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Maher predicts 'classic historical a-- whooping' for GOP in midterms but warns DSA could haunt Dems in 2028
HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher predicted during a Sunday appearance on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" that Republicans would suffer a "classic historical a-- whooping" in the November midterm elections, while warning that the Democratic Socialists of America could create a different problem for Democrats heading into 2028.
Maher argued that voters would use the midterms to punish President Donald Trump and Republicans before turning their attention to divisions within the Democratic Party ahead of the next presidential election.
"It’s going to be a classic historical a-- whooping," he said. "Now, 2028 is a different story. The Democrats have a crazy animal living in their house called the DSA, and they believe truly insane things. And they’re the energy of the party, and they’re going to make Gaza a genocide, a litmus test, and a lot of other really stupid stuff."
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The White House rejected Maher’s prediction in a statement to Fox News Digital, pointing to Trump’s support within the Republican Party and arguing the president remained the GOP’s strongest campaign asset.
"No one can dispute the fact that President Trump has created one of the most robust coalitions in political history with the MAGA movement, and the President understands how to communicate with them," White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "President Trump is the unequivocal leader, best messenger, and unmatched motivator for the Republican Party, and he is committed to maintaining Republican majorities in Congress."
Maher attributed the GOP's potential midterm losses to Trump's second-term record, saying that the president had become "drunk with power" and comparing the political dynamic to former President Joe Biden's handling of the Democratic Party's left flank.
"Trump screwed the pooch," he said. "That’s what happened. He got drunk with power. This is the pattern in this country. Somebody gets elected. They go way too far with their side of things. Biden did it to a degree with wokeness, and he was too feeble to fight the far left."
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"Donald Trump went too far and his party will pay," he continued.
The comments came as Republicans face significant polling headwinds with less than a month before Election Day. A Fox News poll found Democrats had a wider path to a House majority, with Democrats projected to win 215 seats compared with 201 for Republicans. That would leave Democrats needing three of the 19 toss-up races to secure a majority, while Republicans would need at least 17.
Trump dismissed the polling disadvantage while ramping up his campaign schedule. During a Saturday rally in Vandalia, Ohio, the president argued polling had not accounted for his ability to mobilize voters and urged supporters to approach the midterms as though he was personally on the ballot.
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The president urged supporters to associate the Republican ticket with his own electoral campaigns.
"Just pretend that I’m running," Trump said. "When I run, we win."
The Democratic Party's socialist wing scored a series of primary victories and the organization's role in Democratic politics has received increased attention. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., renewed her DSA membership in August following a seven-year lapse as speculation continued over either a 2028 presidential bid, or a 2028 senatorial bid to challenge veteran senator Chuck Schumer.
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Ingle also cited Trump's record on taxes, border security, energy, employment and prescription drug costs as evidence that Republicans had a clear contrast to present to voters.
"The choice has never been more clear: doubling down on President Trump’s winning, commonsense agenda or the Democrats’ extreme liberal policies and obstruction," he said.
Fox News Digital reached out to the DSA for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
October Prime Day is over, but these 16 FOX reader-favorite deals are still live
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Shaquille O'Neal addresses Fever's Kelsey Mitchell's remarks on Caitlin Clark, says to leverage the spotlight
Shaquille O’Neal is no stranger to having a lot of eyeballs on him, both literally and figuratively. For Indiana Fever star Kelsey Mitchell, it’s been an adjustment.
During the Fever’s end-of-season press conference on Saturday, Mitchell said that with the attention Caitlin Clark draws, she and her teammates get a lot of flak for being on the same team as Clark. O’Neal, having played in large and small markets next to superstars like Kobe Bryant throughout his career and dealt with criticism from fans, said Mitchell should take advantage of the attention.
"My advice is to take advantage of all the eyes that are. If the eyes are on one person and you're next to that person, take advantage of them," O’Neal told OutKick in a recent interview.
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O’Neal reflected on his journey and the different markets he played in throughout his illustrious career.
"(I went to) a small high school, still being the No. 1 player in the country, starting off in a small market, eventually going to a big market, but then returning back to a small market and win another championship," O’Neal said.
Mitchell is a free agent at the end of the season and will be in high demand, as the 30-year-old has been an All-Star in each of the last four seasons and averaged a career-high 24.7 points per game this year. While Mitchell praised the organization, her comments drew speculation about whether she may leave the franchise with which she has spent the first nine seasons of her career.
O’Neal called Mitchell a "beautiful young lady and a fabulous young lady" and said he didn’t want to speak for her or about her to avoid breaking the athlete code, but he said he would advise her to stay in Clark’s orbit.
"I wish her well, but my advice if you're playing next to somebody that has eyes that can bring you extra income, make sure you always stay next to that person," O’Neal said.
Mitchell will enter free agency in late January, when the Fever will anxiously await her decision.
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No athlete, current or former, may brand himself or herself better than O’Neal. The Basketball Hall of Famer wanted to make sure he surrounded himself with the right people when he began his career.
"I would say the first thing you do, you have to surround yourself with people that are smarter than you," O’Neal said. "Fifty-two percent of all professional athletes went down and playing have nothing, so we maximized my potential. You know, learned a lot, did a lot, dreamed a lot, created a lot. I think in 1992, the way he marketed me and the way I marketed myself, a lot of a lot of athletes follow that even still to this day."
O’Neal’s renowned brand manager, Leonard Armato, told OutKick that the epitome of having a successful brand as an athlete is to not only promote oneself but also to make good business decisions. In today’s day and age, Armato said athletes can be their own media companies.
With social media being born during O’Neal’s career, Armato said that the four-time NBA champion was the first to embrace social media and that technology can amplify an athlete’s capabilities. For O’Neal, it was paramount that no matter what he did, he stay true to himself.
"But you always have to be true to yourself. You know, we went first time with Leonard, we had a meeting with the image consulting firm and they tried to create a different image and he stopped the guy in the meeting. He says, ‘I know you're an expert. I respect you what to do, but image is reality.’ So you definitely have to stay true to yourself," O’Neal said.
"A lot of people who form characters that they can't live up to. So, me for example, I am who I am. You know, my image is all about fun. I would love to be known as the ambassador of fun."
While O’Neal’s brand is strong, he said he has made many mistakes. After making those mistakes, he leaned into his core values and stayed true to himself.
"Every time I fail, I try to memorize what I did wrong and just create a new program. But I don't like to say ‘You do this, you do this, you do that to each (mistake),’ but if you follow certain core values. To build relationships you have to stay true to yourself to learn from your failures and you have to do things the right in a consistent way, you could create a brand that will be known well beyond after your years of playing and you could be around forever," O’Neal said.
Armato said a key mistake athletes make is surrounding themselves with the wrong people. Armato has a book coming out in November called "MAXIMIZE," which details how to build and manage an athlete’s brand. O’Neal wrote the foreword to the book.
Samoa Joe punches ticket to Clockwork Carnage match at AEW WrestleDream
All Elite Wrestling’s (AEW) first Clockwork Carnage is shaping up to be a hard-hitting affair.
Will Ospreay will defend the AEW World Championship in the endurance match at WrestleDream next weekend. He already has at least one opponent in the mix.
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Samoa Joe will be headed for Clockwork Carnage after he defeated Jack Perry in a qualifying match at Grand Slam France on Tuesday night’s special episode of "Dynamite." Perry gave Joe everything he had in the match.
Perry was trying to go to the top rope toward the end of the match when Joe caught him with a kick to the head. Joe put Perry into the Muscle Buster, slammed him down and pinned him for the victory.
Later that night, Ospreay successfully defended the AEW World Championship against Kazuchika Okada. It guaranteed that he would keep his spot in the Clockwork Carnage match for WrestleDream.
"Speedball" Mike Bailey will go up against Ring of Honor Pure champion Lee Moriarty for another spot in the match. The contest will be aired on Saturday’s "Collision" as part of AEW’s Grand Slam France event. Tune in because I’m not going to give you spoilers here.
Ospreay said the crux of Clockwork Carnage blends the Casino Gauntlet with an iron man match.
"It’s the ultimate endurance test for any pro wrestler," he told AEW’s Renee Paquette during Grand Slam France. "It’s going to give seven opportunities to seven worthy contenders."
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AEW announced Clockwork Carnage over the weekend.
Eight wrestlers will enter the match and one will have to make it through two stages to be the winner. Here’s how it will work, according to AEW.
Two randomly selected wrestlers will start the match. Every three minutes, another randomly selected wrestler will enter the fray. At that point, any competitor who is pinned or submits is eliminated until all eight wrestlers have entered the match.
Once the eighth wrestler has entered the match, all of the remaining wrestlers will enter a 15-minute scoring period. Every pinfall or submission scores one fall during those 15 minutes of action. When the time expires, the wrestler with the most falls will be declared the winner.
WrestleDream is set for Oct. 17 at the Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida.
Letitia James' underdog rival turns AG's own playbook against her with scathing 52-count campaign 'indictment'
The Republican challenging New York Attorney General Letitia James released a mock 52-count indictment Thursday, accusing the Democratic incumbent of neglecting her duties as the state’s top law enforcement official.
The 52-count mock indictment accuses James of failing to address mentally ill people living on the streets, repeat offenders, hate crimes and fraud while focusing instead on political battles with President Donald Trump. Rather than tackle these issues, GOP candidate Saritha Komatireddy charges that James has been too focused on sparring with President Donald Trump.
The attack comes just hours before James and Komatireddy are set to face off Thursday night in their first televised debate of the general election campaign.
Komatireddy is a former federal prosecutor who secured convictions against Islamist terrorists and prosecuted Mexican drug cartel leaders. The indictment-style press release appears to turn James' own legal playbook against her, with Komatireddy, a former federal prosecutor, casting the attorney general as the defendant.
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"When a law keeps prosecutors from charging rape, it is the chief law enforcement officer’s job to get it changed," Komatireddy wrote. "The defendant (James) had eight legislative sessions and a Legislature led by her own party. Beyond one social media post, the People have found no evidence that she made the bill a priority."
James’ campaign has dismissed Komatireddy’s messaging as a simple campaign stunt.
"Attorney General Letitia James files real lawsuits in real courts every day to protect New Yorkers’ rights and their wallets," a James campaign spokeswoman told Fox News Digital. "While Saritha Komatireddy spent today writing this press release, the attorney general announced the arrest and indictment of a Queens pharmacy owner for defrauding Medicaid to the tune of $31 million."
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A Komatireddy spokeswoman fired back, arguing that such a charge was rich coming from James.
"Tish James is one to talk about campaign stunts! Her entire tenure as attorney general has been one long political campaign stunt," Komatireddy spokeswoman Nicole Kiprilov told Fox News Digital. "While Letitia was busy chasing her next political headline, crime rose 26%, homelessness rose 38%, and New York became the laughingstock of the nation in prosecuting Medicaid fraud — dead last. Those are the real consequences of an Attorney General more interested in political theater than public safety."
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New York is a deep blue state, and Komatireddy’s odds of coming out on top in November are slim. A Siena University poll released last month had James leading Komatireddy 52% to 39%.
While James' lead is commanding, it’s also shrinking, with her advantage over Komatireddy narrowing by five points between August and September in Siena University's polling.
James has pursued a number of high-profile legal actions during her tenure as New York attorney general, including a civil fraud case against Trump and a sexual harassment investigation of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo that preceded his resignation.
Would Anthony Volpe's fan-interfered fly ball have been a home run? Here's what MLB and Statcast have to say
The New York Yankees' season ended in embarrassing fashion on Wednesday night, getting swept on their home field by their AL East rival Tampa Bay Rays in the American League Division Series.
The Bombers fell, 4-3, to the Rays, but there may be an argument that the game should have been tied at four after Anthony Volpe's fan-interfered fly ball in the sixth inning.
With George Lombard on first and two outs, the Yankees infielder hit a fly ball into left field that kept carrying toward the outfield wall. The ball went into the seats, and umpires initially called it a game-tying home run, but upon replay review, it was turned it into an RBI double instead after an angle clearly showed a fan reach over the wall (he was eventually booted from the ballpark). Spencer Jones struck out to end the threat, and the Yankees would not score again.
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"After viewing all relevant angles, the Replay Official definitively determined the spectator interfered with the ball over the field of play. The ball would not have left the playing field nor would it have been caught," MLB's Replay Center said in a statement shortly after the occasion, via the New York Post.
However, MLB's Statcast initially said otherwise.
Volpe hit his ball 357 feet with an exit velocity of 97.9 mph and a 42-degree launch angle. In normal cases, it's an easy flyout, as it had an expected batting average of .060). However, Statcast originally said that the trajectory of the ball would have led to a home run in 13 ballparks, including Yankee Stadium.
But as of Thursday morning, Yankee Stadium is no longer included in stadiums where the ball flight would have been a homer.
Sportsball, perhaps ironically, released a video on X Wednesday morning explaining how Statcast uses 12 Hawkeye cameras in each ballpark to determine home-run distances "within about a foot."
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said the umpires "did a good job" on their call.
"When he hit it, to my eye looking out there, I was a little concerned right away because it felt like something, I wasn't sure. And then seeing the replay and seeing it unfold, I thought they did the right thing. I thought they got it right," Boone said.
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"Just seeing it through the replay and hoping for the best. But, crazy," Volpe added.
So, replay shows it very likely would have came up short, Statcast apparently changed its mind, and Major League Baseball says it undoubtedly would have been short.
In any case, it can be argued that no one definitively knows whether Volpe's fly ball would have been gone, and a Yankee fan may or may not have robbed his own favorite team at a chance of a postseason comeback.
Hillary Clinton issues endorsement in US midterm elections
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made her first endorsement of a U.S. Senate candidate in the 2026 midterm elections, backing Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.
"Minnesota, you have an opportunity to select an extraordinary person and public servant as your next U.S. senator. Please take it!" Clinton wrote in a post on the social media platform Bluesky when sharing a post in which Flanagan touted Clinton's endorsement.
Flanagan declared in her post, "@hillaryclinton.bsky.social has spent five decades fighting for working families, dedicating her career to making the case that every child in this country deserves a fair shot. I’m honored to have Secretary Clinton’s support, and I’ll proudly carry on her fight in the US Senate."
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Clinton, a former first lady and former U.S. senator from New York, was the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate defeated by Republican Donald Trump when he won his first White House contest.
"Donald Trump has made it harder for families to afford childcare, groceries, and health care for their kids. His tariffs and war in Iran are driving up prices, and his budget ripped health care and food assistance away from children so billionaires could get another tax cut," Clinton said in a statement, according to reports.
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"Peggy Flanagan has spent her career fighting for children and families, from the Children’s Defense Fund to the Lieutenant Governor’s office, and she’s delivered for them," she noted. "I know she’ll be that same champion in the Senate, and I’m proud to endorse her."
In a statement provided to Fox News Digital on Thursday, White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said, "Did Hillary Clinton forget that her political party created the ‘affordability’ crisis? President Trump is fixing it by delivering real results: he signed the largest working-class tax cuts in history, drastically cut the cost of prescription drugs, added more than one million private-sector jobs, launched a manufacturing renaissance, and sent 401(k)s to record highs. Democrats pretend to care about ‘affordability’ while supporting socialist candidates whose policies would cost every American household $355,000 over 10 years while adding $49 trillion to the deficit."
White House spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement to Fox News Digital, "President Trump is creating good-paying jobs, securing trillions of dollars in investments, and positioning our country to dominate the remainder of the 21st century. Meanwhile, Crooked Hillary Clinton is still whining about her spectacular 2016 election defeat. It’s time for Hillary to move on.'
Flanagan is facing Republican candidate Michele Tafoya in the Minnesota U.S. Senate contest.
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U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., announced last year that she would not seek re-election in 2026.
Natalie Wood's daughter confronts very painful way she learned Hollywood icon had died at 11
Natasha Gregson Wagner was just 11 years old when an ordinary childhood sleepover turned into a moment that shattered her world.
While staying at a friend's house, she heard the devastating news on the radio: her mother, Hollywood actress Natalie Wood, was dead.
"As a child, I always knew my mom was home because her Jungle Gardenia scent arrived before she did," Gregson Wagner, now 56, wrote on the website for her fragrance brand, L'Amour Mere. "After she died, I spent hours lying in her bed or sitting in her closet among her clothes. If I could somehow keep her fragrance alive, perhaps she would not be entirely gone."
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In the immediate aftermath of Wood's death, Gregson Wagner said the two father figures in her life — her biological father, British film producer Richard Gregson, and her stepfather, actor Robert Wagner — came together to support her.
"Luckily, I had these two men, Daddy Gregson and Daddy Wagner, who came together and rose to the occasion and completely put me first," Gregson Wagner told the Daily Mail. "They got me into therapy right away, and I had that same amazing therapist here in Beverly Hills until my 20s."
Wood, who was nominated for three Oscars and starred in "West Side Story" and "Rebel Without a Cause," was on the family's yacht with Wagner, actor Christopher Walken and captain Dennis Davern during Thanksgiving weekend in 1981. Her body was found floating in the water off Southern California's Catalina Island. She was 43.
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Investigators initially ruled Wood's death an accidental drowning but reopened the case in 2011 to determine whether Wagner or anyone else played a role after the yacht's captain said he heard the couple arguing the night of her disappearance, The Associated Press reported. The Los Angeles County coroner's office amended Wood's death certificate in 2012, changing the cause of death to "drowning and other undetermined factors."
In 2018, Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators described Wagner as "a person of interest" in Wood's death. In 2022, the department said it had exhausted all leads in the case, and Wagner was no longer considered a person of interest. Wagner has long denied having any involvement in his wife's death.
Gregson Wagner said that while she was growing up, her two fathers were determined to give her a normal upbringing away from the glaring media spotlight.
"I had to do my laundry," she told the outlet. "We had dinner on the table at six o'clock. I learned how to cook in their kitchen. I learned how to do laundry. I learned how to take a bath with a hot tap and a cold tap, putting it in a pot and pouring it on my head and all these things."
Gregson Wagner also told the outlet she avoided the drugs and alcohol that have troubled some children of famous parents.
"I've definitely felt pressure in my life," Gregson Wagner said. "I know what's right, I know what's wrong. I'm not saying I haven't had very, very painful things in my life.... But in the home, it was all very safe and secure and warm. So, I got lucky in that way."
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Still, Gregson Wagner said she continues to feel the impact of losing her mother.
"When I was younger, I would get stopped on the street by people who would say things like: 'You look so much like this actress, you've probably never heard of her, but her name was Natalie Wood,'" Gregson Wagner recalled. "Most of the time I wouldn't admit I was her daughter, and just say: 'Oh, I hear that a lot!'"
"We looked so much alike and had so much in common. Where did the mother end and the child begin? We were so completely connected — and she was so sharp and perceptive — that I sometimes believed she could see right into my mind."
Gregson Wagner has been married to "7th Heaven" alum Barry Watson, 52, since 2014. They share a daughter, Clover. Gregson Wagner also launched the fragrance brand L'Amour Mere, which she says was inspired by her mother and their connection through scent.
Gregson Wagner has previously spoken about her mother's legacy.
In 2020, Gregson Wagner appeared in the HBO documentary "Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind," which featured interviews with Wood's family, close friends and confidants.
Wagner, now 96, also appeared in the documentary and discussed his relationship with Wood and her death.
The couple married in 1957 but divorced in 1962. They remarried in 1972 and were together until Wood's passing. Wagner helped raise Gregson Wagner, and he and Wood had a daughter, Courtney Wagner, who also appeared in the documentary.
"I am always blown away by his courage," Gregson Wagner told Fox News Digital at the time.
"As my dad and knowing him for basically my whole life, I know him to be such a courageous person. I was just so proud of him. I felt like he was so transparent, elegant, gracious, emotional, connected and present. He was everything that I know him to be, so it felt like an incredible experience to bear witness as his daughter. He's one of the great loves of my life. He moves me every day, and he deeply moved me on those days [of filming] for sure."
Gregson Wagner said she still has vivid, joyful memories of Wood.
"My mom made being a mom feel really effortless," Gregson Wagner said. "She loved it so much. She was always singing songs with us. We were always painting and reading. She was always there to talk to. I hear her voice a lot when I talk to [my daughter] Clover. Like, 'What are we going to do today? Are we going to take a walk?' Just the little mundane things. I can hear her voice in my ear when I talk to my own daughter."
"My parents wanted their children to have that constant feeling of being loved and nurtured — the joy of childhood," she continued. "And that's what they did. Friends came over all the time and sometimes they went out. But the focus was really on us. I think we felt really safe in their world and around them. They were able to create just a bustling, joyful, jubilant kind of atmosphere for us to grow up."
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At the time, Gregson Wagner said she hoped the documentary would give viewers a fuller picture of her mother. She said the special was ultimately a celebration of Wood's life and what she accomplished both in Hollywood and as a parent.
"I hope that audiences will get a very clear picture of this woman who was so strong, funny, joyful, empowered and courageous," she said. "She had a great life. It wasn't a long one, but it was the one she wanted to have. She was the architect of her own life."
GOP accuses Walz allies of burying $52M Medicaid fraud report before election
Minnesota Republicans are accusing Democrats of keeping lawmakers in the dark for months about a state-commissioned Medicaid assessment that flagged more than $52 million in improper payments, arguing the delay denied them a chance to act on the report’s specific findings during the legislative session before the election.
"Fraud here has exploded under the Walz administration," Minnesota Republican Speaker of the House Lisa Demuth told Fox News Digital. "Governor Walz has held no one in his entire administration accountable for the level of fraud. It definitely brings into question what is in that report and why are they hiding it?"
The Walz administration hired Optum to conduct a third-party review of Minnesota’s Medicaid program, scrutinizing 14 high-risk services. The report identified more than $52 million in improper payments but cautioned that improper payments do not necessarily constitute "fraud, waste or abuse." The Department of Human Services released a heavily redacted version to the public in February, prompting calls from Republican lawmakers to make the full version available so they could address the risks raised during the legislative session.
"Our election here in Minnesota is 29 days away. We’re just four weeks out, and you really have to wonder why they are refusing to do this," Demuth, who is the GOP gubernatorial candidate, told Fox News Digital.
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Minnesota currently has a divided state legislature, with the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) holding a slim 34-33 majority in the Senate and a rare 67-67 partisan tie in the House.
Democratic Gov. Tim Walz announced the audit in October 2025, months before allegations of widespread fraud involving members of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora drew national attention. Mounting scrutiny of the Walz administration’s handling of alleged fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs contributed to growing political pressure before Walz ended his re-election campaign in January.
Republican state Sen. Jordan Rasmusson is also accusing the Walz administration and his Democratic counterparts of seeking to "minimize" the fraud issue in the state.
"I think it’s really hard for Democrats, elected Democrats in Minnesota, to admit that we have a fraud problem of this scale, and to take accountability for those failings," Rasmusson told Fox News Digital.
The Department of Human Services said the report was heavily redacted to protect Optum’s trade secrets and prevent the release of sensitive security information that could provide criminals a "roadmap" for committing fraud.
Rasmusson introduced an amendment in April to make the full Optum report public, but it failed along party lines. A version of Rasmusson's provision was later passed in May as part of a broader budget package.
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Under the law, DHS must provide the initial Optum reports to members of a legislative committee with "jurisdiction over human services policy and finance" following a joint request from the committee’s chair and ranking minority member. Lawmakers may review the report but cannot publicly release protected nonpublic information it contains.
Rasmusson said he issued a request for the full report in June. State Rep. Mohamud Noor, DFL co-chair of the Human Services Finance and Policy Committee, and former GOP House co-Chair Joe Schomacker requested the report in May. The report did not become available to a select group of lawmakers until last week.
"I'm grateful that it's out, but it's very disappointing we couldn’t have returned to St. Paul to address it," Republican state Rep. Dawn Gillman told Fox News Digital, noting that lawmakers will have to wait until January to address the report.
"The broader takeaway is that the Walz administration could have given us more access to those months ago," Rasmusson told Fox News Digital. "Legislative Democrats could have joined Republicans and got access to this information months ago during session."
However, state Sen. John Hoffman, who now has access to the report, pushed back on the notion that lawmakers needed full access to enact meaningful changes.
"This is a report about vulnerabilities in public programs," Hoffman said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Why would we release that to the public before we fixed them? We wouldn’t publish a report about which banks don’t lock their doors, either."
"The rest of us got to work passing legislation to ensure high-quality services, continuity of care for people in need and safeguards to protect against fraud," Hoffman continued. "Having reviewed the report, I can tell you it is already outdated, and the gaps and weaknesses it raises have already been addressed by laws we passed this year."
But Rasmusson, who also has the report, disagreed with Hoffman.
"After reviewing the unredacted Optum report, my main takeaway is that it underscores the systemic failures of the Walz administration and Minnesota Democrats to protect Minnesota from fraud," Rasmusson told Fox News Digital.
"Whether it is issues with determining the eligibility of program recipients, determining whether providers are actually providing real services or not, or even some of the basic analytics that would catch fraud, Minnesota is very far behind where it should be in program integrity initiatives," Rasmusson continued.
Fox News Digital reached out to DHS, which confirmed that select lawmakers now had the report.
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"We appreciate legislators' interest in receiving a copy of the unredacted initial Optum report from February 2026," Minnesota Department of Human Services Temporary Commissioner John Connolly said in a statement. "In alignment with the law passed by the Legislature last session, the Minnesota Department of Human Services released the Optum reports last week."
Fox News Digital reached out to Walz's office for comment.
Trail cam captures buck walking around with another deer's antlers dangling from its rack
Some wild nature footage has surfaced online.
As we all know, there are few things on the internet that go viral as often as nature footage. It's one of the few things on the internet that is generally heartwarming and not from the depths of social media hell.
Of course, there are also plenty of strange and bizarre things when it comes to nature footage.
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That's what brings us here today as a new video goes viral.
A viral video shared by WiseEye on Facebook shows an impressive buck walking around, but the footage is anything but normal.
The buck appears to have wire wrapped around its antlers.......and another deer's antlers dangling from its own.
You can check out the incredible video below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.
Now, it's important to note that seeing a buck with something in its rack is rare, but not unheard of. It can happen after two male deer spar.
I've seen photos of bucks that have antlers and parts of a skull stuck in their antlers. The wire is the more interesting part.
It makes you wonder if the buck got into a scrap near a fence and the wire got destroyed and rolled up in the process.
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Not sure there's another clear explanation.
Either way, it's some wild footage. Let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.