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Three people, including a child, have been found dead in a “domestic-related homicide” at an in-home daycare near Minneapolis on Wednesday, police said.If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).Hopkins Police Chief Brent Johnson said officers responded to a report of a domestic situation around 9 a.m. at the Brown Bear Daycare and discovered a man, woman and child deceased inside the home, according to Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul. All three victims are believed to be family members and the six other children in the facility at the time of the incident, who were unharmed, have been reunited with their families, he reportedly added.Johnson said a parent who showed up at the daycare to drop off a child called police and investigators believe that parent witnessed the incident, the station reported.”There’s no worse scenario than this, where you drop off your child to somewhere you think is safe, and you get that phone call,” Johnson was quoted as saying. “I think we can all relate, [those] who have children and those who don’t. This is just a tragic situation anywhere in the world, let alone here in Hopkins.”2 CUSTODIANS DEAD IN POSSIBLE MURDER-SUICIDE AT CHICAGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLThe Hopkins Police Department later released a statement to Fox News Digital saying it “responded to a report of a stabbing at a residence operating as a home daycare in the 200 block of Tyler Avenue North in Hopkins.””At this time, we believe there are no outstanding suspects and no ongoing threat to the public,” police added. “This is an extremely tragic event for our community. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families affected by this devastating incident.”CALIFORNIA PARENTS SUE LUXURY DAYCARE AFTER TODDLER ALLEGEDLY TOSSED INTO AIR, DROPPED ON HEADJohnson told Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul that investigators believe the deceased male was the perpetrator of the isolated incident and that he took his own life.If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).”I know that our hearts and our prayers are with the people of Hopkins and any families that have been impacted,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said Wednesday, according to the station. “I have already touched base directly with Hanlon and offer any assistance we can provide. The City of Minneapolis stands with Hopkins. We are not strangers to crisis, and when it takes place, we work together. That’s exactly what we’ll be doing here.””We’re aware of this morning’s tragic and devastating incident in Hopkins and are working with Hopkins Police as they investigate,” added Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty. “Our office’s victim services division is prepared to support the individuals impacted by this incident.”

When we first introduced you to Jennifer Combs, the facts already sounded hard to believe. The Texas mom said police arrested her after she used Facebook to collect complaints about discolored water in Trinidad.Combs spent 23 hours in jail on a felony false alarm or report charge. A Henderson County grand jury later declined to indict her. She has since filed a federal lawsuit alleging political retaliation. You can read our original article on Jennifer Combs and the Trinidad, Texas water controversy.Her arrest, however, did not end the controversy. Police later arrested a man who protested outside Trinidad City Hall. The judge who dismissed his charge says city officials fired her one week later.New! Free live CyberGuy class: Protect Your Money From Today’s Biggest ThreatsJoin us Saturday, Aug. 29, at 10 a.m. ET for a free CyberGuy LIVE class covering five simple steps to help defend yourself against AI scams, fraud, identity theft and financial hacks. Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson will explain how to set up bank alerts, strengthen your account logins, protect your phone number, freeze your credit and help secure your retirement savings against unauthorized transfers. No technical experience is needed. You’ll also receive our financial protection checklist, and every registrant will get a link to the class recording afterward.Reserve your free spot today at CyberGuyLive.com.TEXAS MOM JAILED OVER DIRTY WATER FACEBOOK POSTFormer Trinidad Municipal Judge Shellena Bivens joined me on The CyberGuy Report podcast at CyberGuy.com to explain why she dismissed the protest case and what happened after that decision. Bivens had served as a judge for 16 years. She described herself in a way that was direct and deeply personal.”I’ve been a damn good judge,” Bivens said. “I’ve tried to be human.”The case involved Winston Noles, a citizen journalist known online as Otto the Watchdog. He went to Trinidad after learning about Combs’ arrest. Noles stood outside city hall with a sign that used an expletive to criticize “bad cops.” Trinidad police arrested him and charged him with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. The department’s case centered on a claim that his sign had offended the city’s water clerk. Bivens said the evidence presented to her did not support that charge.Bivens recalled an officer entering her courtroom and presenting two possible outcomes. Police could take Noles to jail or bring him before her for arraignment. Her response was clear. “You need to let him go,” Bivens said. “I said that multiple times. You need to let him go.”Bivens dismissed the disorderly conduct charge. She said Noles had not committed a crime by displaying the sign. Local reporting also found that the former water clerk, Colby Reyes, said in writing that Noles had not offended her. Reyes later joined another former city employee in a wrongful termination lawsuit against Trinidad.The lawsuit alleges that city officials fired Reyes because she “refused to lie” about her reaction to the protest. Those allegations have not been proven in court. During our interview, Combs described the situation this way. “She would not sign a statement that said she was offended,” Combs said. Then came the part that still seems unbelievable. “The judge dropped it. They fired the judge,” Combs said.CARIBBEAN HOT SPOT GRIPPED BY WATER CRISIS, AND TOURISTS SCRAMBLE TO RESCHEDULE PLANSThe Trinidad City Council voted 3-1 to dismiss Bivens during a May 28 meeting. Her attorney argued that the council’s action was unlawful. The city proceeded with the dismissal. Bivens told me she returned to work and discovered she could no longer enter her office. “They changed my code when I came in to work on Tuesday,” she said. “My security code was changed.”She said city leaders ended her 16-year judicial career without giving her a valid reason. When I asked whether she expected a Facebook post about water to cause this much upheaval, she answered quickly. “Absolutely not. No,” Bivens said. “This has been such a crazy journey.”Bivens has said publicly that she believes the city retaliated against her because she dismissed Noles’ charge. Her attorneys have considered legal action. The city has not admitted that retaliation motivated its vote.CyberGuy sent a request for comment to the mayor and city council through the city’s published contact information but did not hear back before our deadline.During our interview, Bivens also described an alleged conversation with Charles Gregory, who served as Trinidad’s police chief when police arrested Combs. According to Bivens, Gregory entered her office after Combs published her Facebook post. “I know who it is, and I’m, I’m F-ing getting her. I’m getting her,” Bivens recalled him saying.That is Bivens’ account of the conversation. CyberGuy has not independently verified that Gregory made the statement. Gregory previously defended the department’s decision to pursue Combs. He said her Facebook post created “fear, panic, or unnecessary emergency response within a community.” He later resigned, with June 19 reported as his final day.We reached out to the Trinidad Police Department for comment about Bivens’ allegations and the department’s handling of the arrests. We did not hear back before our deadline.In our earlier CyberGuy report, an attorney representing Trinidad said the city could not discuss details because of active lawsuits. “The claims against the City of Trinidad will be answered where they belong, in a court of law,” attorney Zachary Smith wrote.The warrant process later faced scrutiny from another judge. Henderson County District Judge R. Scott McKee approved the warrant connected to Combs’ arrest. He later sent Gregory a letter questioning information that two Trinidad officers had presented. McKee questioned the “accuracy, completeness, and reliability” of the officers’ information. According to the letter, the officers failed to disclose citizen complaints and water-quality concerns. They also left out information that could explain the basis for Combs’ Facebook post.McKee ordered the two officers to appear before him in person when seeking future warrants. They had previously been allowed to submit requests electronically. That development is important. A judge can only evaluate probable cause using the information police provide. Missing context may change how a judge views the entire case.Meanwhile, state investigators confirmed that Trinidad’s water system had real problems. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality released findings from two investigations on July 1. The first investigation found that Trinidad’s system failed to meet state minimums involving total chlorine and iron. The report said the system had returned to compliance by April 22 after a boil-water notice.A second investigation began on May 15. It resulted in four violations. Investigators documented problems with required chloramine-effectiveness sampling. They also found maintenance issues at the surface water treatment plant. In one sample, investigators recorded 20 color units. The EPA and TCEQ recommend a maximum of 15 color units. These findings do not confirm every medical claim posted online. However, they show that residents were raising concerns about a system with documented deficiencies.Combs and Bivens also discussed a Trinidad family that said its 16-year-old daughter developed a serious skin reaction after showering. Medical records obtained by a local TV station described the condition as “most likely chemical burn/severe dermatitis from water she was exposed to.” However, the report also stated that it remained unclear whether Trinidad’s water-treatment process caused the reaction. The family was considering legal action at the time of the report.Bivens told me she knew the family and had seen photographs of the teenager’s injuries. “I’ve seen the pictures,” Bivens said. “I know the family of the young girl that got burned.” The family’s allegation and the medical assessment deserve attention. Still, a final legal or regulatory determination about the cause has not been made.On July 10, the Texas Rangers confirmed that they had opened an investigation involving Trinidad. “We can confirm the Texas Rangers are investigating,” the agency told Dallas affiliate FOX 4. Because the investigation remains active, the Rangers did not disclose its scope.Then, on July 16, all three members of Trinidad’s city hall staff resigned. The departing officials were City Manager Cynthia Dosier, City Clerk Sandra Rojas and Municipal Judge Susan Carver. Carver had taken over the municipal judge position after Bivens’ dismissal. Mayor Dennis Haws warned that the resignations would create operational problems while the city worked through the transition. The resignations do not prove wrongdoing. They do show how far this controversy has spread since Combs published her original Facebook post.Combs says people associated with a small group in Trinidad mass-reported her Facebook post. The platform then removed it. During our interview, Bivens directed a message at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “Stop trampling on people’s rights,” Bivens said. “Stop trampling on free speech.” We reached out to Meta for comment on Bivens’ message, but did not hear back before our deadline.Facebook’s content-moderation system did not arrest Combs. Still, removing a post can erase evidence of what someone said and how other people responded. That is why screenshots matter. Save the original post and relevant comments when documenting a public concern. Keep copies of notices or messages you receive from officials.You should also separate confirmed facts from reports that still need verification. Phrases such as “residents reported” or “we are asking the state to investigate” make that distinction clear. For more ways to control what social platforms collect and preserve your account security, see our five simple tech tips to take back control of social media.Jennifer Combs says she used Facebook to gather water complaints from people who felt ignored. Police responded with a felony charge, yet a grand jury declined to indict her. Winston Noles then protested her treatment. Judge Shellena Bivens dismissed his disorderly conduct charge because she said the evidence did not support it. Trinidad’s City Council fired her one week later. Since then, another judge has questioned the police warrant process. State investigators have documented water-system violations. The Texas Rangers are also investigating, although they have not revealed the scope. Public officials have every right to correct false information. They also have a duty to respect lawful criticism. Arresting people who question local government creates a chilling effect that can reach far beyond one small town. For more on how this controversy unfolded, check out the full conversation with Judge Bivens on The CyberGuy Report podcast at CyberGuy.com.When a Facebook post about dirty water can lead to two arrests, a fired judge and a Texas Rangers investigation, how safe would you feel speaking up in your own community? Let us know by writing to us at CyberGuy.com.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportCopyright 2026 CyberGuy.com. All rights reserved.

Far-left streamer Hasan Piker warned Tuesday night that “the knives will be out” for the socialist left after Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong lost the Democratic gubernatorial primary to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, arguing during his livestream that Democratic establishment figures will work harder to stop insurgent candidates because they no longer underestimate the progressive movement.Piker, who appeared alongside Hong and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at an August campaign rally, portrayed the loss as a warning for socialists seeking to build on recent primary victories.”It will be more difficult, though, because the establishment will not underestimate us. It will continue to undermine us, but they will not underestimate us,” Piker said. “So, the knives will be out.”HASAN PIKER CALLS FOR DEMOCRATS WHO OPPOSE ABDUL EL-SAYED TO BE ‘PUNISHED’RNC national spokesperson Natalie Baldassarre responded to Piker’s remarks in a statement to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, calling on Democrats to disavow the controversial streamer.”Hasan Piker is a Hamas-hugging radical with a long history of threatening rape and violence against those he disagrees with. Democrats would do right to disavow him, but they’ll continue to bend to his will like spineless, useful idiots,” Baldassarre said.The Wisconsin primary became a contest between the party’s socialist left and its more traditional coalition. Hong, a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member, was backed by Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner and Wisconsin-based DSA chapters.After initially leaving the race, Crowley re-entered the contest with the endorsement of retiring Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and accumulated support from the Professional Firefighters of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council, the IBEW Wisconsin State Conference and a slate of Democratic mayors and local officials.DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT STRIKES BACK AS SOCIALIST CANDIDATE DOWNED IN BATTLEGROUND PRIMARYHong previously sought to put distance between herself and Piker after appearing on his livestream for a campaign fundraiser, saying in a July “MS NOW Reports” interview that sharing a platform with someone did not mean she endorsed everything the host had said.Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate and TV personality Spencer Pratt mocked the reaction of Piker and the DSA following Hong’s defeat.”Beetlejuice Bob isn’t take the Hong loss well,” Pratt said on X. “The DSA are freaking out that everyone is realizing Emperor Mao here has no clothes.”Piker said Crowley’s victory was “far from the worst result” and predicted the Democrat would defeat Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany in November.‘COMMON SENSE AGAINST CRAZY’: TRUMP-BACKED CANDIDATE SOUNDS ALARM ON SOCIALIST HONG IN WISCONSIN RACE”Crowley still, if he wins, is going to defeat Tom Tiffany. And that’s a good thing. OK, I stand on that,” Piker said.The Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary was not called until early Wednesday after Milwaukee election officials said “human error” delayed the county’s vote count. Five of nine memory sticks delivered to the Milwaukee County Courthouse contained audit logs instead of election results after an election worker pushed the wrong button, according to Milwaukee Election Commission Director Paulina Gutierrez.Fox News Digital reached out to Hong, Crowley and the DNC for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.

LeBron James’ first game as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers will come at the world’s most famous arena.James’ 76ers will take on the defending NBA champion New York Knicks on Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. ET at Madison Square Garden on the NBA’s opening night of the 2026-27 season. Knicks-76ers is the first of three games on the NBA’s opening night.The NBA season will begin when the Boston Celtics take on the Detroit Pistons at 3 p.m. ET and conclude when the Oklahoma City Thunder take on the San Antonio Spurs at 9:30 p.m. ET.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMThe Knicks-76ers matchup is a rematch of the 2026 Eastern Conference semifinals, a series in which the Knicks swept the 76ers in four games.The Knicks are returning most of the same core that dominated the NBA playoffs and won the title, with the only notable loss being backup center and defensive stalwart Mitchell Robinson. Robinson signed a three-year, $47.38 million contract with the Celtics.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!The 76ers, however, will look much different on opening night. Not only did they sign James, but they also pulled off a stunning trade for Celtics star Jaylen Brown.They acquired the 2024 Finals MVP for Paul George, a 2028 first-round pick, a 2031 first-round pick, a 2028 second-round pick (best of the Golden State Warriors/Oklahoma City Thunder/Milwaukee Bucks) and a 2030 second-round pick (best of the Washington Wizards/Portland Trail Blazers/Phoenix Suns).With the additions of Brown and James, the 76ers’ starting lineup will likely be composed of VJ Edgecomb, Tyrese Maxey, Brown, James and Joel Embiid, forming one of the strongest lineups in the Eastern Conference.The 76ers’ revamped starting lineup’s first task will be taking down the reigning NBA champions on their home floor.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

EXCLUSIVE: Keystone Cops or Cover-Up? How Arizona AG Kris Mayes Has Handled Investigation Involving Fellow Democrat – Governor Katie Hobbs
How the Hobbs-Sunshine Referral Became a Criminal Investigation —and the 2-Year Fight Over Who Would Conduct It
By Linda Brickman
From “Reporter” Mayes to “Reported” on Mayes – Part 1
SECTION 1 — ONE REFERRAL. TWO PROSECUTORS.
It began with a question.
On June 5, 2024, Arizona State Senator T.J. Shope referred allegations involving Sunshine Residential Homes to both (Democrat) Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and (Republican) Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell.  (The alligations were connected to Democrat Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs.)
Shope was not announcing that a crime had been committed.  He was asking prosecutors to determine whether the allegations warranted investigation.  AG Mayes answered quickly.
The next day, June 6, Chief Counsel Nick Klingerman of the Attorney General’s Criminal Division wrote Shope that the division was statutorily authorized to investigate the allegations in his referral.
The Attorney General’s Office would open a criminal investigation.
So far, fairly straightforward.
Then came June 7.
Mayes wrote directly to Mitchell, acknowledging that Shope had referred the matter to both offices and that Mitchell was planning — or had already begun — her own investigation. Mayes also noted that Mitchell had contacted Arizona Auditor General Lindsey Perry about coordinating their work.
Then Mayes drew a line.  “It would not be appropriate or in the best interest of the state to conduct parallel investigations into the same matter.”
Mayes warned that a separate Maricopa County investigation could jeopardize the integrity of the criminal investigation her office intended to pursue. She told Mitchell that if the Attorney General’s Office needed assistance from either Mitchell or the Auditor General, Mayes’s office would reach out.
Mayes sent a similar message to Auditor General Perry that same day. Perry’s assistance with Mitchell’s investigation, Mayes wrote, was not needed by the Attorney General’s Office at that time.
In forty-eight hours, the story had changed.  The question was no longer simply: Should the Sunshine allegations be investigated?
Mayes had already answered that.  Yes.
The new question was: Who should be doing the investigating?
And that question would become considerably more complicated.  Because Rachel Mitchell did not step aside.
SECTION 2. MITCHELL SAYS NO
Mayes may have wanted one investigation.  Rachel Mitchell had other plans.
On June 11, Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell responded to Mayes and made clear that her office would continue its own investigation into Sunshine Residential Homes and would prosecute if the evidence warranted prosecution.
Mitchell’s concern went beyond jurisdiction.  She warned that public confidence mattered, particularly when the allegations touched Arizona’s highest elected officials. She told Mayes that insisting on being the sole investigator could deepen public distrust rather than resolve it.
Now Arizona had something unusual: 

Two elected prosecutors.
One set of allegations.
And neither one was leaving.

Mayes maintained that parallel investigations could compromise the integrity of her criminal investigation and create unnecessary duplication. That concern was not frivolous. Former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Andrew Gould publicly agreed that multiple agencies interviewing the same witnesses and requesting the same records could complicate or slow an investigation.
But Mayes’s attempt to take control of the investigation immediately drew another kind of scrutiny.
On June 10, State Representative David Livingston demanded that Mayes recuse herself.
Livingston argued that Maricopa County’s elected county attorney possessed independent prosecutorial authority over offenses committed within the county and accused Mayes of attempting to claim jurisdiction over an investigation involving Governor Hobbs, the Arizona Democratic Party, Sunshine Residential Homes and DCS.
That was Livingston’s accusation, not an established finding.
But he pointed to an undisputed fact that would become central to the controversy:
Mayes had not merely opened her own investigation. She had asked another elected prosecutor not to conduct hers.
Livingston also challenged Mayes’s reliance on Arizona law concerning the Auditor General. Mayes had argued that because the Attorney General supervises prosecutions arising from Auditor General investigations, a separate Mitchell-Auditor General investigation should not proceed. Livingston countered that Arizona law also authorizes the Auditor General to work with county attorneys and that the County Attorney’s prosecutorial authority had not simply vanished because the Attorney General entered the case.
So, what began as a referral about possible wrongdoing involving a foster-care provider had become something else:
A Dispute Over Investigative Control.
And that distinction matters.
There is no evidence simply from these letters that Mayes was trying to protect Katie Hobbs.  There is also no question that Mayes attempted to prevent a parallel investigation by Mitchell and the Auditor General.  Those are two very different statements.  The first requires evidence of motive.
The second is contained in Mayes’s own correspondence.  And Mitchell refused.
Which leaves an obvious question:
Why was control of the Sunshine investigation important enough for Arizona’s Attorney General to tell two other investigative offices to stand down almost immediately after opening her own case?
Before attempting to answer that question, however, we need to understand what had landed on the prosecutors’ desks in the first place.
Because Sunshine Residential Homes was not simply another state contractor.

There was money.
There were political contributions.
There was a state contract.
And there was one very unusual rate increase.

SECTION 3. FOLLOW THE MONEY — AND THE RATE HIKE
Why did Sunshine Residential Homes attract the attention of two prosecutors in the first place?
Because the chronology was difficult to ignore.
Sunshine Residential Homes operated approximately 30 group homes in Maricopa County for children removed from their families by the Department of Child Safety. It was one of the largest providers of group-home beds in Arizona.  It was also politically generous.
Before Katie Hobbs became Governor, Sunshine donated $200,000 to the Arizona Democratic Party shortly before the 2022 election.
     Then came the inaugural celebration.
Sunshine contributed $100,000 to Hobbs’s inaugural fund. Sunshine CEO Simon Kottoor served on Hobbs’s inaugural committee, personally contributed to her campaign, and his company presented Hobbs with an award approximately one month before the election.

Political contributions, of course, are not crimes.
Neither is serving on an inaugural committee.

The problem was what happened next…
In December 2022, Sunshine requested a rate increase from the Department of Child Safety.  DCS denied the request in February 2023.
Sunshine tried again in May.  This time, the request was approved.
And according to reporting at the time the controversy erupted, Sunshine was the only group-home provider under the Hobbs administration to receive an individual rate increase outside the routine contract-renewal process.
Eventually, 52 other providers received increases during regular contract negotiations in June 2024.  But Sunshine had received its special increase earlier.  That sequence produced the question that landed on Senator Shope’s desk:
Did political money have anything to do with the government money that followed?
No prosecutor had answered that question when Shope made his referral.  And the existence of contributions followed by favorable state action does not, by itself, prove bribery, fraud or pay-to-play.
But Shope believed the circumstances were serious enough to ask prosecutors to examine possible violations involving bribery, fraud, procurement, conflicts of interest and the expenditure of state funds.  Mayes agreed that the allegations warranted a criminal investigation.  So did Mitchell.  And that brings us back to the peculiar part of this story.
If both prosecutors agreed there was enough here to investigate, why did Arizona’s Attorney General believe only one of them should be doing it?
There was another complication…
The person at the top of the administration being examined was not merely another public official.  She was Governor Katie Hobbs — a fellow Democrat.
That fact does not establish a conflict.  But it made public confidence in the independence of the investigation particularly important.  And it made what happened next impossible to dismiss as a simple bureaucratic disagreement.  Because the dispute over Sunshine did not end in June 2024.
Two years later, the case was still open.
SECTION 4. TWO YEARS LATER — STILL OPEN
Mayes wanted one investigation… Arizona eventually got more than one.
By 2026, the Attorney General’s investigation remained active. Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell was conducting her own investigation into the same underlying allegations. And in February, the Arizona House retained independent outside counsel to review records, conduct interviews and report findings concerning the Sunshine-DCS controversy.
Nearly two years after Mayes first told Mitchell that parallel investigations were not in the state’s best interest, Mitchell was still investigating…And Mayes still had not finished hers.
Then another unusual development surfaced.
By April 2026, Mayes’s investigators had requested an interview with Governor Hobbs. Hobbs publicly declined to say whether she would agree to one, although she continued to deny wrongdoing and said she expected the investigation ultimately to confirm that she had not been involved in DCS’s decision concerning Sunshine.
By July 30, there was still no interview date.
Mayes’s office had reportedly been seeking an interview with Hobbs for much of the year, while the Governor’s Office and Attorney General’s Office remained in discussions about whether and when that interview would occur.  Then, on August 3, Mayes offered the clearest indication yet that something was coming.
She said her office was “near the end of the investigation” and promised an announcement before the November election. She would not say whether that announcement would include information obtained directly from Hobbs, who still had not agreed to sit for the requested interview.
That creates another curious question.  If the investigation was nearly finished, how could investigators reach a final conclusion about allegations touching the Governor’s administration without first obtaining the Governor’s account?
Perhaps they can … Perhaps documents and other witnesses provide the answers investigators need.
More than two years later, Arizona still does not know what Mayes’s investigation found — or why a case important enough to ask other investigators to step aside has taken this long.
And the Legislature did exactly what Mayes initially argued against:
It brought in another investigator.
The House retained outside counsel in February 2026 to independently examine the Sunshine matter, review records and conduct interviews.  So, the IRONY is difficult to miss.
In June 2024, Mayes warned that multiple investigations could jeopardize the integrity of the case.
By 2026, multiple investigations were exactly what Arizona had.
And the original question remained unanswered:  What happened between Sunshine Residential Homes, the Hobbs Administration and the Department of Child Safety?
But now another question belongs beside it:  What happened inside the investigation itself?
SECTION 5. THE CLOCK IS TICKING
Mayes’s promised pre-election announcement adds one final complication:
Both Mayes and Hobbs are seeking reelection.
That does not prove political interference.
But after more than two years, Arizona voters are entitled to something simpler:
AN ANSWER!

Did political contributions influence the treatment Sunshine Residential received?
Why did Mayes initially seek to prevent Mitchell from conducting a parallel investigation?
And what has the Attorney General’s investigation ultimately found?
Was anyone being protected — or did the handling of the investigation create the appearance of a cover-up?

Mayes says an announcement is coming BEFORE Election Day.
Until then, the Sunshine Case Remains Open. So Do the Questions.
Keystone Cops or Cover-Up?
By Linda Brickman
©2026 Linda Brickman. All Rights Reserved.

Coming NEXT IN THE KRIS MAYES FILE…
PART 2 — ARIZONA’S ATTORNEY GENERAL GOES TO WAR WITH WASHINGTON
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Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson via Wikimedia Commons
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has sharply criticized Spain’s mass regularization of up to a million illegal migrants, warning that Madrid’s policy risks destabilizing Europe’s borders and repeating the failures of the 2015 migration crisis.
Kristersson, who is seeking re-election next month, called the Spanish amnesty a “very bad idea” in a recent interview with The Financial Times. His comments came after Spain, under the leadership of socialist Prime Minister Sanchez, received nearly 1.2 million applications for legal status under an extraordinary regularization process.
The Swedish leader said the Spanish move caused a “pretty big outcry” at a recent summit of EU leaders. For governments that have spent years trying to tighten migration rules, amid the ongoing chaos that well over a decade of mass migration has caused, Madrid’s decision was seen as a dangerous step in the opposite direction.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government launched the process by royal decree in April. The scheme was initially presented as a way to legalize roughly 500,000 illegal migrants already living and working in Spain.
The final numbers were far higher. According to the Spanish government, 1,174,978 applications were registered by the time the process closed on June 30.
The scale of the response has intensified concern among right-leaning governments and border-control advocates across Europe who say the amnesty rewarded illegal residence, encouraged further arrivals, and placed the Schengen free-movement system under entirely avoidable pressure.
Kristersson warned that one country’s migration decision can quickly become a continental problem. In Europe’s borderless travel zone, a residency policy made in Madrid can have consequences in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Rome, and Berlin.
“It symbolizes that we still have to be very, very careful not to act in a way that could even come close to what happened in 2015,” Kristersson said. “I think Spain got the message … but it shows the vulnerability.”
The Swedish prime minister said he told Sánchez directly that he disapproved of the move. His objection was not only to Spain’s domestic policy, but to the wider message such an amnesty sends to people outside Europe, considering illegal entry.
“Having [the amnesty] also creates a possibility for you to use European territory,” Kristersson said. “That is specifically damaging for us because we know from experience that many people coming to Europe prefer to go north. Exactly that happened in 2015.”
Kristersson added that Sweden could not afford a return to uncontrolled migration. “It is not the time to get relaxed on this,” he said, warning that there is “a huge majority in Sweden” opposed to going back to the chaos of the previous decade.
The reference to 2015 carries deep political weight in Sweden. That year, 1.3 million people, many fleeing wars in Syria and Iraq, sought refuge in Europe, overwhelming reception systems and pushing governments to erect barriers across the continent. Since then, millions more have continuously flooded the continent.
Sweden accepted more migrants relative to its population than almost any other European country during that period. The country later faced major integration problems, parallel social structures, and rising gang violence that reshaped its politics.
Kristersson has governed since 2022 at the head of a center-right coalition made up of the Moderates, Christian Democrats, and Liberals, with support from the national-conservative Sweden Democrats. That arrangement marked a decisive break with Sweden’s old liberal migration consensus.
The government has since moved to tighten asylum, residency, and deportation rules. Asylum applications reportedly fell last year to their lowest level in 40 years.
Earlier this year, Sweden also tightened its immigration and citizenship policies in response to the social consequences of mass migration. Stockholm launched an inquiry into “parallel social structures” that officials say have emerged inside the country.
Education and Integration Minister Simona Mohamsson said those structures include “clans and family-based networks” that undermine the rule of law, threaten democracy, and obstruct integration. She said it was unacceptable that people in Sweden live under social control, honor-based violence, or oppression.
In June, Sweden’s parliament passed legislation phasing out permanent residence permits for people granted protection and certain relatives. The reform was presented as part of a broader effort to reduce asylum-related immigration and strengthen integration.
Swedish authorities have also introduced stricter “good conduct” requirements for residence permits. The new rules allow officials to assess whether applicants are law-abiding, honest, self-supporting, and not a threat to public order.
Such policies represent a long-overdue correction after years of open-border, head-in-the-clouds idealism. Sweden, once held up by globalists as a model of humanitarian migration, has become one of Europe’s clearest warnings about the cost of ignoring borders.
Spain’s amnesty has now become the latest flashpoint. Spain’s socialist government argues that migrants are needed for the economy, employment growth, and the long-term sustainability of an aging population.
But immigration critics say that argument turns illegal migration into a labor-market tool and treats national borders as an inconvenience. They argue that mass regularisation allows governments to legalize a crisis they failed to prevent.
The backlash intensified after a massive surge into Ceuta, Spain’s North African exclave, at the end of July. Tens of thousands of people entered from Morocco by land and sea, with many reportedly swimming around a border breakwater after social media rumors claimed Spain had opened its border.
NOW – THOUSANDS of Illegal African Migrants From Morocco STORM the Spanish Border in the Enclave of Ceuta (SHOCK VIDEOS)

The surge ended in tragedy. Spanish and Moroccan authorities reported more than 80 deaths on both sides of the border, including people who drowned or were crushed during chaotic attempts to cross barriers.
Spain said tens of thousands of migrants were returned during the first days of the crisis. But the images from Ceuta immediately strengthened the argument that amnesties can act as a pull factor, regardless of how governments describe them.
Italy responded by temporarily suspending its Schengen arrangements with Spain and reinstating air and sea border controls. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her deputies described the move as necessary for security.
France also intensified checks along its border with Spain. Finland, Denmark, and the Czech Republic supported a tougher EU response, with several governments saying Brussels should consider action against Spain within the Schengen system.
22 EU leaders Turn on Spain’s Sánchez Over His Migration Failure – Floating Barrier Installed in Ceuta Against Migrants – Western Intel: Morocco ‘Facilitated’ Invasion

On Aug. 4, EU interior ministers called for stronger external borders, faster returns, and expanded efforts to dismantle migrant-smuggling networks. The meeting reflected a growing recognition that Europe’s migration system remains highly vulnerable to unilateral decisions by member states.
The lesson, for conservatives, is straightforward: mass amnesty does not solve illegal migration; it rewards it. Once illegal migrants believe that persistence will eventually bring legal status, every future border crisis becomes harder to control.
Pro-migration NGOs and activist networks have long pushed European governments toward regularization, expanded asylum access, and looser residency rules, producing a vast migration industry that treats illegal entry as a bureaucratic problem to be managed rather than an issue related to sovereignty and security that needs to be stopped.
Kristersson’s warning, therefore, resonates well beyond Sweden and speaks to a broader European revolt against leftist governments that make border decisions in the name of compassion while ordinary citizens are left with the social costs.
The emerging right-wing position is not merely a stricter asylum policy. It includes faster deportations, tougher residence rules, no mass amnesties, no rewards for illegal entry, and, where necessary, remigration for foreign nationals without a right to remain or those who commit serious crimes.
Sweden’s election will now unfold against that continental backdrop. Polling has shown the Social Democrats ahead, while the Sweden Democrats and Moderates remain central to the right-wing bloc’s effort to retain power.
Kristersson has defended cooperation with the Sweden Democrats, saying his side has offered voters a clear governing proposal. He has argued that similar right-leaning coalitions have already operated in countries such as Norway and Finland.
Spain’s amnesty has given his campaign a sharper message. If Sweden relaxes, he warns, the country risks returning to the uncontrolled migration pressures that transformed its politics after 2015.

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The Babylon Bee, that epitome of satirical political commentary, is fresh off its court victory over Hawaii, where officials tried to regulate and censor political satire and parody, and now is taking on the same agenda in New Mexico.
The organization defeated Hawaii’s censorship scheme in court earlier, reaching a settlement when the state decided against pursuing its politics that violated the First Amendment any further. The state agreed to pay some $118,000 in attorneys’ fees.
Now the publication has set its sights on New Mexico, which is insisting on making it illegal “to use AI to create satire of political candidates or issues” “WITHOUT A STATE-MANDATED WARNING LABEL.”
“The ban applies year-round, covers everything from flyers to social media posts to memes, and threatens steep penalties, including fines up to $20,000,” according to lawyers with the ADF, who worked on the Hawaii case and now are handling the allegations against New Mexico.
The legal action points out that the new state law, HB 182, “empowers state officials to punish core political speech, including criticism of political candidates and proposed ballot measures.”
But that violates the speech rights of online satire website The Babylon Bee.
Further, in cuts into the very reason for the First Amendment, “to ensure wide-open political debate.”

We filed another lawsuit today, this time against the state of New Mexico. https://t.co/FY3mHStDru
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) August 11, 2026

The Babylon Bee is suing New Mexico over law requiring disclaimers on joke AI images https://t.co/eDtRYcE9Yy
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) August 12, 2026

“New Mexico is censoring political speech it dislikes. We should not trust the government to decide what is true in our political debates,” said ADF lawyer Logan Spena. “The Babylon Bee is seeking to uphold its fundamental right to speak freely and ensure that our political system remains one of self-government. We’re proud to have successfully represented the Bee in two other cases challenging state censorship, and we’ll strive for a similar outcome in New Mexico.”
Dillon, the CEO of the Bee, said, “The First Amendment protects our right to create AI satire poking fun at political candidates. We’ll never stop fighting to defend that freedom.”
A report at Not the Bee said a state official claimed the lawsuit was “baseless” as officials never took any action to enforce its law.
Dillon told Fox News, “If a joke we want to tell is likely to violate the law, we’ll tell it, anyway — both because we have a right to, and we refuse to do the tyrant’s work for him. If penalties are imposed, we’ll sue to defend our rights. In this case, we’re suing preemptively to settle the matter before it escalates to that point.”
The Bee’s pointed comments continue to appear online:

In Lieu Of Dystopian Sci-Fi Movie, American Just Watching News From England https://t.co/O0wRu6uW8m
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 12, 2026

Elon Musk Buys The United Kingdom To Establish Free Speech There https://t.co/45tEWI3OzU
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 11, 2026

Democrats Announce You Aren’t Allowed To Remember What They Did A Few Years Ago https://t.co/rJxNxbfwpe
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 11, 2026

Massachusetts Legalizes Abortion Up Until Kindergarten https://t.co/K58WtDjZRV
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 11, 2026

Online news site The Intercept sued President Donald Trump and members of his staff to challenge their plan to monetize the president’s posts.

Nature Is Healing: Most S&P100 Companies Dump DEI Criteria From Board Selection

To be clear, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives drew heavily on radical Marxist theory and systematically displaced merit-based standards with unproductive, identity-driven politics. What corporate America marketed as a governance priority proved to be a short-lived ideological fad. Most S&P 100 companies are now dumping explicit diversity criteria from their board-selection policies amid growing recognition that mandates conceived in far-left academic institutions prioritized social engineering over productivity, competitiveness, and preserving America’s economic dominance.

Bloomberg News cited a new report from research firm ESGAUGE that showed that 61 S&P 100 companies have removed explicit diversity requirements from their director-selection policies, marking a sharp reversal from three years ago.

This means these companies have removed explicit references to gender, race, ethnicity, and underrepresented groups from their board-selection criteria. Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Starbucks, and Wells Fargo are among those that eliminated the woke provisions.

The reversal suggests that DEI’s cancer-like spread across corporate America during the Marxist riots of 2020 was less a durable governance reform and more an act of corporate self-sabotage.

The retreat signals growing recognition that policies rooted in radical Marxist ideology weakened merit-based decision-making and proved more destructive to corporate cohesion, productivity, and competitiveness.

Beyond corporate America, the Trump administration has stripped toxic DEI programs from federal agencies, the military, universities, and government contractors.

The very people who pushed this radical Marxism in corporate America are much of the same activists aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America who quite literally say they want to “destroy the nation from within.”

The United States has successfully confronted Marxist attempts to derail it from its historic path of economic success, liberty, and order. Right now marks yet another point in history when the far left is attempting to systemically dismantle the nation. It is not just us saying this…

…DSA leaders say it in their own words.

And even in their own agenda, in which they want to seize power of the largest corporations. 

Should make sense now. 

Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/12/2026 – 14:00

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, said he felt religiously obligated to follow Sharia-compliant practices in a resurfaced 2009 interview with The New York Times.”Ultimately, the question is, when I die and I stand before God and go through everything I did in my life, I don’t want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way,” El-Sayed told the Times. “Not because of fear but because of obligation.”El-Sayed, enrolled in medical school at the time, was discussing his decision to seek out a Sharia-compliant mortgage for a condo he was purchasing in the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan.REPUBLICANS GET THE DEMOCRAT THEY WANTED AS SOCIALIST ABDUL EL-SAYED WINS MICHIGAN SENATE PRIMARYSharia law generally prohibits adherents from taking out loans bearing interest. A popular alternative to mortgages among Muslim Americans is long-term payment plans that add additional value to the purchase price of a home in lieu of charging interest.In addition to prohibiting interest, Sharia law also traditionally prescribed death for people who leave Islam, placed strict restrictions on what women can do, and allowed child marriage.EL-SAYED TOUTS ENDORSEMENT FROM PASTOR WHO PRAISED NOTORIOUS ANTISEMITE INFAMOUS FOR CALLING JEWS ‘TERMITES’”Abdul believes in the separation of church and state,” campaign spokeswoman Roxie Richner told the Washington Free Beacon, which first reported on the resurfaced comments. “While he personally lives by the rules of his faith, as many Americans of various faiths do, Abdul opposes any effort by any religious community to write their faith laws into the laws of our country.”El-Sayed has spoken out against bans on Sharia law, arguing that such efforts are rooted in white supremacy.MICHIGAN SENATE RACE: EL-SAYED’S TIES TO EXTREMIST FUEL ANTISEMITISM CONCERNS AMONG JEWISH VOTERS”The state of Oklahoma voted in a referendum to amend the constitution to ban Shariah law. What does that mean? I don’t know. And yet the voters banned it anyway,” he said in 2022. “The same exact forces that drove Native peoples from their land two centuries ago, destroyed Black Wall Street a century ago, bombed a building decades ago, and tried to ban Sharia law not a decade ago, those forces are alive and well today.””The reason I wanted to go all the way back to the 1830s is because you can’t understand a Shariah ban without understanding the Trail of Tears. You can’t understand the efforts to uproot Muslim Americans without understanding the Tulsa massacre. You cannot understand the challenges we face today without understanding white supremacy,” he added.Though El-Sayed generally takes progressive stances on social issues, he has also maintained associations with multiple religious figures linked to Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, which Farrakhan leads. Farrakhan has made a number of controversial statements over the years, including calling Jews “termites” and suggesting that White people are not fully evolved.The El-Sayed campaign did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Wednesday.