Whether she’s rooting out H-1B fraud or exposing the open-border flood, BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales is adamant about fighting back against the “globalist plan to flood the zone and displace actual Americans who should be put first in their own country.”

On this episode of “Come & Take It,” the Texas native shines the light on a local university that commissioned an overseas business to recruit foreign students.

The school under Sara’s microscope is the University of North Texas in Denton. According to Texas Scorecard, “A third-party vendor received payments from the University of North Texas to ‘recruit’ international students from 2018 through at least 2023.”

“All of the money that you guys are working hard to then sign over to UNT and all of these other public universities, this money went to that school only for them to turn around and pay a foreign recruiting firm up to $3,000 per foreign student that they recruited,” says Sara.

“It is bad enough that they are paying to recruit foreigners at all … but they aren’t even paying an American company. … They’re siphoning money out of this country to bring in people to take spots that could be going to an American or a Texan,” she continues.

Texas Scorecard identified the third-party recruiter as the Edwise Foundation — a student-placement agency based in Kathmandu, Nepal, focused on placing Nepalese students in higher education, specifically in the U.S.

“Their entire existence is to empower foreigners to come have access to our colleges, and we are paying them real money to do that,” says Sara. “That’s bonkers crazy to me.”

On its website, the Edwise Foundation claims it has “placed thousands of students into a diverse range of [universities] in the United States — from small private liberal arts colleges to top-tier research Institutions — often with partial or full financial aid.”

“I’m just wondering at this point, financial aid paid for by whom? Where is the financial aid money coming from? … I certainly would like to know,” says Sara.

“Then again, maybe I wouldn’t like to know because maybe it’s just going to be further black-pilling to hear that … more of my money is somehow being siphoned into this financial aid fund that’s then being given to foreigners who are taking spots that could be going to Texans or Americans.”

She then pulls up a page from the Edwise Foundation’s website titled “Why Study in the USA from Nepal?” which identifies the U.S. as a top destination for Nepali students because it has “the world’s best universities,” “research and innovation” opportunities, “academic flexibility,” “work after graduation” opportunities, “scholarships and assistantships,” and degrees that promise “global” value.

“So we’re all on the same page that our system, that the American higher education system, is … the best,” says Sara.

“It sounds to me like this should be one of the most competitive areas ever, and you should be paying us for the opportunity to potentially come here and scout you out.”

To hear more of Sara’s scathing exposé, watch the episode above.

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When the FBI raided the Virginia home of ex-CIA official David Rush in May, agents found nearly 300 gold bars, each weighing a kilogram; 35 luxury watches; €104,795; and roughly $2 million in U.S. currency.

This apparently stolen treasure was only the tip of the iceberg.

‘His self-serving actions threatened to erode public confidence in the intelligence services.’

Rush pleaded guilty on Tuesday to using his senior executive-level position within the CIA to create fake classified programs so that he could divert and fraudulently obtain roughly $193,590,400 in taxpayer funds.

“By his own admission, David Rush defrauded the government of hundreds of millions of dollars, and then misused those funds for extravagant purchases,” stated FBI Director Kash Patel. “Rush betrayed his oath, his co-workers, and the American people, and he will now face justice for his actions.”

According to a statement of facts dated Tuesday and signed by Rush, Rush secured a senior role at a federal agency on the basis of false claims about his military background and education.

Sources previously told the New York Times that Rush worked for the CIA, and Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed on Tuesday that it was the spy agency that had referred the matter to the FBI following an internal investigation identifying potential crimes.

Contrary to what he told CIA colleagues and contractors, Rush never served as a pilot in the U.S. military, and he held neither a bachelor’s degree from a large public research university based in South Carolina nor a doctoral degree from a private research university in New York, the DOJ said.

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The federal position that Rush occupied on account of such misrepresentations provided him with the authority to approve multimillion-dollar expenditures for various programs.

Rush admitted to creating a “highly classified program to justify the acquisition of luxury real estate, which he then intended to resell for personal profit,” according to the statement of facts. Since access to his fake program was restricted to “specifically authorized individuals with the appropriate security clearance and need to know,” Rush was for a time able to operate in the shadows.

He also created “separate purported sensitive government activity” to justify the acquisition of hundreds of gold bars.

The affidavit originally filed in support of a criminal complaint and arrest warrant for Rush stated that FBI agents seized “approximately 303 gold bars” from his residence. That number has been adjusted to 298 gold bars.

Neither the Department of Justice nor the CIA immediately responded to Blaze News’ requests for comment.

“Although the real estate and gold acquisitions involved different transactions and intermediaries, they were executions of the same overarching scheme — RUSH created false classified authorities, directed and approved the associated expenditures, caused contractors and subcontractors to carry out the transactions, and thereafter exercised possession or control over the acquired assets,” said the document.

Rush didn’t just acquire gold bars and the luxury residential properties in Palm Beach and Hobe Sound, Florida, at America’s expense. Prosecutors noted in court documents that over $38.65 million was seized from the bank account linked to the holding company that Rush created as part of his scheme, and over $2.1 million in American cash was seized from his house.

Per the terms of his plea agreement, Rush has agreed to forfeit the gold bars, the cash found at his home, the luxury residential properties he fraudulently obtained in Palm Beach and Hobe Sound, two 2026 BMW Alpina vehicles — at least one of which is valued at around $172,000 — and at least 30 luxury watches, including a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Sea-Dweller 4000.

“Our Intelligence Community must have the trust of the American people to operate effectively in a Nation committed to transparency and the rule of law,” stated Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg. “Rush repeatedly betrayed that trust. He defrauded the United States out of approximately $194 million in real estate, jewelry, and other valuable property, including 298 gold bars. Worse, his self-serving actions threatened to erode public confidence in the intelligence services that must strive in secret to keep America safe.”

Rush, who pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud, is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 28, 2027. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison.

While Rush has pleaded guilty, the DOJ noted that its investigation is continuing and that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton has asked for the intelligence community’s inspector general to launch a separate investigation.

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A day at the docks started with an unexpected meeting with some birds — Ravens, to be exact.

When President Donald Trump arrived in Sparrows Point, Maryland, to announce a new shipyard, he was met by a group of professional athletes.

‘He claims that he’s a billionaire!’

Trump, who consistently flexes his football knowledge, was greeted by four Baltimore Ravens players before an event announcing a major government investment.

Ryan Eckley, Marlon Humphrey, Tyler Loop, and Nick Moore all met with the president at Tradepoint Atlantic on Tuesday, as Trump was set to unveil plans for a gigantic logistics center in the Baltimore area, about 30 minutes from where the Ravens play.

Humphrey is seemingly the most outspoken of the players, at least politically, and was the only one to post a video online about the interaction.

“Do yall know this guy? He claims that he’s a billionaire!” Humphrey wrote as a video caption. The video showed the 30-year-old cornerback sitting behind the president inside a moving vehicle.

Humphrey spoke in defense of the president when New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart received criticism for introducing Trump before a rally.

“The fake Trump hate funny to me,” Humphrey wrote in May. “Majority voted for him but everybody seem to hate him lol … Somebody lying.”

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The New York Post reported that Humphrey planned to meet with the president to discuss his charity work and the commander in chief’s shared passion for football and golf.

“Marlon Humphrey is a great talent, player, and leader for the Ravens,” Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz told the New York Post. “He is also widely respected in the locker room and the city of Baltimore.”

The new shipyard is being built with Anduril Industries, founded by tech and defense entrepreneur Palmer Luckey. It is expected to create 3,100 jobs and cost $6.6 billion. The money will come in part from the U.S. Navy ($2.9 billion) with the majority from private investment ($3.7 billion),

According to the Guardian, the shipyard will be called “Arsenal Two” and will build torpedo tubes and other parts for Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines.

Taxpayers will reportedly have a “40% stake” in the facility, the president said. However, it will not be operational until 2030.

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Humphrey has a history of remarks in support of the president. In February 2025, he wrote on X, “I’m confused how everyone appears to ‘hate’ Trump but he won the presidency … Some of yall lying.”

Following the assassination attempt against the president in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024, Humphrey remarked: “Trump took a bullet for America.”

The Ravens are currently 3-1 and will play the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

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Want a date? Just let your government know everything about you.

It’s that simple in Singapore, where a federal agency is now looking to match singles on a government dating site.

‘Swipe fatigue ends here.’

With fertility rates decreasing in countries all around the world, ruling parties have long looked to immigration to ensure their bottom line does not suffer, but that doesn’t mean they have stopped looking inward as well, especially in Asia.

Singapore’s fertility rate has sunk to historic lows, dropping to 0.87 in 2025, down from 1.24 a decade ago, according to local outlet the Straights Times.

In response, Singapore’s Government Technology Agency has launched a dating website called FirstDate, which aims to match singles ages 21 to 35.

“Swipe fatigue ends here,” the website reads.

Users would receive just one match at a time based on a questionnaire they fill out regarding their interests, habits, values, and preferences in order to “curate matches based on compatibility.”

“Receive one match at a time, so you can focus on building a thoughtful connection,” the government agency says.

Users get one match per “cycle” — the length of which is unknown — based on a compatibility score, and then both parties have 72 hours to accept the match.

Along with the detailed questionnaire, users submit their contact information and are required to use their government-issued digital ID called Singpass.

Without the digital ID, citizens cannot file taxes or access public services, for example.

Those who use the digital ID are required to submit a face scan in order to “protect your digital identity.”

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According to Mashable, the use of the digital ID comes with the promise of there being no fake profiles on the website.

At the same time, FirstDate says that user data and questionnaire responses are handled in accordance with government security standards and will not be monetized or shared with third parties “except where required or permitted by law.”

A Singapore government website explains that it works “extensively with Third Parties to deliver services to citizens” and therefore the government data is routinely shared.

In January, the country announced it would allow data to be shared with “trusted external partners” as well, so long as it is for the purposes of public interest. This reportedly includes ethnic nonprofits like the Chinese Development Assistance Council and the Eurasian Association.

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Singapore isn’t the first Asian country to have a government-run dating program.

China, Iran, and Japan all have their own service aimed at matching singles.

Do they work?

A 2024 study looked at the validity of government dating services and determined that “there is good reason to believe that dating apps can be powerful tools for social engineering.”

Citing China, India, Iran, and Japan, the study said the dating apps address three distinct social problems: “sub-replacement fertility, social polarization, and the spread of genetic diseases,” the latter referring to incest.

Applications for FirstDate are closing fast, with the website giving applicants until October 5 to submit their information.

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They say politics can be murder. Recent polling suggests a disturbing share of Democratic and left-of-center voters are becoming far too comfortable with the idea.

A new survey from Liberal Currents and the Center for Strategic Politics asked 683 Democratic voters how they would feel about five hypothetical ways President Donald Trump might leave office before his term ends.

Apparently protecting democracy now includes the occasional military junta.

The lawful options drew predictably lopsided reactions: 86% said they would feel positively if Trump were impeached and convicted, and 84% said the same about removal under the 25th Amendment.

Then the poll got darker.

Fifty-nine percent said they would react positively to a headline announcing that military leaders had removed Trump and assumed control of the government to “safeguard the Constitution.” Another 56% said they would react positively if Trump simply died in his sleep.

The only scenario in which negative reactions outnumbered positive ones was assassination. Even there, 31% said they would feel very or somewhat positive if Trump were killed while speaking at a rally; 26% were neutral, and 43% reacted negatively.

The survey measured emotional reaction, not willingness to carry out or personally endorse violence. Still, a positive reaction to an assassination or a military takeover is an ugly result for a party that presents itself as the guardian of democracy.

Apparently protecting democracy now includes the occasional military junta.

Those findings do not stand alone. In April 2025, the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers Social Perception Lab surveyed 1,264 U.S. adults and found that 55.2% of respondents who identified as left of center considered the murder of Trump at least somewhat justified. Nearly 50% said the same about Elon Musk. The researchers described an emerging “assassination culture” among segments of the political left.

Five months later, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University. Prosecutors allege that the accused killer targeted Kirk because of his political and religious beliefs.

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The online reaction exposed something broader than one alleged killer’s motive. Social media filled with people celebrating Kirk’s death, mocking his widow, and arguing that he had deserved to die because of his politics.

A YouGov poll conducted after Kirk’s killing found that 16% of liberals said it was usually or always acceptable to be happy about the death of a public figure they opposed. Among the “very liberal,” the number rose to 24%.

Conservatives registered at just 4%.

Cheering a death is not the same thing as committing violence. But political violence becomes easier to rationalize when the target has first been reduced to someone whose death is funny, deserved, or morally cleansing.

I have watched that permission structure develop in my native Portland, Oregon

During the summer of 2020, rioters repeatedly attacked the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse with fireworks, incendiary devices, rocks, bottles, and other attempts to set fires. Federal prosecutors charged one man after an incendiary object exploded at the courthouse entrance.

The pattern did not disappear. Beginning in 2025, the Portland ICE facility became another center of unrest. Court records describe protesters throwing rocks and bricks at officers, damaging security equipment, trying to breach the building, and using an upended stop sign as a makeshift battering ram. One participant who struck a federal officer in the head with a rock was later sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.

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There is a difference between peaceful protest and political violence. Democrats should be able to draw it without hesitation.

It’s why then-Senator Kamala Harris took flak during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots when she urged followers to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund “to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.” In the middle of widespread disorder, a future Democratic vice president used her platform to promote bail assistance for protesters rather than draw a sharper distinction between lawful protest and criminal violence.

Political violence thrives on permission — explicit or subtle. That permission can come from celebrating an assassination, describing violence as justified, excusing riots because the cause is righteous, or treating the rule of law as optional when the target is sufficiently hated.

Democrats have spent the better part of a decade warning that American democracy is endangered by Trump and the right. They cannot demand that the country take political violence seriously while refusing to confront the appetite for it inside their own coalition.

You cannot save democracy by cheering when your political opponents are removed from it.

That is, in fact, how democracies die.

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PORTLAND, MAINE — If you didn’t know any better, you would think Maine was the sickest state in the union.

Home health care LLCs, some with Minnesota area codes, fill entire office buildings throughout the city centers, suburbs, and exurbs of that once-sleepy New England state. They’re supposedly open from 9:00 to 5:00 every day, but no one is ever working.

‘The legislature needs to conduct a serious investigation of MaineCare’s provider system.’

What follows is the story of how Maine got robbed.

Somali refugees began flooding into Maine in 2001. Previously resettled elsewhere, the Somalis later gathered in Portland, then Lewiston, drawn by cheap housing. Catholic Charities Maine relocated the waves that followed, bringing as many as it could to Vacationland.

Catholic Charities was Maine’s primary federal refugee resettlement agency for nearly 50 years. It paid bus fare for hundreds of Angolan and Congolese migrants sent from San Antonio to Portland in 2023, the Maine Wire previously reported.

Maine, which boasts a robust General Assistance program offering rent, heating, food, utilities, and prescriptions to asylum-seekers for up to 24 months, has been a heavenly destination for the tired, poor, and huddled masses.

Soon enough, those masses would be rested, rich, and sprawled over numerous state-backed housing units.

Some New Mainers, as the state refers to them, never got off the government dole. In fact, they have built an entire way of life around spending other people’s money.

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Blaze News visited office buildings in Portland, Westbrook, and Lewiston, Maine, in September. We found dozens of home health care agencies, all of which spent the work day empty despite posted hours of operation. All companies were linked to Gmail addresses rather than any corporate email, and some even listed Minnesota mailing addresses and phone numbers.

Many of these numbers were out of service or went straight to voicemail. Only one, New Horizon Residential Care, picked up the phone. A thickly accented voice on the other end informed Blaze News that the company had shuttered operations and fled to New Hampshire after MaineCare fraud began to be exposed.

The full list of suspicious home health care LLCs could fill volumes, thanks to Jon Fetherston and Steve Robinson of the Maine Wire.

Some examples that Blaze News encountered in Maine are more glaring than others. Legit Home Health Care (now Legit Home Care LLC, according to state filings) registered with the federal government on March 19, 2018. Its provider record lists one official, a “director” named Adulahi Aden, and one address: 991 Forest Avenue, Suite 2A, Portland.

From 2019 to 2024, MaineCare paid Legit $7,116,267, according to state payment records previously obtained by the Maine Wire. That money is meant for aides who bathe, feed, and care for elderly and disabled Mainers in their own homes.

Legit billed $6.95 million across 8,652 claims from 2018 through 2024 for in-home personal care, according to federal Medicaid data. The claims were billed in 15-minute increments.

When Blaze News visited the office, no one was around to answer. The sign is still proudly and prominently displayed at the location.

Maine officials did once suspect something was off. In October 2022, MaineCare’s Office of Program Integrity ordered Legit to repay $39,804.06. The home health care company had “failed to provide proper documentation for some of its services,” according to state records reviewed by the Maine Wire.

Aden disputed the finding and sent in more paperwork. The state canceled the demand. Inspectors returned in July 2025 for a licensing review and found no deficiencies, the Maine Wire reported.

Normal nursing homes don’t receive that kind of leniency. Federal rules require those facilities to undergo unannounced inspections and other taxing verifications. Home-care agencies like Legit aren’t covered by those rules.

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Legit Home Health Care had an important political connection. Halimo Mohamed, the wife of Democrat state Rep. Yusuf Yusuf, worked there.

Yusuf found the time to run his own agency as well. Care for Everyone, which received $1,212,852 from MaineCare between 2020 and 2024, operates out of the same address as Affinity Home Care. Neither Yusuf nor his agency has been accused of wrongdoing.

The overlaps can be confusing.

Yusuf’s ethics filing places Care for Everyone at 49 Dartmouth Street, the same address as Affinity Home Care, from which the state is trying to recoup $445,262. Affinity is currently listed as administratively dissolved for a missed annual report.

The state’s corporate registry puts Care for Everyone at 203 Anderson Street, which also houses a branch of Dahabshiil, a Somali money-transfer company. Its federal record lists a third address, on Bishop Street, with Yusuf as CEO. You almost need a flowchart to keep track of where your taxpayer money is going.

Yusuf did not respond to a request for comment.

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Though Legit’s flashy name and vanishing audit make it a prime example of Maine’s seemingly endless fraud troubles, it is only one of many home health care companies gorging on state funds.

Holding Hands Home Health Care’s bill was cut from $357,583 to $121,131. Adam Healthcare Services’ (now Quality Care LLC) was cut from $647,834 to $25,849. Luna Home Care never paid its $262,120 recoupment and has billed MaineCare another $1.69 million since the notice was issued.

Community Home Health Care of South Portland received $47,986,855 from MaineCare between 2019 and 2025. The state suspended its payments months after the Maine Wire visited its office.

Bright Future Healthier You in Lewiston took in $15.6 million and is under federal investigation, according to the Maine Wire.

No public finding says how much of the money paid to Community or Bright Future was improper. Ocean Home Health Care on Bishop Street took $11.5 million. A 2020 state audit found $24,437 in overbilling, which it repaid.

Like Legit, Golden Home Care was also seemingly able to evade a clawback. Golden Home was ordered to repay $1,676,126 following a 2024 audit. That order was later canceled.

The list goes on and on and on.

Mostafa Alahmedi ran 5 Stars Home Health Care until auditors found $390,672 in overbilling. He repaid $13,961 and closed the business. He also worked at Ocean Home Health Care and claims he later worked at Golden Home Care and Community Home Health Care. Those four agencies billed MaineCare $66,487,379 from 2019 to 2025, though Alahmedi worked at each for only part of that time.

Gateway Community Services’ office is registered next door to Legit, at 999 Forest Avenue. Gateway took $28.8 million from MaineCare from 2019 through 2024. Three state audits found about $1.7 million in overpayments. The state cut off its payments in December 2025.

There are two distinct, but related, Gateways. Gateway Community Services LLC is the for-profit enterprise, whereas Gateway Community Services Maine is a nonprofit organization.

The Maine DHHS affirmed “credible allegations of fraud” in May, according to the Maine Wire. Gateway appealed the payment suspension but missed its deadline to appeal the fraud finding itself.

Gateway founder Abdullahi Ali may now lose his Falmouth home, which he bought for $875,000 in 2022. Bangor Savings Bank sued to foreclose in July, months after the state placed a $44,082 lien on his property for unpaid income taxes. Gateway has denied the allegations.

Gateway’s former attorney Pawel Binczyk said he no longer represents the company when reached for comment.

Catholic Charities Maine, the same church-backed charity that resettled migrants to the state, gave the not-for-profit Gateway Community Services Maine $77,672 in 2024 for “refugee health promotion and youth mentoring.” Catholic Charities is a MaineCare biller as well. The ostensibly Christian organization accepted $19.7 million from 2019 to 2024 and failed two state audits, which ordered it to repay thousands.

The companies tend to cluster together in specific locations.

At 203 Anderson Street in Portland, five home-care companies drew $13,774,554 from 2019 to 2024, sharing the building with a Dahabshiil branch. Maine Connect Care, one of those companies, later had its payments suspended. At 640 Brighton Avenue, Al-Shawk, Luna, and Hope Home Care received over $11.6 million.

In Lewiston, there are five home-care companies listed at a single warehouse grocery store on Park Street.

At 265 Lisbon Street, Lewiston’s main street, five more share an address with the Immigrant Resource Center of Maine, which also runs offices at 124 Canal Street and 1220 Lisbon Street. Rajo Home Care, Ibsa Home Care, Ayda Home Care, Mayson Senior Care, and Mandi Home Care all registered with the federal government between June and September 2023. Rajo and Ibsa list the same phone number.

There are Minnesota connections as well. Mandi’s phone number includes a Minneapolis area code, and Mayson’s mailing address is in Saint Paul.

No one there reported ever seeing office workers or health care staff, and Blaze News found no offices.

When Blaze News and the Maine Wire entered the building on Canal Street in September, a notice from Lewiston District Court was taped to the front door. The company owed $63,013.87 in rent, utilities, and taxes as of June, according to landlord Veridis LLC‘s attorney. Veridis is suing to evict.

When reached for comment, the Immigrant Resource Center of Maine’s Fatuma Hussein flatly stated that they had the money and requested that no further reporting be published on the matter.

That building also housed Gateway Community Services, which stopped receiving funding after a Maine Wire investigation. In August, the same landlord won a court order evicting Gateway from the building. It’s quite the coincidence.

The Maine State Housing Authority also won a $110,000 default judgment against the center this year.

Independent audits of the center’s federal grants for 2022 and 2023 each found “material weakness” in its internal controls and “material noncompliance.”

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The fraud being foisted on the Maine taxpayer hasn’t exactly been a secret. State officials have simply refused to take the large-scale actions necessary to root it out.

Democrat Gov. Janet Mills’ Department of Health and Human Services licenses these agencies, delivers the funds to them, and audits them.

Democrat Attorney General Aaron Frey’s Healthcare Crimes Unit is supposed to prosecute the cases the DHHS sends over. The unit declined four DHHS referrals in 2021 and secured one guilty plea out of 18 referrals from 2022 to 2025, the Maine Wire reported.

The DHHS typically sends three to five fraud referrals a year, the Portland Press Herald reported. The office is seeking a new chief as fraud allegations continue to pile up.

Frey’s office declined to comment on its referral record or on whether it has received referrals involving Gateway, Community Home Health Care, or Legit.

Republican lawmakers in Augusta say they have been stonewalled by Mills and her appointees.

“Lawmakers have called for comments from the Mills administration, and we have been met with silence,” Assistant Senate Republican Leader Matt Harrington told Blaze News. “Democrats are largely silent. Fraud should not be a partisan issue.”

“The legislature needs to conduct a serious investigation of MaineCare’s provider system,” Harrington said. “There are clearly problems in how providers are screened, monitored, and audited.”

Harrington wants lawmakers to examine “whether providers are being appropriately vetted and whether DHHS has the resources and policies necessary to intervene quickly when red flags appear,” and he called for a review of the Healthcare Crimes Unit’s record.

“In fact, federal regulators have already raised concerns that make such a review absolutely critical,” Harrington said. “We should examine how many credible fraud allegations DHHS identifies, what happens to those fraud referrals, how long cases remain pending, and whether staffing or other deficiencies have prevented fraud from being adequately investigated.”

“Taxpayers deserve answers about how their money is being spent,” Harrington said.

The DHHS and Mills’ office did not respond to Blaze News’ requests for comment.

“Many of my constituents are struggling to pay their electricity bills and buy medication, while fraudsters are getting rich,” Harrington said. “This is wrong.”

Community Home Health Care, Ocean Home Care, Bright Future Healthier You, Veridis LLC, and the Maine State Housing Authority did not respond to Blaze News’ requests for comment.

This story was reported in collaboration with the Maine Wire’s Jon Fetherston.

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Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins of Maine deftly fended off rhetorical attacks from her Democrat challenger and even threw some damaging counterpunches in their debate Tuesday night.

The wide-ranging debate was the first of four and covered everything from ICE to the president’s “Big, Beautiful” budget bill.

‘Democrats underestimate Susan Collins at their peril.’

Democrat Troy Jackson was clearly on a mission to tie Collins to President Donald Trump as much as possible, while Collins responded by threading the needle between defending her record and establishing her independence.

At one point she proudly expressed the difference between herself and the rest of the Republican Party. “I voted against my party more than any other senator on either side of the aisle,” she said.

Jackson went on the attack against Collins for her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. She had said she was satisfied that he would not vote to overturn Roe vs. Wade, and many pro-abortion activists blamed her on the issue.

“I would, you know, wonder for everyone, including myself, would you trust her to pick the next Supreme Court justice?” Jackson asked rhetorically in his opening remarks.

Collins similarly swiped at Jackson from the left for transmogrifying into a progressive Democrat after identifying as an anti-abortion Republican. “There’s only one of us on the stage who has always been pro-choice, and that’s me,” she said.

Jackson tried to blame Collins for inflation and unaffordable housing, but she pushed back and pointed out that Jackson presided over the state at a time when more local policies worsened affordability.

She also was able to flatly refute him when he tried personal attacks, such as the claim that Collins had never been without health care. “Troy, you’re just out-and-out wrong on that,” she countered.

Jackson was pressured to answer whether he identified as a socialist Democrat, and he instead attacked Collins over Elon Musk in a rambling non-response.

Collins was able to shove Jackson into an extremist pigeonhole by pointing out that he supported abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Jackson also said voters should not have to show ID.

While the 73-year-old incumbent definitely showed her age, she was very much on point and cogently defended her positions while landing some significant blows upon the 58-year-old challenger.

Polling suggests that Jackson has been competing well for the seat despite coming into the nomination late after Graham Platner dropped out over his various and sundry scandals.

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At least one national politics reporter warned Democrats not to feel too confident about unseating the five-term senator, no matter what the polls say.

“Democrats underestimate Susan Collins at their peril,” said Lisa Lerer of the New York Times. “In 2020, she was re-elected by nine points, even as President Trump lost the state and amid a huge amount of spending by Democrats.”

While the debate was heated at times, the interlocutors remained civil and shook hands after the contest ended.

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Big AI companies are terrified because the agents they built ran amok, hacked into third-party websites, and threatened our national infrastructure to the point that they’re begging for government regulation. Instead of turning power over to politicians though, the free market has a solution that tests the true motives of the AI giants.

While the CEOs of Big AI companies, like Dario Amodei and Sam Altman, doom and gloom that AI could end humanity as we know it, Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, disagrees. While on stage at the All-In Summit in September, he said, “I think the whistleblowing is fine. I think the scientific prediction about the future is less fine because it’s not grounded on science obviously.”

What happens next is the ultimate test for AI companies.

Huang also took a call from President Trump, who further assuaged these fears, calling them a “hoax.” Several weeks later, we now know why Huang and Trump were so confident.

Nvidia just unveiled a brand-new tool to tame rogue AI agents and bots. Dubbed OpenShell, the solution is a sandboxed environment that gives testers full control over the types of data an agent can access without compromising entire file systems or sensitive information.

Each agent is isolated in its environment, preventing multiple agents from interacting with each other or colluding to hack into websites. OpenShell also monitors agents for risky behavior and blocks these activities until a human can review their actions and either approve or deny them.

OpenShell is part of Nvidia’s new Open Agent Safety Platform, which offers a full stack of agent monitoring and security resources. The best part is that it doesn’t cost a thing. OpenShell is freely accessible as an open-source platform on GitHub, so any company can deploy it for testing today.

The question now: What makes OpenShell different from other testing environments? After all, AI companies were already using similar sandboxes when their agents broke free and hacked into third-party websites, like Hugging Face (which is now, ironically, owned by Nvidia).

When the incidents first came to light, details were sparse, but now we know that most of the failed sandboxes were provided by a startup cybersecurity company called Irregular. In these cases, the AI agents within were supposed to be isolated with no internet connection. However, misconfigurations in the system led to unintended web access, resulting in what appeared to be an elaborate jailbreak by the agents themselves.

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That wasn’t true. The agents merely found the door that was left open and walked through it to attack what the bots believed were fake websites. Adding insult to injury, Irregular didn’t include mechanisms to track agent behavior. This is why most of the rogue AI events were discovered weeks or months after they occurred.

OpenShell is built to correct these oversights and ensure humans are always aware and in full control of the agents in their system.

What happens next is the ultimate test for AI companies that will prove whether their rampant calls for government regulation were really about fears over rogue AI or relegating control to the deep state. If it’s the former, the Big AI giants will immediately adopt OpenShell and cease further claims of AI doom because their agents are now contained within safe testing environments where they can be tuned properly before unleashing them on the public. If the latter, they will claim that OpenShell doesn’t offer enough protection and that government control over their platforms is the only answer.

So far, Anthropic and SpaceXAI have signed on to use OpenShell, along with more than 100 other companies.

Ultimately, the fact that OpenShell exists is further proof that the free market can regulate itself when Big Government stays out of the way. If AI companies can’t control their products, other companies can step in to fill the void, and in this case, they have.

Nvidia, of course, supplies major AI platforms with GPUs to train and maintain their large language models. As a result, Nvidia has a unique stake in ensuring Big AI keeps chugging along without arbitrary restrictions or unintended hiccups.

When Big AI succeeds, Nvidia succeeds, and OpenShell could just be a way for the GPU maker to protect its valuation on the stock exchange. But even so, the AI companies have shown that they either can’t or won’t police their AI bots, so someone else stepped in with a solution before the government over-regulates AI into oblivion.

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BLACKFEET NATION — NFL Network broadcaster Jason Kelce ignited faux media outrage Sunday when he called the league’s Washington franchise the Redskins — six years after the team’s name and native imagery were claimed by cancel culture as its trophy kill.

If Kelce is looking for allies, he’ll find them among most Americans, few of whom obey the command to call the team by its official new name, the Commanders.

‘The [Redskins] logo was the most powerful logo in NFL history, because it actually had meaning behind it.’

He’ll also find allies in Blackfeet Nation and among the family of Chief John Two Guns White Calf, an American hero who, according to a NYT obituary, served as the face of the U.S. Mint’s famous 1913 Indian Head nickel and, posthumously, the Washington Redskins for 48 years.

“The team’s new stadium [slated to open in 2030] needs to honor John Two Guns White Calf in the right way, because he was their image, their logo, from 1972 until 2020,” Thomas White Calf told Blaze News in a recent interview, while standing in the shadows of 8,894-foot White Calf Mountain.

Blaze News reached out to representatives for Jason Kelce and did not receive a response in time for publication.

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The White Calf family are already on the record saying they want the NFL and the franchise to reclaim the Redskins name, the native legacy of “braves on the warpath,” and the proud portrait logo of Blackfeet Chief Two Guns White Calf.

The family, however, were silenced for years by the same media outlets trying to silence Kelce today.

Media outrage against the Redskins exploded suddenly in October 2013. President Obama criticized the team on Oct. 5. The National Congress of American Indians issued an incendiary report to mainstream media outlets on October 10. Within days, the Associated Press, ESPN, NBC Sports, New York Times, and other major media outlets published and broadcast scathing attacks on the team.

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Dan Snyder, the previous owner of the Redskins, succumbed to the withering media attack and dropped the team name and native imagery in 2020. Current owner Josh Harris inherited the public relations nightmare when he bought the team in 2023. The White Calf family stated their wishes to meet with the team in a previous Blaze News report.

Despite years of widespread reporting on the Redskins name and image, Thomas White Calf’s interview with Blaze News was the first-ever media interview about the issue in the Blackfeet Nation homeland of “the most photographed native in history,” as Thomas White Calf called the family patriarch.

He was joined by his mother, Delphine, a great-niece of Two Guns; brothers Shawn and Chris; and his nephew Chris.

“Nobody ever asked us for our opinion. Nobody ever asked what we thought,” Thomas White Calf added, standing on the edge of a spectacular valley overlooking Saint Mary Lake in northwest Montana.

“This is where it all started from. The face of the Washington Redskins. The face of the Indian Head nickel. This is where Two Guns White Calf was born and raised. This is his land.”

The mainstream media not only silenced the White Calf family, they erased the heroic life story of Two Guns from the Redskins’ cancel-culture narrative during a withering seven-year attack on the team orchestrated by the far-left, Soros-funded National Congress of American Indians.

The media never mentioned White Calf’s name, even though his face was the entire center of the manufactured controversy. Even worse, the NCAI dehumanized White Calf as an anonymous “savage and clownish caricature.”

White Calf was in fact an American hero who fought to preserve native heritage and force the U.S. government to honor tribal treaties from this remote Blackfeet homeland to the halls of power in Washington, D.C. His death in 1934 was front-page news coast to coast.

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If any journalists visited Blackfeet Nation, they would find monumental mountain peaks, sprawling Big Sky prairie, and sparkling rivers and lakes. Blackfeet Nation covers 2,400 square miles — about the size of Delaware — wedged between Glacier National Park and Alberta, Canada.

The White Calfs spoke from a precipice site of three monumental iron teepees, a tribute to an ancestral Blackfeet settlement with a spectacular view.

Blackfeet Nation is a land of spiritual beauty and profound continental impact. Despite the media blackout, Blackfeet Nation plays an outsized role in North American hydrological history and in American cultural history.

Just southwest of White Calf Mountain is the imposing face of Triple Divide Peak (8,018 feet).

“It’s the most sacred mountain to the Blackfeet, to our ancestors,” said Shawn White Calf.

And for good reason: Triple Divide Peak is one of the only points on earth at the corner of three continental watersheds.

It’s also the only mountain on earth whose snowmelt ends in three oceans. Waters from the peak run northeast to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean, southeast to the Mississippi River, then the Gulf of America and the Atlantic Ocean; and west to the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean.

The Blackfeet, despite their remote location, see themselves as the caretakers of all North American waters.

Two Guns White Calf was the caretaker of the original Americans.

He forged a bond with the leaders of the United States — a nation that arose only from the blend of traditions between indigenous Americans and European migrants. Among his other notable acts of unity, President Calvin Coolidge was made a member of Blackfeet Nation while Two Guns was chief.

The United States honored the Blackfeet chief in its currency; the nation’s most popular sports league honored him in the football team in the nation’s capital.

And then that face and that history were canceled. So no, Kelce didn’t commit a gaffe. He echoed the feelings of the Blackfeet people and the White Calf family and the 90% of American Indians who claimed they were not offended by the Redskins in the only two major polls of native opinion (Annenberg, Washington Post).

“The history is finally getting out there, and people are learning more and more about Two Guns and the powerful history behind it,” said Thomas White Calf.

“The [Redskins] logo was the most powerful logo in NFL history, because it actually had meaning behind it.”

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A French official has responded to President Donald Trump blaming Islam and mass migration for the violent riots in France.

Nearly 500 people were arrested in just one day in connection with massive riots that French officials claim are about the conditions in schools. Education Minister Édouard Geffray reported that at least 24 schools were ransacked or set on fire.

The Ministry of Justice said more than 5,000 people had been arrested in the rioting and that 87% of the arrestees were minors.

While many news reports characterize the rioting as a result of French citizens expressing their outrage against education conditions, Trump tied it to Islam and mass immigration.

“What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!” he wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.

The post captured a lot of attention and led to a tepid response from Jean-Noel Barrot, the French foreign minister.

“If we do not write our own story, others will write it for us,” said Barrot.

He went on to accuse France’s “rivals, adversaries, and partners” of attempting to interpret the rioting in a self-serving manner.

Organizers claim as many as 450,000 people are participating in the massive protest and rioting, reportedly to oppose the educational system offered in France. The French Ministry of the Interior said 488 people were just arrested on Tuesday and 43 law enforcement officers had been injured, AA reported.

In one startling case, a 15-year-old had his hand reportedly blown off by a police stun grenade that detonated.

Another individual lost teeth, and others reportedly suffered eye injuries, according to The Hill.

Some have tied the rioting to increased immigration enforcement ordered by the European Union in June. The new policies included increasing deportations and constructing detention centers abroad.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz also blamed immigration for the rioting in a statement to Fox News Digital. “I think we would always condemn lawlessness, condemn the violence that we’re seeing in Paris,” Waltz responded.

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“But I think we also have to recognize that when you have open borders, when you [have] this pro-migration, unchecked immigration kind of policy, coupled with policies over the years that deny people basic energy, that overspend on all kinds of other government programs, that you see a level of frustration boiling to the surface,” he added.

In a letter dated Monday, the Ministry of Justice said more than 5,000 people had been arrested in the rioting and that 87% of the arrestees were minors. Only about a third of them are being prosecuted.

At least 900 high schools were expected to be blockaded or closed on Tuesday.

“The French are notorious for strikes, labor stoppages, and street demonstrations. It’s a core part of the Fifth Republic’s civic culture,” said Theo Wold, a former Trump official, to Fox News Digital. “What’s new is the violence, lawlessness, and rioting. This is a consequence of mass immigration.”

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