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Between sky-high taxes, radical left-wing policies, and staggering levels of fraud, California has turned into such a nightmare that droves of people are leaving every year.

But one man believes he can save the Golden State from its downward trajectory: Steve Hilton.

The British-born conservative commentator is the former senior adviser to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, an ex-Fox News host of “The Next Revolution,” a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and a Republican candidate for California governor in 2026. Recently endorsed by President Trump, Hilton is leading several polls against a crowded field, including Democrats and fellow Republican Chad Bianco.

On a recent episode of “Rufo and Lomez,” he joined BlazeTV host Christopher Rufo to expose the depth of California’s depravity and share his plan for a statewide overhaul.

“California today is what you get when the Democrats get everything they want,” says Hilton.

The results of 16 years of unchallenged Democrat rule speak for themselves:

“We have now today in California the highest poverty rate in the country (tied with Louisiana), the highest unemployment rate of all 50 states, the highest cost of living. Everything is the most expensive here: gas, electric, groceries, housing costs — everything,” he lists.

“U.S. News and World Report ranked California 50th out of 50 states for opportunity; WalletHub ranked us as 50th out of 50 for affordability. Chief Executive Magazine [ranked] California 50th out of 50 states for business climate,” Hilton continues, noting that this is “not the end of the list.”

After years of paying “the highest taxes for the worst results,” a “real revolution” is beginning to catch fire, he says. Even though the thought of California — one of the deepest blue states on the map — being run by a Republican governor feels like a pipe dream to many, Hilton believes the state government’s failures are so catastrophic at this point that a red victory is now feasible.

“I really think that this year we could get a major upset and you’ll see a Republican governor elected in November,” he says.

Rufo is thrilled at the prospect of a Republican governor in California for many reasons but especially when it comes to the shocking amount of fraud that’s been exposed under current Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom.

“Depending on how you calculate the numbers [and] which programs you include, at the very low end, we had something like $180 billion lost to fraud under Newsom. At the very high end, I think you had something like $400 billion lost under Newsom,” he says, referencing his recent City Journal reporting.

“The scale of these numbers is almost difficult to comprehend. Can you walk us through what you found and what you think the true extent of the fraud is now?” he asks.

Hilton, who launched the investigative initiative CAL DOGE (intentionally modeled after Elon Musk’s federal department), says that what his team has uncovered using just public records, audits, and whistleblower tips is already shocking.

He gives two examples.

“When cannabis was legalized in California through Proposition 64, they said the taxes will go towards substance abuse prevention. Well, we tracked the money down — $370 million of that parceled out in tiny grants to 500+ nonprofits,” says Hilton.

“And when you look at what they do by checking their websites and their annual reports, what do they do? Democrat political activity — registering voters, organizing in the community, all that kind of stuff.”

Hilton’s second example comes from California’s “climate fund.”

Since 2015, the state has allocated $100 million per year to installing solar panels on low-income apartment buildings. However, CAL DOGE found that the program’s own official reports show that only $72 million was actually spent on installing solar panels.

“$928 million, again, goes to all these Democrat political organizations,” says Hilton.

“They take money from the taxpayer and say it’s going for some nice purpose that you think is going to be good, and then it all gets parceled up going to this network of nonprofits that then do things that help the Democrat political machine … and the scale of it is massive,” he adds, noting that CAL DOGE’s range for state fraud is between “$312 billion” and “$425 billion over five years.”

“How can we break that system?” Rufo asks.

To hear Hilton’s answer, watch the video above.

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A licensed concealed carrier opened fire on an intruder who broke into his Chicago home after midnight Monday and charged at him, CWB Chicago reported.

The 33-year-old victim called 911 at 1:24 a.m. and said he shot an intruder inside his home in the 2200 block of East 103rd Street — and had started CPR on him, the outlet said.

‘Homeowner clearly was in fear of being killed! That’s a justification!’

The intruder was shot in the chest, the outlet said.

His victim’s home is across the street from the South Chicago (4th) District police station, the outlet added.

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Arriving officers took over lifesaving measures, but the intruder was pronounced dead at 1:43 a.m., the outlet said.

The intruder remained a “John Doe” as of Monday evening, CWB Chicago noted, adding that detectives are investigating the shooting.

The homeowner said he did not know the intruder, WBBM-TV reported.

The residence where the shooting took place is in the Far South Side’s Deering neighborhood, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Most of the commenters under WLS-TV’s Facebook post about the shooting seemed squarely in the homeowner’s corner:

“Homeowner clearly was in fear of being killed!” one commenter exclaimed. “That’s a justification!””Finally, a story with a happy ending,” another user noted.”Would get the same breaking into our house,” another commenter promised.”Don’t break in someone’s house,” another user suggested. “The guy was protecting his home.””Great job homeowner!!!” another commenter declared.”People need to think [about] the consequences of their actions,” another user offered.“One thug at a time,” another commenter concluded.”Case closed, next story,” another user wrote.

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As the war in Iran rages on into its sixth week, President Trump has issued yet another threat against Iran — yet this threat seems to include a different target as well.

Early on Tuesday morning, Trump posted a strange warning message that included the Iranian people.

‘We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World.’

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump said on Truth Social. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?”

Trump went on to suggest that Tuesday night would be a deciding moment for the future of the Iranian people and regime.

RELATED: ‘Give it up or go to jail’: Trump vows to hunt down whoever leaked info about downed pilot in Iran

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“We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”

President Trump previously set a hard deadline of 8:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday night for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz. An official told NBC News that the U.S. has struck military assets on Kharg Island, prior to the deadline.

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Two of our kids went to visit my parents a couple days ago, so my wife and I are home with just our youngest for a few nights. It’s strange. It kind of feels like it felt when we only had our first. It’s so quiet, so insanely quiet.

In fact, I’m laughing as I write this thinking about just how quiet it is compared to normal (read as: insane) daily life. Babies cry and all, but the truth is once you have older ones, you realize that those little cries and protests are really just cute and kind of pitiful, even if they seem furious.

There is something vital in us that seeks out friction and new horizons, physical and mental.

But of course, they don’t feel like that at the time when you are new to everything with your first kid.

Cry babies

I remember one time, probably two or three days after we left the hospital with our son, we called the 24-hour nurse line because we were concerned he might hurt himself from crying so much. She very kindly assured us that everything was fine and that we shouldn’t worry about him hurting himself due to crying.

My wife and I think about that story probably every six months or so. We laugh so hard about how little we knew, how nervous we were, and how loud those weak, little screams from a 5-day-old mouth must have felt to our uninitiated ears. We weren’t used to crying, we weren’t used to holding a little human screaming his hardest. We genuinely thought he might blow a blood vessel or something.

Now it’s different. When our 5-month-old cries, we aren’t particularly disturbed or shocked. It’s just what they do. We know the kinds of cries (my wife better than I), and it’s just not a big deal. They aren’t even loud, or at least not compared to the cries from a 2-year-old in the throes of an illogical tantrum.

RELATED: My son and daughter are fundamentally different — and it’s a beautiful thing

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0 to 1

It felt so hard when we only had our son six years ago. That leap from zero to one is a big one. Up until that point, you have basically spent your life being selfish. In your quiet, organized, little apartment where nothing is moved unless you move it, where no one screams for no reason, and where you actually have time to relax, life is very easy. So that leap with your first is big, and the chaos feels like a lot.

But now? This brief return to life as a family of three feels like a vacation. There are no messes unless my wife or I make them. I don’t have to admonish someone every 10 minutes for not doing what they should be doing. I can get so much done, we have so much extra time, and everything is so quiet.

It’s funny how easy that thing that seemed so hard feels now. As we have more kids, we adapt to more chaotic circumstances. We are able to take on more stuff. We are able to manage more people. Our love expands, and so does our bandwidth.

The thing is, we don’t feel it happening when it’s happening. The stress keeps right up, following a straight line so we don’t realize we are becoming more competent, and it isn’t until we are able to visit ourselves in our prior situation for a few days that we are able to really see how far we have come.

Sink or swim

This phenomenon doesn’t only apply to raising a family. It applies to our work, our adventures, and all of everything we do. We adapt to our environment, rise to the occasion, and our capacities expand when needed. If we stop, look back at our lives, and really think about how we have grown, we see that often we’ve grown the most when we have been forced to.

We grow when we take on things we don’t think we can handle. We don’t know how we are going to do it — whatever it is — but we jump in, do it, and two years later, it’s just what we consider to be normal, and we are ready again for a new challenge. There is something vital in us that seeks out friction and new horizons, physical and mental. And so we keep doing that over and over again throughout our lives, and we keep getting stronger and more capable as the years pass, even if we still feel kind of like we don’t know anything at all.

It’s possible to try to avoid struggle and the growth that comes with it. It’s possible to try to take the easy way out. But life finds a way of demanding more of us. Whether we like it or not, we are thrown overboard and told to swim, and more often than not, we find that we can swim quite well.

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Artemis II made history on Monday night as it flew around the moon in the farthest manned flight from the Earth.

On Tuesday morning, NASA released some stunning photos from the historic flyby.

‘On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history.’

The White House and NASA posted some of the most stunning photos on social media, including a total eclipse from behind the moon:

RELATED: WATCH: Trump tells moon-looping Artemis astronauts what’s next in out-of-this-world phone call

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Reminiscent of the famous “Earthrise” photo taken by William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission, NASA also published a photo of “Earthset.” According to NASA, this is the first photo from the far side of the moon ever taken.

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NASA Artemis also posted a photo of the Orientale basin, most of which is not visible from Earth. This perspective will allow new discoveries to be made.

The account describes the photo and the new discovery: “The Artemis II crew captured this image showing the rings of the Orientale basin during their lunar flyby on April 6. At the 10 o’clock position of the Orientale basin, the two smaller craters — which the Artemis II crew has suggested be named Integrity & Carroll — are visible.”

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The flyby of the moon lasted several hours starting Monday afternoon.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman celebrated the historic moment with an exciting update on Monday of the progress of astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen:

Artemis II has reached its maximum distance from Earth. On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home. Before they left, they said they hoped this mission would be forgotten, but it will be remembered as the moment people started to believe that America can once again do the near-impossible and change the world. Congratulations to this incredible crew and the entire NASA team, our international and commercial partners, but this mission isn’t over until they’re under safe parachutes, splashing down into the Pacific.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was dragged through the mud in a new in-depth report that features former colleagues and current board members referring to him as sociopath and a liar.

Altman, 40, has yet to respond to claims made in a recent report, some of which were uncovered in secret memos to OpenAI’s board members.

‘He is a sociopath. He would do anything.’

According to the New Yorker, OpenAI’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, sent the memos to three other board members in 2023. One of the memos about Altman began with a list titled “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of.” The first item on the list was “lying.”

The memos also alleged that Altman misrepresented facts to executives and board members while deceiving them about safety protocols. Unfortunately for Altman, the claims did not stop there.

“He’s unconstrained by truth,” a board member told the New Yorker. “He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”

The outlet said that the unnamed board member was not the only person to describe Altman as “sociopathic” without being prompted. Not long before his 2013 suicide, according to the New Yorker, coder Aaron Swartz warned at least one friend about Altman, whom Swartz had known from their time together at Y Combinator. His warning: “You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted. He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

Sutskever additionally implied that he did not think Altman should have power over others, saying, “I don’t think Sam is the guy who should have his finger on the button.”

Others described him as more ambitious than anything else.

RELATED: Sam Altman tells BlackRock he wants AI on a meter ‘like electricity or water’

Former OpenAI board member Sue Yoon said Altman was “not this Machiavellian villain” but was able to convince himself of his own sales pitches.

“He’s too caught up in his own self-belief,” she reportedly said. “So he does things that, if you live in the real world, make no sense. But he doesn’t live in the real world.”

Other anonymous colleagues cited by the New Yorker said that Sutskever and similar detractors were simply aspiring to take Altman’s throne. Still, even many neutral comments did not help Altman’s portrayal in the report.

“He’s unbelievably persuasive. Like, Jedi mind tricks,” a tech executive colleague of Altman’s reportedly said. “He’s just next-level.”

At the same time, OpenAI is allegedly in the midst of unleashing superintelligence that Altman himself says will be so disruptive that it will require a new social contract.

RELATED: Sexting with chatbots is too far, OpenAI decides

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Altman told Axios that there would be widespread job loss and a threat of cyberattacks coupled with social unrest.

“I suspect in the next year,” he said, “we will see significant threats we have to mitigate from cyber.”

Altman proposed a new deal with citizens that includes a public wealth fund, taxes on “automated labor,” a 32-hour workweek, and the “right to AI.”

That confirms previous reports that Altman wanted to put AI on a meter like electricity or water, to both democratize its usage and limit the possibility of overburdening the electrical grid.

OpenAI did not respond to Return’s request for comment about the claims made about Altman and who they were coming from.

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The Artemis II crew made history on Monday, putting more distance — 252,756 miles — between themselves and Earth than any previous human spaceflight. The previous record, 248,655 miles, was set by Apollo 13 in 1970.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen looped around the moon in their Orion spacecraft, flying as close as 4,070 miles on one approach and losing signal for roughly 40 minutes while passing behind the celestial body.

‘We’ll establish a permanent presence.’

In addition to breaking the distance record for human spaceflight and making “impactful science observations” of the far side of the moon, NASA said the crew also took a moment to “provisionally name” a couple of lunar craters.

As the Artemis II crew began their voyage back to Earth, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman notified them that they had a call waiting.

“A very special hello to Artemis II,” said President Donald Trump. “Today, you’ve made history and made all America really proud, incredibly proud. We have a lot of things to be proud of lately, but this is — there’s nothing like what you’re doing, circling around the moon for the first time in more than a half a century and breaking the all-time record for the farthest distance from Planet Earth.”

RELATED: NASA astronaut gives very American response to DEI questioning

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Trump also informed Hansen that his countrymen are proud of him, stating, “I spoke to your prime minister and many other friends I have in Canada. They are so proud of you.”

Emphasizing that America is a “frontier nation” and that the Artemis II crew are “modern-day pioneers,” the president noted that while such journeys are rare, “It’s going to be more and more prevalent because we’re going to be doing a lot of … traveling, and then you’re going to ultimately do the whole big trip to Mars.”

Trump said that the Artemis II mission sets the stage for a return to the lunar surface “very soon,” adding that “this time, we won’t just leave footprints; we’ll establish a permanent presence on the moon.”

Commander Reid Wiseman, a Baltimore native, told Trump that his call was “certainly special to all of us.”

Wiseman noted that two unforgettable parts of their journey were watching a solar eclipse and glimpsing Mars: “All of us commented how excited we are to watch this nation and this planet become a two-planet species.”

Koch said her top highlight was seeing Earth again after passing around the far side of the moon.

“It really just reminds you what a special place we have and how important it is for our nation … to lead and not follow in exploring deep space,” said Koch.

The president said he plans to invite the astronauts to the White House after their return and to ask them for their autographs.

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Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made good on his promise to inject even more racially based policies into the city with his “racial equity plan.”

Mamdani had a special media briefing on Monday to announce the plan to benefit “black and brown New Yorkers,” especially as it is relates to the “cost-of-living crisis.”

The white paper for the program said there were over 800 racial equity ‘strategies’ in the plan and 600 ‘indicators to track and report progress.’

“This is not a crisis affecting a small minority of New Yorkers. It is a crisis touching the vast majority of our city, in every borough and every neighborhood,” Mamdani said.

“But we know this crisis is not felt equally. Black and Latino New Yorkers — who have been pushed out of this city for decades — are bearing the brunt,” he added. “These reports make one thing clear: We cannot tackle systemic racial inequity without confronting the affordability crisis head-on, and we cannot solve the cost-of-living crisis without dismantling systemic racial inequity.”

Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, responded simply, “Sounds fishy/illegal. Will review!”

Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su added that the administration aimed to dismantle “structural racism and inequity” in order to establish “true economic justice.”

“Inequity has been embedded in the foundation of our city and nation since their inception; dismantling it requires a collective effort,” said NYC Chief Equity Officer and NYC Mayor’s Office of Equity & Racial Justice Commissioner Afua Atta-Mensah.

Atta-Mensah went on to say every government agency will implement the new policies to “advance racial equity, promote justice, and create lasting change.”

The white paper for the program said there were over 800 racial equity “strategies” in the plan and 600 “indicators to track and report progress.”

RELATED: Mamdani made big promises to cut the budget — here’s the embarrassing result so far

Some of the goals include expanding access to capital for underserved businesses, applying a “racial equity framework” to all new housing proposals, and reducing “truck-related pollutants” in “communities of color.”

The plan also involves a new “true cost of living” measure meant to supplant traditional measures of poverty. According to Mamdani’s administration, 62% of New Yorkers don’t meet “their true cost of living,” while 18% to 20% were “identified as poor” under traditional measures.

They reported that Hispanics had the highest percentage that fell under the TCOL standard, with black residents coming in second.

A Blaze News request for comment from the mayor’s office was not returned by time of publishing.

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The announcement of Terafab was made at a decommissioned power plant, reflecting Elon Musk’s understanding of stagecraft: The ruined infrastructure of one era makes a convenient altar for the next. On March 21 and 22, 2026, at the Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, Musk presented Terafab. It is either the most ambitious semiconductor manufacturing project in history or a very expensive project that may not come to be.

Terafab is a plan to build vertically integrated chip-manufacturing capacity in Austin, combining under one roof the design, fabrication, packaging, and testing of advanced semiconductors. Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI are the collaborating entities. The announced investment figure is $20 billion. The stated long-run target is one terawatt of compute capacity per year, a number that converts the language of performance into the language of power.

Terafab is a cultural event as much as a technical announcement.

Measuring compute in watts means that the limiting factor is energy throughput. The International Energy Agency has described data centers as a fast-growing fraction of global electricity demand; by 2030, in its base case, that demand could roughly double.

The technical core of Terafab is its most defensible part. The pitch is about iteration speed: If you can design a chip, fabricate it, package it, test it, and revise the mask, all inside one building, without shipping components between specialized facilities in different countries, you can improve faster than anyone who does not. In conventional semiconductor manufacturing, these functions are geographically and organizationally scattered. A mask set travels; a wafer ships; a packaged part crosses an ocean. Each journey is a delay, and delay is the enemy of the feedback loop. Terafab is a wager that learning velocity beats static node leadership.

A factory within a factory

Advanced fabs are among the most expensive and complex structures human beings have ever built, typically $10 billion and several years for a single facility, dependent on supply chains for equipment that cannot be wished into existence by ambition or capital alone. Extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, to name one critical dependency, cost hundreds of millions of dollars apiece and are manufactured by a single Dutch company. The closed loop is a compelling engineering idea. The project will involve equipment lead times, utility provisioning, the yielding of learning curves, and the peculiar physics of building things in the real world.

There is a second Terafab nested inside the first. The announcement includes chips, named D3, designed for space environments, paired with a vision of solar-powered orbital compute satellites, initially around 100 kilowatts and scaling toward the megawatt range. Terrestrial compute is constrained by land, power, cooling, and local political opposition to enormous data centers. Space has sunlight and no neighbors to complain about the noise.

RELATED: Bernie Sanders and AOC propose law to shut down future AI data centers

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Of course, space also has no air. In vacuum, heat cannot leave a system by convection, only by radiation, which requires very large radiator surfaces at high power levels. The International Space Station’s thermal control system requires radiators the size of tennis courts to reject the heat generated by its systems. Radiation poses its own complications: The energetic particles of the space environment induce bit flips and long-term degradation in electronics not specifically hardened against them. The orbital vision is not impossible. It is simply a different problem than the earthbound one, even when presented in the same breath, as though the same momentum carries the project from Austin to low Earth orbit without friction.

The future needs power

Terafab’s “everything under one roof” approach has an ancestor in the great vertical integration projects of industrial capitalism, such as Ford’s River Rouge complex, which turned raw materials into finished automobiles inside a single, vast geography, its own power plant humming at the center.

The global semiconductor supply chain is highly concentrated: Roughly 92% of the world’s most advanced chip manufacturing capacity sits in Taiwan. To build end-to-end domestic capability is simultaneously a resilience project and a power project, a bid to internalize a strategic resource inside one corporate constellation rather than depend on the broader market of specialized suppliers.

Terafab is a cultural event as much as a technical announcement, and its cultural work is to naturalize a particular diagnosis: that intelligence is infrastructure, infrastructure is energy, and energy is the horizon of meaning for civilizational progress. Whether or not the fab gets built on schedule, whether or not the orbital satellites ever achieve megawatt-scale compute, the frame has been installed. The factory is where the future lives, and the future needs power.

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A 12-year-old was found dead under very disturbing circumstances at her stepfather’s home, and Connecticut police believe he sexually assaulted her before her death.

The Enfield Police Department said in a post on Facebook that officers responded to a report of an unresponsive female at a home on Elm St. on March 18 at about 10:25 a.m.

‘It’s terrifying still to this day. I’m glad he’s gone and won’t be driving kids anymore.’

Police said the girl, identified as Eve Rogers, was declared dead.

The girl’s mother said she went to wake up her daughter and found her dead, according to a WFSB-TV report.

The girl was being homeschooled and was not enrolled in any public school. She was withdrawn from school in 2022 in the fourth grade.

Police said they obtained a search warrant and conducted an investigation at the home for many hours.

Anthony Federline was arrested on Thursday and charged with sexual assault in the first degree as well as risk of injury to a child.

WVIT-TV reported that the arrest warrant said pills were found in the room where Rogers was found dead and that she was found naked from the waist down with a blanket over her bottom half.

DNA testing led to Federline’s arrest, but authorities said the DNA of an unknown person was also found.

The family initially began a GoFundMe donation page, but it was later deleted.

Parents in the school district are outraged because Federline was allowed to continue driving a school bus after the death of his stepdaughter. He was fired by the district after he was charged and arrested.

“We just wanted answers. We wanted accountability. We wanted some sort of transparency. We wanted answers from somebody,” said Malcolm Maxwell-Frechette, a parent of a student who rode on Federline’s bus.

Enfield superintendent Steven Moccio addressed the criticism in a statement to parents.

“Mr. Federline was removed from his position upon the district’s notification of arrest. Prior to that time, the district was unaware that he was a person of interest,” he said.

“It’s terrifying still to this day. I’m glad he’s gone and won’t be driving kids anymore, but it doesn’t make me feel any better about the situation,” Maxwell-Frechette added.

RELATED: Stepfather accused of horrific sexual abuse of 12-year-old boy tries to commit suicide in jail, prosecutor says

Connecticut state rep. John Santanella (D) released a statement urging the amendment of a bill that would place restrictions on homeschooling based on the incident.

“What we do know is heartbreaking,” he wrote. “A young life, a life that never had the chance to be fully lived, has been lost, and our community is left to grapple with that loss. In moments like this, we are reminded that the policies we debate in Hartford are not abstract. They have real consequences for real people, especially the most vulnerable among us.”

Federline was held on a $1 million bond.

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John Locke’s “Second Treatise of Government,” which inspired many of our nation’s founding principles, makes the simple assertion that the basic role of government is to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the consenting governed. Though our federal government has long since strayed from this purpose, opportunities to defend it are always a worthy endeavor.

That is why President Trump’s appointment of Vice President JD Vance to lead a new task force dedicated to rooting out fraud in the United States is a welcome undertaking.

There’s no incentive for states to police fraud: They can’t go over budget, and the feds still pick up the tab for illegitimate claims.

For too long, numerous states have abused federal dollars, failing to ensure that many recipients are even real or qualified for federal funds and leaving taxpayers to pick up the tab. Contrary to the media narrative that the administration is simply on a blue-state witch hunt, the billions of dollars stolen in Minnesota (yet to be returned) tell a different story.

For once, the executive branch is demonstrating proper oversight in the service of the American taxpayer, and it is long overdue.

Federal prosecutors estimate that, across 14 Minnesota Medicaid-funded programs, fraud totals more than $9 billion. That number is half of all federal matching funds allocated to the state since 2018.

It’s often said that taxation is theft. In Minnesota, it appears to be policy.

Correctly, Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Vice President JD Vance, have turned off the credit card until Minnesota officials can clean up their act.

Following a January CMS effort to get the state into compliance, the agency is also deferring payment for Q4 of 2025, having identified $259.5 million in fraudulent and illegal claims.

Like clockwork, officials, including Gov. Walz, began to plead on behalf of victims of a potential Medicaid fallout, portraying themselves as the defenders of the very Minnesotans victimized by the fraud they enabled.

In a House Oversight Committee hearing just a few weeks ago, Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison faced questions with a surprising lack of urgency. When asked if he felt the state’s efforts to return funds were successful, Walz denied culpability: “I can’t speak to that … I don’t have any part in that.”

Despite media outlets defending the state’s “good-faith effort” to make amends, the estimated $80 million returned still falls short of even 1% of the money stolen from taxpayers.

Similarly, Walz refused to elaborate on whether government officials who enabled fraud had been fired. During the Oversight Committee’s investigation, it was revealed that dozens of whistleblowers who reported fraud inside the Minnesota Department of Human Services were retaliated against. Minnesota DHS hired outside entities to investigate staff who fell out of line.

The reason? Dozens of whistleblowers reported that they were told not to say anything about the fraud for fear of being called “racist” or “Islamophobic.”

Not only did Walz and Ellison know about massive welfare fraud in the state, but they went to great lengths to keep it that way, afraid that cracking down on the disproportionate amount of Medicaid fraud in the Somali community would harm them politically.

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This level of fraud is historic. But rather than making a good-faith effort to identify fraud and recover taxpayer funds, Minnesota may become the first state to pursue the unprecedented step of suing CMS instead of using the agency’s internal appeals process. While state officials claim they are at a loss over how to satisfy CMS requirements, doubling down on fraud is doubtlessly not the solution CMS is looking for.

Vance, now tasked with developing a nationwide anti-fraud strategy, should build on CMS’ approach in Minnesota, one that directly targets the root of the problem.

Minnesota, like many states, receives a Federal Medical Assistance Percentage of 90% for adults covered under the ACA expansion. In practice, that means for every dollar the state spends, the federal government contributes nine. States that spend more get more. There’s no incentive for states to police fraud: They can’t go over budget, and the feds still pick up the tab for illegitimate claims, ultimately passing the balance on to taxpayers.

In context, CMS’ Medicaid funding pause in Minnesota functions as a blunt but effective check: no oversight, no money. Should Minnesota decide to bolster program integrity and ensure that Medicaid assistance only goes to Americans who are truly in need, it can confidently spend its cash again with the assurance of federal backing.

In the meantime, every other state would be wise to take note and get its house in order before Vance drops the hammer.

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A leader of the Democratic Party in Florida was found dead at her home last week, and her husband has already been charged with murder.

Colleagues at City Hall in Coral Springs, Florida, began to worry when Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer, 38, did not show up for a meeting at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Her husband, 40-year-old Stephen Bowen, responded to one individual’s inquiring text messages by indicating that he did not know where she was and claiming that “her car is not at home,” according to an arrest report.

A pillow with ‘burn marks’ was also found at the scene, and police suspect it had been used ‘as a makeshift silencer.’

By early afternoon, police went to the residence believed to be shared by Metayer and Bowen to conduct a welfare check. There, they discovered a “human body wrapped in blankets and black garbage bags … in the bed of the second-floor master bedroom,” according to the arrest report.

A pillow with “burn marks” was also found at the scene, and police suspect it had been used “as a makeshift silencer,” the arrest report said.

By the time Metayer’s body was discovered, Bowen was already under heavy suspicion. In a 911 call just before 2 p.m. Wednesday, Bowen’s uncle, Owen Small, alleged that about four hours earlier, Bowen had arrived at Small’s residence and admitted that he had “shot his wife” with a shotgun three times the previous evening, rolled her up in a “comforter with a garbage bag around her feet,” and then slept downstairs, the report said.

Small claimed to police that he pressed his nephew to explain why he had shot his wife and that Bowen had told him that he “couldn’t take it anymore,” the report added.

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Leslie Washington Jr., who said he knows Bowen through the Freemasons, claimed to police that Bowen had called him around 12:30 p.m. and asked to stop by. According to a summary of Washington’s statements in the report, Washington and Bowen then met in a parking lot, where Bowen handed Washington an item Bowen described as a “gun bag.”

Washington added that he took the bag into his apartment and that he “placed ammo boxes inside his vehicle for Stephen Bowen,” but that “he was unaware of what criminal act Stephen Bowen committed,” the report alleged.

Bowen was taken into police custody around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and booked into Broward County jail on charges of first-degree premeditated murder and tampering with or fabricating evidence.

Meanwhile, Metayer’s loved ones throughout the state of Florida are devastated by her unexpected death.

“Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer loved Coral Springs, and our community is forever changed without her. We honor her service, her legacy and passion. Together we stand united during this time of profound grief,” the city shared in a Facebook message Friday that also included a video tribute to Metayer.

“There are no words that can truly capture the depth of this loss,” Coral Springs City Manager Catherine Givens said.

“It is with a broken heart and profound grief that the Florida Democratic Party mourns the sudden and horrific death of our beloved Vice Chair, Nancy Metayer Bowen,” said a statement from Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried.

“Above all, Nancy was my friend and a friend to everyone who has ever believed that democracy was worth fighting for. The world is less bright without her in it,” Fried’s statement added.

Metayer was first elected to the Coral Springs City Commission in 2020 and was then re-elected in 2024. Her fellow commissioners appointed her to be vice mayor in November.

She was expected to announce a congressional bid soon, according to Democratic Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz.

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The SAVE America Act — which would simply require individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections — remains stalled in the Senate after three weeks of contentious debate, a failed cloture vote blocked by the Democratic filibuster, and the ongoing partial DHS shutdown.

Opponents continue to lean on the argument that the bill disenfranchises millions of married women. Because roughly 80% of them change their last name upon marriage, their current legal name no longer matches the name on their birth certificate (the main document accepted as proof of citizenship). This could force them to obtain additional paperwork like marriage certificates or updated records that many may lack or find burdensome.

Meryl Streep is now apparently joining the fight to block the SAVE America Act. On a recent episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the 76-year-old actress randomly brought up the bill and perpetuated the same argument.

Pat Gray played the clip on a recent episode of “Pat Gray Unleashed” and addressed Streep’s comments.

Near the end of the episode, after spending the majority of the time talking about Streep’s latest film, “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” Colbert asked if there was anything else on her mind she wanted to talk about, and Streep used that opening to pivot and deliver her warning about the SAVE America Act and married women.

“The Save America Act, if that passes, all the married women that have changed their names are going to have to go to the registrar and prove that they are who they are,” Streep said.

“When you get to the voting booth in November, you might be disqualified because your name on your birth certificate doesn’t match your name on the voting rolls, … and this is such a pain in the neck because you have to go, but do it because otherwise you’ll be turned away, and I think that women need to be heard, especially in this moment,” she added.

Pat is nauseated with Hollywood’s left-wing agenda.

“Just the lies that continue to spill out of these stupid people,” he sighs.

“I doubt she knows that’s a lie. She probably really believes it because she only follows left-wing morons,” he adds.

Pat explains that the SAVE America Act’s co-author, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), has repeatedly debunked the claim that the bill disenfranchises married women. Numerous times he has clarified that the SAVE America Act includes special accommodations for name discrepancies: Women can provide additional linking documents (like a marriage certificate) or simply swear an affidavit attesting to their citizenship, after which states can verify the details later.

“There’s nobody going to be left behind when it comes to being accepted into the voter pool,” co-host Keith Malinak says.

“But the only way to convince the American people that the SAVE Act is something negative is to lie about it,” Pat says, “and so that’s what they do. They just sit there and lie through their communist teeth.”

To hear more, watch the full episode above.

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Recently, while attending a musical with my children and niece, I suddenly found my faith in humanity partially restored. The actors performed with confidence and grace, the sets were beautiful and well crafted, and the orchestra below provided harmonious accompaniment all throughout the show.

From the beginning to end, the kids and I were immersed in the story and songs, somehow forgetting we were watching and listening to adolescents still in high school.

The whole experience reminded me how much is possible with this age group, given the right motivation. They can put in grueling hours, endure severe criticism, and embrace strict discipline, all in the hope of creating something compelling.

When those charged with performing the rituals of celebration and devotion only do so out of necessity, their celebrations will inevitably become ugly, superficial, and false.

Miraculously, they shunned the temptations of their screens, perhaps realizing that mindless scrolling offers them nothing of substance. The better part of their humanity took over and moved them to make a show for their community.

While I take solace in such knowledge, I cannot suppress the frustrations that also arise. If I could only witness a small modicum of this effort from these same students in my English classes, my job would be so much easier.

Compared to memorizing lines and music and performing before the bright lights and a large crowd for three hours straight, learning to write a clear and organized essay should be a breeze.

These frustrations aside, attending the musical and marveling at the work and energy involved reveal a deeper truth about what stirs young adults to noteworthy action: the intense desire to create something good, true, and beautiful.

If the possibility exists to participate in an event or project that merits large audiences, critical acclaim, and thoughtful analysis, this will inherently draw young people to its cause. By contrast, if those events and projects are performed out of a sense of duty and nothing more, those young people will take their talents elsewhere.

As many Christians can attest, this dynamic is readily apparent in religious worship. When those charged with performing the rituals of celebration and devotion only do so out of necessity, their celebrations will inevitably become ugly, superficial, and false.

The innumerable offenses against good taste and authentic piety afflicting so much of modern Christianity come not only from the infiltration of pernicious philosophies and ephemeral trends but also from a general retreat from the high ideals that formerly animated Christian life and expression.

This has resulted in a vicious cycle that drives away more young souls with each round. At some point in the last century, it was decided by pastors and other ecclesial authorities that they could best serve the needs of the Catholic Church by watering down the faith and making it less intimidating.

The heavy load that burdened Catholics — that is, the expectation of celebrating and participating in a service that was true, beautiful, and good — would be lifted, or at least lightened. In practical terms, this meant simplifying the liturgy, dumbing down the theology, and substituting superficial fashions for timeless traditions.

Never has it been so easy, yet so uninspiring, to be a Christian. Besides transforming Christianity into something cheap and unattractive, the changes wrought in the name of lowering barriers effectively drained the Church of its vitality.

For many Catholics, including myself, it is not so much the tacky felt banners and cheesy hymns that bother us, but the general lethargy and mediocrity that underlie such choices. Everything seems to be done out of a sense of familiarity and obligation, not a desire to make something excellent.

In light of the brilliant show that I just saw at my high school, I can see all the more clearly what it is that pushes away young people from the faith. Most of them want to create something significant, but churches no longer let them do this. So many parishes have relaxed standards so much that being a practicing Christian hardly feels like anything.

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Older adults contending with the challenges of raising children, making a living, and participating in their local communities might appreciate these concessions. Younger adults, however, will invariably channel their aptitudes and abundant enthusiasm to singing in a musical, playing in the marching band, or competing in a sport.

Moreover, they will even cultivate a quasi-religious zeal in these endeavors. I only half-joke with my students when I tell them they are caught up in a cult. In a certain sense, they are.

These extracurricular programs often determine their community and give them a raison d’être. To adults, these shows and games might be wholesome pastimes that help build character; for the students, they offer the kind of fulfillment and meaning that should be coming from their Christian faith.

None of this is to argue against the existence of such programs — I hope to attend more musicals with my kids, after all — but for the restoration of these programs’ virtues in Christianity. In order to bring back the youth and reinvigorate today’s dwindling churches, pastors need to bring back the rigor required to realize the true, the good, and the beautiful.

Fortunately for Christians, they have a rich tradition of art and scholarship from which to draw and apply such rigor. They only need to overcome their own misgivings and exert themselves as far as they can, doing more both inside and outside worship. Once they experience the joy and satisfaction that come out of it, they will finally understand why such traditions exist in the first place and just how wonderful is our God.

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The attorney for a 62-year-old grandmother who was arrested for wearing an inflatable phallic costume to a No Kings protest says her constitutional rights were violated.

Police bodycam video showed Renea Gamble trying to walk away from a police officer before he grabs her and tosses her to the ground at a protest in Fairhope, Alabama, on Oct. 20, 2025.

Gamble’s attorney argued that her right to wear an inflatable phallic costume to protest the president was enshrined in the Constitution.

The Fairhope Police Dept. said the officer requested that she take off the costume, which was deemed offensive in a public setting, and she allegedly refused.

“I’m not going to sit here and argue with you,” Col. Andrew Babb says in the video. “If my kids had to come by and see this, how would you explain it to them?”

Gamble was holding a U.S. flag as well as a sign with another phallic reference.

“This is a family town, and I’m not going to have somebody out here dressed like this. You understand?” Babb added.

Police said she was initially charged with misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct as well as resisting arrest. They later added a charge of giving officers a false name because she allegedly told police her name was “Aunt Tifa” when asked to identify herself.

She was also charged with breaking a city ordinance related to disturbing the peace.

Gamble’s attorney argued that her right to wear an inflatable phallic costume to protest the president was enshrined in the Constitution. The bodycam footage was released by Gamble’s legal team and published by WKRG-TV in its news report.

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At a later protest, a woman wearing a purple eggplant costume appeared and made a reference to the fake name used by Gamble.

When her attorney was asked whether Gamble was out protesting again before her court hearing, he did not confirm or deny the report.

“Several people were dressed in eggplant costumes,” attorney David Gespass said to AL.com. “My only concern about people exercising their First Amendment rights is authorities violating them. That is why the National Lawyers Guild has its legal observer program.”

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A Philadelphia-area male is accused of stabbing a Planet Fitness worker multiple times amid an altercation last week that reportedly occurred after he was banned for an unpaid bill.

Just after 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Cheltenham Police and emergency medical services responded to a Planet Fitness at 1000 South Easton Road in the Wyncote section of Cheltenham Township after a report of a stabbing, police said.

Officials said bail was denied, and Massey was taken to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility pending further court proceedings.

A male suffering from multiple stab wounds was found and taken to an area trauma center for treatment for life-threatening injuries, officials said.

A preliminary investigation determined that the victim is an employee of the Planet Fitness and was stabbed during an altercation with an individual who previously had been banned from the gym, officials said.

Responding police officers caught a suspect a short distance away, officials said.

Arrested in connection with the incident was 28-year-old Davier Massey of the 7600 block of Rugby Street in Philadelphia, officials said.

WPVI-TV reported that Massey was banned Wednesday over an unpaid bill but returned to the gym twice Thursday and caused a disturbance.

Investigators told the station it was during the second visit that the altercation escalated, and the employee was stabbed multiple times.

Massey was charged with first-degree attempted murder, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, possession of an instrument of crime, simple assault, terroristic threats, criminal mischief, harassment, and disorderly conduct, officials said.

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Officials said bail was denied, and Massey was taken to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility pending further court proceedings.

The Cheltenham Police Department is continuing to investigate the incident, officials said, and those with information or who may have witnessed the incident are asked to contact Cheltenham detectives at 215-885-1600 or policetips@cheltenhampa.gov. Tipsters can remain anonymous, officials added.

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President Donald Trump said someone leaked sensitive information about a downed pilot in Iran, and the administration is going to hunt that person down.

The president made the announcement while speaking from the White House on Monday about the rescue of two pilots of an F-15E Strike Eagle that was hit and crashed in Iran.

‘We think we’ll be able to find it out because we’re going to go to the media company that released it, and we’re going to say, ‘National security, give it up or go to jail.”

The president said the rescue of the pilots was a major victory for the U.S. and a humiliation for Iran, before making the comments about the alleged leaker.

“As you probably know, we didn’t talk about the first one for an hour, and then somebody leaked something,” the president said.

“Which, we’ll hopefully find that leaker. We’re looking very hard to find that leaker. … They basically said that, ‘We have one, and there’s somebody missing.’ Well, [Iran] didn’t know there was somebody missing until this leaker gave the information,” he added.

The pilots were successfully rescued over the weekend, and the incident was reported Friday.

“So whoever it was, we think we’ll be able to find it out because we’re going to go to the media company that released it, and we’re going to say, ‘National security, give it up or go to jail,'” Trump continued.

“And we know who and you know who we’re talking about,” he added. “‘Because some things you can’t do because when they did that, all of a sudden the entire country of Iran knew that there was a pilot that was somewhere on their land that was fighting for his life.”

He said the leak made it much more difficult for the team sent out to rescue the second pilot.

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The Hill reported that among those who first reported the leaked information were the New York Times, Axios, and Fox News.

Some noted that the rescue of the pilots coincided with the Christian religious calendar, both in the downing on Good Friday and the rescues reported on Easter Sunday.

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Last week, President Trump announced the dismissal of Pam Bondi as the U.S. attorney general.

BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler was ecstatic when she heard the news.

“The American people voted for President Trump because we want justice … and Attorney General Pam Bondi prosecuted zero of the big abuses against us. Zero,” she says.

On this episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Liz revisits the former AG’s biggest failures in her 14-month tenure.

“Dr. Fauci lied to the Senate — to Senator Rand Paul, to be specific — during COVID in addition to just abusing his position in government. Was he prosecuted for that? Not by Pam Bondi,” Liz begins.

She then moves on to the Russiagate scandal.

“Obama and Obama’s cronies manufactured a fake intelligence assessment falsely accusing President Trump of colluding with Russia to win the 2016 election. … Tulsi Gabbard gave Pam Bondi proof of that, and we’ll see what’s to come out of Florida, but it’s not thanks to Pam Bondi,” she scoffs.

Liz lists out several other scandals the former AG failed to prosecute, including:

The “Ukraine impeachment,” in which President Trump was accused of pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden in exchange for U.S. military aid in 2019. The targeting of parents who “did not want their children being indoctrinated with critical race theory in school” by FBI agents. The targeting of Project Veritas journalists who “[investigated] Ashley Biden’s diary” by FBI agents.

But these examples just scratch the surface.

“What about the FBI labeling Catholics as extremists? No accountability,” Liz continues. “What about January 6? Do you remember January 6 — the ‘Fedsurrection’ — and the due process violations? No indictments from Pam Bondi.”

She also brings up the evidence uncovered in the Twitter files that revealed extensive coordination between the Biden administration and Big Tech companies to suppress content on controversial subjects such as COVID-19, vaccines, and the 2020 election. To this day, neither Biden nor anyone in his administration has faced any personal legal consequences for what many view as a clear violation of the First Amendment.

“What about the raid on Mar-a-Lago? What about all the abuse that happened at the NGOs that was exposed by DOGE? What about Antifa? I thought they were a domestic terror group. What about all these other violent left-wing transgender groups?” Liz rails.

But she still isn’t done.

“What about Roy Singham, the American billionaire who acts as a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party who sends his money to fund left-wing violent riots in the United States?” she asks.

Liz then turns her fiery gaze on the left-wing politicians who she believes are deserving of the DOJ’s intense scrutiny: “What about all the lawfare against President Trump himself by Alvin Bragg and Fannie Willis and Leticia James? What about Ilhan Omar and her naturalization fraud? Zohran Mamdani and his naturalization fraud?”

And last but certainly not least, Liz reminds us of Bondi’s crowning failure: The Epstein files.

“She lied repeatedly about the Epstein files, even though she had not read the actual files, even though she was talking about them publicly but didn’t know what was in them because she’s click-thirsty. She craves attention and adulation,” she rants.

“The Epstein files represent justice to the base — the justice that we voted for when we voted for President Trump,” she continues.

While Liz is thrilled that Bondi is finally out of the picture, she argues that her dismissal should have happened “400 days” ago.

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The Trump administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, led by Vice President JD Vance, reported that it has shut down hundreds of hospices and health care providers over a 10-week period.

Vance’s task force, established by presidential executive order on March 16, has been working with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to crack down on health care fraud.

‘Remember, none of this fraud could happen unless California issued these licenses.’

CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz told Fox News Digital on Thursday that 221 hospice and health care providers in Los Angeles County had been suspended.

“We’ve shut down already, just in the last 10 weeks, 221 hospices in California,” Oz told Fox News Digital, noting that all of the entities were located in Los Angeles.

“We’re able to dramatically accelerate a process that had been meandering along in California,” Oz stated.

Roughly a third of the nation’s hospices, 1,800, are located in Los Angeles, according to Oz. He stated that the administration believes it will shut down half of those entities.

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“The administration’s war on fraud once again yields results as more suspensions take place and fraudsters face justice for ripping off hard-working Americans and stealing their tax dollars and social services,” a spokesperson for Vance told Blaze News. “The vice president and his task force are proud of these latest figures and expect to see this number continue to grow dramatically.”

California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office responded to the administration’s latest efforts to suspend hospices accused of fraud.

“Glad the federal government is finally stepping up to do their part,” his office wrote. “State has been taking action for years, including suspending 280+ licenses & banning new licenses since 2022.”

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First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli told Fox News Digital that California has “not taken fraud seriously for over a decade.”

Essayli explained that he refers to Newsom as “the fraud king” because “he has reigned over billions and billions of dollars of fraud.”

“It’s gonna be into the hundreds of billions of dollars under his watch,” Essayli said. “Remember, none of this fraud could happen unless California issued these licenses.”

Newsom’s press office fired back at Essayli after he claimed the governor has refused to implement emergency regulations that would help end hospice fraud.

“The Governor took action: he instituted a BAN on new hospice licenses back in 2022!!” the press office wrote. “Only the federal government has access to medicare billing, CRITICAL to fighting fraud — so why did it take you so long to act, First Assistant?”

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The whole world was eagerly watching President Donald Trump brief reporters about key updates on the war in Iran Monday when he revealed which head of state called former President Joe Biden “mentally retarded.”

During the high-stakes briefing, the president reaffirmed his Iran ultimatum and ripped into American allies for refraining from assisting the United States in the war. Trump criticized allies like Australia, Japan, and South Korea before going on a brief tangent about which world leader criticized Biden’s mental acuity.

‘I don’t care about critics.’

“We have 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect us from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well, as you know,” Trump said. “Do you notice, he’s said very nice things about me.”

“He used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person, OK? So don’t tell me about your stuff,” Trump said to a reporter who suggested critics are calling for him to be psychologically evaluated. “Joe Biden, he said, ‘He’s a mentally retarded person.’ He was so nasty to Joe Biden. It was terrible.”

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Earlier in the briefing, a reporter pressed Trump about his Truth Social post on Easter Sunday calling the Iranians “crazy bastards” and signing off with, “Praise be to Allah.”

“What is your response to critics who say that it is your mental health that should perhaps be examined as this war continues?” the reporter asked.

“I don’t care about critics,” Trump interrupted.

“I haven’t heard that,” Trump added. “But if that’s the case, you’re going to have to have more people like me.”

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