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(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) Minnesota is increasing penalties for Medicaid fraud as state and federal officials continue prosecuting cases involving millions of dollars allegedly stolen from taxpayer-funded programs. The Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission recently approved a higher classification for a new Medicaid fraud offense created under a recently...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Nearly 80,000 people have signed an online petition calling for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to be barred from attending events next month marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Relatives of Sept. 11 victims recently launched a petition urging the...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday followed through on his promise to investigate embattled Dr. Anthony Fauci after the former White House COVID czar repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during a tense Senate hearing. Uthmeier issued an investigative subpoena to Fauci as part of his ongoing...

Content Warning: Graphic Images and Descriptions (Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Perez Hilton's family confirmed Wednesday afternoon that the celebrity blogger and entertainer was hospitalized after he appeared to self-harm during a livestream on a popular social media platform. Hilton, whose legal name is Mario Armando Lavandeira, sparked concern on social media after...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The United States has closed its doors to Irish nationalist commentator Keith Woods, and he lays responsibility for that at the feet of the Trump administration. Writing on X this week, Woods walked through the timeline in a post under the pen name he uses in...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) U.S. Senators advanced, in an 8-5 vote on Thursday, a contempt of Congress resolution that could refer Anthony Fauci to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C. Fauci testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Governmental Affairs Committee last week. He invoked his Fifth...

Jeanine John Taele was due in court Wednesday on a federal weapons charge but the hearing was cancelled

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US Army has used much of its stockpile of accurate long-range missiles in the Iran war, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the data. The report said that the missiles include the Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), surface-to-surface missiles that are fired from HIMARS...

(John Weeks, Antiwar.com) Writing in POLITICO on Tuesday, Dasha Burns and Nahal Toosi reported that in recent months the US intelligence community has “sent spies and assets” to Cuba. Specifically, they reported the CIA has increased its presence on the island, which sits approximately 90 miles south of Florida.    Burns...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Four people died over the New Mexico desert this spring, seemingly because of a military electronic warfare drill, and specialists in the field expect more accidents to follow, according to a report by Jeff Wise of Wired. A Beechcraft King Air lifted off from Roswell Air...

(Headline USA) A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers slammed into the moon as predicted on Wednesday after drifting off course for the past year, scientists reported. Although no one observed the actual 5,400-mph (8,700-kph) collision, a telescope in Chile spotted what astronomers have identified as the...

(Headline USA) The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating why a plane was allowed to take off as President Donald Trump's helicopter was approaching Reagan National Airport Tuesday afternoon in what appears to be a violation of safety procedures put in place after last year's midair collision near that busy...