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Come See Keynote Speaker Joe Hoft Saturday Evening at the Charlie Kirk Unity Dinner in Reno, Nevada.
Joe Hoft will be joining the Nevada Young Republicans as the keynote speaker at the Charlie Kirk Unity Dinner, presented by Albert Mack.

.@realJoeHoft will be joining us as our keynote speaker at the Charlie Kirk Unity Dinner Presented by Albert Mack https://t.co/VKqi81T8oA pic.twitter.com/2AmhoaelRb
— Nevada Young Republicans (@NevadaYRs) September 28, 2026
Last Saturday, Joe was with his twin brother Jim in West Palm Beach for the premiere of “American Martyrs”.  Get your copy now.

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— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) September 28, 2026
Look for this and more this Saturday in Reno, Nevada.
 

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A new Senate report highlights startling amounts of health care fraud, including a payment of almost $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to Russian fraudsters and hundreds of millions to others.
The report, which points to some of the most egregious cases out of a total of more than half a trillion in fraud, highlights more than $21 billion in bogus claims billed to the federal government. Of that, more than $3.1 billion in taxpayer money was actually paid out to these fraudsters.
“While some Americans will be fortunate enough to earn a few million dollars over a lifetime, Washington is literally making these scammers instant billionaires off the backs of the working class,” the report says. “Yet, you never hear socialists ranting about this unfair redistribution of wealth.”
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, chairwoman of the Senate DOGE Caucus, shared the report with the Daily Signal.
“Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders famously stated, ‘billionaires shouldn’t exist,’ and wants to tax them away, while government grift and graft is making billionaires out of riffraff,” the report says. “In fact, the $500 billion the Democrats’ proposed ‘billionaire tax’ would bring in isn’t even enough to pay the total cost of the $523 billion the government gives away to fraudsters every year.”
The report notes that fraudsters are getting away with more than $1.4 billion per day, citing a 2024 Government Accountability Office study.
“While Iowans are juggling rising health care costs, billion-dollar bandits are building criminal empires by stealing from government health care programs and using the proceeds to bankroll their mansions, luxury cars, and lavish lifestyles. Democrat socialists push higher taxes and socialized medicine, while turning a blind eye to the billions in fraud,” Ernst told the Daily Signal in a statement. “I’m calling out their twisted agenda that leave taxpayers footing the bill. Let’s put these scammers in the slammer and pass my Protecting American Taxpayers Act.”
The report says that more than $100 billion is “bilked every year from Medicare and Medicaid.” It says more than $100 billion in fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits was paid to scammers over three years, between 2020 and 2023, while $1 billion is ripped off annually from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps.
The report references what the Justice Department called “Operation Gold Rush,” a fraud case that involved 11 individuals charged with being members of a transnational criminal organization based in Russia that allegedly orchestrated a multibillion-dollar health care fraud. They submitted requests for reimbursement to Medicare for over $10.6 billion using the stolen identities of thousands of doctors and more than a million senior citizens, and managed to get $941 million.
The report also cites Herbert Kimble, charged with billing Medicare more than $1.2 billion for body braces pushed on hundreds of thousands of seniors by foreign call centers. Of that billing, more than $200 million was paid. Kimble was arrested in the Philippines days after making the FBI’s “Most Wanted Fraudster” list.
“When the socialists demand, ‘Medicare for All,’ apparently, they really mean it, even if that includes Russian mobsters and the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters,” the report says.
The report identified Brett Blackman, CEO of a health care software company, who was convicted for billing federal programs over $1 billion for unneeded equipment, with more than $450 million paid. He was convicted in May.
Alexandra Gehrke and Jeffrey King were convicted of submitting $1 billion in fraudulent claims to Medicare; TRICARE, a health care program for U.S. service members; and CHAMPVA, a health care program for spouses and children of permanently disabled veterans, and other health care programs for unnecessary wound grafts. About $615 million of the bogus claims were paid.
Brian Rowan, a wound care sales executive, is charged in connection with a $1.2 billion scheme in which about $614 million was paid.
[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]

Four U.S. Navy members were injured during a landing on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier off the Virginia coast on Monday.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani seemed to deflect late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s questions about his relationship with President Donald Trump, as the mayor avoided bashing him and rejected the late-night host’s request to send him a selfie.”Did you guys hit it off immediately or is it something that you really went into thinking, like, ‘Okay, I need to have a relationship with the President of the United States and I think the best way to do it is to charm him?’ How did you do that and can you help me?” Kimmel asked Mamdani, calling his relationship with Trump “unexpected.”Mamdani responded, “Sorry brother.”The mayor told Kimmel he and the president had many disagreements, but agreed on how much they both love New York City.MAMDANI DESCRIBES TRUMP RELATIONSHIP AS ‘HONEST’ AND ‘DIRECT’ AMID RECENT BLOWOUT”And so, from that first meeting in November of last year, I was just thinking of, ‘How can we make this meeting not about us, but about New Yorkers? How can we spend that time talking about the things that could make life in the city that little bit easier?’ And that’s what it’s been whether we’ve met at the White House or at Gracie Mansion,” he said.Mamdani and the president met earlier this month at the mayor’s residence, Gracie Mansion, despite the major policy differences the two have.”The number one thing that we’ve been speaking about recently has been Sunnyside Yard, which is this idea for decades of building a platform over a rail yard and then building 12,000 homes. And so, in that moment, you know, that you zoomed in on, I’m just thinking about 12,000 homes, 30,000 jobs, largest housing development since the early 1970s,” Mamdani told Kimmel.TRUMP’S HOUSING CHIEF PAINTS A GRIM PICTURE FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP IN ONE MAJOR AMERICAN CITYKimmel asked, “When you text him about Sunnyside, are you sure he doesn’t think you’re texting him about eggs?”Mamdani said he was “pretty sure” and noted that the texts were pretty normal and didn’t resemble the president’s Truth Social posts.”Wow. You really have broken through with him,” Kimmel said. “I mean listen, you seem to be doing a great job in New York, we might need you to move to Washington just hang out at the Oval Office all day. Like if you texted him a selfie of us right now.”Mamdani laughed and shut it down.”I love you, but I love housing more,” Mamdani responded.Kimmel went on to ask if Mamdani would come be the mayor of Los Angeles at the end of the discussion.MAMDANI, LETITIA JAMES SUE TO BLOCK TRUMP ADMIN FROM REFUSING IMMIGRANTS OVER WELFARE STATUSThe White House did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.Trump first met with the socialist mayor last November and said Mamdani could “surprise some conservative people” and declared, “The better he does, the happier I am.”Their last meeting, on Feb. 26 at the Oval Office, was notably cordial, with Mamdani seeking Trump’s support for an ambitious New York housing proposal despite their political differences.”The new communist mayor of New York City, I think he’s a nice guy, actually,” Trump said in his State of the Union address in February. “I speak to him a lot. Bad policy, but nice guy.”

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in Tallahassee, Florida prompted mass chaos as security footage showed food truck workers scrambling to flee from federal agents on Friday.Workers at Chile & Chili’s Taqueria Tallahassee scurried in and out of the food truck’s trailers when federal authorities rolled onto the scene, according to video obtained by Fox News Digital.Video shows one of the workers, a woman, being apprehended by authorities.Three of the individuals seen running in the video were Guatemalan nationals who had not yet finalized immigration paperwork, the food truck’s owner reportedly told WCTV.EXCLUSIVE: LA ICE DIRECTOR REVEALS OFFICERS FOLLOWED HOME, HARASSED AS POLICE FAIL TO HELP IN SANCTUARY CITYThe owner has also reportedly closed the food truck, the owner told WCTV, citing safety concerns and the remainder of the truck’s employees quitting in the wake of the raid.MINNESOTA’S ANTI-ICE AID FUND BECOMES LATEST CASUALTY OF STATE’S EMBARRASSING FRAUD PROBLEMDespite the apparent closure, the incident prompted community organizers to plan an anti-ICE rally at the food truck’s Tennessee Street location on Wednesday.”ICE has been attacking our neighbors and destroying our community for too long!” an Instagram post shared by the restaurant and the Tallahassee Immigrant Rights Alliance read.EXCLUSIVE: DHS SECRETARY MULLIN SLAMS SANCTUARY POLITICIANS AS ATTACKS ON ICE OFFICERS SKYROCKET”We need to show up and demand ICE Out! We’ll be holding a rally at Chile & Chili’s, one of many local businesses and families under attack by ICE. Join us in showing support as we build towards a place where everyone can be free to live!” the post concluded.Chile & Chili’s also started a GoFundMe that has raised nearly $13,000 in the days following the raid.Fox News Digital contacted ICE and Chile & Chili’s for confirmation and further comment.

Koe Wetzel has country music fans going crazy after dropping a new performance.Wetzel has become a powerhouse performer in the genre with his country rock tunes. That includes a recent collaboration with Ella Langley – “Jaded” – that was an instant hit with fans.The talented singer released his latest album, “The Night Champion,” back in June, and the 11-track album might be his best yet.KOE WETZEL AND ELLA LANGLEY RELEASE NEW COUNTRY SONG ‘JADED’ AND IT’S ALREADY GOING VIRALNow, he’s returning to the well with one of its most popular songs.Wetzel performed a stripped down version of “When I’m Gone” for the Live from Vevo Studios series, and the video was released Monday on YouTube.As you’d expect, it’s exactly what fans have come to love from the “Time Goes On” singer, and is already generating plenty of attention online.Give the performance a watch below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.Fans of Wetzel were quick to sound off in the comments section with plenty of reactions. One fan wrote, “Just make an acoustic album already.”Another added, “Absolutely amazing 👏 💪💪💪💪.”SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTERA third wrote, “Just release all the acoustics🙂‍↕️.”Koe is on an absolute heater right now, and shows no signs of taking his foot off the gas. Let me know what you think about his music at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.

NBC personality Savannah Guthrie pictured with her mother, Nancy. (@TODAYshow / X)
A disturbing new development has emerged in the baffling disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC “Today” host Savannah Guthrie.
Nearly eight months after Nancy vanished from her Arizona home, authorities revealed Monday that investigators are examining a new possible ransom note connected to the case.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that its investigators and the FBI-led Guthrie Task Force were recently alerted to the communication and are now trying to determine whether it is legitimate, TheWrap first reported.
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The Pima County Sheriff’s Department addressed reports of a new ransom note in the Nancy Guthrie case Monday, sharing that they were “working to determine credibility” of the alleged missive.
“The PCSD/FBI Guthrie task force was recently made aware of a new possible ransom note in the Nancy Guthrie investigation,” a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office told TheWrap on Monday. “Investigators are also aware of social media comments being made regarding this note and are looking further into this and working to determine credibility.”
The investigators’ statement came hours after true-crime YouTuber Jonathan Lee Riche, known as JLR Investigates online, took to X and claimed that a “friend of Nancy Guthrie contacted authorities after receiving a bitcoin demand.”
Riche followed up later on Monday, writing on X while livestreaming on the app, “We are speaking with Lauren now. Friend of Nancy Guthrie. Who got a extortion bitcoin demand claiming Nancy is alive in Mexico. FBI are involved.”
We should note that while Riche describes himself as an “investigative reporter” on his social media platforms, he is not credentialed with any professional outlet.
This comes after a string of earlier communications, some treated as potentially serious, others dismissed as fakes, that have defined one of the most high-profile unsolved abductions in recent years.
The Gateway Pundit has covered this case from the beginning. In June, we reported on the second note that claimed Nancy “perished shortly after she was taken” from an alleged heart-related issue and was “buried in nature now.”
That note, sent to a Tucson TV station days after the Feb. 1 disappearance, adopted a different tone from the first demand.
In July, the sheriff’s department publicly released the full texts of the two February notes in hopes someone would recognize the writer’s distinctive wording.
The first, addressed directly to Savannah Guthrie, demanded $4 million in Bitcoin by Feb. 5 (rising to $6 million by Feb. 9) and included details only someone at the scene would know, a white smartwatch on the bedroom floor and a destroyed backyard floodlight.
It warned: “Your mother is aware of this and her life is in your hands.” The follow-up note expressed regret and said nothing the family could have done would have changed the outcome.
A California man later pleaded guilty to sending fake ransom demands to the family, as we reported. The real perpetrators remain unidentified.
Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC “Today” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was last seen the night of Jan. 31 after family dropped her off following dinner.
Blood matching hers was found on the porch. Her phone, medications, and hearing aid were left behind.
Doorbell camera footage captured a masked man, described by the FBI as about 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-10, average build, wearing gloves and carrying an Ozark Trail backpack and a holster, tampering with the camera in the early hours of Feb. 1. No arrest has been made.
Savannah Guthrie has made repeated emotional public pleas. The family offered a $1 million reward. The FBI has offered up to $100,000. Tips have poured in. Searches have been conducted, including near the Mexico border. Human remains found in the desert in August were not hers.
According to Fox News reporting on the earlier notes, one profiler questioned whether the communications even matched the suspect’s behavior on camera.
Other notes sent to TMZ offered video of Nancy with the “main guy” in exchange for one Bitcoin and claimed knowledge of identities and a phone in a “secure location.” Some of those were treated skeptically by investigators.
Eight months later, an 84-year-old grandmother with a pacemaker and daily heart medication is still missing. A masked, armed stranger was caught on camera at her door. Blood was on the porch. Distinctive notes with inside details arrived almost immediately. And the case remains unsolved.

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