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Skid Row election scheme allegedly fueled by pocket-change payoffs busted by Trump DOJ
The Department of Justice charged a California woman with paying people — including homeless individuals on Los Angeles’ Skid Row — to register to vote while she worked as a paid ballot-petition signature collector, according to federal prosecutors.
"False registrations undermine Americans’ faith in elections – even more so when payoffs are involved," assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a press release Monday.
"This Justice Department is committed to ensuring that all U.S. elections are fair and free from illegal meddling – so that all Americans can accept the results with confidence," Dhillon added.
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Marina del Rey resident "Anika" Brenda Lee Armstrong, 64, solicited signatures for official ballot initiatives, including in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, often paying people between $2 and $3, according to DOJ.
She was charged with one felony count of paying another person to register to vote and agreed to plead guilty, according to the DOJ. Armstrong made her initial court appearance Monday.
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Armstrong worked as a "petition circulator" for approximately 20 years, and would receive payment for each registered voter’s signature, according to her plea agreement.
The amount she was paid varied depending on the specific ballot initiative. Fox News Digital reached out to the DOJ to clarify which initiatives and groups Armstrong was soliciting for and how much she was paid.
Many members of Skid Row’s homeless population were not registered to vote, so prosecutors said Armstrong brought voter registration forms with her and began offering payment to people to complete them.
Prosecutors said Armstrong sometimes provided homeless individuals with her former Los Angeles address to list on voter registration forms, which registered them to vote in both California and federal elections.
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California automatically sends vote-by-mail ballots to every registered voter, with prosecutors saying ballots in some individuals’ names could potentially have been sent to Armstrong’s former residence, where those individuals did not live or collect mail.
Armstrong was charged with a felony count of paring another person to register to vote in which she could face a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison.
Investigative reporter James O'Keefe took a victory lap over the indictment, citing O'Keefe Media Group first captured footage of the alleged scheme on Skid Row.
Homeless people are eligible to register to vote so long as they have a location where mail can be received and "be properly assigned to a voting precinct," according to the California Secretary of State.
Fox News Digital reached out to the offices of the California governor and state attorney general for additional comment on the matter on Monday.
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute secures $5M grant to prevent childhood disease
The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) in Australia will receive a $5 million federal grant to launch a pioneering research team for children’s health.
The grant was announced at MCRI’s 40th anniversary gala in Melbourne on Saturday night.
"For 40 years, MCRI has been a global leader in children’s health research," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told guests at the gala, which was attended by 300 of Australia’s most esteemed medical experts, political leaders, philanthropists and sports luminaries.
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"My government is proud to partner with MCRI, so our world-leading researchers have the best opportunities to support healthier childhoods for Australians now and into the future."
The $5 million will directly support medical research aimed at preventing numerous childhood conditions, including obesity, heart disease, mental health issues and disabilities.
Also announced at the gala, a lead donation from Sarah and Lachlan Murdoch will launch the Horizon Fund — a permanent endowment for MCRI aimed at funding long-term children’s health research and future medical breakthroughs.
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The goal is for the fund to raise between $50 million and $100 million in its first year and to reach $200 million within five years.
The fund is designed to back researchers’ immediate priorities while safeguarding long-term capital for future medical breakthroughs in children’s health.
In 2020, the Murdochs donated $5 million to establish a perpetual fellowship supporting leading researchers in fields including stem cell technology and genomic precision medicine.
Co-founded in 1986 by philanthropist and child health advocate Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and pediatrician and genetics pioneer Professor David Danks, MCRI comprises 1,800 scientists, researchers and clinicians.
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"Dame Elisabeth’s leadership, along with her values, shaped both the direction and the ethos of the Institute we were to become – for all children to live a healthy and fulfilled life," said Sarah Murdoch, who is Dame Elisabeth Murdoch’s granddaughter-in-law and MCRI’s global ambassador and board co-chair.
"With the generosity of a remarkable group of founding donors alongside the Murdoch family – Sir Jack Brockhoff, the Miller family, and The Scobie and Claire Mackinnon Trust – the foundations were laid for an Institute designed to bring our brightest minds, to serve all children, not only in that moment, but for generations to come," Ms. Murdoch added.
"I see what is possible when foresight, science, commitment, collaboration and heartfelt generosity come together," she emphasized.
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"Because behind every breakthrough is a child — a family desperate for answers. A future changed because of the commitment by so many."
MCRI Director Kathryn North expressed appreciation at the gala to the prime minister for the $5 million grant.
"From the beginning, MCRI has been guided by a simple but powerful purpose: to give all children the opportunity to live a healthy and fulfilled life," North said.
"It reflects a belief that good health is the foundation for a full life, and that opportunity should never be limited by circumstance."
Professor North mentioned the Institute’s focus on developing therapies for previously incurable diseases.
"We are harnessing the power of human stem cell technologies to grow heart patches, functional mini kidneys, blood and immune cells … to better understand disease, and to develop regenerative therapies using a patient’s own stem cells to replace organ transplants and the risk of rejection," she said.
The Institute’s next challenge, North said, is to address chronic conditions like asthma, obesity, allergies and mental health conditions that can persist for decades.
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"These are big problems that will require significant and ongoing support," she said. "Through our work globally, we are helping communities raise their expectations to both deliver and receive the sort of healthcare we take for granted."
"Our ambition now is to translate these partnerships into population-scale solutions that improve the lives of millions of children worldwide," North added. "This is not simply the next chapter for MCRI – it is the work of building the future of children’s health."
Brendan Sorsby admits to gambling on his own team, sues NCAA in Lubbock court for injunction
Brendan Sorsby has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in hopes of a local judge granting an injunction that would allow him to play this season for Texas Tech, after admitting to gambling on games that involved a school he was enrolled at.
The complaint, filed on Monday, stems from an ongoing investigation into Sorsby for past gambling wagers he placed, which include his time playing for the Indiana Hoosiers.
"Mr. Sorsby is currently ineligible to play for Texas Tech due to prior violations of the NCAA's sports gambling rules. Rather than support a student-athlete's recovery from a gambling addiction, the NCAA has weaponized his condition to shore up a facade of competitive integrity," the complaint reads.
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According to lawyers representing Sorsby, they asked the NCAA for a "reasonable discipline," but not a full loss of eligibility at Texas Tech for the upcoming season. The NCAA did not want to negotiate with Sorsby, according to his lawyer, but rather stonewalled the process.
Sources tell OutKick that Texas Tech was made aware of the NCAA investigating its quarterback last month. Also, he placed nearly 10,000 bets over the years, most of them being small wagers on sports like the UFC, Romanian soccer, tennis, baseball and even the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.
But placing bets on college football would end up being the crux of where we are today. where we are today.
In his defense for an injunction, the attorney representing Sorsby pointed to the "facts," as they perceive them.
"The facts are straightforward, Mr. Sorsby is a college quarterback who developed a gambling addiction. He bet on sports using only public information. He never bet against his own team or players on his team, never used or shared inside information, and never manipulated a game. The NCAA's own robust, real-time integrity-monitoring systems confirm this."
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However, Sorsby admits in his filing that he did place bets on his own team while at Indiana.
"Mr. Sorsby placed small bets -- typically between $5 and $50 -- in support of Indiana. In other words, he placed bets on Indiana to win or score more than a certain number of points or for the quarterback to throw for more than a certain number of touchdowns or yards. He rationalized these bets as a way to feel more connected to the team, rooting for his friends and feeling like he had a real "stake" in games despite being otherwise uninvolved."
So, one of the defenses for the quarterback is that he was betting out of the goodness of his heart, and for the Hoosiers while he was on the scout team.
Attorneys noted that when he was named the backup quarterback in 2022, he did not wager on any games involving Indiana football.
We will see if a judge decides that this defense is strong enough to show sympathy for the ongoing gambling addiction, in his push for eligibility.
The NCAA has a strict policy on gambling, especially when it involves a player's own team. Even though Sorsby was redshirting that season, and played in one game, this is obviously still against the rules.
"The NCAA has manufactured an impossible bind: it delays its reinstatement decision while the NFL deadline closes in, forcing Mr. Sorsby to choose between surrendering college eligibility he wants to retain, while risking the loss of a full year of competitive football entirely. This is not equity. Mr. Sorsby has diligently pursued every alternative avenue for relief, but he is not obligated to continue doing so in light of the irreparable harm he now faces. Only this Court can hold the NCAA to its own rules -- and provide Mr. Sorsby and Texas Tech the timely relief they are owed."
In a statement to OutKick, the NCAA says they have not received any notice from the Sorsby camp around reinstatement.
"The NCAA has not received a reinstatement request for this case. The NCAA generally doesn't comment on pending reinstatement requests, but the Association's sports betting rules are clear, as are the reinstatement conditions," the organization noted. "When it comes to betting on one's own team, these rules must be enforced in every case for the simple reason that the integrity of the game is at risk.
"Every sports league has these protections in place, and the NCAA will continue to apply them equally because every student-athlete competing deserves to know they're playing a fair game."
In reality, this move to sue the NCAA is Sorsby hoping to expedite this process and determine if he will be eligible in any way to play this upcoming season.
In his defense, Sorsby is claiming that his mental health condition is being used against him in this situation with the NCAA.
"The NCAA has refused to process his reinstatement request in a timely fashion as required by its own procedures, which typically call for review within 48 hours. The NCAA’s reasons have been pretextual. First, it demanded years of bank records, credit card statements, Venmo transactions, phone logs, text messages, and social media records and insisted on a live interview that would force Mr. Sorsby to interrupt residential treatment," the complaint reads.
In their overwhelming argument, Sorsby is claiming the NCAA will suffer no harm in allowing the quarterback to play this season, and their tactics in stalling a decision will lead to further harm. The complaint states that Sorsby only has until June 22 to make a decision regarding the NFL Supplemental Draft, and the NCAA is dragging its feet in this process.
"The NCAA will suffer no cognizable harm from letting Mr. Sorsby play football while this case proceeds. But if this Court does not act, no future judgment can give Mr. Sorsby what the NCAA will have taken from him."
Now, we will find out if a Lubbock judge decides that this is enough to grant an injunction, though this would set a wild precedent if Sorsby is allowed to play for Texas Tech in 2026.
Stephen A Smith fires back at Jaylen Brown after Celtics star called him the 'face of clickbait media'
Stephen A. Smith is firing back at Jaylen Brown after the Boston Celtics star called the popular ESPN personality the "face of clickbait media" during a Twitch live stream over the weekend.
Brown referred to Smith as a "clown" as well, but the veteran sports pundit took time on Monday’s edition of "First Take" to address those comments in a long rant of his own.
"I’m not going to disrespect Jaylen Brown," Smith said. "…He’s pointing the finger in the wrong direction. Point it at yourself, bro."
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Smith had criticized Brown for saying this past season with the Boston Celtics, which ended in the first-round of the playoffs with a loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, was his favorite with the franchise. Brown responded on Sunday night by telling the ESPN personality to "be quiet."
"Did he just say I needed to be quiet? Be quiet for who?" Brown said Sunday night. "Man, f--- Stephen A. Stephen A, Stephen B, Stephen C. My offer still stands. You want me to be quiet and stop streaming, well, I want you to be quiet and get off these networks because you’re not using your platform to do real journalism. You’re using your platform to use clickbait."
"Tell this mother----er to retire because he’s the face of clickbait media at the point and maybe with his retirement we can spark a movement to get the rest of these mother----ers out of here — or to also have some type of … forget journalistic integrity, actual integrity in order to hold themselves accountable to the bulls--- takes they put out."
Smith doubled down on his previous comment, though, in Monday’s monologue.
"The Boston Celtics, the most storied franchise in basketball annals, 18 [championships]. You helped deliver one of them just two years ago. Two years later, y’all surrender a 3-1 lead for the first time in its history, in franchise history, with you driving the bus. And 24 hours after you didn’t go to the basket in the final two minutes, after y’all launched three-point shots on six separate occasions and missed every one of them. [In] 24 hours after that was over, you went on camera as a representative for the Boston Celtics and called it your favorite season. A season where Jayson Tatum was on the bench for 60 games, a season that ended with you losing a 3-1 lead, a season that ended with you getting bounced in the First Round. You went on and said that was your favorite season."
"Since you represent the franchise, I was simply providing a heads up that it wasn’t wise from somebody who is considered relatively wise to say that 24 hours after being sent home, after surrendering a 3-1 lead in the postseason for the first time in franchise history. That’s what I said."
Smith ended his rant with a warning for Brown.
"In the end, Jaylen Brown, be careful what you wish for," he said. "You really want me to start reporting on that level? You understand? Locker room, how the organization might feel about you, how the city might feel about you, how Jayson Tatum may or may not feel about you. Sneaker deals, endorsement deals, the list goes on and on.
"The season is over, bro. You’re on Twitch trying to do what I do, and me needing to step away. It makes no sense. I’m not being disrespectful. I’m simply making the point it is not wise after 24 hours of having your season over in the First Round for you to be coming out talking about how that’s your favorite season. It ain’t the smartest thing in the world to do."
Smith also prefaced his statement by saying how he’s been on Brown’s side throughout the season, as well as in the past. He brought up his philanthropy within his community and explained how much he respected Brown.
As Smith mentioned, the Celtics were shockingly bounced from the NBA Playoffs after losing three straight games to finish their first-round series with the Sixers. During the regular season, with Tatum rehabbing his way back from injury, Brown was the focal point of the Celtics, averaging 28.7 points, 6.9 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game.
Boston ended up earning the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference after going 56-26, but they couldn’t finish against Philadelphia, ultimately setting unfortunate franchise history in the process.
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Enter the wedding reception as you wish, but doing the worm can cause a G-string exposing wardrobe malfunction
By all means, enter the reception as a member of the wedding party as you wish. I'm not here to ruin anyone's good time. I am going to point out a couple of things to keep in mind.
This goes for any entrance at any time during any part of the wedding. If you want to put something together, just keep in mind that unless it goes south most people aren't going to care.
That goes for attempting a backward worm. What's the best outcome of that? You roll around on the floor for a few seconds and everyone moves on to the next thing.
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What you risk is ruining your bridesmaid dress, or suit for the fellas, and exposing your nude G-string because someone thought making it a backward worm attempt was a good idea.
Here's that scenario playing out.
The worst part of such a wardrobe malfunction, if you can call it that, is that it was absolutely unnecessary. There's no reason to go with the worm, let alone a backward one. That's asking for trouble.
I will, however, give Georgie Ball some credit. There was a point where she knew the dress was finished, but she had already committed to the worm and stuck with it. A weaker bridesmaid may have bailed on the move.
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The 28-year-old powered through. Sure she might have ended up stealing some of the bride's thunder in the process, but everyone learned a valuable lesson that day.
You can and will go viral in your G-string if you chest-bump your brother and split your dress doing a backward worm during your wedding reception entrance. It's not worth it to me, but don't let that stop you from making the attempt. Again, I'm not trying to ruin anyone's good time. If you want to go cheeks out at a wedding, go for it.
"We were having a few drinks pre-ceremony and thought, 'Let's do a cartwheel and go into a worm,'" Ball told News.com.au. "I told my brother I couldn't do the cartwheel because it would break the dress, but I'd do the worm instead."
She added, "I felt it go as soon as I hinged forward a couple of centimeters, but I thought, 'Well, I'm in it now — the show goes on."
Ball finished the night with multiple safety pins trying to hold the dress together, a shawl tied around her waist, and as the star of a viral video.
WATCH: Eye-popping illegal immigration stat prompts senator's demand to 'redouble' deportations
Testimony from a policy analyst at a libertarian think tank was unexpectedly highlighted by immigration hawks after he delivered an opening statement at a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing featuring controversial Fairfax County prosecutor Stephen Descano.
The hearing, chaired by Rep. Thomas McClintock, R-Calif., examined several examples of allegedly lax prosecutions by Descano involving illegal immigrants with prior rap sheets — including a Sierra Leone national accused of murdering a young woman at a bus stop on U.S. 1.
In his opening remarks, Cato Institute immigration expert David Bier testified that the "way to fix Fairfax" is not to continue the "mass deportation" agenda of President Donald Trump.
"The first step would be to give up on the mass deportation fantasy," Bier said.
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"About 1-in-5 Fairfax residents is someone who could be deported or who lives with them — It would destroy neighborhoods, rip Americans away from their spouses, parents, friends, families, customers, employees, employers, nurses, nannies, and teachers."
While Bier later added that he believes noncitizens who harm Americans should be deported, his earlier statement drew the attention of several immigration hawks, including Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.
Lee borrowed Bier’s logic to prove immigration hardliners’ point that mass deportation is the right solution:
"On the contrary: 20% of a wealthy DC suburb being illegal immigrants means we should redouble our efforts to deport them all," Lee said.
Bier responded to Lee's comments in a lengthy statement to Fox News Digital, arguing the Utah Republican failed to explain why mass deportation would benefit Americans in Fairfax County.
"What was the senator’s explanation for [his] statement? The senator never says why it would benefit the country to harm Fairfax County and the Americans who live there, so there’s nothing to rebut," Bier said.
"The senator is wrong to characterize the 20% as all illegal immigrants since half of them are just people who live with illegal immigrants, which is precisely my point."
"Mass deportation would harm those Americans and many others by ripping them away from their spouses, parents, children, friends, family, employees, employers, customers, nurses, nannies, and teachers," the immigration expert added.
Bier said mass deportation becomes more expensive and impractical as the population of illegal immigrants grows, meaning continuing on the current course will harm Americans.
"I would ask the senator: how many Americans would have to be hurt by mass deportation before he would reconsider his views?"
Reached for additional comment, Lee spokesman Billy Gribbin told Fox News Digital that the Utahn "believes in enforcing US law and deporting illegal immigrants — not making excuses for criminals who hurt Americans."
Fox News Digital also asked DHS about the apparent statistical admission, and an agency spokesperson blamed Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s "reckless sanctuary policies" for making Fairfax and the rest of the Old Dominion a "hotbed for illegal alien criminals."
"The stories of the victims and facts speak for themselves. The sanctuary politicians of Fairfax County have blood on their hands," the spokesperson said.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin added separately that half the murders recorded recently in Fairfax were allegedly perpetrated by "illegals who shouldn’t have been in our country to begin with."
"We have politicians who want to protect the criminals, President Trump is still protecting all of our neighborhoods," Mullin said.
Bier’s 1-in-5 statistic was also cited in a CATO document footnoted to the K Street firm Migration Policy Institute. MPI’s data showed an estimated 102,000-person "unauthorized" population in Fairfax — which has a census count of about 1.2 million as of 2020.
The top "countries-of-birth" on MPI’s list in that regard were El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru, while only 4% combined was recorded from Canada, Europe and Oceania.
Senate Republican threatens to derail ICE, Border Patrol package over Trump's billion-dollar request
An internal dispute could derail Republicans’ goal of funding immigration operations for the remainder of President Donald Trump's presidency.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told his colleagues that he would not support the GOP’s $72 billion reconciliation package if it included $1 billion in funding for Trump’s ballroom.
His defection, along with a handful of other Republicans critical of the funding, could sink the bill.
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And given the GOP’s narrow margin in the upper chamber, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., can’t afford Republicans to break from the party line.
Tillis’ opposition, which was first reported by Axios and confirmed by a source familiar to Fox News Digital, alone isn’t enough to torpedo the package meant to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol for the next three and a half years.
But others, including Sens. John Curtis, R-Utah, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., aren’t thrilled with the funding.
Republicans were briefed by Secret Service Director Sean Curran last week on the funding, which included $220 million for "White House complex hardening."
That would fund "above and below ground" security enhancements for Trump’s ballroom, which the administration argued would "afford needed protection for the president, his family, and visitors, along with the below-ground, highest-level security functions," according to an itemized readout obtained by Fox News Digital.
Those enhancements would include bulletproof glass, drone detection technology, chemical filtration and detection systems and "a host of other national security functions."
An additional $180 million would go toward a White House screening center for visitors. The remaining $600 million would go toward Secret Service training, enhancing protection for Trump and other officials, and other security measures including countering drones and other aerial incursions.
But a saving grace for Republicans could be the Senate referee’s ruling that funding for the ballroom should get yanked from the package.
In order for budget reconciliation to pause the 60-vote threshold and pass under a simple majority of votes, the package has to comply with the Senate’s strict Byrd Rule. Senate Democrats pushed for the Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough to strip out the funding, and they were successful.
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McDonough ruled over the weekend that, given the complexity and scale of the ballroom project, it would involve the coordination of "many government agencies which span the jurisdiction of many Senate committees. As drafted, the provision inappropriately funds activities outside the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Committee."
Thune said that Republicans had learned a lot from the parliamentarian’s rulings last year when they were crafting the "big, beautiful bill," and that the process is a "give-and-take."
But still, it’s full steam ahead for the GOP to try and advance the package by the end of the week.
"I think that if we can get it done, we should get it done," Thune said. "I'm always somebody who believes, especially around here, you want to strike while the iron’s hot, and I think if we, if we're ready to go, the committees have acted, and we're in a good place with parliamentarian, and we've got, you know, decent attendance here, then I think we want to try and wrap this up."
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, lauded the ruling, but noted that Republicans would likely try to find a way to work the funding back in.
"We cannot let Republicans waste our national treasure on a mission of chaos and corruption while turning a blind eye to the needs of the American people," Merkley said.
Report: Chinese propaganda, Singham network, foreign dark money linked to campaigns against data centers
On Sunday, CodePink, a far-left, pro-China, pro-communism nonprofit activist group, published a video on Instagram attacking a proposed data center project in Utah backed by investor Kevin O’Leary.
According to a new report, obtained by Fox News Digital, that wasn't a coincidence.
The report, "Foreign Influence in the Campaign against American AI," by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, alleges that there are "three vectors of foreign influence converging on the push to block U.S. AI data center construction."
They include a nonprofit network funded by tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. expatriate living in Shanghai promoting Chinese propaganda; Chinese Communist Party state media; and dark money funding tied to foreign billionaires including Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss and British billionaire Alan Parker.
The report alleges nonprofits funded by Singham — including CodePink — have spent years fueling opposition to U.S. AI infrastructure and data center expansion in coordination with Chinese propaganda narratives and foreign-funded activist networks. As reported, in February 2017, Singham married Jodie Evans, the co-founder of CodePink in a lavish wedding in Jamaica, and, according to a Fox News Digital investigation, Singham pumped $285 million into six nonprofits over the next several years, using a series of shell companies and a donor-advised fund established at a philanthropy arm of Goldman Sachs. A spokesman for Goldman Sachs told Fox News Digital that the company "terminated" Singham's donor-advised fund in early 2024.
Still, the network of organizations that Singham has funded have continued to act as proxies for the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party.
On March 25, amid campaigns by Singham organizations against U.S. technology firms, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the "AI Data Center Moratorium Act." Weeks later, on April 29, Sanders hosted a Capitol Hill event titled "The Existential Threat of AI."
According to the report, two of the four panelists at that event were affiliated with the Chinese government: Zeng Yi, founding dean of the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance, and Xue Lan, a counselor of China’s State Council and chair of China’s National AI Governance Committee.
Singham, Evans, Wyss, Parker Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez didn't respond to requests for comment. The organizations named in the report didn't respond to requests for comment.
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The report states that, using a U.S. Senate platform, Xue argued that the U.S.-China AI race was "an inaccurate narrative" and promoted "safe zones" of cooperation on AI governance, messaging the report says paralleled years of Chinese state media narratives surrounding AI policy and American technological development.
Sam Lyman, head of research at the Bitcoin Policy Institute and a former senior speechwriter for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, said, "Ensuring that AI is safe and empowers American workers must be a top priority for US policymakers. But the discussion about AI safety should not be influenced by geopolitical rivals, especially China, whose leaders have publicly stated their intentions to accelerate AI development to ‘gain the initiative in global science and technology competition.’"
"Depending on advances in this field, there may come a time when the United States and China must engage in bilateral negotiations to ensure the safe development of AI," Lyman said. "But until then, an honest conversation about AI safety requires filtering any foreign influence. This report provides the transparency citizens and lawmakers need to see who is funding and influencing the campaigns shaping the AI policy debate."
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The convergence of interest groups opposing data centers isn't a coincidence, the report alleges.
"These events did not take place in isolation," says the report. "They were the culmination of a multi-year influence campaign against American AI conducted across three vectors of foreign influence."
The report specifically alleges that Beijing’s state-run media outlets — including CGTN, China Daily and Global Times — have pushed anti-data-center narratives inside the United States while China simultaneously subsidizes domestic AI infrastructure development.
"The asymmetry is what gives the operation away," the report argues. "While Beijing’s state media warns American audiences that data centers are environmentally and economically dangerous, the Chinese state subsidizes up to half of the energy costs of its own AI data center operators."
The report further alleges that the Singham network "has spent nearly five years producing parallel domestic content opposing U.S. AI infrastructure, AI labs, and AI export controls."
It points to multiple examples involving organizations linked to the network.
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In January 2026, CodePink published an article titled "The War Intervention: AI, Data Centers, and the Environment," directly targeting U.S. AI data centers, including Meta’s Hyperion project in Louisiana and Meta Cheyenne in Wyoming, while framing the fight as opposition to "the new Cold War on China."
The report also cites Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a Singham-funded think tank, for repeatedly opposing U.S. semiconductor export controls and criticizing efforts to limit China’s AI development.
On March 27, Tricontinental published an article, "Breaking the Stranglehold: How China Is Shattering US Technological Hegemony," arguing against U.S. AI chip restrictions and portraying American export controls as an attempt to suppress China’s rise.
That same day, Peoples Dispatch — which is also part of the Singham ecosystem — published "Kill Chain: Silicon Valley, AI, and the war on Iran," attacking AI companies including Anthropic and Palantir Technologies. The report describes the same-day publication pattern across affiliated outlets as evidence of coordinated messaging operations.
By May 1, CodePink published an article, "The Dark Side of the Data Center Boom," adding to the cacophony of coordinated protests against U.S. data centers.
The House Ways and Means Committee, House Oversight Committee and the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party are investigating whether some of the nonprofits should register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA. The House Ways and Means Committee has issued letters to Singham-funded organizations, seeking internal documents related to their funding, operations and connections to Singham and the Chinese Communist Party.
On foreign funding, the report alleges that charitable organizations tied to Wyss and Parker have routed billions of dollars into U.S.-based advocacy infrastructure now aligned against AI infrastructure projects and data centers.
It specifically highlights a Dec. 8, 2025, letter organized by Food & Water Watch, a nonprofit, calling for a national moratorium on new AI data centers. According to the report, about 230 organizations signed the letter, including groups receiving funding from networks linked to Wyss and Parker.
The report notes that the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez moratorium legislation was introduced 107 days after the coalition letter was circulated.
"That kind of efficiency typically distinguishes coordinated advocacy infrastructure from spontaneous grassroots opposition," the AI Policy Institute states.
The report argues that "ensuring that AI is safe and empowers American workers must be a top priority for U.S. policymakers," but says the debate over AI safety and data centers "should not be influenced by a geopolitical rival."
In its conclusion, the report frames the debate in stark geopolitical terms, arguing that "the choice facing policymakers is not between AI or no AI but between American AI or Chinese AI."
By early afternoon on Monday, the CodePink video opposing the Utah data center project had acquired 356 likes, many of them from the pro-China, pro-communist activist ecosystem.
Active shooter reported at San Diego Islamic center as SWAT, emergency crews respond
San Diego Police responded Monday afternoon to reports of an active shooter at the Islamic Center of San Diego.
The San Diego Police Department said the threat was neutralized in an update shared on X just after 3 p.m. ET.
Officers were on scene at the mosque in the 7000 block of Eckstrom Avenue and urged the public to avoid the area as the situation unfolded.
Fox News Digital has reached out to police for additional information.
A large police and SWAT presence gathered outside the Islamic Center, according to FOX 5 San Diego, while San Diego Fire-Rescue crews also responded to the scene.
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Children from nearby schools were seen being evacuated as officers established a perimeter around the area, the outlet reported.
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Mayor Todd Gloria said on X that he was aware of the situation at the Islamic Center of San Diego.
"I am aware of the active shooter situation at the Islamic Center of San Diego in Clairemont and am continuing to receive updates from law enforcement," he wrote on X. "Emergency personnel are on scene and actively working to protect the community and secure the area."
In another post, Gloria wrote, "Please avoid the area and follow instructions from public safety officials. We will share updates as more information becomes available."
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office said the governor has been briefed on the "evolving situation" at the Islamic Center.
"The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (@Cal_OES) is coordinating with local law enforcement," Newsom’s team wrote on X. "We are grateful to the first responders on the scene working to protect the community and urge everyone to follow guidance from local authorities."
The Islamic Center of San Diego describes itself on its website as the largest mosque in San Diego County.
The mosque shares an address with the Lower Campus of Bright Horizon Academy, a private Muslim school serving pre-K through 12th grade students, according to the school’s 2025 annual report.
Bright Horizon Academy reported enrollment of just over 350 students across its campuses. It was not immediately clear which grade levels are housed at the Lower Campus adjacent to the mosque, though the school’s high school operates at a separate location.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
WNBA graphic omitting Caitlin Clark shows identity politics still come first | Bobby Burack
Before the start of the WNBA season, OutKick argued that the league was in position to establish itself as a viable mainstream attraction. But to do that, the league needed to embrace Caitlin Clark as the transcendent, once-in-a-generation superstar she is.
It turns out the WNBA still isn't ready to do that.
On Sunday, the league posted a social media graphic promoting its doubleheader on NBC/Peacock. The graphic featured A’ja Wilson of the Aces, Angel Reese of the Dream, Zia Cooke of the Storm, and, representing the Fever, Raven Johnson.
That's right. Raven Johnson, who is averaging 1.0 points per game this season.
Johnson is also Black. While we normally wouldn't mention her skin color, it likely played a role in the decision to feature her over Clark. We can't think of another reason the league would do so.
If the WNBA's goal was to spotlight newer or lesser-known players, we could at least understand the logic. But that clearly wasn't the case, considering the graphic also included established stars like Wilson and Reese.
Had the league also promoted Isobel Borlase, who averages 1.0 points per game, over Reese, we might have given it the benefit of the doubt.
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This omission of Clark is hardly a new development. Throughout Clark's first two seasons in the league, the WNBA repeatedly excluded her from promos, commercials and graphics.
Imagine the NBA promoting a Bulls game in the 1990s without Michael Jordan. Imagine the league previewing a new season today without LeBron James. If you can find a single ad for the upcoming Texas Longhorns season that doesn't feature Arch Manning, let us know.
Every sport's league promotes its biggest stars. It would be foolish not to. Well, every league except the WNBA.
There remains deep sensitivity around Caitlin Clark's popularity because people in and around the sport insist it exists only because she is a straight White woman from Iowa. ESPN pundits continue to insist that's the reason, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. As a result, people around the league — apparently, including its social media team — seem determined to prove they are either not racist (if White) or not a sellout (if Black).
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Racial tensions surrounding Clark are especially high right now, after a group of racially idolatrous media members fumed outrage over her walking out with Morgan Wallen at his concert last weekend.
For context, there was no backlash when Patrick Mahomes, Myles Garrett and Marshawn Lynch appeared with Wallen. But when the White girl did it, suddenly it became a controversy.
An ESPN guest writer named Jayson Buford accused Clark on Substack of appealing to a "scary" form of "whiteness," whatever that means, by walking out with Wallen.
"Caitlin Clark is beloved by most people despite her proximity to the type of whiteness that is inherently scary," Buford wrote. "So why did she walk out with Morgan Wallen? It's so blatantly corny."
Like the social media team, Buford signaled his virtue. No one can accuse him of being a sellout.
Meanwhile, the WNBA once again looks bush league, petty and toxic. Burying your biggest star because she is white — and because some people within the league resent that reality — is not just unappealing. It's racist. It sends the message that the WNBA is more concerned with identity politics than appealing to fans.
By now, the playbook is painfully predictable. The WNBA undermines Clark. Her fans notice. And then, her detractors accuse those fans of racism for noticing. Rinse and repeat.
Finally, Clark finished Sunday's game with 21 points, 10 assists and 7 rebounds, leading the Fever to an 89-78 win over the Storm. Raven Johnson, who made the graphic over Clark, didn't score a single point.
And that's why the WNBA remains a small-time sports league subject to mockery, despite employing arguably the most popular basketball player in the world.