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Sens. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Mike Lee (R-UT) are asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate alleged fraud by a Somali-owned rehab center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as alleged fraud schemes among Somali-owned nonprofits, daycare centers, and medical transportation companies have been referred to federal investigators. In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Ernst and Lee accuse the Minneapolis-based rehabilitation center Generation Hope MN, a Somali-owned business, of accepting millions in federal dollars while having a “troubling pattern of red flags around its legitimacy, operational capacity, and financial stewardship.” “… we are alarmed that this organization was ever positioned…

Hamas will have to honor its commitments “the easy way, or the hard way,” the US leader has warned US President Donald Trump has announced the launch of the second phase of his plan to settle the conflict in Gaza, despite both sides repeatedly accusing each other of breaching an earlier-agreed ceasefire. The next step is demilitarization and the establishment of a new technocratic government in the Palestinian enclave, according to the US president.Phase One of Trump’s 20-point roadmap, to which Israel and Hamas signed up in early October, included a ceasefire, return of hostages, and deliveries of humanitarian aid…

Anti-socialist Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said that her decision to gift her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump echoes Venezuelan founding father Simón Bolívar receiving a medal from George Washington’s family in recognition of his independence efforts 200 years ago. Machado privately met with President Trump at the White House on Thursday where she gifted Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal. The framed medal bears a plaque signed by Machado that reads, “Presented as a Personal Symbol of Gratitude on behalf of the Venezuelan People in Recognition of President Trump’s Principled and Decisive Action to Secure a…

President Donald Trump on Friday said he wants to keep Kevin Hassett as his economic adviser, a remark that many interpreted as indicating he is less likely to be nominated to head the Federal Reserve. “I see Kevin is in the audience and I just want to thank you. You were fantastic on television today,” Trump said, referring to Hassett’s appearance on the Fox Business Network earlier on Friday. “I actually want to keep you where you are, if you want to know the truth.” Hassett is currently the National Economic Director, the top White House economics position. He has…

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is continuing to arrest illegal alien convicts across Minnesota as part of Operation Metro Surge, including drunk drivers, drug traffickers, and burglars. “Another day and more perpetrators of fraud, thieves, and drug traffickers arrested from the streets of Minnesota by our brave law enforcement,” the Department of Homeland Security’s Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement: We are in Minnesota to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens. Governor Walz and Mayor Frey refuse to let us into their jails and instead chose to release criminal illegal aliens back into Minnesota neighborhoods to…

The bipartisan House Ethics Committee is weighing allegations against South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace. The panel, in a statement Friday, did not explain the reason for its probe that the Office of Congressional Conduct, an independent ethics watchdog, transmitted a referral late last year. The committee must announce its plans for the investigation by March 2. In response to a request for comment on the committee’s plans, a spokesperson for Mace provided a letter to the House Ethics Committee from the lawmaker’s attorney in response to claims regarding her “lodging expenses and reimbursement practices.” William Sullivan Jr., a partner…

Billy Long has said “no offense” was intended in his remark, which came amid the US president’s threats to seize Greenland US President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Iceland, former Representative Billy Long, apologized on Thursday for joking that the island nation could become the 52nd US state with himself as governor.The remark comes as Trump’s statements regarding Greenland have escalated in recent weeks, with the US president increasingly insistent on acquiring the territory from Denmark and hinting at potentially taking the North Atlantic island by force.Long told Arctic Today that his comments, made on Tuesday, were intended as…

Ford CEO Jim Farley has provided an update on the automaker’s ambitious electric vehicle platform project, comparing the undertaking to historic space exploration programs while confirming that prototype vehicles are now operational. Ford recently took a historic $19.5 billion write down related to electric cars, signaling its retreat from EVs. Inside EVs reports that during a conversation with automotive media at the Detroit Auto Show, Ford CEO Jim Farley offered new details about the company’s Universal EV Platform development, describing the initiative as one of the most challenging projects in his career.  Farley compared Ford’s EV development to NASA in…

The number of deaths outpaced the number of births in France for the first time since the Second World War and ten years before the official French national statistics bureau had projected. Data published by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) on Tuesday revealed that there were 651,000 deaths in 2025, an increase of 1.5 per cent over last year. The official statistician attributed this increase to a particularly deadly winter flu at the start of the year. However, this trend is likely to continue, with 2026 marking the first year in which members of the baby boom…

Chinese Premier Li Qiang embraced Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to Beijing on Thursday, telling the Canadian leader that his visit represented a “new starting point” for the previously strained relations between their countries. “Standing at a new starting point, China is willing to work with Canada to uphold the strategic partnership, strengthen dialogue and communication, enhance political mutual trust, respect each other’s core interests, seek common ground while shelving differences, and continuously expand pragmatic cooperation to add more impetus to the development of both countries,” Li said. Li said the “turnaround” in relations was the result of work from…