Somalis in Minneapolis say they are facing harassment, threats and empty businesses in the wake of fraud allegations video

Business owners and families in Minneapolis’ deeply rooted Somali community say they have been threatened, harassed and ...

Minnesota child care centers accused of wrongdoing were operating as expected, report says

Minnesota child care centers at the center of widespread fraud allegations fueled by a viral video were operating as expected when visited by investigators, the state Department of Children, Youth, ...

Key figures in the long-running controversy over alleged fraudulent safety net programs in Minnesota

The Trump administration, for the second time in recent weeks, is using allegations of fraud to justify increased federal law enforcement actions in Minnesota, the state with the country’s largest ...

Aspirin, CT scans and sleep: Five questions raised by Trump’s new disclosures on his health

It is not clear what test he was referring to in his post, and the White House did not immediately return a request for comment. But in 2018, Trump took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a 10-minute ...

What’s new, what’s not: Parsing the rhetoric around the Minnesota child care fraud firestorm

A conservative influencer’s viral video alleging widespread fraud at taxpayer-funded child care centers in Minnesota’s Somali community kicked off a political firestorm that was years in the making.

A look at Zohran Mamdani’s policy ideas as he becomes New York City’s mayor

The 34-year-old democratic socialist has just a few weeks before the start of state and city budget season begins at the end of January. His top policy ideas include freezing increases on ...

Pam Bondi dismissed charges against a surgeon who falsified vaccine cards. It emboldened others with similar cases.

Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days, accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses.

In India, door deliveries can come in under 10 minutes. But many drivers are fed up

More than 200,000 app-based delivery workers in India went on strike over New Year’s Eve, protesting a system they say is defined by relentless pressure, including requirements to deliver items in ...

‘Profound costs’: How Trump upended the federal government in his first year back in Washington

As President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House winds down, he has already transformed and upended the federal government.

State Department imposes sanctions on former EU official, disinformation group leaders for ‘censorship’

The US State Department on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on a former top European Union official and employees of organizations that combat disinformation for alleged censorship – sharply ratcheting ...

The UK wants to scrap jury trials for many crimes. Opponents fear the loss of an ancient right

For hundreds of years, Britons accused of substantial crimes have had the right to be tried by their peers in a court of law. But now as the country grapples with an acute backlog of cases waiting to ...

Vivek Ramaswamy rebrands himself as a ‘conservative without being combative’

Vivek Ramaswamy barreled into politics as a flame-thrower willing to offend just about anyone. He declared America was in a “cold cultural civil war,” denied the existence of white supremacists, and ...