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#1 Epstein’s Longtime Assistant Accused Three Previously Unknown Abusers Connected to Him, Oversight Chair Says - Annie Grayer and MJ Lee for CNN, Kirby Sommers, RT, Kevin Lockett, TomJCassidy, Ramsatu/Lisa Tait, and
Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime assistant gave the House Oversight Committee three new names of alleged abusers in the convicted sex offender’s network — a revelation that committee chairman James Comer described as a promising lead in his panel’s investigation into Epstein’s misdeeds. The assistant, Sarah Kellen, provided the names in a closed-door interview on Thursday, Comer said. He declined to name the individuals, but said they were not previously known and promised to release a transcript of Kellen’s interview as soon as possible. “The new names, that’s what we’ve been waiting for,” Comer said, adding, “I’m more optimistic today than I have been a long time.”
#2 They Commissioned the Science. They Buried the Results. We Are the Experiment. - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, UncoverDC, Chief Engineer, DataRepublican (small r)/Kyle R. Hudson, and jewels on X
The World Health Organization (WHO) wants to digitize everything. Every doctor’s visit, every vaccine record, every prescription, every financial transaction, every heartbeat monitored by a wireless device feeding data into a globally connected infrastructure—that is the vision they are actively building right now. And it doesn’t stop there. The same global architecture pushing digital health, digital currency, and digital identity is also quietly advancing the merger of humans and machines—a world where the line between biology and technology dissolves by intentional design, not by accident. We have written about this before: the neurobots, the brain-reading earbuds, the mRNA platforms instructing your cells to behave differently. The wireless infrastructure being built around us is not incidental to that agenda. It is the backbone of it.#3 DOJ Charges 15 in ‘Shocking’ $90M Minnesota Fraud Schemes; Feeding Our Future ‘Ringleader’ Sentenced - Fox News, Oilfield Rando/AF Post, Nick Shirley/JD Vance, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Libs of TikTok on X
Federal prosecutors on Thursday identified the defendants charged in Minnesota’s sweeping Medicaid and benefits fraud crackdown, accusing operators of autism centers, housing assistance companies, and child care programs of collectively stealing tens of millions of taxpayer dollars through fraudulent reimbursement schemes. The charges span multiple Minnesota assistance programs and include allegations of health care fraud, money laundering, wire fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Prosecutors allege the schemes involved fake autism service claims, inflated housing support reimbursements, and fraudulent child care payments, with intended losses totaling more than $90 million...
#4 Feds Arrest Fugitive in $3.6 Million Medicaid Housing Fraud Scheme - Jeremiah Jacobsen and Kelly Dietz for Nick Sortor, KARE11, KATU News, JOHN JR, KSTP, and Liz Churchill on X
Multiple federal sources confirm to KARE 11 that a federal fraud suspect has been taken into custody, just hours after officials announced that he was on the run. At a press conference announcing large-scale fraud indictments in Minnesota on Thursday, FBI officials said Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar allegedly jumped from a fourth-story balcony to evade arrest. Authorities played a video at the news conference showing Omar appearing to limp past surveillance cameras...
#5 Candace Owens’s Interview With Hunter Biden - Tim Balk for New York Times, Eric Daugherty, Blake Neff/Sarcastic Liberty, Project Constitution, Mario Nawfal, and WolvesAndFinance on X
Hunter Biden, whose conviction on gun and tax charges and subsequent pardon by his father caused a furor on right-wing media, recently sat for a warm, nearly two-hour interview with Candace Owens, a popular right-wing podcaster and conspiracy theorist. The interview was filmed last week at Ms. Owens’s home in Nashville and released Thursday. It came at a moment when Ms. Owens has joined a small but influential group of conservative voices who have turned on the Trump administration over the war with Iran and the government’s handling of files related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein...
#6 Republicans Call Off Vote on Iran War Resolution That Was on the Verge of Passing - npr/Associated Press, The Washington Examiner, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Rep. Jim McGovern, New York Post, and The Patriot Oasis™ on X
Republicans struggled Thursday to find the votes to dismiss legislation that would compel President Donald Trump to withdraw from the war with Iran, delaying planned votes on the matter into June. The House had scheduled a vote on a war powers resolution, brought by Democrats, that would rein in Trump's military campaign. But as it became clear that Republicans would not have the numbers to defeat the bill, GOP leaders declined to hold a vote on it. It was the latest sign of the slipping support in Congress for a war that Trump launched more than two months ago without congressional approval...
#7 Pressure on DNC Chair Ken Martin Builds Amid Questions Over How He Handled the 2024 Autopsy - Natasha Korecki and Ben Kamisar for NBC News, Axios, Holly Otterbein/Andrew Solender, The Hill, Fox & Friends, and NOTUS on X
The Democratic National Committee plunged into a fresh round of chaos Thursday after Chair Ken Martin was forced to release an autopsy report he commissioned about the failed 2024 presidential campaign.Instead of quelling speculation about the findings and outrage over Martin’s initial insistence on keeping it secret, the release aggravated an extended public relations and management nightmare. After months refusing to make the autopsy public but saying the DNC was learning important lessons from it, Martin on Thursday gave a different story: Actually, he said, the report wasn’t complete, and he didn’t stand behind it. The document that was released was filled with DNC annotations rebutting various assertions...
#8 Stephen Colbert Says Farewell to “The Late Show” - Kierra Frazier for CBS News, James Woods/Alec Lace, luminaria98, Erin Burnett OutFront/Jeff Spillars, France 24 English, and Gunther Eagleman on X
Stephen Colbert said goodbye to "The Late Show" Thursday night in the franchise's finale after a 33-year run, saying he was "lucky enough to be here for the last 11 years" and never took the experience for granted. "There is so much history here in the Ed Sullivan Theater, and we've been honored to have been just a small part of it," Colbert said in his opening monologue. In the opening of the show, Colbert emphasized the "joy" the show brought him and cast members throughout the 11 years and over 1,800 episodes...
#9 Anti-”Doomer” Feedback Derails Trump’s AI Executive Order - Axios, volarian, Maxime Fournes, CBS News, TechSnif, and Sophia Cai on X
Everything seemed set for a photo op with tech and AI CEOs surrounding President Trump on Thursday as he signed a much-anticipated executive order on AI and cybersecurity. But it fell apart hours before the order was to be signed, as a top Trump adviser and some tech executives gave it a big thumbs down. And the president didn't really want to regulate AI in the first place. Any further delay of the order means more time for infighting and for the text to get bogged down in disagreements among different parts of the government and industry. Before the order was to be signed, Trump, AI adviser David Sacks, and some in the industry discussed it, sources familiar told Axios. The main reason the signing was delayed was that Trump "just hates regulation," one source familiar said, adding that Sacks also "hated it." "The whole thing was unnecessary" and "just something doomers wanted," the source added...
#10 Trump Touts Bill That Would Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent - Ryan Mancini for The Hill, Save Standard Time/Rapid Response 47, The Daily Signal, Fox8news, John Solomon, and Eric Daugherty on X
President Trump on Thursday praised the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s vote to report a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent. The committee voted 48-1 to report the Sunshine Protection Act, introduced by Florida Republicans Sen. Rick Scott and Rep. Vern Buchanan, which was included in a larger transportation funding package, the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act. “This is so important in that Hundreds of Millions of Dollars are spent every year by people, Cities, and States, being forced to change their Clocks,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Many of these Clocks are located in Towers, and the cost of renting, or using, Heavy Equipment to do this twice a year is prohibitive!”
