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#1 DHS Seeks to Purchase Electric Shock Gloves for Ice Officers - Luke Barr for ABC News, Collin Rugg, Eric Daugherty, Blue Lives Matter, Acyn, and Fox News on X
The Department of Homeland Security is looking to purchase electric shock gloves for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the field, according to documents DHS submitted earlier this week. DHS submitted paperwork on Monday to move ahead with purchasing the gloves. It's seeking up to $20 million to purchase G.L.O.V.E. -- Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter -- which are described in the documents as a "Conductive Distraction and De-escalation Device."
#2 Owner of Suspiciously Vacant Adult Daycare Billed Medicaid $32M While Donating to Kathy Hochul, Other Dems - Chadwick Moore for New York Post, Nick Shirley, Benny Johnson, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Eric Daugherty, and Bo Snerdley on X
Kathy Hochul received $55,000 in campaign contributions from social adult daycare centers (SADCs) in fraud-plagued Flushing, Queens, records show. Almost half of those donations can be linked to two men: local powerbroker Baoli Zhang, and Jiemin Shang — who own two of Flushing’s biggest daycare businesses, both of which were empty of patients when visited by The Post last week. Zhang, 69, personally donated $10,000, as well as another $5,000 through his Bao Kang Adult Day Care, financial disclosures show. Zhang’s various businesses have claimed at least $32 million from Medicaid since 2018, on behalf of tens of thousands of patients...
#3 O’Keefe Exposes Minnesota Voting ‘Vouching’ Loophole as Poll Workers Tell Undercover Team ‘You’re the ID' - Roberto Wakerell-Cruz for Post Millennial, Defiant L's/James O'Keefe, Cam Higby, ThePersistence, Eric Daugherty, and Flappr on X
James O’Keefe is exposing Minnesota’s controversial voter “vouching” system in a new undercover investigation showing election workers explaining how registered voters can vouch for multiple unregistered people at polling locations. O’Keefe released an 11-minute video on Wednesday detailing the operation, which was conducted with Anthony Rubin of Real Muckraker and Cam Higby as part of the Justice League investigation. The undercover team visited polling locations in Minneapolis while O’Keefe wore traditional Muslim attire and presented workers with a deliberately extreme scenario involving multiple people who were supposedly unregistered...#4 White House Launches Interactive Map Tracking Billions in Suspected Fraud - Louis Casiano for Fox News, The White House, Benny Johnson, The SCIF, Brandie with a Bee, and RSBN on X
The White House on Thursday launched a public tracking dashboard documenting billions of dollars in alleged waste, fraud, and financial corruption uncovered by the Trump administration across federal programs. The interactive website, The Fraud Ledger, highlights data collected since January 2025 by the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a panel chaired by Vice President JD Vance. The platform details ongoing investigations, criminal charges, financial recoveries, and enforcement actions undertaken by the task force since its establishment earlier this year...
#5 World War II Memorial in Washington Vandalized With Bubbles and Graffiti - Reuters/NBC News, Nick Sortor, Gunther Eagleman™, Abe Hamadeh, Libs of TikTok, and Andrew Leyden on X
The World War Two memorial in Washington was vandalized with bubbly soap and graffiti on Thursday, prompting vows from the U.S. government to find the perpetrator. The fountain bubbled over with suds, and someone painted “Clean hands Dirty $” on one surface, splattering the area with red and green paint. Uniformed police and National Guard troops converged on the scene, which was cordoned off with yellow crime scene tape, keeping visitors away. One investigator in plainclothes bent over the site of the graffiti, measuring the damage with a tape measure, Reuters pictures showed. Workers arrived to remove the graffiti, the Washington Post reported, citing Park Police officers at the site...
#6 States Sue Trump Administration Over Bid to Access 17 Million CDL Records - Noi Mahoney for Freight Waves, Eric Daugherty, Secretary Sean Duffy/Andrew Branca ShowAttorney General Jennifer Davenport/Paul Mauro, and Attorney General Nick Brown on X
A coalition of 22 state attorneys general and the state of Pennsylvania filed two lawsuits Thursday seeking to block the Trump administration from obtaining a database containing the personal information of roughly 17 million commercial driver’s license holders nationwide. The lawsuits allege that the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security are unlawfully attempting to gain access to the Commercial Driver’s License Information System (CDLIS), a state-owned database that contains sensitive information including drivers’ names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and license records...
#7 Reform UK’s Nigel Farage Beats a Slate of Fringe Candidates in Election Boycotted by Major Parties - Brian Melley and Kwiyeon Ha for AP, CNN, The New York Times, Channel 4 News, Politics UK, and Mario Nawfal on X
Nigel Farage regained his seat in Parliament on Friday, beating a field of fringe candidates led by trash-can-wearing comic Count Binface in a special election boycotted by mainstream parties that called it a farce. Farage, leader of the anti-immigration Reform UK party, who some see as a possible next prime minister, abruptly quit his seat in July amid an investigation into whether he failed to report a 5 million pound ($6.7 million) gift from an overseas crypto billionaire...
#8 Selena Gomez and Her Mom Accused of Fraud Over Their Mental Health Startup - Marlene Lenthang for NBC News, Policy Wire, NewsTalk1230, Damsyn Media, Public TV English, and NORTHEAST TODAY on X
Superstar Selena Gomez and her mother are accused of defrauding investors of their mental health startup, Wondermind, in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday. Wondermind, which was co-founded by Gomez; her mother, Mandy Teefey; and Daniella Pierson in November 2021, touts mental fitness practices and tools. The suit accuses Wondermind and its founders of falsely representing the company’s infrastructure, leadership and partnerships to investors and concealing the alleged fraud for more than three years. The founders told investors they would build a Wondermind app, boasted advertising deals and secured celebrity cover stories, none of which came to fruition, the complaint says...
#9 Luigi Mangione Federal Guilty Plea Expected to Be Announced Friday - Peter Charalambous for ABC News, Fox News, KATV News, 7News DC, and CBS Mornings on X
It's expected that a guilty plea will be announced in connection with the federal prosecution of Luigi Mangione during a conference scheduled for federal court Friday, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The sources caution that plans for the guilty plea are not final at this point and will not be official until announced at the hearing, which is set for 11 a.m. Friday. The situation is fluid, and Mangione could conceivably decide against pleading guilty between now and Friday. Neither the prosecution nor defense teams are commenting on the situation...
#10 Flock CEO Apologizes for Cases Where Surveillance Technology Was Abused as Company Rolls Out Changes - Alex Sundby and Anna Schecter for CBS News, Andrew Bridgen/Feniks Montgomery, Phoenix Insurgent, Orwell Day, Steven A., Garret Langley/The Daily Allegedly, and Norman Buntz on X
The CEO of surveillance technology company Flock Safety apologized Thursday for instances where its data was misused by law enforcement officers and discussed changes the company is rolling out to its systems. Following a Washington Post report that police officers were accused in 46 cases of improperly using access to Flock's license plate camera network, in some instances, allegedly stalking women, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said he had listened to one woman's interview Thursday morning. "I apologize," Langley said in an interview with CBS News. "It kills me that she went through that."
