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Dead People Got Student Loans in Minnesota—How Linda McMahon Aims to Fix It
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration is fixing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid program after uncovering around $1 billion in fraud, according to Education Secretary Linda McMahon. “We have identified and saved about a billion dollars for FAFSA loans that would’ve been fraudulent,” McMahon told The Daily Signal in an exclusive interview…. -
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Judge Weighs Whether to Block ICE Surge in Minnesota
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez pressed attorneys for Minnesota and the Justice Department on Monday about the state’s claims that the federal government violated the 10th Amendment by surging Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to Minneapolis. Lindsey Middlecamp, a special counsel at the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, reportedly described ICE’s deployment as an “unlawful occupation”… -
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Border Patrol Commander, CNN Host Clash Over Minneapolis Shooting
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino sparred Sunday with CNN’s Dana Bash over whether the armed man his subordinates shot and killed Saturday in Minneapolis was the “suspect” or “victim” in the situation. Border Patrol agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, 37, whom the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleged was prepared to “massacre law enforcement” with… -
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The Justice Department Tried to Charge 8 Church Invaders. Here’s What Went Wrong.
Federal judges in Minnesota have rejected the Justice Department’s charges against some of the anti-ICE agitators who invaded a church during service earlier this month, and others have released multiple defendants, even as the Justice Department has appealed some of these decisions. After the Justice Department filed charges against eight agitators for depriving churchgoers of… -
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What’s Behind Don Lemon Accusing a Minnesota Church of White Supremacy?
Is your faith downstream from the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacy? That’s what former CNN anchor Don Lemon and podcast host Jennifer Welch said of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Agitators who claim that one of the church’s pastors also works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement stormed the church last week, separating the… -
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Minnesota Has Most Proven Cases of Voter Fraud in Nation
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Minnesota’s election system stands as one of the worst in the nation, and its “vouching” policy is a prime example of why confidence in election security remains fragile. A new Fox News investigation reveals just how risky the vouching system is. Under the state’s rules, one registered voter can “vouch” for up to eight others, meaning… -
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Minnesota Leftists Double Down on Anti-Church Protest as Feds Prepare for Arrests
Minnesota leftists showed no pangs of conscience after disrupting a Sunday worship service at Cities Church in St. Paul. The church was targeted because one of its lay elders works in federal law enforcement—specifically, serving as the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement director for St. Paul. But, despite sparking national outrage, the anti-ICE demonstrators are only doubling down…. -
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Why Did a Judge Block the Arrest of Don Lemon?
A magistrate judge refused to sign an arrest warrant for leftist commentator Don Lemon on charges related to his presence at a church invasion Sunday, and the judge’s ties to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison have raised questions about a potential conflict of interest. Lemon traveled with and recorded a group of 30-40 agitators who… -
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Even This Dem Is Concerned About Minnesota Fraud
While some Democrats are downplaying the fraud recently exposed in Minnesota, one Democrat Minnesota congresswoman seems to be concerned. Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., recently reintroduced a piece of legislation she says will “crack down on fraud in federal programs.” The Stop Fraud in Federal Programs Act seeks to increase penalties for federal fraudsters and require third-party audits for one… -
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Minneapolis ‘Protesters’ Must Be Prosecuted
First Amendment freedoms are sacrosanct—especially the right to gather together and worship God. But over Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, Minneapolis/St. Paul anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters and their supporters perversely invoked the First Amendment to justify desecrating a house of worship and interfering with others’ First Amendment rights. While congregants of Cities Church—a… -
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What’s the Matter With Minnesota?
Minnesota? Somalis? Nine billion dollars in alleged welfare fraud? To understand what’s going on from a distance, it helps to understand basic culture. Minnesota was settled largely by people of Scandinavian and German ancestry. In survey after survey, Minnesota has ranked No. 1 or No. 2 among states, often just behind neighboring and much smaller… -
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US Justice Department Probing Minnesota Gov. Walz, Other Officials, Source Says
REUTERS—The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Minnesota officials including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over an alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents, a source familiar with the probe said on Friday. The investigation, first reported by CBS News, stems from previous statements made by Walz and Frey about the thousands of Immigration and Customs… -
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Fraud in Minnesota: Democrats Abandon Oversight, Taxpayers Pay the Price
Sen. John Barrasso delivered the following speech about the Medicaid fraud schemes in Minnesota. Watch the speech, below, or read his remarks, lightly edited. When the government wastes even a dollar of your taxpayer money, you have a right to know what happened. When emboldened criminals steal money intended to help single moms and children… -
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The Minnesota Incident: A Case Study in Media Narrative Versus Reality
A woman is dead in Minnesota. An ICE officer killed her. Those two facts are undisputed. Everything else has become a Rorschach test for American politics. Within hours of the incident, the narrative crystallized: federal agents had become death squads hunting immigrants. Protests erupted. Politicians demanded accountability. Mainstream news ran wall-to-wall coverage of a deportation… -
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Questions Surround Minnesota Bureaucrat Who Went on to Work for Church Whose Grant She Approved
A new report in Minnesota highlights how a former bureaucrat involved in granting a church millions of dollars later went to work as a consultant for the church. The audit also says that the church failed to provide necessary reporting for hundreds of thousands of dollars of state funding. Both the church and the former… -
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‘SYSTEMATICALLY AND UNLAWFULLY’: DOJ Alleges Minnesota Discriminates in Hiring
The legal standoff between Minnesota and the federal government continues to escalate, as the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division sued the state on Wednesday over its race-based and sex-based hiring policies. The litigation comes the same week that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced a joint lawsuit by the state and the cities of St…. -
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Noem Sends More Fed Agents to Minneapolis Following Anti-ICE Protests
Hundreds more federal law enforcement officers are arriving in Minneapolis following the Immigration and Customs Enforcement-involved shooting in the city last week. The new officers began arriving Sunday and will continue to arrive in Minneapolis Monday, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The new arrivals will “allow our ICE and our Border Patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis… -
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What on Earth Is Happening in Minnesota?
What is going on in the People’s Republic of Minnesota? The Democrat establishment in the Gopher State is nothing like it was back in the Reagan years, with ex-Vice President Walter Mondale or Gov. Rudy Perpich. The insurrectionist echoes of their language about immigration-enforcement cops are eyebrow-raising in the same week the elitist media somberly… -
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Minnesota Somali Fraud, Illegal Trucking Scandals Share One Thing: DEI
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This content was recorded by Victor Davis Hanson prior to his Dec. 30 medical operation. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’ve… -
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One Video Blows Up Countless Media Narratives About Minnesota ICE Shooting
One video sank an entire media news cycle of false narratives. On Friday, Alpha News released a video taken by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent involved in the shooting of a woman in Minnesota by an ICE agent that’s become an international story. The notion that the agent shot her for no reason at…