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Inside Minnesota’s Expanding Fraud Scandals: A Deep Investigation Into Money, Influence, and the Political Fallout
By Richard Sykes — Special Investigative Report ST. PAUL, MN — What began as a single federal indictment in 2022 has now widened into one of the largest public‑funds fraud investigations in modern U.S. history. Minnesota, long viewed as a model of social‑service generosity, is now the epicenter of sprawling federal probes into child‑nutrition programs, daycare subsidies, and other safety‑net systems — with investigators warning that the cases uncovered so far represent only

Richard Sykes
Dec 29, 20255 min read


FBI Foils New Year's Eve Bomb Plot in California and Louisiana
On December 15, 2025, the FBI announced the disruption of a credible and imminent terrorist threat involving improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Four suspects were arrested in Lucerne Valley, California, allegedly members of the radical pro-Palestinian extremist group known as the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF). A fifth suspect was detained in New Orleans, believed to be coordinating a parallel attack tied to the same network. Officials credit the coordinated arrests

Richard Sykes
Dec 15, 20252 min read
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