Kristi Noem’s ‘Saddened’ Cross-Dressing Husband Makes Veiled Threat After Wife Files for Divorce

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Kristi Noem’s cross-dressing husband, Byron, expressed a cryptic desire to “truthfully share his perspective” amid his divorce from the ousted former Department of Homeland Security secretary – months after his bizarre “bimbofication” fetish was exposed.

“Bryon is saddened that the marriage is ending and hopes for a private and amicable resolution,” Bryon’s lawyer, Tim Bottum, said in a statement. “If court proceedings become necessary, Bryon will welcome the opportunity to truthfully share his perspective.”

Bottum added: “Bryon’s priority is to protect the family and move forward as loving parents and grandparents.”

The former South Dakota governor and Homeland Security secretary filed for divorce on Monday in Hamlin County Court in her home state.

The couple have been married since 1992 and have three children: daughters Kassidy, 31, Kennedy, 29, and son Booker, 23. Kassidy and Kennedy both have children of their own.

The divorce comes six months after the Daily Mail published a story revealing Bryon’s alleged infatuation with sex workers and OnlyFans models — along with embarrassing photos of him posing seductively with absurdly large prosthetic breasts. (Read more from “Kristi Noem’s ‘Saddened’ Cross-Dressing Husband Makes Veiled Threat After Wife Files for Divorce” HERE)

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Rural MAHA Voters Don’t Think Trump Admin Has Helped Health In Their Communities, New Poll Shows

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Most backers of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement living in rural areas do not believe the Trump administration’s health policies are actually helping their communities, per a new KFF-Associated Press poll.

The survey suggests that roughly 8 in 10 rural U.S. voters said the administration’s policies have had a negative impact or no effect on the health of individuals in their local communities. Particularly, 68 percent of these rural voters who said they aligned with the MAHA movement said they felt the same way, the poll shows.

The poll found that just 10 percent of rural Democratic voters said they had a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while 74 percent of rural Republicans said the same. Roughly 5 percent of rural Democrats and 69 percent of rural Republican voters reported trusting President Donald Trump a “great deal” or “fair amount” for trustworthy health information, according to the survey.

“This poll takes the views of a small subset of voters and attempts to draw sweeping conclusions about the impact of the Make America Healthy Again agenda in rural communities nationwide. The reality is that President Trump and Secretary Kennedy have made rural America a central focus of MAHA,” an HHS spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement.

The Trump administration announced Wednesday that a $20 million investment is being disbursed in an effort to bolster healthcare technology and expand patient access in rural North Carolina via the federal Rural Health Transformation Program. (Read more from “Rural MAHA Voters Don’t Think Trump Admin Has Helped Health In Their Communities, New Poll Shows” HERE)

Suspect Arrested for Alleged Sinister Plot to Attack Major State Capitol

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A Texas man was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly planning to attack the State Capitol, according to officials.

Benny Caldera Jr., 40, was taken into custody early Wednesday morning at his home in Converse, Texas. He was charged with the felony offense of making a terroristic threat against a public servant and taken to the Bexar County Jail.

The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a news release it received “credible information” on Tuesday about someone plotting a “violent attack” for Thursday on the Capitol.

DPS special agents worked alongside the FBI and local law enforcement agencies to investigate the threat.

Around 3 a.m. on Wednesday, DPS SWAT arrested Caldera, who the agency described as the “main suspect,” at his home and transported him to jail.

“Outstanding work by @TxDPS. Proud of our @FBISanAntonio team for standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our state and local partners. Within HOURS of the tip, @TxDPS had the main suspect in custody — with @FBISanAntonio and local law enforcement assisting. Threaten Americans or our institutions and law enforcement will move FAST,” FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X. (Read more from “Suspect Arrested for Alleged Sinister Plot to Attack Major State Capitol” HERE)

Jack Smith’s Team Ignored Attorney-Client And Speech Or Debate Privileges To Get Trump

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“I ignored the written description of filtering the other night,” Molly Gaston messaged her fellow federal prosecutor, J.P. Cooney, in the early days of the post-2020 election targeting of President Donald Trump, documents obtained exclusively by The Federalist reveal. “Me too,” Cooney replied, showing that two of the attorneys whom Jack Smith would later choose to lead the special counsel team disregarded rules when judged “not tenable.” And additional documents whistleblowers provided Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, confirm the special counsel office ignored the protocol established to protect privileged documents.

Monday afternoon, in advance of Jack Smith’s Tuesday testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, The Federalist is publishing a cache of documents it obtained exclusively from Grassley, in advance of their public release. These new documents provide further evidence that the Biden Administration and Special Counsel Jack Smith weaponized the Justice Department.

The first incriminating document consists of what a representative from Grassley’s office confirmed included text exchanges between two prosecutors in the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office from February of 2021. Those communications came soon after Biden’s inauguration and while Tim Thibault remained a key player pushing for an investigation into Trump.

Cooney opened the relevant exchange by asking Gaston “how confusing/bad was the filter guidance? I’m sitting in another call, but am getting pinged that it is a bit of a cluster.”

The referenced “filter guidance” concerned the DOJ’s directions to prosecutors and agents for the handling of documents being reviewed as part of their investigation, where the materials included — or potentially included — privileged materials, such as communications with an attorney. To properly protect privileged communications, when documents may include privileged material, the DOJ requires those documents to be sequestered from the investigative and prosecuting team, with a “filter” or “taint” team reviewing the documents to redact or withhold any protected communications from prosecutors. (Read more from “Jack Smith’s Team Ignored Attorney-Client And Speech Or Debate Privileges To Get Trump” HERE)

Fox News Hires Ex-Cuomo Aide Who Admitted To Covering Up Nursing Home Deaths

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Fox News hired a former top aide to Andrew Cuomo who admitted to covering up New York State’s nursing home deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Melissa DeRosa will join Fox as a contributor and co-host of a new podcast, “The Girls,” which will debut Oct. 1, Fox News Media said in a press release Monday. DeRosa served in Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration until resigning in August 2021 amid allegations that the governor “sexually harassed” government employees.

Earlier that year, DeRosa admitted on a conference call with Democratic lawmakers that the Cuomo administration covered up the number because they feared the scandal would be politicized by then-President Donald Trump, who could use the Department of Justice to launch a probe.

“He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRosa said, according to the New York Post. “He starts going after [then-New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.”

“We were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation,” DeRosa said. (Read more from “Fox News Hires Ex-Cuomo Aide Who Admitted To Covering Up Nursing Home Deaths” HERE)

‘We Want Islam For This Country’: Muslims In Texas Lay Out Vision For Islamic America

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Shaykh Uthman ibn Farooq laid out a vision for an Islamic America during a livestreamed event at the Sufaraa Center in McKinney, Texas, last week. Authentic Ilm Mission, which hosted the event, has plans for a 40,000-square-foot facility near Plano, Texas, and used the livestream featuring Farooq to fundraise for the multipurpose school and Islamic community center.

“We love this country,” Farooq said. “We want good for this country. And that’s why we want Islam for this country, ’cause we think that’s the best thing. And we’re not going to be ashamed of that.”

He went on to argue that Muslims are fully within their constitutional rights to adhere to Sharia law. “We’re Muslims. That’s our identity, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The Constitution of this country protects that. That’s our right to believe in the Sharia. Yes, I said it. That’s our right.”

“There’s communists that believe in communism and live in America,” Farooq continued. “The current mayor of New York is a socialist. Bernie Sanders is open socialist. … Our president — I don’t know what the, what he is actually. I don’t think he knows what he is. … But he has that right according to the Constitution. … There are Satanists. There’s a church of Satan. I’ve debated them.”

Farooq works with the One Message Foundation and is a viral social media influencer. His Instagram and YouTube pages boast 430,000 and 1.4 million followers, respectively. The One Message Foundation’s homepage says it, together with other groups, converted nearly 1,500 individuals to Islam during the World Cup. Farooq’s social media videos feature his commentary speaking of polygamy as legitimate and speculating that President Donald Trump may be an evil spirit. (Read more from “‘We Want Islam For This Country’: Muslims In Texas Lay Out Vision For Islamic America” HERE)

Hospitals Used AI To Inflate Medical Bills By Nearly $1,000,000,000, Report Finds

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Hospitals’ use of artificial intelligence tools hiked healthcare spending by nearly $1 billion over a two-year period, per a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association analysis released Thursday.

BCBSA’s new study shows that a major rise in patients being documented as having complex conditions led to $942 million in additional medical care costs for Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) companies between 2023 and ‌2025.

The study “raises concerns” that the widespread adoption of AI coding tools is driving higher healthcare spending in the U.S., which “ultimately puts pressure on premiums and out-of-pocket expenses for families, employers and taxpayers,” according to BCBSA’s report. The research looked at secondary diagnoses such as anemia after major bowel surgery.

“If patients are truly sicker, we’d expect to see more treatment,” BCBSA Senior Vice President of Product and Data Science Luke Chalker said in a statement. “For example, we’re seeing significantly more anemia diagnoses at these hospitals without a corresponding increase in transfusions.”

“The disconnect between diagnoses and treatment suggests that AI is identifying more billable conditions, not sicker patients,” Chalker continued.

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Trump Junks Biden’s Title IX Rules, Now Defines Sex by Biology

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The Department of Education said Monday it will formally remove the Biden administration’s Title IX regulations and restore rules issued during President Donald Trump’s first term.

The change takes effect Tuesday. Under the final rule issued Monday, the Education Department’s anti-discrimination policy will recognize sex as male or female at birth. It formally removes Biden-era regulations that extended protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity to students and employees at federally funded schools.

The 2024 rules also forced schools to use transgender students’ pronouns and changed how schools handle harassment complaints. A federal court struck down the rules in January 2025.

The Education Department then told schools it would enforce the 2020 rules. Monday’s action puts that change into the published federal regulations; schools have already been operating under the earlier rules. (Read more from “Trump Junks Biden’s Title IX Rules, Now Defines Sex by Biology” HERE)

Trump: U.S. Will Win Iran War ‘Very Soon’ as Mediated Talks Continue — ‘One Way or the Other’

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President Donald Trump said Monday the war with Iran will end with a U.S. victory “very soon,” declaring the outcome will be decided “one way or the other” as Washington and Tehran remain engaged through mediators over a potential agreement addressing the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s nuclear program.

After confirming that his team had been in contact with Iran through mediators earlier Monday, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he expected the standoff to be resolved quickly.

“We’re going to win,” Trump said. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s going to be one way or the other. And it’s going to go pretty quickly.”

The renewed diplomacy comes days after Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days in exchange for a series of U.S. concessions, including lifting the naval blockade and easing economic pressure on Tehran.

Qatari officials were shuttling between the two sides Monday, with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meeting the intermediaries in New York as negotiations continued without direct U.S.-Iranian talks. (Read more from “Trump: U.S. Will Win Iran War ‘Very Soon’ as Mediated Talks Continue — ‘One Way or the Other’” HERE)

OpenAI Learns Its Tech Probed Another Cybersecurity Target: The US Government

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OpenAI’s autonomous agents probed U.S. government websites this summer without the company noticing.

The agents interacted with sites operated by the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to the New York Times. OpenAI has confirmed the Commerce and SEC episodes while it keeps investigating what happened at Education.

At the Education Department, the software tried and failed to break into the civil rights office in search of data, according to researchers at the AI firm Transluce. At Commerce, the agents pulled Census Bureau figures after finding login credentials in public code repositories, Politico reported. They also copied public material from SEC.gov and Investor.gov and reposted it on a separate site.

None of the activity counted as a breach, OpenAI said. The company found no misused SEC credentials, no account access, no nonpublic data and no changes to SEC data or systems, according to the Associated Press (AP). Chief Executive Sam Altman called it an “extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation” in a social media post, AP reported.

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