Trump Backs Netanyahu After Reports of Friction, Talks Tough on Iran: ‘We’ll Knock the Hell Out of Them’

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President Trump gave gushing praise to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday — denying reported friction with his counterpart and vowing to “knock the hell out of” Iran if it rebuilds its nuclear program.

“I hear that Iran is trying to build up again, and if they are, we’re gonna have to knock them down. We’ll knock them down. We’ll knock the hell out of them,” Trump said while welcoming Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla.

“But hopefully that’s not happening. I heard Iran wants to make a deal. They want to make a deal — that’s much smarter. You know, they could have made a deal the last time before we went through a big attack on them, and they decided not to make a deal. They wish they made that deal.”

Trump described the meeting as focused on five major issues, including the implementation of the Trump-brokered October peace deal in Gaza and improving Israeli relations with the new Syrian government.

Once the doors closed for private talks, Netanyahu flattered Trump by announcing that he would bestow upon him the “Israel Prize,” which recognizes cultural achievements in literature, the arts, Jewish studies and other areas. (Read more from “Trump Backs Netanyahu After Reports of Friction, Talks Tough on Iran: ‘We’ll Knock the Hell Out of Them’” HERE)

Misspelled Minnesota Day Care Trucks in Children After Viral Fraud Video: ‘Never Seen Kids Go in There Until Today’

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The Quality “Learing” Center Minneapolis, a purported day care flagged in a viral video designed to expose fraud, may have been bustling with kids Monday, but it is typically such a ghost town that it appeared closed, a local told The Post.

The resident called the kiddie scene at the site Monday — a few days after explosive footage called it out and suggested it was part of widespread state fraud — “highly unusual.

“We’ve never seen kids go in there until today. That parking lot is empty all the time, and I was under the impression that place is permanently closed,” the person said.

Monday’s busy parking lot and the roughly 20 kids streaming in and out as The Post staked it out was in stark contrast to the neighbor’s description and YouTuber Nick Shirley’s video showing what appeared to be a facility that wasn’t in use.

“You do realize there’s supposed to be 99 children here in this building, and there’s no one here?” Shirley asked the person answering the door to the site in his clip, which was posted online Friday. (Read more from “Misspelled Minnesota Day Care Trucks in Children After Viral Fraud Video: ‘Never Seen Kids Go in There Until Today’” HERE)

‘My Friends Will Get Hurt’: Trump Blew Up Over Threats to Expose Epstein Accomplices

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Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is offering more details about her falling out with President Donald Trump, saying the final straw revolved around her push for more government transparency surrounding sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. . .

In September, Greene spoke directly to Epstein survivors during a closed-door House Oversight hearing, which moved her to fight for accountability on their behalf. After leaving the hearing, she rallied reporters and publicly threatened that, if necessary, she would work with victims to reveal the names of Epstein’s associates who perpetrated sexual abuse against women and girls.

That threat, she said, resulted in a hostile phone call from the president — their last proper conversation.

According to the Times, which heard about the call through both Greene and one of her staffers, Trump, 79, rang her Capitol Hill office to voice his frustration with her public advocacy on the issue. The whole office could allegedly hear him yelling at her on speakerphone, according to her staffer.

Greene claimed that when she expressed confusion to Trump on the call over his resistance to outing Epstein’s potential conspirators, the president told her, “My friends will get hurt.”

When she suggested that the president could invite Epstein survivors to the Oval Office to show that their stories were being heard, the president allegedly said that they had not done anything to earn such an honor, according to Greene’s account of the conversation. (Read more from “‘My Friends Will Get Hurt’: Trump Blew Up Over Threats to Expose Epstein Accomplices” HERE)

Report: Ilhan Omar’s Husband’s Firm Erases Names as Minnesota Fraud Case Heats Up

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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) husband’s venture capital firm has reportedly erased the names of “nine officers and advisors” from its website, a suspicious move that comes amid pressure over massive fraud in Minnesota.

Omar “introduced the legislation critics say paved the way for what the feds have called the largest fraud of the pandemic,” the New York Post reported Saturday.

Her husband, Tim Mynett, launched Rose Lake Capital in 2022 and its reported value went quickly from almost nothing to between $5 million and $25 million.

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Between September and October — when federal prosecutors announced charges to eight more individuals, including six of Somali descent, for their roles in the welfare scheme — the names and bios of Rose Lake Capitals’s nine officers and advisors were removed from the website. None of them were charged in the fraud.

These names include lobbyist and former Obama Ambassador to Bahrain Adam Ereli; former Senator and Obama Ambassador to China Max Baucus; DNC Finance Chair associate Alex Hoffman; former DNC treasurer William Derrough and former ex-CEO of Amalgamated Bank Keith Mestrich, who once described Amalgamated as “the institutional bank of the Democratic Party.”

(Read more from “Report: Ilhan Omar’s Husband’s Firm Erases Names as Minnesota Fraud Case Heats Up” HERE)

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Kash Patel: Minnesota Fraud Scheme a ‘Top FBI Priority’

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By Breitbart. FBI Director Kash Patel recognized the ongoing fraud scandal unfolding in Minnesota involving childcare centers, adding that it has been part of a lengthy investigation and will remain a top priority.

As Breitbart News reported, a video from YouTube journalist Nick Shirley went viral over the weekend after he confronted an employee at an alleged learning center in Minnesota that was receiving millions in aid despite showing no signs of operational activity.

In a post on X, Kash Patel said the FBI has been investigating the situation.

“The FBI is aware of recent social media reports in Minnesota. However, even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large-scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs. Fraud that steals from taxpayers and robs vulnerable children will remain a top FBI priority in Minnesota and nationwide,” he said.

Patel then noted that the FBI “dismantled a $250 million fraud scheme that stole federal food aid meant for vulnerable children during COVID.”

(Read more from “Kash Patel: Minnesota Fraud Scheme a ‘Top FBI Priority’” HERE)

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YouTuber Nick Shirley Exposes Alleged Somali Daycare Center Which Reportedly Reaped $4,000,000 From Taxpayers

By Daily Caller. YouTuber Nick Shirley posted video Friday showing multiple purported Somali-run day care centers in Minnesota, including one which reportedly received $4 million in taxpayer funds, which did not immediately appear to have any children there.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced the FBI would surge additional agents to Minnesota to investigate allegations of fraud raised on social media, including by Shirley. Shirley, for example, posted a photo of one purported day care center, which displayed a banner identifying it as “The Greater Learing [sic] Center.”

“We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day,” Shirley claimed in a viral X post Friday. “Like it and share it around like wildfire! [It’s] time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable!”

The accompanying 42-minute video shows Shirley attempting to visit multiple centers that reportedly received state funds, in many cases not finding children. Likewise, KSTP reported that the Quality Learing Center had 95 citations for violations from one Minnesota agency from 2019 to 2023.

Assistant United States Attorney Joe Thompson suggested Dec. 18 the amount of suspected fraud in Minnesota’s Medicaid program had reached over $9 billion. (Read more from “YouTuber Nick Shirley Exposes Alleged Somali Daycare Center Which Reportedly Reaped $4,000,000 From Taxpayers” HERE)

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Trump Explodes at DOJ Over Epstein Files, Demands Agency to ‘Embarrass’ Democrats

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In a furious escalation of tensions between the Executive Branch and federal investigators, President Donald Trump has launched a blistering attack on the Department of Justice regarding its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The president’s latest outburst suggests a deepening rift within Washington, as he demands that federal resources be immediately diverted away from the deceased financier’s records and redirected toward his long-standing claims of election fraud.

This confrontation follows a revelation from the DOJ that officials have unearthed a staggering cache of over one million additional documents potentially linked to the Jeffrey Epstein case. Federal authorities are currently wading through this massive trove of materials, a process mandated by transparency legislation that the president himself signed into law.

Writing on his Truth Social platform, Trump lambasted the department’s ‘exhaustive’ review process, characterising the allocation of manpower as a misdirection of justice. In his view, the continued scrutiny of the sex offender’s network serves only to distract from what he considers the nation’s most urgent political crises.

‘When do they say NO MORE, and work on Election Fraud etc.,’ Trump posted, deploying his signature capitalised style to emphasise his frustration. ‘The Dems are the ones who worked with Epstein, not the Republicans’.

The president went further, urging the DOJ to simply ‘release all of their names, [and] embarrass them’ so the country could move forward. He framed the ongoing investigation as ‘another Witch Hunt!!!’, accusing his political opponents of weaponising the scandal to overshadow his administration’s policy achievements. (Read more from “Trump Explodes at DOJ Over Epstein Files, Demands Agency to ‘Embarrass’ Democrats” HERE)

FBI Caught Hillary Clinton Discussing Donations With Foreign Felon

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As Hillary Clinton closed in on the presidential nomination in the spring of 2016, FBI field officers advised colleagues at headquarters to press her on the foreign donations flowing to the Clinton Foundation while she steered American foreign policy and whether she had used the charity as a campaign piggy bank.

But FBI HQ in Washington — a city in which the former secretary of state and first lady wields enormous influence — let the trail go cold.

FBI New York Assistant Director in Charge Diego Rodriguez advised agents in Washington to ask Clinton several questions about the foundation, which are reproduced in full in documents released to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the FBI and published on Dec. 15. The questions reveal the concerns about foreign bribery that the Clinton Foundation case — codenamed “Cracked Foundation” — had uncovered.

Among the evidence available to investigators, according to their questions: A recorded conversation between Clinton and Indian hotel magnate Sant Singh Chatwal in which Clinton discussed donations to the foundation and her remaining 2008 campaign debt. The new documents confirm that FBI had at one time been “intercepting individuals associated with the Clinton Foundation.”

But when Clinton arrived to the FBI two months later, in July 2016, to answer questions about her use of a private email server in a separate investigation codenamed “Midyear Exam,” D.C. agents asked nothing about the allegations of pay-to-play with foreign governments or use of the global charity as a slush fund. (Read more from “FBI Caught Hillary Clinton Discussing Donations With Foreign Felon” HERE)

Study: AI-Powered Job Interviews Are Causing Havoc for Applicants *and* Employers

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AI continues to reshape the job market for both employers and job seekers, as candidates turn to ChatGPT to help with writing and employers use fully AI-driven interviews to screen applicants. Some experts say AI leaves both sides of the job market in a “doom loop” of dissatisfaction as technology fails to help the right people find the right job.

The integration of AI into the hiring process has become increasingly prevalent this year, with more than half of the organizations surveyed by the Society for Human Resource Management utilizing AI to recruit workers in 2025. Additionally, an estimated third of ChatGPT users have reportedly relied on the OpenAI chatbot to assist with their job search. While these technological advancements may seem like a step towards efficiency and modernization, recent research suggests that the use of AI in hiring may be causing more harm than good.

A study conducted by Anaïs Galdin from Dartmouth and Jesse Silbert from Princeton analyzed cover letters for tens of thousands of job applications on Freelancer.com. The researchers discovered that after the introduction of ChatGPT in 2022, the cover letters became longer and better-written. However, this improvement in quality led companies to place less emphasis on the cover letters, making it more difficult to identify qualified candidates from the applicant pool. Consequently, the hiring rate and average starting wage decreased.

Moreover, with the increased volume of applications, employers are turning to automated interviews. A survey by recruiting software firm Greenhouse in October revealed that 54 percent of US job seekers have experienced an AI-led interview. While virtual interviews gained popularity during the pandemic in 2020, the use of AI to ask questions has not made the process any less subjective.

The widespread adoption of AI in hiring has created what Daniel Chait, CEO of Greenhouse, calls a “doom loop,” leaving both job seekers and employers feeling frustrated and dissatisfied with the process. Chait explains, “Both sides are saying, ‘This is impossible, it’s not working, it’s getting worse.’” (Read more from “Study: AI-Powered Job Interviews Are Causing Havoc for Applicants *and* Employers” HERE)

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DOJ Says Over One Million Additional Epstein Files Will Be Released in Coming Weeks

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The Department of Justice says it has received more than one million newly-discovered documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein and is now reviewing them for public release in the coming weeks under federal law and court orders.

According to a statement issued on Christmas Eve, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the FBI uncovered a massive new collection of Epstein-related material and transferred it to the DOJ for processing.

The department said teams of attorneys are “working around the clock” to review the files and apply legally-required redactions to protect victims before publication. Because of the sheer size of the collection, officials cautioned that the process may take several more weeks, but emphasized that the DOJ intends to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act as well as “President Trump’s direction to release the files.”

The announcement coincides with a more assertive posture from the DOJ’s official X account, which has recently issued posts challenging rumors and disputed claims surrounding the Epstein releases. Among them was the department’s assertion that a supposed postcard allegedly written by Epstein to Larry Nassar was fabricated.

The heightened messaging came as the DOJ rolled out a new batch of previously unseen Epstein records earlier this week — roughly 11,000 files totaling close to 30,000 pages, including photographs, court exhibits, agency documents, emails, and video material.

Rep. Ro Khanna, the California Democrat who helped lead the bipartisan effort to force the release of the Epstein files, described the latest tranche as “a bombshell.” He pointed to records indicating that Donald Trump flew on Epstein’s plane at least eight times between 1993 and 1996 — a higher number than had previously been indicated in earlier communications from federal officials.

Khanna accused the department of prioritizing the protection of powerful figures tied to Epstein over transparency for survivors, whose identities must be legally redacted.

His co-sponsor on the disclosure effort, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, questioned who was operating the DOJ’s social media account on Christmas Eve after posts appeared using casual language to address reporters.

Criticism of the department’s rollout also came from outside government, including former Obama national security adviser Tommy Vietor, who called the DOJ’s approach “incompetent.” At the same time, transparency and legal analysts warned that many documents in the releases contain duplicates, heavy redactions, or unverified allegations that should not be treated as established fact.

The latest publications also renewed scrutiny of Epstein’s wider network after an internal 2019 email — shared publicly by journalist Julie K. Brown — showed federal investigators attempting to contact roughly ten potential “co-conspirators” following Epstein’s arrest.

Most of the names were redacted, but three remained visible: Ghislaine Maxwell, later convicted of sex-trafficking offenses; former modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who died in custody in France in 2022; and billionaire retailer Leslie Wexner, a onetime Epstein associate who cut ties with him in 2007.

Attorneys for Wexner told BBC News that prosecutors said he was neither a target nor a co-conspirator and that he cooperated with investigators when contacted.

With more than a million additional records now in the pipeline, the disclosure effort is poised to continue into the coming weeks — likely prolonging political and public debate over Epstein’s network and the government’s handling of the case.

Experts say future releases may add new context but stress that raw investigative materials often contain leads, allegations, or partial information rather than definitive conclusions.

Holiday Travelers Stranded at JFK Airport as Winter Storm Triggers Hundreds of Flight Cancellations

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Frustrated holiday travelers were left stranded at John F. Kennedy International Airport Friday night after hundreds of flights were canceled as a snowstorm slammed New York City and the tri-state area.

The wintery conditions sent post-Christmas travel plans at the Big Apple transit hub into a frenzy, leaving frazzled vacationers huddled on the floor with their families and luggage as they desperately waited for updates on rebooked flights that will take them home.

“I came to New York to have a ‘Home Alone’ Christmas just by myself,” Danniel Sermone, a 31-year-old who has been stuck at JFK since his Denver flight was axed Friday morning, told The Post.

“I wanted to hang out. I went shopping, and went to Times Square, crossed up there for a while with the big crowd. My next available flight is at 6 a.m. on the 28th. So I have been hanging out at JFK for about eight hours and still got like 30 left.”

More than half of the Empire State was placed under a state of emergency as forecasters warned that parts of the region would be walloped by nearly a foot of snow through Saturday afternoon. (Read more from “Holiday Travelers Stranded at JFK Airport as Winter Storm Triggers Hundreds of Flight Cancellations” HERE)