Politics

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz on Friday warned Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz the state could lose federal Medicaid funding unless it restores "the integrity" of its program.In a post on X, Dr. Oz claimed more than $1 billion had been stolen through a massive Medicaid fraud scheme carried out by "bad actors" within Minnesota’s Somali community, alleging some of the funds "may have even made […]

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is preparing to deliver a speech Saturday on rebuilding the "Arsenal of Freedom" at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California.Ahead of the keynote address, Hegseth shared a video on X touring facilities in California. "The era of vendor-locked, prime-dominated, closed architecture, cost plus over. We're going to compete, we're going to move fast, we're going to do open architecture, we're going to innovate, […]

The final report from a government watchdog tasked with overseeing Afghanistan reconstruction efforts declared that "U.S. taxpayer-funded equipment, weapons, and facilities" left behind during the chaotic 2021 U.S. withdrawal have now "formed the core of the Taliban security apparatus." The 137-page document released this week from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) states that Congress provided approximately $144.7 billion for Afghanistan reconstruction between 2002 to 2021, as part of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood icon Lorenzo Lamas is endorsing a pro-law enforcement Republican for California governor after he says that Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has had a "devastating" impact on the state.Lamas, who is best known for his action roles in the 80’s and 90’s, told Fox News Digital he is endorsing Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco for governor, saying, "The impact on the state of California with the current [Newsom] administration is […]

As the city of Minneapolis faces a $1 billion welfare scandal, Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Dr. Scott Jensen spoke to Fox News Digital about his belief that Gov. Tim Walz is not only directly responsible for the controversy, but suggested that a "cover up" that’s "worse than Watergate" is at play.Walz’s role in what’s been labeled by prosecutors as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country, stemming from allegations that […]

Former President Joe Biden, when he served as a Delaware senator, railed against foreign narco-terrorists flooding the U.S. with highly addictive substances, calling for an "international strike force" against the drug traffickers in a fiery 1989 speech. "Let's go after the drug lords where they live with an international strike force. There must be no safe haven for these narco-terrorists and they must know it," then-Sen. Biden said in an 1989 […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday pushed back against accusations from Arizona Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva, who claimed she was pepper sprayed during an immigration raid in Tucson.In a post on X, Grijalva said she was "pushed aside and pepper sprayed" after identifying herself as a member of Congress while seeking information from officers during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) operation near the Taco Giro restaurant."ICE […]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Friday against the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), Community Capital Partners (CCP) and several associated leaders, accusing them of running an illegal securities and land development scheme tied to a proposed 400-acre community known as "EPIC City."The lawsuit, filed in Collin County, follows a monthslong investigation and a referral from the Texas State Securities Board. The state alleges the defendants raised […]

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, criticized President Donald Trump on Thursday for describing the state's Somali community as "garbage."Walz said Trump's statements of contempt for the state's Somali community were "unprecedented for a United States president.""We’ve got little children going to school today who their president called them garbage," the blue state governor said.Minnesota has the largest Somali population in the country, with about 84,000 people in the Minneapolis […]