do,” according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Bright has worked as the school’s chaplain since 2022 and is intent on “deconstructing white religious privilege,” according to the Gettysburgian, the college’s newspaper.When the college’s Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter hosted Vince Everett Ellison, who refutes the idea that white supremacy is a widespread…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed this week that she would defeat Vice President of the United States J.D. Vance in a hypothetical 2028 presidential race, remarks captured on video as she walked outside the U.S. Capitol, as reported by The Gateway Pundit. The exchange occurred during a brief on-the-spot interview as Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat representing parts of Queens and the Bronx, descended the Capitol steps. NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 24: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks at an Earth Day Celebration in Astoria Park on April 24, 2021 in the Astoria neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. A…
A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in federal prison for stealing and selling human body parts taken from donated cadavers, according to prosecutors, as reported by The New York Post. Cedric Lodge, 58, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, appeared in federal court in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where he was sentenced for his role in a yearslong scheme that involved trafficking human remains across state lines. Prosecutors said Lodge sold brains, skin, hands, faces, and other body parts to buyers in Pennsylvania and other locations after the bodies had been donated to Harvard for…
President Donald Trump said Tuesday night that Israeli-American billionaire donor Miriam Adelson floated the idea of him running for a third term and suggested she would contribute another $250 million if he pursued it, as reported by the Gatweay Pundit. Trump made the remarks during the annual Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony at the White House, where he praised Adelson as the top donor from the 2024 election cycle and recounted a private exchange that took place during the event. WASHINGTON – February 22, 2025: President Donald Trump arrives at the White House South Lawn on Marine One after his visit to…
Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife, and their two children were killed Thursday morning when a private jet owned by Biffle crashed at Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina, according to a statement from a family associate, as reported by Fox News. The aircraft, a Cessna C550 bearing tail number N257BW, went down at approximately 10:15 a.m. while departing Statesville Regional Airport. The plane was en route to Bradenton, Florida, when it crashed shortly after takeoff at the airport located about 45 miles north of Charlotte. BREAKING: A small aircraft has crashed at #Statesville Regional Airport north of Charlotte,…
The Justice Department Thursday unsealed an indictment against the alleged leader of the Venezuelan drug cartel Tren de Aragua, which includes terrorism, firearms and racketeering charges.The indictment charges 42-year-old Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as“Niño Guerrero,” with ordering, directing, and facilitating acts of terrorism and violence in the United States and acting in concert with Cartel de Los Soles. “As alleged, Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores has been the mastermind of Tren de Aragua’s evolution from a Venezuelan prison gang into a transnational terrorist organization that committed countless acts of violence, extortion, and drug trafficking all over North America, South…
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s layoffs of government workers, ruling that they likely violated the terms of the funding deal that ended the government shutdown.The deal prohibits federal agencies from carrying out a reduction in force until Jan. 30, The according to The Hill news outlet. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, a Clinton appointee, on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s argument that RIFs announced ahead of the shutdown could move forward. “Defendants must do what the continuing resolution says,” Illston wrote in her ruling. “They may not take any further steps to implement or carry out a RIF through January 30, 2026, regardless…
MS NOW’s Ana Cabrera Reports melted down late Thursday morning after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Trump administration will not provide Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement funding to hospitals that provide so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors. According to medical analyst Dr. Vin Gupta, “every medical society” would disagree with the administration’s rationale despite Gupta’s own employer having a research scandal just a few years ago on this very topic. Cabrera teed up a clip of Kennedy by declaring, “The plan would block hospitals from getting Medicare and Medicaid funding, which virtually every U.S. hospital receives if they…
The View’s anti-military bent from most of the year came to ahead on Thursday’s show as ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg asserted, without evidence, that President Trump’s announced “warrior dividends” (a $1,776 pay bonus) where about bribing service members to follow illegal orders. Additionally, co-host Joy Behar was outraged that Trump had the nerve to call President Obama a “divisive” figure. For which, she demanded the invocation of the 25th Amendment. Before Goldberg claimed the checks were a bride to get the military to back him, she first casted doubt on if they would be getting any money at all:…
The Freedom Center’s new pamphlet reveals how President Trump has restored America’s power of deterrence and global prestige.December 19, 2025 by Frontpagemag.com Leave a Comment The Freedom Center’s newest pamphlet, President Trump’s Foreign Policy Realism and Successes, written by Shillman Fellow Bruce Thornton, compares the history of recent U.S. foreign policy with President Trump’s current foreign policy. Prof. Thornton reveals how traditional U.S. foreign policy has been based on wishful and dangerous thinking in its attempts at nation-building and following the international “rules-based order,” while President Trump’s approach has restored America’s global prestige and power of deterrence. President Trump’s Foreign…
By 中華民國總統府 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/presidentialoffice/50082394436, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=102070625 The Trump administration has approved one of its largest-ever arms packages for Taiwan, with total sales valued at up to $11 billion. The move is intended to strengthen Taiwan’s ability to defend itself against China, but it is almost certain to provoke anger in Beijing. The package covers a wide range of weapons and systems, including missiles, drones, artillery, and advanced battlefield software. The most significant item is the HIMARS rocket system, which has played a major role in Ukraine’s defense against Russia. Taiwan will also receive self-propelled howitzers and a new…
Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.” A section of the Trump administration’s recently released National Security Strategy titled “Promoting European Greatness” warns that Europe faces the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure,” making the continent “unrecognizable in 20 years or less.” It blames (among other issues like economic decline) transnational bodies like the European Union for undermining “political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities…
(CN) — Denmark’s long-running push to dismantle so-called “ghettos” ran into trouble on Thursday after Europe’s top court warned the policy can slide into unlawful ethnic discrimination unless it is tightly justified and carefully limited.In its ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union said Denmark’s housing rules, which force cuts to public family housing in areas with large shares of residents of “non-Western” origin, fall under EU antidiscrimination law and could breach it.The judges stopped short of striking the policy down but drew a clear line. Even rules written in neutral terms must withstand close scrutiny if, in…
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Antonio Bonheur (L) and Saul Alisme (R) are seen in undated mugshots. Department of Justice via The Epoch TimesThe Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that two men in Massachusetts were indicted in an alleged $7 million food stamp fraud schemeAntonio Bonheur, 74, of Mattapan, and Saul Alisme, 21, of Hyde Park, were charged with one count of food stamp fraud, said the DOJ in a news release on Dec. 17.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
As 2025 comes to a close, Governor Laura Kelly’s Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has yet to release the state’s abortion statistics for 2024. Kansans for Life (KFL), the state’s largest pro-life organization, is calling for immediate transparency. “Once again, Governor Laura Kelly and the Department of Health and Environment are keeping important information from the people of Kansas,” said Jeanne Gawdun, KFL Director of Government Relations. “The 2024 statistics will give the public a clearer picture of the first full year in which clinics were not required to provide women with informed consent before an abortion was performed—and even abortion-industry-aligned media reported that at least…
Hurricane Irma, now Cat 5, makes her approach. (Image: NASA via Twitter) “Zero hurricanes made landfall in the continental United States this year—the first time this has happened since 2015. And while hurricanes in the North Atlantic were 9 percent more intense this year compared to the 1991-2020 average, throughout the entire Northern Hemisphere, hurricane intensity was 19 percent lower than usual,” notes The Doomslayer. The falling number of hurricanes contradicts activist groups like the Environmental Defense Fund and Union of Concerned Scientists, who claim climate change makes hurricanes more frequent and destructive. A news article notes: “For the first time…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and other members of the House Democratic Caucus speak during a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Dec. 18, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesHouse Democrats on Dec. 18 demanded Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) bring legislation extending Affordable Care Act tax credits to the House floor before lawmakers leave Washington for the holidays, saying that a discharge petition has now secured the votes to force action after four Republicans joined the Democratic effort.The push comes a day after the House passed a GOP health care package, the Lower Health Care Premiums…
A private jet crash claimed the lives of former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife Cristina, and their two children Thursday morning in North Carolina, sending shockwaves through the racing community. According to the New York Post, the accident occurred around 10:15 a.m. ET at Statesville Regional Airport, a hub frequently used by NASCAR teams and corporate travelers, officials confirmed. Rep. Richard Hudson confirmed the deaths and expressed his grief. “I am devastated by the loss of Greg, Cristina, and their children, and my heart is with all who loved them,” Hudson said. “They were friends who lived their lives…
Over the hump and safely into the final Thursday before the final weekend before Christmas. One week. It’s go time. We’ve got just an unreal slate of football ahead of us over the next four days. Thursday night football tonight, and it’s a good one. College football playoffs tomorrow and Saturday. NFL on Saturday, Sunday AND Monday. And then, we’re officially smack-dab in the middle of a holiday week. I’m off all next week, minus Monday morning. Won’t be back until the following Wednesday. That means I’ve got roughly 48(ish) more hours of work in 2025. Kinda-sorta. To quote future President Jasmine…
Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas has twisted the sacred Christmas nativity into a propaganda tool against U.S. immigration enforcement. The display features an empty altar inside the church, slapped with a mocking “ICE was here” sign, while figures of Mary and Joseph are locked in a barbed-wire cage on the steps, without baby Jesus. ‼️DALLAS — To protest ICE, Oak Lawn UMC has put the Holy Family in a cage and removed baby Jesus. Story incoming @DallasExpress 1/ pic.twitter.com/KXwOW01oCE — Logan Washburn (@loganwashburn76) December 15, 2025 Church officials posted signs: “HOLY ARE TRANS LIVES” “HOLY ARE OUR UNSHELTERED…
Imagine fighting a case all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States—only to admit during oral arguments that the entire premise was based on a lie. This embarrassing scenario became a reality for New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin this month, in his case, First Choice Women’s Resource Centers Inc. v. Platkin. During questioning, counsel for New Jersey acknowledged that the state had not received any complaints regarding First Choice Women’s Resource Center prior to issuing the subpoena, despite alleging that First Choice misled customers. When pressed, counsel clarified that any complaints received involved other pregnancy centers, not First Choice,…
Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle died after his plane crashed Thursday at a North Carolina airport, killing multiple people aboard, a congressman and a friend confirmed. The Cessna C550 went down while landing at Statesville Regional Airport, which serves Fortune 500 companies and several NASCAR teams, around 10:15 a.m., The Associated Press (AP) reported. Republican North Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson confirmed that Biffle, his wife Christina and their children were aboard.“They were friends who lived their lives focused on others,” Hudson wrote. “Greg was a great NASCAR champion who thrilled millions of fans. But he was an extraordinary person as…
Donald Trump came up great on today’s consumer price index report. Last night, the president told Americans that his policies would eventually tame inflation rather than stoking it. He asked for patience. In less than a day, the inflation came in at 2.7%, down from 3.0%. Economists had predicted an increased CPI index inflation in today’s Department of Labor report, with predictions centering on a rate of 3.1% annualized inflation for November. Wrong again! A Harvard professor was stunned. It’s the first time it’s looked this good since COVID and the Biden-era inflation. He is not a right-wing professor. This…
This article was adapted from the Daily Caller’s new Substack, State of the Day. Click here to sign up and get exclusive content, the Caller’s full slate of newsletters, hot takes, and informative, long-form pieces direct to your inbox. Venezuela is a hot news item. Thanks to a Washington Post report, allegations of war crimes against Pete Hegseth are swirling around the capital. The U.S. also recently seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Regime change is in the air, as the Trump administration remains adamant that its strikes against alleged narco terrorists are just and legal. We don’t know…
Ohio Bobcats president says coach Brian Smith admitted to affair with an undergraduate student and violated alcohol policies, prompting his firing.PublishedDecember 18, 2025 3:28 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 18, 2025 3:28 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkAfter weeks of questions as to why Ohio Bobcats football coach Brian Smith was placed on administrative leave, the school has cited an extramarital affair as one of the reasons why he was officially terminated as head coach with cause.On December 1, the school placed Smith on leave, after the athletic director came into a meeting the coach was having with assistants and told him he had to go…
Energy companies are sounding the alarm on stagnant deregulatory policy as lawmakers pivot to midterm electioneering and vital infrastructure remains unbuilt. Several leaders in the energy sector told the Daily Caller News Foundation that Congress needs to address the “urgent” need for Congress to enact permitting reform, as the U.S. energy landscape has shifted while the permitting process has remained largely unchanged. After years of little change, America’s energy demand is climbing, though industry leaders told the DCNF that red tape and litigation risk are bogging down construction projects.“As a small manufacturer in the heartland of America, Husco greatly appreciated…
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A former Harvard University Medical School morgue manager was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for allegedly stealing and selling body parts, according to The Associated Press (AP). Cedric Lodge allegedly shipped brains, skins, hands and faces to buyers in Pennsylvania after the cadavers donated to the medical school were no longer needed for research, The AP reported. In one instance, Lodge provided skin to a buyer so it could be tanned into leather and bound into a book, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alisan Martin said in a court filing. Lodge’s wife, Denise Lodge, was sentenced to around a year…